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.

Argentina

Tanks

Utility vehicles

Australia

Tanks

Armoured car

Belgium
See also: Belgian combat vehicles of World War II

Tanks

Utility vehicles
  • FN Tricar (331 ordered & partially delivered)

Bulgaria

Tankettes

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Armored cars

Utility vehicles

Canada

Tanks
  • 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 car

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

Czechoslovakia

Tanks

Tankettes

Armoured cars

Denmark
  • Armoured Harley Davidson motorcycle (trials)
  • Fiat 3000 (1)
  • FP-4 and FP-5
  • Landsverk L-180 (2)
  • Landsverk L-185 (1, used for training)
  • Pansarbil m/39 (3)
  • PV-10 (5)
  • V3 "Holger Danske" armored car (Made on a Ford FAA)

Finland

Tanks
  • Renault FT (used only as in place fire position)
  • Vickers Mark E (26) (Modified, equipped with 37 mm Puteaux SA-18 or with 37mm Bofors)
  • BT-5 and BT-7 (captured)
  • T-26 (captured)
  • T-28 (captured)
  • T-34 (captured)
  • KV-1 (captured)
  • Panzer IV (bought)

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

Armored cars

India

Armoured cars

Nazi 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

Armoured cars
  • Panzerjäger Bren 731(e) (Universal Carrier captured by the Germans and fitted with a triple Panzerschreck mount)
  • Fahrgestell Bren (Universal Carrier reused by the Germans with a 3.7 cm PaK 36 gun )
  • Sd.Kfz. 221 Leichter Panzerspähwagen Light Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen Light Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 223 Leichter Panzerspähwagen Light Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 231 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (6-Rad) Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 232 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 233 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 234/1 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 234/2 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Puma Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 234/3 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Stummel Heavy Armoured Car
  • Sd.Kfz. 234/4 Schwere Panzerspähwagen (8-Rad) Heavy Armoured Car
  • Steyr ADGZ Heavy Armoured Car (from Austrian annex)
  • Panzerspähwagen P204(f) (Panhard 178 captured following the Battle of France)
  • Panzerspähwagen BA-10(r) (Captured BA-10)
  • Panzerspähwagen AB43 203(i) (Captured after Italian armistice)

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
  • Borgward B IV demolition vehicle (1,181)
  • Goliath tracked mine (7,564)
  • Springer demolition vehicle (50)

Hungary

Tanks
  • Toldi I, II, IIa, and III (202)
  • Turan I and II (424)

Self-propelled guns

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

Italy

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

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks
  • Carro Pesante P26/40 (101)

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled guns

Armoured cars

Utility vehicles

Japan

Tankettes

Tanks

Light tanks
  • Type 95 Ha-Go (2,300)
  • Type 98 Ke-Ni (104)
  • Type 2 Ke-To (34)
  • Type 4 Ke-Nu (100)
  • Type 5 Ke-Ho (1 prototype)

Medium tanks
  • Type 89 Chi-Ro (404)
  • Type 97 Chi-Ha (1,162)
  • Type 98 Chi-Ho (4 prototypes)
  • Type 97-Kai Shinhoto Chi-Ha (930)
  • Type 1 Chi-He (170)
  • Type 3 Chi-Nu (144 to 166)
  • Type 4 Chi-To (2)
  • Type 5 Chi-Ri (1 incomplete prototype)

Heavy tanks

Amphibious tanks

Self-propelled guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Netherlands

Tankettes

Light Tank

Armoured cars

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
  • Universal carrier (1,300)

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

Norway

Light tanks
  • Stridsvagn L-120 (1)

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

Romania

Tank destroyers

Tanks & Tankettes
  • R-1 (1 prototype + bought vehicles)
  • R-2 (bought vehicles)
  • R-3 (project)
  • Malaxa UE (built under licence)
  • T-26 with 37 mm gun (proposal, never made)

Armoured cars

Artillery tractors

Armored Fighting Vehicles
  • AB md. 1941

Siam

Tanks and Tankettes

Self-propelled guns

Anti-aircraft
  • Type 76 SPAAG (26)

South Africa

Armoured cars

Soviet Union
See also: Soviet combat vehicle production during World War II

Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).

Tankettes
  • T-27 (3,328 pre-war)

Tanks

Light tanks
  • T-26 (11,218 pre-war)
  • T-50 (65)
  • T-60 (5,839)
  • T-70 (8,226)
  • T-80 & T-90 (75)
  • BT tanks (8,060 pre-war)

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 (Iosif Stalin 1)
  • IS-2 (Iosif Stalin 2) (3,590)
  • IS-3 (Iosef Stalin 3) (2,311 including 29 till the end of the war)

Teletanks (remotely controlled tanks)

Self-propelled guns

Rocket artillery

Anti-aircraft
  • M-4 GAZ AA motorized quad Russian M1910 Maxim guns
  • ZiS-42 motorized 25 mm
  • YaG-10 motorized 76.2 mm
  • T-90 anti-aircraft tank (dual 12.7 mm DShK)
  • ZSU-25 dual 25 mm
  • ZSU-37 37 mm

Armoured cars

Amphibious armoured cars

Half-tracks

Aerosans

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

Motor vehicles
  • [All types] (272,600 pre-war)

United Kingdom

Artillery tractors

Tanks

Light tanks

Medium tanks

Heavy tanks

Cruiser tanks

Infantry tanks

Self-propelled guns

Armoured personnel carriers

Armoured cars

Lorries
  • AEC Armoured Command Vehicle (415)
  • Albion WD.CX24 Tank Transporter
  • Austin K2/Y Ambulance.[4] (13,102)
  • Austin K3
  • Austin K4
  • Austin K4 Dropside
  • Austin K5
  • Austin K6 GS
  • Austin K6 Gantry
  • Bedford MW.[5]
  • Bedford OXA Armoured
  • Bedford OXC Semi-trailer
  • Bedford OXD GS
  • Bedford OYC Tanker
  • Bedford OYD GS
  • Bedford QLB Bofors.[6]
  • Bedford QLD GS.[6]
  • Bedford QLR/QLC Radio/communications.[6]
  • Bedford QLT Troop carrier.[6]
  • Crossley Q-Type.[7]
  • GMC DUKW six-wheel-drive amphibious truck
  • Guy Ant
  • Guy Lizard Armoured Command Vehicle (21)
  • Humber FWD.[8]
  • Karrier K6.[9]
  • Leyland Hippo Mk II.[10]
  • Morris 15cwt
  • Morris ML Ambulance
  • Morris C8 GS
  • Morris Commercial CD series.[11]
  • Morris Commercial CS8.[12]
  • Morris Commercial 8x8 GS Terrapin amphibious truck
  • Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer SV1S and SV2S (~500)

United States

Tanks

Light tanks
  • Marmon-Herrington CTLS
  • Light Tank M2
    • M2A1 (10)
    • M2A2 (239)
    • M2A3 (72)
    • M2A4 (375)
  • Light Tank M3/M5 (22,743) ("General Stuart", shortened to "Stuart" and unofficially "Honey" in British service)
  • Light Tank M22 (830) ("Locust" in British service, name adopted by America)
  • Light Tank M24 (4,731) ("General Chaffee" in British service, name adopted by America)

Medium tanks
  • Medium Tank M3 (7,533) (General Lee American tanks purchased by the British under lend-lease.
  • Medium Tank M4 (58,000) (General Sherman bought by British from U.S. under lend lease)
  • Medium Tank M2 (112, used for training only)
  • Medium Tank M7 -prototype

Heavy tanks

Tank destroyers

Self-propelled artillery

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

Armoured personnel carriers
  • Half-track Personnel Carrier M3 (4,088)
  • M4 Kangoroo

Armoured cars

Artillery tractors

Amphibious

Utility vehicles

Yugoslavia

Tanks

Light tanks
  • M3A3 with 20mm Flak 38 Flakvierling (2)
  • M3A3 with 7.5 cm PaK 40 (3)

See also

References

Citations
  1. Ware 2012, p. 191.
  2. Ware 2012, p. 193.
  3. Ware 2012, p. 216.
  4. Ware 2012, p. 196.
  5. Ware 2012, p. 198.
  6. Ware 2012, p. 199.
  7. Ware 2012, p. 201.
  8. Ware 2012, p. 205.
  9. Ware 2012, p. 207.
  10. Ware 2012, p. 211.
  11. Ware 2012, p. 213.
  12. Ware 2012, p. 214.

Bibliography
  • Chamberlain, Peter; Doyle, Hilary (1999). Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Track. Cassell. ISBN 978-1854095183.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Taki's Imperial Japanese Army Page - Akira Takizawa
  • Ware, P (2012). The illustrated guide to military vehicles. Wigston: Hermes House. ISBN 0-85723-953-8.
  • Zaloga, Steven J.; James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two. Arms and Armour Press, London. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.
  • Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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