List of military vehicles of World War II explained
The following is a list of Second World War military vehicles organized by country, showing numbers produced in parentheses.
Afghanistan
Tanks
Albania
Tanks
Armoured cars
Tankettes
Argentina
Tanks
Utility vehicles
Australia
Tanks
Armoured cars
Belgium
See also: Belgian combat vehicles of World War II.
Tanks
- ACG-1 (12)
- T-13 (199)
- T-15 (42)
- Renault FT (75 in storage)
Utility vehicles
- FN Tricar (331 ordered and partially delivered)
Bulgaria
Tankettes
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
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Utility vehicles
China
Tankettes
Tanks
Armored cars
Croatia
Tankettes
Armoured cars
- AB-41
- Oklopni samovoz
- Several Improvised 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
- 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
See also: German combat vehicles of World War II and List of World War II military vehicles of 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
- BT-7 (captured)
- Hotchkiss H39 (15 captured vehicles provided by Germany)
- LT vz. 34 (captured)
- LT vz. 35 (captured)
- M3 Stuart (captured)
- SOMUA S35 (2 captured vehicles provided by Germany)
- T-26 (captured)
- T-28 (captured)
- T-34 (including T-34/76 and T-34/85) (captured)
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
See also: List of World War II weapons of 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
Tankettes
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
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
See also: list of Polish armoured fighting vehicles.
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
See main article: Romanian armored fighting vehicle production during World War II.
Tankettes
- R-1 (Modified Czechoslovak AH-IV, 1 prototype + 35 imported from Czechoslovakia)
Tanks
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
See also: Soviet combat vehicle production during World War II. 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
- T-35 (61 pre-war)
- SMK (experimental)
- KV (Kliment Voroshilov) (508 pre-war)
- KV-1 (Kliment Voroshilov 1) (3,015)
- KV-1S (Kliment Voroshilov 1S) (1,232)
- KV-85 (Kliment Voroshilov 85) (130)
- KV-2 (Kliment Voroshilov 2) (334)
- IS-1 heavy tank IS-1 (Iosif Stalin 1)
- IS-2 heavy tank IS-2 (Iosif Stalin 2) (3,590)
- IS-3 heavy tank IS-3 (Iosef Stalin 3) (2,311 including 29 till the end of the war)
Self-propelled guns
Rocket artillery
Anti-aircraft
Armoured cars
Amphibious armoured cars
Half-tracks
Artillery tractors
- Komsomolets (4,041 pre-war)
- T-26-T
- STZ-3 (3,658 pre-war)
- STZ-5 (7,170 pre-war)
- Komintern (1,017 pre-war)
- Voroshilovets (228 pre-war)
- Kommunar (504 pre-war)
- YA-12 (1,666)
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
- Tank, Light, Mk.II (36)
- Tank, Light, Mk.III
- Tank, Light, Mk.IV
- Tank, Light, Mk.V (22)
- Tank, Light, Mk.VI (1,320)
- Tank, Light, Mk. VII Tetrarch (177)
- Tank, Light, Mk. VIII "Harry Hopkins" (A25) (100)
- Vickers 6 Ton Type B (1,939) – 4 used for training
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
- Tank, Heavy, TOG I (1 prototype)
- Tank, Heavy, TOG II (1 prototype)
- Tank, Heavy Assault, A33 (Excelsior) (only prototypes, not mass-produced or accepted into service)
- Tank, Heavy Assault, Tortoise (A39) (6 prototypes – finished in late 1945 after end of war)
- Tank, infantry, Churchill (A22) (7,368)
Cruiser tanks
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.I (A9) (125)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. II (A10) (205)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. III (A13) (65)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. IV (A13 Mk.II) (655)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.V, Covenanter (A13 Mk.III) (1,771)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VI, Crusader (A15) (5,700)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VII, Cavalier (A24) (500)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VIII, Centaur (A27L) (950)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VIII, Cromwell (A27M) (4,200)
- Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) (296)
- Tank, Cruiser, Comet I (A34) (United Kingdom) (1,200)
- Tank, Cruiser, Centurion I (A41) – Not used in WWII)
Infantry tanks
- Tank, infantry, Mk.I, Matilda I (A11) (140)
- Tank, infantry, Tank Mk.II, Matilda II (A12) (2,987)
- Tank, infantry, Mk.III, Valentine (8,275)
- Tank, infantry, Mk.IV, Churchill (A22) (5,460)
- Tank, infantry, Valiant (A38) (1 prototype)
- Tank, infantry, Black Prince (A43) (6 prototypes)
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.[1]
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
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
Bibliography
- Book: Chamberlain . Peter . Doyle . Hilary . Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Track . 1999 . Cassell . 978-1854095183 .
- Taki's Imperial Japanese Army Page – Akira Takizawa
- Book: Ware . P . The Illustrated Guide to military Vehicles . 2012 . Hermes House . . 978-0-85723-953-2.
- Book: Zaloga, Steven J. . James Grandsen . 1984 . Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two . Arms and Armour Press, London . 0-85368-606-8 .
- Book: Zaloga, Steven J. . 2007 . Japanese Tanks 1939–45 . Osprey . 978-1-8460-3091-8 .
Notes and References
- Book: . 1943 . War Department Technical Manual, Volume 30, Issue 410 . Washington, D.C. . US Government . 113.