Guns from 1930 to 1939
Throughout the 1930s, the stage was being set for total war that would culminate in the aptly-titled conflict known as World War 2.
1936
The 5-cm Granatwerfer 36 (abbreviated as "leGrW 36") was the standard light mortar utilized by the German Army in the early y...
1934
The 8-cm Granatwerfer 34 (GrW 34) - Heavy Grenade-Launcher Model 1934 - was a German Army favorite throughout the whole cours...
1939
The Type 99 was one of the standard bolt-action combat rifles to be utilized by the Empire of Japan during the Second World W...
1938
The Beretta Model 38/42 tried to build upon the Beretta Model 38A, which proved to be too expensive to produce in a wartime e...
1938
The Besa Mk 3 was a tank and armored vehicle-mounted machine gun originally based on a Czechoslovakian vz. 37 (ZB53) tank mac...
1937
Recognizing the increased reliance on armor by the world's armies in the lead-up to World War 2, the British Army issued a re...
1935
In 1935, just prior to World War 2, the Italian Army adopted three infantry hand grenades under the Modello 35 ("Model 35") ...
1938
The BREN Light Machine Gun was the standard light machine gun of the British Army and Commonwealth forces throughout World Wa...
1935
The Browning High-Power (or Fabrique Nationale FN GP35 - "GP" for "Grande Puissance") has a lineage dating back to the origin...
1938
The Soviet DShK Model 1938 heavy machine gun was developed to a Red Army requirement prior to World War 2 (1939-1945) to repl...
1939
"F1" is used to designate a variety of hand grenades of modern design and of the 20th century. The Soviet Union used the F1 d...
1930
The original Browning Automatic Rifle was developed for the US Army during World War 1 to replace the French Chauchat and Hot...
1933
The Fabrique Nationale FN M2HB (HB = "Heavy Barrel") is essentially a Belgian copy of the American Browning design with sligh...
1932
The original John Browning M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) was introduced during World War 1 with American forces and sa...
1935
Following the end of World War 1, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was no more, giving rise to the "Kingdom of Hungary" in 1920 an...
1935
The FIAT-Revelli Model 1935 (Modello 35) of 1935 was a modernization of the World War 1-era FIAT-Revelli Model 1914, first te...
1935
The crew-portable flamethrower came into prominence on the modern battlefield in World War 1 (1914-1918), intended to break t...
1937
The Ithaca Model 37 (M37) has proven a hugely popular pump-action slide shotgun since its introduction in 1937 (still in prod...
1939
The Lahti L-39 was an indigenous Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle design used during the "Winter War" of World War 2. The system...
1935
The Italians joined the Germans, Americans, Soviets and British in deploying flamethrowers in World War 2. The Italian Army a...
1936
Little discussion can be had on the subject of American infantrymen in World War Two without the mention of the highly-acclai...
1938
The Thompson series of submachine guns (not quite a pistol yet not a full-fledged machine gun) began life in 1919 following W...
1939
The M1938 120mm mortar was a field mortar system accepted into service with the Red Army in 1939. The weapon system was nothi...
1936
The MAS 36 was a solid, if unspectacular, French Army service rifle appearing in small quantities before the start of World W...
1939
World War 1 introduced the concept of "machine pistols" to help bridge the gap between the portable pistol sidearm and the le...
1935
With origins as far back as the First World War, the Kar 98k (with "Kar" being short for "karabiner" or "carbine") was a dire...
1934
Mexico is not a nation one thinks about when they think of indigenous firearms design and development. However, engineer Raph...
1936
Before the MG42 became the principle machine gun of the German Army in World War Two, the MG34 was enjoying all the attention...
1935
The Italian Army made use of two main mortar designs during World War 2 - the 45mm Modello 35 and the 81mm Modello 35, both i...
1935
Like all other modern militaries participating in World War 2, the Italian Army adopted a light infantry mortar to provide in...
1935
The American M1 81mm Mortar, like the upcoming M2 60mm Mortar, was based on a French design by Edgar William Brandt (1880-196...
1938
The MP38 served as the predecessor to the well known MP40 series of mass-produced submachine guns developed by the Germans in...
1938
The Ordnance ML 2-inch Mortar Mk II was an infantry-based, squad-level mortar weapon system standardized throughout the Briti...
1938
The Panzerbusche 38 (PzB 38) was an early-war anti-tank rifle design attempt by Gustloff Werke for use by the German Army. B....
1939
The Panzerbusche 39 (PzB 39) was a short-lived anti-tank rifle utilized by the German Army in World War 2. The type was devel...
1938
The Polish wz.35 pistol was one of the finest semi-automatic handguns of her era, appearing just shortly before the German in...
1935
The submachine became a Soviet Army staple in World War 2 when automatic weapons were selected ahead of slower-firing bolt-ac...
1935
The Italian Army of World War 2 utilized three primary hand grenade series all under the designation of "Model 1935" - the ty...
1931
When World War 2 began in September of 1939, Poland was split into two halves by the victors - the Nazi Germans took the West...
1938
The Tokarev SVT-38 was the beginning of the Tokarev line of self-loading, automatic service rifles. The SVT-38 was developed ...
1930
The Tokarev TT-30 was a semi-automatic pistol, essentially a Soviet copy of a Browning-Colt design, intended to replace the N...
1933
The T-33 was a further development of the TT-30 pistol series which, itself, was based on the designs of famed American gunsm...
1932
The Type 92 Shiki Kikanju Heavy Machine Gun was utilized as the standard heavy machine gun by the Imperial Japanese Army duri...
1935
The Type 94 infantry mortar was a large-caliber field weapon of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) that maintained firepower qu...
1936
The Type 96 Light Machine Gun served with the Imperial Japanese Army from 1936 to the end of World War 2 in 1945. Intended to...
1937
The Imperial Japanese Army made use of various lobbed ordnance weapon systems throughout World War 2 in their conquest of the...
1937
In an effort to reduce production costs and speed up delivery, the Type 97 mortar of 1937 was developed from the existing Typ...
1939
The Empire of Japan tried to outdue all of her wartime counterparts with the introduction of the Type 97 anti-tank rifle. The...
1939
The Type 99 served the Imperial Japanese Army during most of World War 2. It was designed to take advantage of the newer and ...
1938
The Walther P38 (Pistole 38) handgun was designed as a replacement for the well received P 08. The design of the newer P38 wa...
1939
The Welrod was designed in the early part of World War 2 after a very short development period by the British War Office. The...
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