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Czechoslovakian soldiers with a ZB vz. 26 and a vz. 24.

This is a list of infantry weapons which were in mainstream use during World War II (1939–1945).

Kingdom of Albania[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Australia[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine guns

Anti-tank weaponry

Grenades

Flamethrowes

Mortars

Austria[edit]

The Federal State of Austria was annexed in 1938 by Germany into the Reich and the Austrian armed forces into the German Wehrmacht.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Belgium[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Anti-tank guns

Bayonets

  • Modèle 1924

Brazil[edit]

Brazil under authoritarian rule of Vargas entered the war in 1942 on the Allied side but did not deploy troops until 1943. Much of its equipment was provided by Lend Lease from the US.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine Guns

Shotguns

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Bulgaria[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine Guns

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Canada[edit]

Handguns

Sub-machine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Shotguns

Flamethrowes

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Slovak Republic[edit]

First Slovak Republic was a puppet state of Germany during the war
Handguns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Mortars

  • 80 mm vz. 36 – medium mortar

Republic of China[edit]

List of National Revolutionary Army weapons, including Chinese warlords and Communists.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns’

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Close quarters weapons

Independent State of Croatia[edit]

Independent State of Croatia was a fascist state and a puppet of Germany created in 1941.
Handguns

Rifles

Assault rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine guns

mortars

Grenades

Anti-tank weapons

Knives and bayonets

Denmark[edit]

Denmark was invaded by Germany in 1940 and occupied. Danish army was reduced to about 3,000. After complete takeover by Germany in 1943, a force-in-exile was equipped by Sweden.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine Guns

Anti-tank weapons

Hand Grenades

Czechoslovakia[edit]

Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany by March 1939 dividing the country into a German protectorate, Slovak Republic and Carpathian Ukraine. Czech forces in exile ended up as units within the western Allies and Soviet forces.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine Guns

Finland[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine guns

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Anti-aircraft weapons

Knives

Mines

France[edit]

Following the Battle of France in 1940, French forces were divided into Vichy Government in France and overseas and Free French forces which were equipped by the other Western allies.
Handguns

Rifles

Shotguns

Submachine Guns

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Mortars

Third Reich (Nazi Germany)[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Sub-machine guns

Machine guns

Assault Rifles

Sniper rifles

Shotguns

Anti-tank weapons

Flamethrowers

Grenades

Grenade Launcher

Close quarter weapons

Mortars

Greece[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Light machine guns

Machine guns

Anti-tank guns

Mortars

Hungary[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine Guns

Anti-tank Weapons

Grenades

Italy[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Mortars

Anti-tank Weapons

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Bayonets

  • Modello 1891 “sciabola baionetta”
  • Modello 1891/38 “pugnale baionetta”

Japan[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Sub-Machine guns

Anti-tank Weapons

Machine Guns

Grenades

Mortars

Flamethrowers

Grenade Dischargers

Swords

Republic of Lithuania[edit]

Lithuania was occupied by USSR at the start of the war, then taken over by Germany before being once more occupied by Soviet forces
Handguns

Submachine Guns

Rifles

Machineguns

Republic of Estonia[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Sub-machineguns

Machine-guns

Anti-tank Guns

Republic of Latvia[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Grenades

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg[edit]

Luxembourg was occupied by Germany in 1940. Some Luxembourg joined the Allies and formed an artillery troop of 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade, equipped by the British and part of the Guards Armoured Division
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine Guns

Anti-tank Guns

British Malaysia[edit]

The Federated Malay States, the unfederated Malay States and Straits Settlements were British protectorates and crown colonies in South east Asia. They were occupied by Japanese in 1941.
Handguns

Shotguns

Sub-Machine Guns

Rifles

Machine Guns

Anti-Tank Weapons

Grenades

Knives

Mexico[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Sub-machine guns

Machine guns

Anti-Tank Guns

Mongolian People’s Republic[edit]

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Kingdom of Netherlands[edit]

See also: List of Dutch military equipment of World War II

Although the Royal Dutch Army was defeated and Netherlands were occupied by Germany in 1940, the Dutch government-in-exile formed the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade which was equipped with Allied weapons. In the Pacific, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army was largely composed of indigenous troops of the Dutch colonies (now Indonesia)
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine Guns

Grenades

Anti-Tank Weapons

New Zealand[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine Guns

Machine Guns

Anti-tank Weapons

Grenades

Norway[edit]

Following occupation by Germany early in the war, most of the Norwegian army was captured. Only a small number formed the land part of Free Norwegian forces.
Handguns

Rifles

Machine Guns

Grenades

  • Makeshift grenades and bombs

Poland[edit]

Following invasion by Germany from west and USSR from east, Poland was first split into two then occupied completely by Germany. Exiled Polish forces were formed Polish Armed Forces in the East and Polish Armed Forces in the Westequipped by USSR and western Allies respectively. A large organized force, the Home Army fought within occupied Poland.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine gun

Machine Guns

Anti-Tank Weapons

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Flamethrowers

  • Zieliński flamethrower
  • Sender flamethrower
  • WS-1 flamethrower
  • WS-2 flamethrower

Mortars

  • wz.18 mortar
  • wz.28 mortar
  • wz.18/31 mortar
  • wz.31 mortar
  • wz.32 heavy mortar
  • wz.40 mortar

Romania[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Anti-tank guns

South Africa[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine Guns

Anti-Tank Weapons

Mortars

Soviet Union[edit]

Handguns

Sub-Machine Guns

Assault rifles

Rifles

Anti-tank Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade Launchers

  • Diakonov (Attach on M91/30 rifle only)

Knives

Flamethrowers

Anti-Tank Weapons

Mines

Thailand[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Grenades

Grenade dischargers

United Kingdom (including British Empire)[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Sub-machine guns

Machine guns

Shotguns

Anti-tank Weapons

Grenades

Mortars

Flamethrowers

Sniper rifles

Knives

United States[edit]

Handguns

Rifles

Carbines

Sub-machine guns

Machine guns

Sniper rifles

Shotguns (commonly used by the Marines in the Pacific theater, limited use in Europe)

Anti-tank weapons

Flamethrowers

Recoilless rifles

Grenades

Grenade launcher

Mortars

Edged weapons

Yugoslavia[edit]

Following invasion by Axis forces Yugoslavia was occupied and split. The Yugoslav government-in-exile was abroad while communist partisans took control of Yugoslav territory from Axis and were able to proclaim a Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. Partisans were supplied by the Allies.
Handguns

Rifles

Submachine guns

Machineguns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti tank

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Chinese firearms: Hanyang Arsenal http://www.chinesefirearms.com/110108/history/hanyang_g.htm
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Mils or MOA which is right for you …or why bigger is better by Frank Galli

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Mils or MOA

This debate is never going to end, but we should agree on the facts. Every day we see the uninformed arguments how one angular unit of measurement is better than the other. The truth of the matter is, one is not better, they are just different ways of breaking down the same thing.
Personally, outside of the disciplines like Benchrest Shooting and F Class, I think Minutes of Angle should be retired. We have bastardized the unit to the point people have no idea a true MOA is not 1″ at 100 yards, or 10″ at 1000, but 1.047″ and 10.47″ at 1000. If you round this angle, you create errors at the longer distances. Today we shoot a lot farther than before, 5% of error compounding at an extended range will cause a miss. In fact, this is one of the main reason your ballistic software does not work. You default to MOA when in reality your scope adjusts in Inches Per Hundred Yards.
Shooter MOA or Inches Per Hundred Yards (IPHY) is not a True MOA, and yes it does matter when companies mix them. Having someone question how IPHY is different when they don’t understand we don’t use 1 MOA or even 10 MOA to hit a 1000 yard target is frustrating to explain. If we consider a 308 as a point of reference, we are looking at almost 17″ of variation between the two units of adjustment.
We can quickly point to the adoption of Mils here with the Military to demonstrate the ease of use, but then the Americans reading this will argue how they think in Inches and Yards as if Mils only work with the metric system. Mils are base 10 and unfortunately Mr & Mrs. America thinking in fractions is nowhere as simple.
3600 inches is 100 yards, 1/1000 of that is 3.6″ and adjusting in .1 mils means we moved the bullet .36″ per click at 100. See what we did there, we moved the decimal point. Some people believe an MOA is a finer unit of adjustment. Failing to note that: .3 Mils is 1.08″ at 100 yards. Contrary to popular belief you can get a Mil Based scope that moves the reticle .18 Inches per click. Mil based scopes usually adjust in .1 Mil Increments; however, they do make scopes that adjust in .05 Mils.
While Milliradians were added to the metric system many years ago, it was never designed to be a metric only unit and works outside the metric system as this is an angle. Every angle has a linear distance between it. You should be ignoring this fact and using the angle vs. picking a linear value to adjust your correction. If I am shooting 873 yards away, saying the bullet 6″ off the target is neither honest or accurate. You’re guessing; in your mind, it looked six inches away, but what if it was 9″? Using the linear value is more work, why not just adjust the angle?
Minutes of Angle started out like that too, but unfortunately, companies took shortcuts and ruined it for everyone. It was easier to manufacturer 1″ vs. adding in the .047″. Long range back in the day was between 400 and 800 yards. Read any old school book on ballistic, and it rarely goes past those ranges in their examples. Today we are shooting beyond 1000 yards, so it matters more than ever, you have to take it into account.
Defaulting your program to MOA when you are using IPHY is a significant point of error. JBM online is a great place to demonstrate this as you can include both MOA and IPHY in the output. The same amount of adjustment is accomplished with two different values. Mix these numbers, and the result is a miss. Did you dial 40.1 or 38.3 MOA?
I highly recommend you map and calibrate your MOA scope to confirm it’s actual value. It works both ways, not every MOA based scope is TMOA, some are SMOA. The compounding error is a lot bigger than .47 inches.
One is not more accurate than the other. I can hit the center of any target using either unit of adjustment. Using JBM the same way we can see that both correctly move us to the target. The difference is less than a bullet width. I have no trouble zeroing or hitting the center of a Shoot N C target keeping me squared away.
Which unit of adjustment is right for me?
This is the ultimate question; it should not be up to someone else to answer it for you. Communication is your number one consideration.
What are your friends and fellow competitors shooting?
You want to be able to communicate and understand what a fellow competitor is talking about when he walks off the line. You can convert using 3.43, by multiplying or dividing the competing unit of adjustment against the other. That will give you a direct conversion.
12 MOA / 3.43 = 3.5 Mils
4.2 Mils x 3.43 = 14.4 MOA
Next, you have your reticle choices. You will find more versatile options when it comes to Mil Based scopes vs. an MOA one. That is changing a small amount as manufacturers adapt. But a reticle with 1 MOA hash marks is not as fine as a scope with .2 Mil lines in it. You now have to break up an already small 1 MOA into quarters. The Mil based scope is already breaking up the Milliradian for you.
Pick the reticle based on your initial impression as well as your use. You don’t need a Christmas tree reticle to shoot F Class. You don’t want to use a floating dot bench rest scope for Tactical Style Competition. Put your intended use into the proper context.
There are a lot of articles about the nuts and bolts of Mils and MOA. You can dig deep or understand we are using the angle and there is no need to convert to a linear distance. A Mil is a Mil, and an MOA is an MOA (Unless it’s not because you didn’t check) Today I don’t even teach, 1″ at 100, 2″ at 200 yards, 5″ at 500 yards. It’s an unnecessary step and confusing to a lot of people. Not to mention, it’s not right, that is IPHY, not MOA.
We match our scope reticle to our turret adjustment, so at the end of the day, “What you See is What You Get.” It matches what we see in the reticle so we can dial the correction on the turret. A super simple concept that allows the shooter to use the calibrated ruler 3 inches in front of their nose. That calibrated ruler is called a reticle taking away the need to “Think” about the adjustment, you just read it.
If the impact is off in any direction, you measure with the reticle and then translate that reading directly to the turrets. 1 Mils is always 1 Mil, and 1 MOA in any direction is a 1 MOA correction on the turret.
If you have not made the change to Mils, consider it. You will find it’s much more intuitive. You do not have to be a resident of Germany to understand it, and you do not have to use it with Meters. All my data is in yards, and mils directly translate to whatever range you use.
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Something you will not see everyday – A Steyr Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22 Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R 7mm Mauser (7x57mm)

Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 8
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 9
 The Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle dates to 1903 when the 6.5x54mm cartridge and both military and civilian rifles to shoot it were introduced. Austria and Greece adopted the 1903 military rifle and the 6.5×54 cartridge that same year.
The 1903 Mannlicher rifles and carbines were the last designs of Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher, who died the next year, and his friend Otto Schönauer who designed the exceptional rotary drum magazine intrinsic to all Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles. Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles and carbines were exclusively manufactured at Oesterreichische Waffenfabrik Gesellschaft Steyr in Steyr, Austria.
The Model 1903 rifle as the first of the famous M-S Rifles and Carbines and it established the basic design of all the models that were to follow. The rifles were equipped with flat “butter knife” bolt handles and rotary magazines.
This rifle is a custom model with a 22” barrel chambered in 7.5×57 Mauser, apparently built by Max Fischer of Berlin. The rifle features a “butter knife” bolt handle, German Pecar Champion 4x Scope, and a set trigger which provides an astoundingly light and crisp 1/4 pound trigger pull.
The rifle is in about Very Good overall condition with about 80% of its finish remaining.

Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 3
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 4
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 5
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 6
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 7
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 8
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 9
Steyr - Fischer 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer British Marked, Blue 22” Bolt Action Rifle & Pecar Champion 4x Scope, MFD 1903-24 C&R - Picture 10

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