List of Second Italo-Ethiopian War weapons of Ethiopia

This is a list of weapons used by Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian weapons mainly consisted of the various small arms that Ethiopia had bought over the years.

Small arms

Sidearms

• Beretta M1934 (captured)
• Mauser C96

Rifles

• Berdan rifle (some cut-down rifles)
• Berthier rifle (some cut-down rifles)
• Carcano (captured)
• Chassepot
• FN Model 24 and Model 30
• Fusil Gras mle 1874 – most popular (some cut-down rifles)
• Gewehr 1888 (some cut-down rifles)
• Gewehr 98
• Karabiner 98k
• Kropatschek rifle
• Lebel Model 1886 rifle (some cut-down rifles)
• Lee Enfield
• M1870 Italian Vetterli (some cut-down rifles)
• Mannlicher M1888 (some cut-down rifles)
• Mannlicher M1890 carbine
• Mannlicher M1895
• Martini–Henry
• Mauser Model 1871
• Mauser Standardmodell
• Mosin–Nagant
• Remington Rolling Block rifle
• Snider–Enfield
• Werndl–Holub rifle
• ZH-29

Carbines

• Revelli-Beretta M1918 and Beretta M1918/30

Machine guns

• Breda M1930 (captured)
• FN Model 30
• Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun
• M1917 Browning machine gun
• Madsen machine gun
• SIG KE7
• Vickers Class C
• ZB vz. 26
• ZB vz. 30

Submachine guns

• Bergmann BMP-34/I
• Haenal MP-28/II
• OVP 1918 (bought from Italy before the war)
• Steyr-Solothurn MP-34

Armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs)

Tanks

• Fiat 3000 – four Model 1921 models bought from Italy in 1925–1930

Tankettes

• L3/33 – captured from Italy during the war

References