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^[7][3]
• Carcano^[3]
• Snider–Enfield^[8][3]
• Martini–Henry^[3]
• Berdan rifle^[9]
• Remington Rolling Block rifle^[3]

Carbines

• Revelli-Beretta M1915^[10]

Machine guns

• Madsen machine gun^[11]
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle^[12]
• ZB vz. 26^[13]
• ZB vz. 30^[14]
• Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun^[15]
• M1917 Browning machine gun^[16]

Submachine guns

• Bergmann MP 34/I^[17]
• OVP 1918 (Bought from Italy before the war)^[18]

Traditional weapons

Swords

• Shotel^[19]

Spears

• Spear^[20]

Bows

Bow and arrow^{[20][citation needed]}

Armoured fighting vehicles(AFV's)

Tanks

• Fiat 3000^[21]-Four Model 1921 models bought from Italy in 1925-1930.

Tankettes

• L3/33^[22]-Captured from Italy during the war.

References