The following is a list of Second World War military vehicles used by each participant country, showing numbers produced in parentheses.
Albania
Tanks
Armoured cars
Tankettes
Utility vehicles
Australia
Tanks
Armoured cars
Belgium
Tanks
Utility vehicles
- FN Tricar (331 ordered and partially delivered)
Bulgaria
Tankettes
Tanks
Self-propelled guns
Tank-based
Armored cars
Utility vehicles
Canada
Tanks
Self-propelled artillery
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Utility vehicles
China
Tankettes
Tanks
Armored cars
Croatia
Tankettes
Armoured cars
- AB-41
- Oklopni samovoz
- Several Improvised armoured cars
Tanks
Tank destroyers
Czechoslovakia
Tanks
Tankettes
Armoured cars
Denmark
Estonia
Tanks
Tankettes
Armoured cars
Finland
Tanks
Anti-aircraft
Assault guns
France
Tanks
Armoured reconnaissance tanks
Armoured combat tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
Tank destroyers
- Laffly W15 TCC (70)
- AMR 35 Renault ZT2 (10)
- AMR 35 Renault ZT3 (10)
- Somua S40 (trials)
Self-propelled guns
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Germany
Tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
- 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
- Maus (2 prototypes completed)
Armoured cars
Utility vehicles
Motorcycles
Half-tracks
Self-propelled artillery
Assault guns
Tank destroyers
Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns
Remote controlled vehicles
Hungary
Tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
Captured tanks
Self-propelled guns
Tank destroyers
Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns
Armoured cars
Utility vehicles
India
Armoured cars
Iran
Half-tracks
- Citroën-Kégresse P1T ?
Armoured cars
Tankettes
Tanks
Light tanks
Iraq
Tankettes
Armoured cars
- Iraqi Crossley MkI (âÂÂ14)
Italy
Tankettes
- Carro Veloce L3/33 (CV-33) (760)
- Carro Veloce L3/35 (CV-35) (1,740)
Tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
Tank destroyers and self-propelled guns
Armoured cars
Trucks & Personnel Carriers
Utility vehicles
Japan
Tankettes
Tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
Amphibious tanks
Self-propelled guns
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Latvia
Armoured cars
Tankettes
Tanks
- Vickers Carden-Loyd M1937 (6)
- Vickers Carden-Loyd M1936 (12)
- Mark V Composite (5)
- Mark Medium B (2)
- Fiat 3000 (6)
Lithuania
Armoured cars
- Landsverk L-181 (6)
- various from WW1
Tanks
- Vickers Carden Loyd M1934 (16)
- Renault FT (12)
Manchukuo
Armoured Cars
Tankettes
Tanks
Mexico
Tanks
Netherlands
Tankettes
Light tanks
Armoured cars
Armoured personnel carrier
Self-propelled anti-air-gun
New Zealand
Converted tractors
Light tanks
Also American M3 Stuart tanks, called "Honeys" by the Brits and Commonwealth, used in Italy as recon vehicles
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
- Beaverette NZ (208) light armoured car similar to the British Beaverette
Norway
Light tanks
Poland
Tankettes
- TK-3 (280)
- TKS (260)
- TKS with 20 mm gun (24)
Tanks
- 4TP
- 7TP (162)
- 9TP (2 prototypes + 11 possible production models)
- 10TP (1 prototype)
- 14TP
Armored cars
Self-propelled guns
Artillery tractors
Utility vehicles
Reorganized National Government of ROC
Tankettes
Romania
Tankettes
- R-1 (Modified Czechoslovak AH-IV, 1 prototype + 35 imported from Czechoslovakia)
Tanks
Tank destroyers
Armoured cars
Artillery tractors
Demolition vehicles
Slovakia
Tanks
Armoured cars
South Africa
Armoured cars
Soviet Union
Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).
Tankettes
Tanks
Light tanks
Amphibious tanks
Medium tanks
- 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
Self-propelled guns
Rocket artillery
Anti-aircraft
Armoured cars
Amphibious armoured cars
Half-tracks
Artillery tractors
Improvised AFVs
Utility vehicles
Motorcycles
Light utility vehicles
Trucks
Thailand
Tanks and tankettes
Self-propelled guns
Anti-aircraft
United Kingdom
Artillery tractors
Tanks
Light tanks
- Tank, Light, Mk.II (36)
- Tank, Light, Mk.III
- Tank, Light, Mk.IV
- Tank, Light, Mk.V (22)
- Tank, Light, Mk.VI (1,320)
- Tank, Light, Mk. VII Tetrarch (177)
- Tank, Light, Mk. VIII "Harry Hopkins" (A25) (100)
- Vickers 6 Ton Type B (1,939) â 4 used for training
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
- Tank, Heavy, TOG I (1 prototype)
- Tank, Heavy, TOG II (1 prototype)
- Tank, Heavy Assault, A33 (Excelsior) (only prototypes, not mass-produced or accepted into service)
- Tank, Heavy Assault, Tortoise (A39) (6 prototypes â finished in late 1945 after end of war)
- Tank, infantry, Churchill (A22) (7,368)
Cruiser tanks
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.I (A9) (125)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. II (A10) (205)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. III (A13) (65)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk. IV (A13 Mk.II) (655)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.V, Covenanter (A13 Mk.III) (1,771)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VI, Crusader (A15) (5,700)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VII, Cavalier (A24) (500)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VIII, Centaur (A27L) (950)
- Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VIII, Cromwell (A27M) (4,200)
- Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) (296)
- Tank, Cruiser, Comet I (A34) (United Kingdom) (1,200)
- Tank, Cruiser, Centurion I (A41) â Not used in WWII)
Infantry tanks
- Tank, infantry, Mk.I, Matilda I (A11) (140)
- Tank, infantry, Tank Mk.II, Matilda II (A12) (2,987)
- Tank, infantry, Mk.III, Valentine (8,275)
- Tank, infantry, Mk.IV, Churchill (A22) (5,460)
- Tank, infantry, Valiant (A38) (1 prototype)
- Tank, infantry, Black Prince (A43) (6 prototypes)
Self-propelled guns
- Carrier, Valentine, 25pdr gun Mk.I, Bishop (80)
- AEC Mk I Gun Carrier (175)
- 25pdr SP, tracked, Sexton (2,150; built in Canada)
- SP 17pdr, Valentine, Mk.I, Archer (655)
- SP 17pdr, A30 Avenger (250 completed post war)
- 17pdr SP Achilles (1,100)
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Lorries
NB: In British nomenclature, a vehicle with load-carrying capacity of less than one imperial ton (20 hundredweight) was designated as a truck.
United States
Tanks
Light tanks
Medium tanks
Heavy tanks
Tank destroyers
Self-propelled artillery
Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns
Armoured personnel carriers
Armoured cars
Artillery tractors
Amphibious
Utility vehicles
Yugoslavia
Tanks
Light tanks
Tankettes
Self-propelled guns
- M3 Stuart modified with various captured German weapons
See also
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