List of World War II firearms of Germany

The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.

Knives

• Seitengewehr 42

• Seitengewehr 98

• S84/98 III bayonet

Sidearms

Rifles

Machine guns

Submachine guns/Machine pistols

Anti-Tank Weapons

Anti-Aircraft Weapons

Light Anti-Aircraft Guns

• Fliegerfaust hand-held anti-air rocket launcher produced in 1945

• Solothurn ST-5 caliber 20 mm (.79 in)

• 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling – the most produced German artillery piece of World War II, based on Russian 2-K AA gun design which was too complex to mass-produce in USSR

• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun (captured from French)

• Gebirgsflak 38 – reduced-weight version of 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling

• 3.7 cm SK C/30 – naval AA gun

• 3.7 cm FlaK 43

• 3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37/43

• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r))

• Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service (both in use by May 1943

• 5 cm FlaK 41

• SG 116

• Henschel Hs 297 – launch 35 73mm-caliber short-range rockets

• Jagdfaust – air-to-air vertical-fire automated cannon

Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns

• Rheintochter (surface-to-air rocket)

• Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 (acquired from Italy) • 76 mm air defense gun M1938 (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated Flak 38(r))

• 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 AT/AA gun

• 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 8.5 cm Flak 39(r))

• 10.5 cm FlaK 38

• 12.8 cm FlaK 40

• 12.8 cm FlaK 40 twin mount

• Cannone da 90/53 AA/AT gun

Explosives, hand-held anti-tank, incendiary weapons and mines

Grenades and Grenade Launchers

Mines and Anti-Tank Mines

See also

• List of equipment used in World War II
• List of German military equipment of World War II
• List of World War II Luftwaffe aircraft weapons
• List of aircraft of the World War II Luftwaffe
• List of common World War II infantry weapons
• List of secondary and special issue World War II infantry weapons
• German General Staff - a post-1933 section to understand the variety of the above list.
• List of rifle cartridges
• List of handgun cartridges
• List of firearms
• Glossary of World War II German military terms
• Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II
• German designations of foreign firearms in World War II

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

• German Weapons During WW2 (Rifles, Guns, Mines, Vehicles)
• Axis Small Arms