List of Croatian military equipment of World War II

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The Independent State of Croatia was established by Germany and Italy 10 April 1941 after Yugoslavia had fallen to Axis forces. The Croatian State survived until January 1945, then the Soviet offense pushed Axis-supporting Croatians back into Austria. The list below covers military equipment of Croatian Axis supporters (Croatian Home Guard, Ustaše militia and Croatian Armed Forces) in the years 1941–1945. It does not include the equipment of the pro-Allies partisans. Also, the equipment of German-controlled units comprising a large fraction of ethic Croatians (373rd, 392nd and 369th infantry divisions) is excluded from this list.

Contents

Knives and bayonets

Small arms

Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)

Automatic pistols and submachine guns

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Recoilless rifles

Flamethrowers

Machine guns

Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns

Vehicle and aircraft machine guns

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Heavy mortars and rocket launchers

Field artillery

Fortress and siege guns

Anti-tank guns

Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

Anti-aircraft weapons

Light anti-aircraft guns

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

Vehicles

Tankettes

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Other

Armored cars

Armored carriers

Engineering and command

Trucks

Passenger cars

Motorcycles

Tractors and prime movers

Miscellaneous vehicles

Croatian Navy was restricted until September, 1943 to do not have any vessel over 50 tons displacement. Therefore, the Navy was limited to coastal patrol crafts.

Aircraft

Initial batch (1941)

Reinforcements (1942)

Frontline reinforcements (1943)

Last reinforcements (1944-1945)

Secret weapons

Radars

Missiles and bombs

Cartridges and shells

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References

  1. ↑ "Schneider-Canet 120mm M1915 howitzer". Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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