List of military vehicles of World War II

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

Afghanistan

Tanks

  • L3/35 (14)
  • Disston Tractor Tank (2)
  • FT-17 (20)
  • Lancia 1ZM
  • Citroën-Kégresse M23

Albania

Tanks

  • Fiat 3000

Armoured cars

  • Lancia 1ZM

Tankettes

  • CV-33

Argentina

Tanks

  • Nahuel DL 43 (16)
  • Fiat 3000 (1)
  • Vickers Cardon-Loyd Model 1934 (12)

Utility vehicles

  • Ñando (5)

Australia

Tanks

  • Sentinel (65)
  • Thunderbolt (1)
  • AC4 (1)

Armoured cars

Belgium

Tanks

Utility vehicles

  • FN Tricar (331 ordered and partially delivered)

Bulgaria

Tankettes

  • L3/33 (14)

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Armored cars

Utility vehicles

Canada

Tanks

  • M3 Stuart (432) light tank used by America and Canada
  • Ram (2,993) regular tank not used in combat, specialist models used
  • Grizzly I (188) A modified version of the M4A1 Sherman tank license produced in Canada
  • Valentine (1,420) Valentine tanks produced in Canada. Most sent to the Soviet Union as Lend-Lease aid. Some were retained in Canada for training.
  • Badger – a flame tank version of the Ram

Self-propelled artillery

  • Sexton (2,150)

Armoured personnel carriers

  • C15TA (3,960)
  • Kangaroo (converted from various AFV designs)

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

China

Tankettes

Tanks

  • Renault FT (most of delivered 36 tanks, 3 tanks captured by Japanese in 1931)
  • M4 Sherman (35 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M3 Stuart (M3A3, M5A1) (50 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M24 Chaffee – 233
  • M18 Hellcat
  • Type 95 Ha-Go (captured only)
  • Type 97 Chi-Ha (captured only)
  • Panzer I (10 bought from Germany before the war)
  • Vickers 6-ton (20 bought from UK before the war)
  • Vickers amphibious tank M1931 (29 tanks purchased from GB)
  • British 12-ton tank (type unclear – likely Vickers Medium Mark II, possibly Cruiser Mk I, or remotely Matilda I)
  • T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938)
  • BT-5 (4 provided by Soviets in 1938)
  • Marmon-Herrington CTLS (few diverted from Dutch after the fall of Java)
  • AMR 35
  • T-34 (supplied from Russia)

Armored cars

Croatia

Tankettes

Armoured cars

  • AB-41
  • Oklopni samovoz
  • Several Improvised armoured cars

Tanks

Tank destroyers

Czechoslovakia

Tanks

  • LT vz. 35 (434)
  • LT vz. 38 (1,167)

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Denmark

Estonia

Tanks

  • Mark V Composite (4)
  • Renault FT (12)

Tankettes

  • TKS (6)

Armoured cars

  • Landsverk L-180 (1)
  • Arsenal Crossley M27/28 (13)

Finland

Tanks

Anti-Aircraft

Assault guns

France

Tanks

Armoured reconnaissance tanks

Armoured combat tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Tank destroyers

  • Laffly W15 TCC (70)
  • AMR 35 Renault ZT2 (10)
  • AMR 35 Renault ZT3 (10)
  • Somua S40 (trials)

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

  • Citroën-Kégresse P1T ?

Armoured cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks

Iraq

Tankettes

Armoured cars

  • Iraqi Crossley MkI (≈14)

Italy

Tankettes

  • Carro Veloce L3/33 (CV-33) (760)
  • Carro Veloce L3/35 (CV-35) (1,740)

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

  • various dating from WW1

Tankettes

  • Carden Loyd MK IV (1)

Tanks

  • Vickers Carden-Loyd M1937 (6)
  • Vickers Carden-Loyd M1936 (12)
  • Mark V Composite (5)
  • Mark Medium B (2)
  • Fiat 3000 (6)


Lithuania

Armoured cars

  • Landsverk L-181 (6)
  • various from WW1


Tanks

  • Vickers Carden Loyd M1934 (16)
  • Renault FT (12)


Manchukuo

Armoured Cars

Tankettes

Tanks

Mexico

Tanks

Netherlands

Tankettes

Light tanks

Armoured cars

Armoured personnel carrier

Self-propelled anti-air-gun

  • Ehrhardt Potkachel (1)

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

  • Beaverette NZ (208) light armoured car similar to the British Beaverette

Norway

Light tanks

Poland

Tankettes

  • TK-3 (280)
  • TKS (260)
  • TKS with 20 mm gun (24)

Tanks

  • 4TP
  • 7TP (162)
  • 9TP (2 prototypes + 11 possible production models)
  • 10TP (1 prototype)
  • 14TP

Armored cars

Self-propelled guns

Artillery tractors

Utility vehicles

Reorganized National Government of ROC

Tankettes


Romania

Tankettes

  • R-1 (Modified Czechoslovak AH-IV, 1 prototype + 35 imported from Czechoslovakia)

Tanks

  • R-2 (Panzer 35(t), Czechoslovakian design, 126 + 26 Panzer 35(t))

Tank destroyers

  • Mareşal (7 prototypes + early serial production)
  • TACAM T-60 (Soviet T-60 converted into a tank destroyer with a different Soviet gun, 34)
  • TACAM R-2 (Czechoslovak Panzer 35(t) converted into a tank destroyer with a Soviet gun, 21)
  • Vânătorul de care R35 (R35 with different gun, French design, 30)

Armoured cars

Artillery tractors

Demolition vehicles

  • Romanian Goliath (1 prototype)

Slovakia

Tanks


Armoured cars

South Africa

Armoured cars

Soviet Union

Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).

Tankettes

  • T-27 (3,328 pre-war)

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

  • Type 76 SPAAG (26)

United Kingdom

Artillery tractors

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Cruiser tanks

Infantry tanks

Self-propelled guns

  • Carrier, Valentine, 25pdr gun Mk.I, Bishop (80)
  • AEC Mk I Gun Carrier (175)
  • 25pdr SP, tracked, Sexton (2,150; built in Canada)
  • SP 17pdr, Valentine, Mk.I, Archer (655)
  • SP 17pdr, A30 Avenger (250 completed post war)
  • 17pdr SP Achilles (1,100)

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

  • Škoda Š-I-D/T-32 (8)
  • Škoda Š-I-J ((1)trialed, but not adopted)

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. ^ a b c d 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.

Bibliography

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