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Check out this recent test by the Swedish Navy of the BAE Bofors 57mm Mk3 naval gun system (the Mk 110 in the U.S. Navy), engaging aerial and surface drone targets during live-fire counter-drone exercises aboard the Göteborg-class corvette HMSwS Sundsvall (K24), based at Berga naval base and part of the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla.

The mount is using Bofors’ 6-mode programmable 3P (Pre-fragmented, Programmable, Proximity- fused) ammunition, of which both the Swedish and Finnish fleets agreed to purchase $171 million worth of shells.

Of interest, the USN currently fields at least 50 of these mounts with more on the way, used on both classes of LCS, the new FFG, the planned FF, and the most modern blue water USCG cutters. Word came from all the counter-drone stuff off the Bab

The USN uses the mount with the Bofors 6-mode 3P (type classified as the 57mm Mk 295 Mod 0) and spent $28 million in 2019-20 for 1,000 of the “golden bullet” L3 High Explosive-4 Bolt Guided (HE-4G) Cartridge (type classified as the Mk 332), which does all sorts of gee-whiz stuff.

Plus, the Navy just dropped another $21 million to Nammo for more HE-PD rounds for the Mk 110 as well.

Contract awarded 25 June 2026:

Nammo Perry Inc., Perry, Florida, is awarded a $21,500,000 modification to a previously awarded, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N0017423D0005) to increase the ceiling for 57-mm high explosive- point detonating cartridges, used in the MK110 Gun Weapon System. Work will be performed in Perry, Florida, and is expected to be completed by September 2028. No funding will be obligated at the time of award. The Navy Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, Indian Head, Maryland, is the contracting activity.