List of Second Italo-Ethiopian War weapons of Ethiopia

This is a list of weapons used by Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian weapons mainly consisted of the various small arms Ethiopia had brought over the years.

Small arms

Rifles

• Fusil Gras mle 1874 ^[1] -Most popular
• Chassepot ^[1]
• Lebel Model 1886 rifle ^[2]
• Berthier rifle
• FN Model 24 and Model 30 ^[1]
• Mauser Model 1871 ^[3]
• Mauser Standardmodell
• Gewehr 1888 ^{[4] [5]}
• Gewehr 98 ^[5]
• Werndl–Holub rifle ^[3]
• Kropatschek rifle ^[6]
• Mosin–Nagant
• Mannlicher M1888 ^[5]
• Mannlicher M1890 carbine ^[5]
• Mannlicher M1895 ^[5]
• M1870 Italian Vetterli> ^[3]
• Carcano ^[3]
• Snider–Enfield ^{[7] [3]}
• Martini–Henry ^[3]
• Berdan rifle ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Remington Rolling Block rifle ^[3]

Carbines

• Revelli-Beretta M1915 ^[8]

Machine guns

• Madsen machine gun ^[9]
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle ^[10]
• ZB vz. 26 ^[11]
• ZB vz. 30 ^[12]
• Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun ^[13]
• M1917 Browning machine gun ^[14]

Submachine guns

• Bergmann MP 34/I ^[15]
• OVP 1918 (Bought from Italy before the war) ^[16]

Traditional weapons

Swords

• Shotel ^[17]

Spears

• Spear ^[18]

Bows

Bow and arrow ^{[18] [ citation needed ]}

Armoured fighting vehicles(AFV's)

Tanks

• Fiat 3000 ^[19] -Four Model 1921 models bought from Italy in 1925-1930.

Tankettes

• L3/33 ^[20] -Captured from Italy during the war.

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19. "Fiat 3000 (1921)". tanks-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
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