List of limited service World War II combat vehicles

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This is a listing of vehicles that did not contribute greatly to the war effort. They were of either limited make, or reserved strictly for specialised purposes.

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Australia

Dingo (scout car) Australian scout car

The Dingo Scout Car was a light armoured car built in Australia during Second World War. They were produced by the Ford motor company during 1942.

Rover Light Armoured Car Australian armoured car

The Light Armoured Car (Aust), also known as Rover, was an armoured car produced in Australia during the Second World War.

Sentinel tank Australian cruiser tank

The AC1 Sentinel was a cruiser tank designed in Australia in World War II in response to the war in Europe, and to the threat of Japan expanding the war to the Pacific or even a feared Japanese invasion of Australia. It was the first tank to be built with a hull cast as a single piece, and the only tank to be produced in quantity in Australia. The few Sentinels that were built never saw action as Australia's armoured divisions had been equipped by that time with British and American tanks.

Canada

Czechoslovakia

France

AMC 34 light tank

The AMC 34 was a French tank built originally for the French Army cavalry units. Its production was cut short, and the few vehicles produced were out of service by the time of the Battle of France in the Second World War.

AMC 35

The AMC 35, also known under a manufacturer's designation Renault ACG-1, was a French medium cavalry tank of the later Interwar era that served in the Second World War. It was developed as a result of the change of the specification that had led to the design of the AMC 34, calling for a vehicle that was not only well-armed and mobile but also well-armoured. Due to technological and financial problems production was delayed and limited, with Belgium as the only user to create active units with the type. The AMC 35 was one of the few French tanks of the period featuring a two-man turret.

Char D1

The Char D1 was a pre-World War II French light tank.

Germany

Tanks

Self-propelled anti-aircraft

<i>Möbelwagen</i> 1944 German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

The 3.7 cm Flak auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen IV (sf), nicknamed Möbelwagen because of its boxy shape, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun built from the chassis of the Panzer IV tank. It was used by the Wehrmacht in the European Theatre of World War II.

<i>Wirbelwind</i> 1944 German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

The Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Möbelwagen self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

<i>Ostwind</i> 1944 German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

The Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Flakpanzer IV/2 cm Vierling Wirbelwind.

Assault guns

Tank destroyers

Hungary

Japan

Tanks

Type 3 Ka-Chi

The Special Type 3 Launch Ka-Chi was an amphibious medium tank developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The Type 3 Ka-Chi was based on an extensively modified Imperial Japanese Army Type 1 Chi-He medium tank and was a larger and more capable version of the earlier Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tank.

Assault guns

Type 2 Ho-I

The Type 2 Gun tank Ho-I Support Tank was a derivative of the Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Similar in concept to early variant of the German Panzer IV, it was designed as a self-propelled howitzer to provide the close-in fire support for standard Japanese medium tanks with additional firepower against enemy anti-tank fortifications.

Type 4 Ho-Ro 1940s Japanese self-propelled howitzer

The Type 4 15cm self-propelled gun Ho-Ro was a self-propelled gun developed by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.

Type 4 Ha-To

The Type 4 Ha-To was a self-propelled gun developed by the Imperial Japanese Army for use in World War II.

Tank destroyers

Other

Netherlands

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Poland

Soviet Union

Sweden

Tanks

Armoured cars

United Kingdom

Tanks

Self-propelled artillery

Motorised Submersible Canoe

United States

Tanks

Self-propelled artillery

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