How development timing shaped the Bofors advantage

The wartime Mark 8 Pom-Pom is the appropriate comparison with the Bofors; figures for the older Mark 2C describe a different generation. The Pom-Pom began in 1915, while the Bofors emerged in the late 1920s and matured in the early 1930s. That later starting point left the Bofors better placed for modernization after the Second World War. Much of its reputation comes from those postwar upgrades, so later performance can distort a comparison of the weapons available during the war.