{"id":54016,"date":"2023-11-25T23:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54016"},"modified":"2023-11-29T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:26:51","slug":"an-old-gun-that-still-works-and-is-abandoned-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/25\/an-old-gun-that-still-works-and-is-abandoned-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"An old gun that still works and is abandoned in the middle of nowhere in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you already know, I like to document the articles I publish about the artillery batteries I write about on this blog.<\/p>\n

Sweden: He find a trapdoor in an old cabin and end up in an artillery battery<\/a><\/rel>
\nSvedjebergsf\u00e4st, a fortification from 1913 that is abandoned but that preserves its cannons<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

Today I'm not going to be able to tell you much about the battery I bring you. I simply know that he is in Sweden, in the middle of nowhere and that he has an old Bofors 12 cm gun from 1941<\/strong>, as commented by the author of CM Exploration<\/a> in the comments of this video. The cannon appears to have been installed during World War II<\/strong> and would have been abandoned in 1988 by the Swedish Army. For a moment I thought it would be a piece of coastal artillery, but it isn't. The most surprising thing is that the barrel still retains its closure and other mechanisms, it can rotate and move up and down<\/strong>, something very unusual in a weapon that has been abandoned for so many years.<\/p>\n

Searching the net I found a Facebook page, Batteri 616<\/a>, which shows this same cannon, which could place it in a town 38 kilometers from the Swedish border with Finland<\/strong>. This canyon is in the interior of Sweden, almost 200 km from the coast. Surely it was a defensive position against a possible Soviet invasion<\/strong> (remember that the USSR invaded Finland in 1939 and the Swedes must have thought it was better to take precautions). I leave you without further ado with the video:<\/p>\n