List of Chinese military equipment in World War II

The following is a list of military equipment of the ROC in World War II (1937Ã¢ÂÂ1945) which includes aircraft, artillery, small arms, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords and including the Collaborationist Chinese Army and Manchukuo Imperial Army, as well as Communist guerillas, encompassing the period of the Second United Front.

Swords and bayonets

Dao
Miaodao
HY1935 bayonet
Qiang (spear)
Shin guntÃÂ (used by pro-Japanese officers)
Type 30 bayonet (used by pro-Japanese forces)

Small arms

Pistols

Submachine guns and automatic pistols

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Flamethrowers

Machine guns

Infantry held Anti-tank weapons

Vehicle, aircraft and anti-air machine guns

Vickers .50 Type-D
Hotchkiss M1929 machine gun both single- and twin-barrel versions
Type 92 aircraft gun (captured)
Type 89 Lewis aircraft gun (captured)?
Breda-SAFAT light machinegun M1926(used on L3/33 and L3/35)
Degtyarev M-1928 (DT and DA versions)
Maxim PV-1 aircraft gun
Vickers Class "E" aircraft machine gun (70)
Vickers Class "F" aircraft machine gun (9)
ColtÃ¢ÂÂBrowning MG40 aircraft machine gun (1038 delivered)
FN Browning ModÃÂ¨le 1932 aircraft machine gun
Browning M-2 fixed and flexible aircraft machine gun (460 delivered)
MG-13 light machine gun (for German armored vehicles, 100 delivered)
Solothurn Model T-6-220 aircraft machine gun (captured Japanese copies)
Browning M-1919A5 armor machine gun (1640 delivered)

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Field and mountain artillery

Fortress, naval and coastal guns

Anti-tank guns

Anti-aircraft weapons

The Chinese did not produce AA guns on their own, but used every foreign gun they could put their hands on. Madsen 20 mm cannons were especially widespread.

Vehicles

Tankettes

V-C-L Tankette Mk VI (24 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1929 and 1930)
Renault UE (10 were bought and delivered from France between 1936 and 1937)
CV-35 (101 were bought and delivered from Italy between 1937 and 1938)
Type 94 tankette (18 were supplied to the Collaborationist Chinese Army in 1941)
Universal Carrier (1,100 in the machine gun version and 400 with 3-inch mortar to the X Force in the Burma Campaign in 1943, but only used for training and never saw combat)

Tanks

Renault FT (36 in total are reported, with 14 being bought between 1924 and 1925 and the rest having been captured by Zhang Zuolin after France withdrew from the Russian Civil War in 1920)
V-C-L Light Amphibious Tank (29 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1933 and 1935)
Vickers Mark E Type B (20 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1934 and 1936)
Panzer I (15 were bought and delivered from Germany between 1936 and 1937)
Renault ZB (16 were bought and delivered from France between 1936 and 1940)
T-26 (82 were supplied in the Soviet Aid Program in 1938)
BT-5 (4 were supplied in the Soviet Aid Program in 1938)
M3 Stuart (536 shipped as part of US Lend-Lease, but only 100 used in the Burma Campaign by the X Force between 1943 and 1945)
M4A4 Sherman (466 provided by the United Kingdom to the X Force in the Burma Campaign in 1944)
M10 GMC Type 91 (plenty of demilitarized American M10 self-propelled guns rearmed with Japanese Type 91 105 mm howitzer)
LVT(A)4 (supplied by the US to the Republic of China, captured by communists, fit with Soviet 57 mm ZiS-2 and 76,2 mm ZiS-3)

Armored cars

Leichter PanzerspÃÂ¤hwagen (15 in total between 1936 and 1937, mostly Sd.Kfz. 222, two Sd.Kfz. 221 and at least one Sd.Kfz 260)
M3A1 White Scout (36 were supplied in the American Lend-Lease program in 1941, and 104 more from 1942 onwards)
BA-10 (the odd captured example given to Manchukuo), BA-3/6 and BA-27 (purchased by the KMT)
Shanghai Arsenal Armored Car (Kuonmintang's own armored cars, 4 models built in 1929, 2 models built in 1930)

Navy ships and war vessels

Chinese cruiser Ning Hai
Chinese cruiser Ping Hai
Chinese cruiser Chao Ho
Chinese cruiser Ying Swei
Chinese cruiser Yat Sen (later in war has become a Japanese training ship "Atada")
Hai Chou Ã¢ÂÂ former British sloop
Minelayer Huying
Gunboats
Yi Sheng
Hsien Ning
Chung Ning
Sui Ning
Chung Shan (warship) (Capt Sa Shih Chun)**
Chu Tung
Yung Sheng
Chu Chien
Hu Fu
Chu Kuan
Yung Chi
Chiang Yuan
Yin Ning (Capt Yen Chuan Ching)
Hai Ning
7 more unknown gunboats
Unknown boat class
Chung Shan
Chaing Chen
Min Sheng
List of ships of the Second World War

Aircraft

1st AFAMF XP-1, indigenous experimental fighter
Aichi AB-3 Ã¢ÂÂ 1 bought from Japan and 1 copy built in China
Chu XP-0 Ã¢ÂÂ prototype only
Breda Ba.27 Ã¢ÂÂ imported from Italy
Fiat CR.32 Ã¢ÂÂ imported from Italy
Breguet 27 Ã¢ÂÂ 6 imported from France
Gloster Gladiator
Henschel Hs 123 Ã¢ÂÂ 12 bought from Germany
I-15bis Ã¢ÂÂ 29
I-152 Ã¢ÂÂ 252? (may be aka I-15bis)
Polikarpov I-153 Ã¢ÂÂ 75
I-16 Model 5 Ã¢ÂÂ 100+?
I-16 Model 10 Ã¢ÂÂ 132
I-16 Model 17 Ã¢ÂÂ 10
SB-2M-100A Ã¢ÂÂ 179
SB-2M-103 Ã¢ÂÂ 100
DB-3 Ã¢ÂÂ 24
TB-3 Ã¢ÂÂ 6
Tupolev SB Ã¢ÂÂ 13
Yakovlev UT-1 trainer Ã¢ÂÂ 13
A-12 Shrike
Northrop A-17
Vultee A-19
A-29 Hudson
Martin B-10
C-19 Alpha
Beechcraft Staggerwing C-43
Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing D-17 medevac (10 received)
Beechcraft Model 18 C-45
Curtiss C-46 Commando
Northrop Gamma 2E
Curtiss BF2C Goshawk (aka Curtiss Hawk III Ã¢ÂÂ Models 67 and 68)
Curtiss F11C Goshawk (aka Hawk II)
Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Ã¢ÂÂ 6 flown, 27 kits not built
Boeing P-12
Boeing P-26 Peashooter (aka Model 281) Ã¢ÂÂ 11 bought from USA
Curtiss P-36 Hawk Ã¢ÂÂ license production as Hawk 75A-5 and Mohawk IV (8 completed)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
Republic P-43 Lancer
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
North American P-51 Mustang
Vultee P-66 Vanguard
North American T-6 Texan trainer (20 received)
Beechcraft Model 18, trainer modification AT-7 (8 received)
Cessna AT-17 Bobcat trainer (15 received)
Boeing-Stearman Model 75, trainer modification PT-17 (150 received)
Fairchild PT-19 trainer (127 received)
Ryan PT-22 Recruit trainer (70 received)
Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer (30 received)

References

Bibliography