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This page lists the common infantry weapons used by the various armies engaged in World War II. Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme in World War I Infantry or footmen are very highly disciplined and trained soldiers who fight primarily with small arms(rifles), but are trained to use everything from their bare hands to missle systems in order to neutralize...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Handguns Rifles Enfield No. ...
The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Break-Top Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth from 1887 until 1963. ...
The Browning Hi-Power is a semi-automatic, single-action, 9 mm pistol. ...
Submachine Guns Lee-Enfield No4 Mk1 with bayonet, scabbard attached The Lee-Enfield was the British armys standard bolt action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle from 1895 until 1956. ...
Lee-Enfield No4 Mk1 with bayonet, scabbard attached The Lee-Enfield was the British armys standard bolt action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle from 1895 until 1956. ...
Machine Guns The Mark I Austen was a 9 millimeter Australian submachine gun developed during the Second World War by the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. ...
The Owen Gun, which was known officially as the Owen Machine Carbine, was an Australian submachine gun designed by Evelyn (Evo) Owen in 1939. ...
This article is about the submachine gun. ...
Anti-Tank Weapons The Bren (from Brno (the Czechoslovakian town of design) and Enfield, the location of the British Royal Small Arms Factory), usually called the Bren Gun, was a series of squad automatic weapon/light machine guns adopted by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles into the 1980s. ...
The Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era squad automatic weapon/machine gun of American design that was most widely used by the forces of the British Empire. ...
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled . ...
Grenades The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, was one of the earlier anti-tank weapons using a high explosive anti-tank projectile. ...
The Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys commonly known as the Boys or often and incorrectly Boyes Anti-tank Rifle was a British anti-tank rifle. ...
Mills bomb is the popular name for a series of prominent British hand grenades. ...
List of Nationalist Revolutionary Army weapons, excluding warlords or Communists The National Revolutionary Army (NRA) (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: , sometimes shortened to åè» or National Army) was the National Army of the Republic of China from 1925 until 1949. ...
Handguns Rifles The C96, or Broomhandle Mauser, was the first semi-automatic pistol to see widespread use. ...
The Browning Hi-Power is a semi-automatic, single-action, 9 mm pistol. ...
Combatants United Kingdom British India Republic of China United States Empire of Japan Indian National Army Burma National Army Thailand Commanders Louis Mountbatten William Slim Chiang Kai-Shek Joseph Stilwell Aung San(From 1944) Masakazu Kawabe Hyotaro Kimura Renya Mutaguchi Subhash Chandra Bose Aung San(until 1944) Strength Unknown Unknown...
Submachine Guns The Type Zhongzheng rifle (䏿£å¼), also known as the Chiang Kai-shek Rifle and Type 24 (äºåå¼) after the Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, was a Chinese-made copy of the German Mauser Standard Modell, the forerunner of the Karabiner 98k. ...
The Type 88, sometimes known as Hanyang 88, was a Chinese rifle that was issued to the regular Nationalist Revolutionary Army during Second Sino-Japanese War. ...
Light Machine Guns The MP18 was one of the first submachine guns. ...
Tommy Gun redirects here. ...
This article is about the World War II program. ...
Heavy Machine Guns The ZB vz. ...
- Chinese Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun (Chinese copy of Maxim Gun)
Mortars An early Maxim gun in operation with the Royal Navy 1895 . ...
Anti-Tank Gun Howitzers German 3. ...
Grenades Preserved sFH 18 howitzer in the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw Preserved sFH 18 howitzer at CFB Borden The 15 cm sFH 18 gun was the basic German howitzer during the Second World War. ...
Misc The Model 24 Stielhandgranate (In English: Stick Hand Grenade) was the standard hand grenade of the German Army from the end of World War I until the end of World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to it being called a stick grenade, or Potato Masher in British Army...
- Dadao (in the early phase of the war)
The Dadao (大å) (big knife), one of the varieties of dao or Chinese saber, is also known as the Chinese great sword. ...
Handguns Rifles The Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), popularly known as the Luger pistol is a semi-automatic self-loading pistol patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900. ...
Lahti L-35 is a pistol designed by Aimo Lahti that was produced between 1935 and 1952. ...
Submachine Guns The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: ) is a bolt-action, five-round, magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ...
Machine Guns The Suomi-konepistooli KP-31 (Finland-submachine gun KP-31) was a submachine gun of Finnish manufacture that was in service during World War II. It was a descendant of the M-22 prototype and the KP-26 production model, which was revealed to the public in 1925. ...
Anti-Tank Weapons Lahti-Saloranta M-26 is a light machine gun designed by Aimo Lahti and Arvo Saloranta in 1926. ...
The Pulemyot Maxima na stanke Sokolova (ÐÑлемÑÑ ÐакÑима на ÑÑанке Соколова) /Maxims machine gun on Sokolovs mount/ (also known as the Pulemyot Maxima PM1910 Maxim machine gun 1910) was a heavy machine gun used by the Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during World War II. It was adopted...
The L-39 Lahti 20 mm Anti-Tank Cannon was a Finnish anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. ...
Handguns Rifles The Pistole automatique modèle 1935 (Automatic Pistol Model 1935) or Modele (Mle. ...
- Fusil MAS36
- Fusil MAS36 CR39
Submachine Guns The MAS Modèle 36 was the last bolt-action rifle to be standard in adopted by any large army. ...
The MAS Modèle 36 was the last bolt-action rifle to be standard in adopted by any large army. ...
Machine Guns Mitraillette MAS modéle 38 Type submachine gun Nationality France Era WW2 History Date of design 1938 Production period 1939 - 1946 Service duration 1939 - 1950 Operators France, Germany War service WW2, First Indochina War Specifications Type MAS 38 Calibre 7,65 Barrel length 224 mm Ammunition 7. ...
The FM 24/29 was a light machine gun in use by the French army from 1924. ...
Handguns Rifles The Walther P38 was a 9 mm pistol that was developed by Walther as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the costly Luger P08, the production of which was scheduled to end in 1942. ...
The Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), popularly known as the Luger pistol is a semi-automatic self-loading pistol patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900. ...
The Walther PP ( Polizei Pistole ) was introduced in 1929. ...
Submachine Guns The Karabiner 98 Kurz (often abbreviated Kar98k or K98k) was a bolt-action rifle adopted as the standard infantry rifle in 1935 by the Wehrmacht,[3] and was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles. ...
Sturmgewehr 44 (StG44) was an assault rifle developed in Nazi Germany during World War II and was the first of its kind to see major deployment. ...
Machine Guns The MP40 (Maschinenpistole 40, literally machine pistol 40) was a submachine gun developed in Germany and used extensively by paratroopers and platoon and squad leaders, and other troops during World War II. The MP40 had a relatively lower rate of fire and low recoil, which made it more manageable than...
Anti-tank Weapons The Maschinengewehr 34, or MG 34, was a German machine gun that was first produced and accepted for service in 1934, and first issued to units in 1935. ...
The Maschinengewehr 1942, or MG42, is a German machine gun, first manufactured in 1942 as the successor to the MG34. ...
Grenades For other uses, see Panzerfaust (disambiguation). ...
Panzerschreck (German: tank terrorizer; lit. ...
Panzerbüchse (plural: Panzerbüchsen) is the German term for anti-tank rifle used in World War II. Literally it means tank rifle; here, the word Büchse is the term for rifle in sports or hunting jargon. ...
Püppchen (German: Dolly was the popular name for the Raketen-Panzerbüchse 43 (rocket tank rifle, abbreviated to RPzB), an 88 mm calibre reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by the Germans in World War II. It was given to infantry to bolster their anti-tank capability. ...
The Model 24 Stielhandgranate (In English: Stick Hand Grenade) was the standard hand grenade of the German Army from the end of World War I until the end of World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to it being called a stick grenade, or Potato Masher in British Army...
The Model 43 Stielhandgranate was introduced by the German Army mid way through World War II to supercede the Model 24 (the atypical stick grenade). ...
The Model 39 Eihandgranate (or Eierhandgranate, egg hand grenade) was a German hand grenade introduced in 1939 and produced until the end of World War II. The Eihandgranate used the same fuze assembly (the BZE 39) as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate (Stick Grenade), which was screwed into the top of...
The Splitterring was a fragmentation sleeve for the M24 and M43 stick grenades, developed by the German army in 1942. ...
Handguns Rifles Submachine Guns Hungarian Battle Rifles Weapons employed in the Slovak-Hungarian War List of World War II firearms of Germany Category: ...
Machine Guns The 9 millimeter Danuvia submachine guns were designed by Hungarian engineer Pál Király in the late 1930s. ...
Anti-tank Weapons The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian army throughout World War I, and by the Dutch, Greek and the Hungarian armies during World War II. // The Schwarzlose M.07 was a water cooled belt fed...
- Solothurn 36M 20mm anti-tank rifle
Handguns Submachine Guns The Beretta model 1934 is a compact, semi-automatic (or self-loading) pistol which was issued as a standard service firearm to the Italian armed forces beginning in 1934. ...
The Beretta M1935 is a compact . ...
Rifles The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun adopted in 1918 by the italian army. ...
The MAB 38 and its variants were the official submachine guns of the Italian Army during World War II. The MAB (Moschetto Automatico Beretta) 1938A was introduced in 1938. ...
- Carcano M1891
- Carcano M1891 Moschetto da Cavalleria (Cavalry Carbine)
- Carcano M1891TS Moschetto per Truppe Speciali (Special Troop Carbine)
- Carcano M1938 Carbine
Machine Guns For a discussion of this weapon as it pertains to the John F. Kennedy assassination, see John F. Kennedy assassination rifle. ...
- Breda Modello 30
- Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914
- Fiat-Revelli Modello 1935
- Breda Modello 1937
Hand Grenades The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30 was the standard light machine gun of the Italian army during World War II. The Breda 30 is widely regarded as a poor weapon. ...
The Breda Modello 37 was an Italian heavy machine gun () adopted in 1937. ...
Bomba a Mano (Italian meaning bomb by hand), is the Italian name for Hand grenade. ...
Bomba a Mano (Italian meaning bomb by hand), is the Italian name for Hand grenade. ...
Handguns Rifles The Nambu pistol was a semi-automatic pistol used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the First and Second World Wars. ...
The Type 26 (or Model 26) hammerless revolver was the first modern pistol adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army. ...
The 94 Shiki Kenju 8 mm Pistol (ä¹å弿³é) was a small and light-weight (1 pound 11 ounces) semi-automatic pistol, produced in large numbers by Japan prior to and during the Second World War. ...
Machine Guns The Type 38 Rifle Arisaka (ä¸å
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µé Sanpachi-shiki hoheijyuu) was a bolt-action rifle. ...
The Japanese Type 38 cavalry rifle was a short barreled version of the bolt-action Type 38 Rifle, it was used by the Japanese cavalry during World War II. It entered service in 1905. ...
The Type 99 Rifle (From the Japanese ä¹ä¹å¼å°é or ä¹ä¹å¼é·å°é Kyuukyuu-shiki syoujyuu or Kyuukyuu-shiki tyousyoujyuu) was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Although the Type 38 Rifle was an excellent rifle, the small caliber (6. ...
-Type 97 Sniper Rifle Introduced Year : 1937 Caliber : 6. ...
A Type 44 rifle showing the bayonet folding backwards. ...
Grenades The Type 11 Light Machine Gun (ä¸ä¸å¹´å¼è»½æ©é¢é) was a Japanese machine gun produced after the First World War. ...
Type 96 LMG -Type 96 Light Machine Gun Introduced year : 1936 Caliber : 6. ...
The Type 97 light machine gun was a Japanese tank mounted machine gun that was used during the Second World War. ...
The Type 99 Light Machine Gun was a light machine gun produced by Japan during the Second World War. ...
The Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun entered service in 1932 and was the standard Japanese heavy machine gun used during World War II. The Type 92 was essentially a scaled up version of the Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun, with its calibre increased to 7. ...
The Type 1 Heavy Machine Gun was the standard heavy machine gun in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War starting from 1941. ...
The Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun, based on the design of the Hotchkiss M1914. ...
Flamethrowers A drawing of a Type 10 grenade. ...
Type 89 discharger wtih Type 89 grenade. ...
The model 97 (or Type 97) grenade was the standard Japanese army grenade. ...
The Type 99 Kiska grenade was a Japanese hand grenade that entered service in 1939 and saw use in the Second World War. ...
Grenade Dischargers The Type 100 Flamethrower was a Japanese flamethrower, that was introduced in 1940. ...
A Type 10 50 mm grenade discharger The Type 10 50 mm grenade discharger was a Japanese smoothbore, muzzle loaded weapon used during the Second world war. ...
Type 89 discharger wtih Type 89 grenade. ...
Handguns Rifles [edit] History Norway adopted the 7. ...
Submachine Guns The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. ...
Machine Guns This article is about the submachine gun. ...
German battle cruisers in a Norwegian port in June 1940 The Norwegian Campaign, lasting from 9 April to 10 June 1940, led to the first direct land confrontation between the military forces of the Allies â United Kingdom and France â against Nazi Germany in World War II. The primary reason for...
The Madsen machine gun was a light machine gun developed by a Captain Madsen of the Danish artillery in 1903. ...
The Browning Model 1917 Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun used by the United States armed forces in World War I, World War II, Korea, and to a limited amount in Vietnam and by other nations. ...
Handguns Rifles Vis (Polish designation , German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), often simply called the Radom in English sources) is a 9 mm caliber, single-action, semi-automatic pistol. ...
Machine Guns Karabin wz. ...
karabinek wz. ...
Anti-Tank Weapons The Browning wz. ...
ciÄżki karabin maszynowy wz. ...
Grenades The karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 (kb ppanc wz. ...
- Fragmentation Grenade wz.1933
- Concussion Grenade wz.1933
Handguns Rifles The Nagant M1895 Revolver was designed and produced by a Belgian industrialist, Léon Nagant. ...
The TT-30 (7,62 mm Samozarjadnyi Pistolet Tokareva obraztsa 1933 goda, Russian: 7,62-мм ÑамозаÑÑднÑй пиÑÑÐ¾Ð»ÐµÑ Ð¢Ð¾ÐºÐ°Ñева обÑазÑа 1933 года) is a semi-automatic pistol developed by Fedor Tokarev as a service pistol for the Soviet military to replace the Nagant M1895 revolvers in use since tsarist times. ...
Submachine Guns The Mosin-Nagant (Мосин-Наган) is a military rifle of Russia and later the Soviet Union, in service in various forms from 1891 until the 1960s, when it was finally replaced in its final function as a sniper rifle by the SVD rifle (Снайперская винтовка Драгунова - Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova - Dragunov...
The Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva 40 is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle that proceeded from the SVT-38. ...
Machine Guns The PPD (Pistolet-Pulemet Degtyarova, Russian: ÐиÑÑолеÑ-пÑлемÑÑ ÐегÑÑÑÑва) is a submachine gun originally designed in 1934 by Vasily Degtyaryov. ...
The PPSh-41 (Pistolet-Pulemet Shpagina, Russian: , nicknamed Phe-phe-sha, Shpagin and Burp Gun) submachine gun was one of the most simplisticly produced weapons of World War II. It was designed by Georgi Shpagin, as an inexpensive alternative to the PPD-40, which was expensive and time consuming to...
Designed by Aleksei Sudaev and first issued during the Siege of Leningrad, PPS-43 (Pistolet-Pulemet Sudaeva, Russian: ÐиÑÑолеÑ-пÑлемÑÑ Ð¡Ñдаева) was a result of further simplification of the PPSh-41, and it is often considered the best submachine gun of World War II. It was initially produced as PPS-42, but soon...
Anti-Tank Weapons The Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyareva pekhotnyi (Degtyarev hand-held infantry machine gun) was a light machine gun used by the Soviet Union starting in 1928. ...
The DShK (ÐШÐ, for ÐегÑÑÑÑва Шпагина ÐÑÑпнокалибеÑнÑй, Degtyarev-Shpagin Large Calibre) is a Soviet heavy anti-aircraft machine gun firing 12. ...
The Pulemyot Maxima na stanke Sokolova (ÐÑлемÑÑ ÐакÑима на ÑÑанке Соколова) /Maxims machine gun on Sokolovs mount/ (also known as the Pulemyot Maxima PM1910 Maxim machine gun 1910) was a heavy machine gun used by the Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during World War II. It was adopted...
The SG-43 Goryunov was a Soviet medium machine gun that was introduced during the Second World War and is chambered for the 7. ...
Grenades PTRD The PTRD-41 was an anti-tank rifle produced and used from early 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. It was a single-shot weapon that fired 14. ...
The PTRS-41 is the semi-automatic cousin of the PTRD anti-tank rifle. ...
- F1 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
- RGD-33 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
- RG-41 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade
- RG-42 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
- RPG-43 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
- RPG-6 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
Flamethrowers F-1 Hand grenade The Soviet F-1 hand grenade, nicknamed the limonka (lemon) is an anti-personnel fragmentation grenade. ...
The RGD-33 is a Soviet issue hand grenade, widely used during World War II and afterwards. ...
The Soviet RG-41 stick grenade was an anti-tank weapon developed during World War II. It contained a 1 kilogram high-explosive charge. ...
The Soviet RG-42 was an anti-personnel fragmentation stick grenade developed from the prior RGD-33 during World War II. It contained about 200 grams of explosive charge (TNT). ...
The RPG-43 (Ruchnaya Protivotankovaya Granata) was a HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) hand grenade used by the Soviet Union during the Second World War. ...
The RPG-6 was a Soviet anti-tank hand-grenade operating on the shaped charge principle, developed during World War II. It underwent testing in September 1943, and was accepted into service in October of the same year. ...
Handguns Rifles The M1917 revolver was a US six shot revolver of 45 ACP caliber. ...
The Smith & Wesson Military & Police revolver is a . ...
The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ...
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is . ...
Submachine Guns The Browning Automatic Rifle (more formally designated first as the Rifle, Caliber . ...
The M1 Garand (more formally the United States Rifle, Caliber . ...
The M1 Carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber . ...
The Springfield M1903, formally the United States Rifle, Caliber . ...
The M1941 Rifle was an American short-recoil operated semiautomatic rifle designed by Melvin Johnson prior to World War II. The M1941 competed unsuccessfully with the U.S. M1 Garand. ...
Machine Guns Tommy Gun redirects here. ...
The M3 Grease Gun (more formally United States Submachine Gun, Cal. ...
The Reising was an American submachine gun patented in 1940 and manufactured by Harrington & Richardson. ...
Anti-Tank Weapons The Browning M1919 was a . ...
The Browning Model 1917 Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun used by the United States armed forces in World War I, World War II, Korea, and to a limited amount in Vietnam and by other nations. ...
This article is about the . ...
Grenades For other uses, see Bazooka (disambiguation). ...
A Vietnam era MK2 grenade. ...
Handguns Rifles Enfield No. ...
The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Break-Top Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth from 1887 until 1963. ...
The Browning Hi-Power is a semi-automatic, single-action, 9 mm pistol. ...
Submachine Guns The Lee-Enfield was, in various marks and models, the British Armys standard bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle for over 60 years from (officially) 1895 until 1956, although it remained in British service well into the early 1960s and is still found in service in the armed forces...
Jungle Carbine was an informal term used for the Rifle No. ...
Line drawing of Guppy 13 pocket cruiser The De Lisle carbine was a British rifle used during World War II. It was based on a Lee_Enfield rifle converted to . ...
History During the Boer War the British were faced with accurate long-range fire from the famous Mauser rifles, model 1895, in 7x57mm caliber. ...
Machine Guns This article is about the submachine gun. ...
The Lanchester was a submachine gun used by the British during World War II. History In 1940, with the Dunkirk evacuation completed, the Royal Air Force decided to adopt some form of submachine gun for airfield defense. ...
Anti-Tank Weapons The Bren (from Brno (the Czechoslovakian town of design) and Enfield, the location of the British Royal Small Arms Factory), usually called the Bren Gun, was a series of squad automatic weapon/light machine guns adopted by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles into the 1980s. ...
The Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era squad automatic weapon/machine gun of American design that was most widely used by the forces of the British Empire. ...
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled . ...
Grenades The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, was one of the earlier anti-tank weapons using a high explosive anti-tank projectile. ...
The Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys commonly known as the Boys or often and incorrectly Boyes Anti-tank Rifle was a British anti-tank rifle. ...
Flamethrowers Mills bomb is the popular name for a series of prominent British hand grenades. ...
Rifle No. ...
A HEAT round. ...
British No. ...
No 76, Special Incendiary Phosphorus Nationality United Kingdom Date of design Service duration Type Incendiary Filling phosphorus, Detonation Impact Weight g Filling weight g Length mm Diameter mm Variants Number built 6,000,000[1] The No. ...
The No. ...
No 74 ST Grenade Type Hand grenade Nationality United Kingdom Era World War II Platform Individual Target Vehicle/Tank History Date of design 1940 Production period Service duration Operators United Kingdom War service World War 2 Specifications Type High Explosive Filling nitroglycerine Detonation Timed. ...
No 75 / AT Hawkins Type Hand grenade/(Mine) Nationality United Kingdom Era World War II Platform Individual Target Vehicle History Date of design Production period Service duration 1942 - 1945 Operators United Kingdom, US War service World War II Specifications Type Anti-tank Filling Nobel 704 HE Detonation crush igniter Weight...
The No. ...
Grenade No. ...
The Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 (nicknamed Lifebuoy from the shape of the fuel tank), also known as the Ack Pack, was a British design of flamethrower for infantry use in the Second World War. ...
References - Bishop, Chris (Gen. Ed.) (1998). The Complete Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. London: Brown Books. ISBN 1-897884-36-2.
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