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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 edit

Tanks edit

Albania edit

Tanks edit

  • Fiat 3000

Armoured cars edit

  • Lancia 1ZM

Tankettes edit

  • CV-33

Argentina edit

Tanks edit

Utility vehicles edit

Australia edit

Tanks edit

Armoured cars edit

Belgium edit

See also: Belgian combat vehicles of World War II

Tanks edit

Utility vehicles edit

  • FN Tricar (331 ordered and partially delivered)

Bulgaria edit

Tankettes edit

Tanks edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Tank-based edit

Armored cars edit

Utility vehicles edit

Canada edit

Tanks edit

  • 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 edit

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

Utility vehicles edit

China edit

Tankettes edit

Tanks edit

  • 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 edit

Croatia edit

Tankettes edit

Armoured cars edit

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

Tanks edit

Tank destroyers edit

Czechoslovakia edit

Tanks edit

Tankettes edit

Armoured cars edit

Denmark edit

Estonia edit

Tanks edit

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

Tankettes edit

  • TKS (6)

Armoured cars edit

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

Finland edit

Tanks edit

Anti-Aircraft edit

Assault guns edit

France edit

Tanks edit

Armoured reconnaissance tanks edit

Armoured combat tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Tank destroyers edit

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

Self propelled guns edit

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

Germany edit

See also: German combat vehicles of World War II and List of World War II military vehicles of Germany

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

  • 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 edit

  • Maus (2 prototypes completed)

Armoured cars edit

Utility vehicles edit

Motorcycles edit

  • 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 edit

Self-propelled artillery edit

Assault guns edit

Tank destroyers edit

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns edit

Remote controlled vehicles edit

Hungary edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Captured tanks edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Tank destroyers edit

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns edit

Armoured cars edit

Utility vehicles edit

India edit

Armoured cars edit

Iran edit

Half-tracks edit

  • Citroën-Kégresse P1T ?

Armoured cars edit

Tankettes edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Iraq edit

Tankettes edit

Armoured cars edit

  • Iraqi Crossley MkI (≈14)

Italy edit

See also: List of World War II weapons of Italy

Tankettes edit

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

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Tank destroyers and Self-propelled guns edit

Armoured cars edit

Utility vehicles edit

Japan edit

Tankettes edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Amphibious tanks edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

Latvia edit

Armoured Cars edit

  • various dating from WW1

Tankettes edit

  • Carden Loyd MK IV (1)

Tanks edit

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


Lithuania edit

Armoured cars edit

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


Tanks edit

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


Manchukuo edit

Armoured Cars edit

Tankettes edit

Tanks edit

Mexico edit

Tanks edit

Netherlands edit

Tankettes edit

Light tanks edit

Armoured cars edit

Armoured personnel carrier edit

Self-propelled anti-air-gun edit

  • Ehrhardt Potkachel (1)

New Zealand edit

Converted tractors edit

Light tanks edit

Also American M3 Stuart Tanks, called "Honeys" by the Brits and Commonwealth, used in Italy as recon vehicles

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

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

Norway edit

Light tanks edit

Poland edit

See also: list of Polish armoured fighting vehicles

Tankettes edit

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

Tanks edit

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

Armored cars edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Artillery tractors edit

Utility vehicles edit

Reorganized National Government of ROC edit

Tankettes edit


Romania edit

Main article: Romanian armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

Tankettes edit

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

Tanks edit

Tank destroyers edit

Armoured cars edit

Artillery tractors edit

Demolition vehicles edit

Slovakia edit

Tanks edit


Armoured cars edit

South Africa edit

Armoured cars edit

Soviet Union edit

See also: Soviet combat vehicle production during World War II

Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).

Tankettes edit

  • T-27 (3,328 pre-war)

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

amphibious tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

  • 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 edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Rocket artillery edit

Anti-aircraft edit

Armoured cars edit

Amphibious armoured cars edit

Half-tracks edit

Aerosledges edit

Artillery tractors edit

Improvised AFVs edit

Utility vehicles edit

Motorcycles edit

Light utility vehicles edit

Trucks edit

Thailand edit

Tanks and tankettes edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Anti-aircraft edit

United Kingdom edit

Artillery tractors edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Cruiser tanks edit

Infantry tanks edit

Self-propelled guns edit

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

Lorries edit

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 edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Medium tanks edit

Heavy tanks edit

Tank destroyers edit

Self-propelled artillery edit

Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns edit

Armoured personnel carriers edit

Armoured cars edit

Artillery tractors edit

Amphibious edit

Utility vehicles edit

Yugoslavia edit

Tanks edit

Light tanks edit

Tankettes edit

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

Self-Propelled guns edit

  • M3 Stuart modified with various captured German weapons

See also edit

References edit

Citations edit

  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.

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