Bofors CBJ-MS
Notes:
Introduced in early 1998. It is a
light personal defense weapon designed primarily for issue to home defense units
and guards at high-stakes installations.
It uses a proprietary round with good penetration and average damaging
ability. The weapon's primary
attributes are its small size and reasonable effectiveness for a weapon of its
size. It appearance is similar to
the Mini-Uzi and Ruger MP-9, but the front end has a foregrip that can hold an
extra box magazine for ready use if the drum magazine is not used.
The sights are precision adjustable sights, with the rear sights
graduated up to 400 meters, the range the company states is the effective range
of the CBJ-MS using 6.5mm CBJ ammunition. (It should be noted that most small
arms experts say that the light weight of the 6.5mm CBJ
round, along with the short barrel lengths, would never allow any sort of
accurate fire at that range, and that Bofors as still not allowed outside
testers to fire the CBJ-MS at anywhere that kind of range).
Atop the receiver is a full-length MIL-STD-1913 rail, to which the iron
sights are attached; this allows the user to change the sights to those
necessary for use with 9mm Parabellum ammunition, as well as use other sorts of
optic or aiming devices or other accessories.
With a simple
change in barrel and magazine, the CBJ-MS can be switched to fire 9mm
Parabellum. If the CBJ-MS is using
9mm Parabellum ammunition, it may also use screw-on-type silencers and subsonic
ammunition (and Bofors makes a special lightweight titanium silencer for the
CBJ-MS). Subsonic 6.5mm CBJ
ammunition is not yet available, and the round is a very fast round; use with
silencers is not recommended.
Standard operation is blowback, with firing from an open bolt, but with a few
changes the weapon may be converted to fire from a closed bolt (normally done
when the CBJ-MS is using 9mm Parabellum ammunition).
The CBJ-MS also uses a fixed firing pin as standard, but may be easily
changed to use a floating firing pin.
The only external manual controls are a safety and magazine release;
semiautomatic and automatic fire are controlled by the amount the trigger is
depressed, similar to the Steyr AUG series. A weighted recoil buffer and heavy
bolt hold the cyclic rate down to an easily-controllable 575 rpm.
If desired, a canvas brass catcher may be attached to the ejection port.
Twilight 2000
Notes: The weapon proved to be sturdy and had good performance in adverse
conditions, being nearly dirt-proof.
Unfortunately, the CBJ-MS had only a short production run before bombing
put a halt to production.
Merc 2000 Notes:
Budgetary restrictions meant that the CBJ-MS was not produced.
Weapon |
Ammunition |
Weight |
Magazines |
Price |
CBJ-MS |
6.5mm CBJ |
2.68 kg |
20, 30, 100D |
$575 |
CBJ-MS |
9mm Parabellum |
2.27 kg |
20, 30 |
$330 |
Weapon |
ROF |
Damage |
Pen |
Bulk |
SS |
Burst |
Range |
CBJ-MS (6.5mm) |
5 |
2 |
1-1-Nil |
1/3 |
1 |
3 |
24 |
CBJ-MS (9mm) |
5 |
2 |
1-Nil |
1/3 |
1 |
4 |
28 |
Carl Gustav m/45
Notes: Generally
known as the Carl Gustav or Swedish K (for the Swedish word for submachinegun,
kulsprutepistol), the m/45 was first
designed late in World War 2. The
designed has been copied by many nations, with many similar weapons or outright
copies being found around the world, so that it can be found almost anywhere.
This is primarily because of the simplicity and reliability of the m/45 –
it is otherwise not a particularly noteworthy or any sort of
fantastically-effective submachinegun.
The m/45 is
built primarily of heavy-gauge stamped steel, which is primarily riveted or
screwed together with heavy-gauge screws and rivets instead of a lot of welds.
The original m/45 was blued and had plain, uncheckered wooden grip plates
for its pistol grip; the later (and far more common) m/45B used checkered grip
panels, and was typically painted in light green over a phosphated finish.
The m/45 fires from an open bolt and operates using simple unlocked
blowback. The heavy construction
means that the cyclic rate is low, only about 550-600 rpm.
(The bolt alone weighs about 0.7 kilograms!)
The low rate of fire is good, since the m/45 has only safe or automatic
settings. The folding stock,
essentially a heavy, squared strut, locks out firmly and allows the m/45 to be
easily fired when it is folded.
Original m/45 sights are quite simple (some would say crude), but m/45B sights
are far better, and the rear is adjustable for elevation and windage.
The weakness of the m/45 is its safety system; it requires manipulation
of the bolt, and accidental fire is quite possible if the weapon is bumped or
dropped. The barrel is surrounded
for its entire length by a ventilated steel jacket, but this will not protect
the non-firing hand from heat.
There is no foregrip, but a few m/45s have a lug for a Swedish Model 1914
bayonet.
The m/45 was
originally designed to feed from 20 and 50-round Suomi magazines, and the 40 and
71-round Suomi drums. It could also
take a 36-round curved magazine designed for the m/45.
The problem with the Suomi magazines and drums was (as always) that these
magazines, modified from magazines designed for old Soviet submachineguns, were
never the most reliable in the world and quite difficult to load to full
capacity. The curved 36-round
magazine tended not to feed reliably either.
This was remedied in 1948 with the introduction of the now-standard
36-round “stick” magazine, now acknowledged as one of the best magazines ever
designed. The use of this new
magazine required the addition of a U-shaped retaining pin to the magazine well.
If you remove this pin, the m/45 can still accept the Suomi magazines and
drums as well as the 36-round curved magazine.
This “new” model was known as the m/45B.
There were other
versions of the m/45, all of which differ only in minor details and which are
the same as the m/45B for game purposes.
These include models with different finishes.
In addition, there was the m/45C, which is an m/45B with a bayonet lug,
and the m/45E, which is an m/45B which has a selective-fire mechanism.
One notable
variation never had an official designation; the SEALs (their primary users)
simply called them “Swedish Ks.”
Versions used by the SEALs in Vietnam were almost always equipped with sound
suppressors. The early suppressors
for the SEAL m/45s were based on those used by the OSS variant of the M-3 Grease
Gun; they were quite heavy at about 2.7 kilograms, not really that quiet, and
tended to severely degrade the m/45s accuracy.
Carl Gustav later designed a much lighter and far more effective
suppressor for SEAL use, but little of these suppressors has been published.
The SEALs often used their M/45s with brass catchers, also designed for
them by Carl Gustav.
Twilight 2000
Notes: The SF Swedish K did not see widespread use again until the Twilight War.
Merc 2000 Notes:
Since they could not usually be attributed to any given nation, the m/45s are a
popular weapon for covert operations.
Weapon |
Ammunition |
Weight |
Magazines |
Price |
m/45 |
9mm Parabellum |
3.45 kg |
36 |
$309 |
SEAL “Swedish K” |
9mm Parabellum or Parabellum Subsonic |
4.11 kg |
36 |
$442 |
Weapon |
ROF |
Damage |
Pen |
Bulk |
SS |
Burst |
Range |
m/45 |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
4/5 |
1 |
2 |
22 |
SEAL “Swedish K” (Standard Ammo) |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
4/5 |
1 |
2 |
20 |
SEAL “Swedish K” (Subsonic Ammo) |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
4/5 |
1 |
2 |
19 |