List of military vehicles of World War II

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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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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