List of military vehicles of World War II

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The following is a list of Second World War military vehicles used by each participant country, showing numbers produced in parentheses.

Contents

Albania

Tanks

Armoured cars

Tankettes

Utility vehicles

Australia

Tanks

Armoured cars

Belgium

Tanks

Utility vehicles

Bulgaria

Tankettes

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Armored cars

Utility vehicles

Canada

Tanks

Self-propelled artillery

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

China

Tankettes

Tanks

Armored cars

Croatia

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Tanks

Tank destroyers

Czechoslovakia

Tanks

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Denmark

Estonia

Tanks

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Finland

Tanks

Anti-aircraft

Assault guns

France

Tanks

Armoured reconnaissance tanks

Armoured combat tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Germany

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

  • VK 4501 (P) (91, one used as command tank, most of the others converted to Elefant tank destroyers)
  • Tiger I (1,347)
  • Tiger II a.k.a. "King Tiger" or "Royal Tiger" (489)

Super-heavy tanks

  • Maus (2 prototypes completed)

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

Motorcycles

  • BMW R75 (two-wheel-drive motorcycle with side car)
  • Nimbus (made in Denmark)
  • Zündapp KS750 (two-wheel-drive motorcycle with side car) (18,000)

Half-tracks

Self-propelled artillery

Assault guns

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

Remote controlled vehicles

Hungary

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Captured tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

India

Armoured cars

Iran

Half-tracks

Armoured cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks

Iraq

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Italy

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Tank destroyers and self-propelled guns

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

Japan

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Amphibious tanks

Self-propelled guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Latvia

Armoured cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Lithuania

Armoured cars

Tanks

Manchukuo

Armoured Cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Mexico

Tanks

Netherlands

Tankettes

Light tanks

Armoured cars

Armoured personnel carrier

Self-propelled anti-air-gun

New Zealand

Converted tractors

Light tanks

Also American M3 Stuart tanks, called "Honeys" by the Brits and Commonwealth, used in Italy as recon vehicles

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Norway

Light tanks

Poland

Tankettes

Tanks

Armored cars

Self-propelled guns

Artillery tractors

Utility vehicles

Reorganized National Government of ROC

Tankettes

Romania

Tankettes

Tanks

Tank destroyers

Armoured cars

Artillery tractors

Demolition vehicles

Slovakia

Tanks

Armoured cars

South Africa

Armoured cars

Soviet Union

Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks

Amphibious tanks

Medium tanks

  • T-28 (503 pre-war)
  • T-34 (1,225 pre-war)
    • T-34-76 (33,805)
    • T-34-85 (21,048)
  • T-44

Heavy tanks

Self-propelled guns

Rocket artillery

Anti-aircraft

Armoured cars

Amphibious armoured cars

Half-tracks

Aerosledges

Artillery tractors

Improvised AFVs

Utility vehicles

Motorcycles

Light utility vehicles

Trucks

Thailand

Tanks and tankettes

Self-propelled guns

Anti-aircraft

United Kingdom

Artillery tractors

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Cruiser tanks

Infantry tanks

Self-propelled guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Lorries

NB: In British nomenclature, a vehicle with load-carrying capacity of less than one imperial ton (20 hundredweight) was designated as a truck. [4]

United States

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled artillery

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Artillery tractors

Amphibious

Utility vehicles

Yugoslavia

Tanks

Light tanks

Tankettes

Self-propelled guns

  • M3 Stuart modified with various captured German weapons

See also

References

Citations

  1. Ware 2012, p. 191.
  2. Ware 2012, p. 193.
  3. Ware 2012, p. 216.
  4. War Department Technical Manual, Volume 30, Issue 410. Washington, D.C.: US Government. 1943. p. 113.
  5. Ware 2012, p. 196.
  6. Ware 2012, p. 198.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Ware 2012, p. 199.
  8. Ware 2012, p. 201.
  9. Ware 2012, p. 205.
  10. Ware 2012, p. 207.
  11. Ware 2012, p. 211.
  12. Ware 2012, p. 213.
  13. Ware 2012, p. 214.

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