WW2 German Guns
On the whole, the German inventory of World War 2 largely mimicked that of competing nations and included service rifles, automatic weapons, mortars and hand grenades.
1936
The 5-cm Granatwerfer 36 (abbreviated as "leGrW 36") was the standard light mortar utilized by the German Army in the early y...
1941
One of the greatest challenges facing warplanners since the advent of the air-dropped warrior - popularly known as the "parat...
1934
The 8-cm Granatwerfer 34 (GrW 34) - Heavy Grenade-Launcher Model 1934 - was a German Army favorite throughout the whole cours...
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...
1918
While much of the attention of early submachine guns is ultimately paid to the Germans and their MP18 (Maschinenpistole 18), ...
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...
1927
The Brandt mle 27 mortar served various world powers (in some form or another) throughout the latter portion of the 1920s and...
1935
The Browning High-Power (or Fabrique Nationale FN GP35 - "GP" for "Grande Puissance") has a lineage dating back to the origin...
1918
The M1918 BAR ("Browning Automatic Rifle") was born out of the World War One idea of a single soldier armed with the power of...
1910
The Model 1910 was another successful John Browning firearms design that was initially produced by the Belgian firm of Fabriq...
1922
In 1923, the Yugoslavian authorities contracted the Belgian concern of Fabrique Nationale to develop a semi-automatic pistol ...
1892
The Carcano Modello 1891 (Model 1891) was the standard Italian Army service rifle of both World Wars. The design emerged from...
1924
The Czech city of Brno has long served as a hub for quality small arms design, development and production. In concert with ot...
1922
The ZB vz. 30 was developed as early as the 1920's and standardized for use in the Czechoslovakian Army (replacing the non-st...
1929
Prior to World War 2, a reliable squad level light machine gun eluded the French military for a considerable number of years....
1911
The Colt model M1911 series of pistols is one of the most successful small arms designs of the 20th Century - and in all of w...
1941
The Degtyarev PTRD 1941 (or "PTRD-41", shortened from "Protivo Tankovoye Ruzhyo Degtyaryova") was the most available anti-tan...
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...
1942
The Fallschirmjagergewhr FG42 (sometimes FjG42) was a meshing of old-world ammunition with new world small arms engineering. ...
1935
The crew-portable flamethrower came into prominence on the modern battlefield in World War 1 (1914-1918), intended to break t...
1941
All major powers of World War 2 fielded some sort of man-portable flamethrower (or "flame projector") during the conflict - t...
1914
During the late 1800s, there only existed a few proven "true" machine gun concepts anywhere in the world. Countless attempts ...
1894
The Krag-Jorgensen was a bolt-action, repeat-fire rifle of Norwegian origin designed in the latter half of the 1800s. It was ...
1908
The German P08 pistol (or "Pistole 1928" or "P'08" or "Luger") was one of the more famous German-based pistol designs of the ...
1939
World War 1 introduced the concept of "machine pistols" to help bridge the gap between the portable pistol sidearm and the le...
1896
One of the most recognizable early-form semi-automatic pistols became the Mauser C96 series. The C96 shape was classic with i...
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...
1908
The Maxim MG08 (or "Maschinengewehr 08") was a copy of the original machine gun as developed by Sir Hiram S. Maxim in 1884. H...
1936
Before the MG42 became the principle machine gun of the German Army in World War Two, the MG34 was enjoying all the attention...
1942
The MG 42 (full designation of Maschinengewehr Modell 42) was a direct result of the small arms shortages that plagued German...
1915
The Stielhandgranate was the quintessential hand grenade of the German Army in both World War 1 and World War 2. The type bec...
1900
The Mondragon Rifle is noted as becoming one of the first semi-automatic/full-automatic service rifle to be adopted in quanti...
1891
Like all other world powers of the late-1800s, the Russian Empire sought modernization in its military inventory. This proved...
1945
1945 proved a disastrous year for the German military. By April, Hitler's territories had shrunk to previously-unthinkable le...
1938
The MP38 served as the predecessor to the well known MP40 series of mass-produced submachine guns developed by the Germans in...
1940
As the original German Army MP38 submachine gun series proving a success, it was also too expensive for war time production. ...
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...
1943
The Panzerfaust series of hand-held disposable anti-tank rocket systems was a highly-feared adversary to American tank and ve...
1943
The Panzerfaust 60 was a middle-level development of the Panzerfaust 30 and the Panzerfaust 100. The "60" in the Panzerfaust ...
1943
The Raketenpanzerbuchse (shortened to "RPzB" or commonly known as the "Panzerschreck" meaning "tank terror" because of its de...
1938
The Polish wz.35 pistol was one of the finest semi-automatic handguns of her era, appearing just shortly before the German in...
1942
The PPS submachine gun was designed by Leningrad engineer A. I. Sudarev in 1942. Leningrad was encircled by the might of the ...
1941
The Soviet Army began experimentation of submachine gun class weapons in the latter half of the 1920s. By the time of World W...
1935
The Italian Army of World War 2 utilized three primary hand grenade series all under the designation of "Model 1935" - the ty...
1941
The British STEN submachine gun is one of those rare firearms in history that was born of desperation and turned into a war-w...
1944
The Maschinenpistole 44, or MP44, or still further the StG 44, is more commonly associated as being the father of the modern ...
1945
Towards the end of World War 2, all sides had realized the potential of automatic weapons to a high degree. Automatic weapons...
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 ...
1941
The Gewehr 41 (or "Gew 41" or "G41") series semi-automatic rifle appeared in relatively few numbers for the German Army durin...
1943
The Gewehr 43 (Gew 43) became the next evolution of the Walther Gew 41(W), a self-loading, semi-automatic rifle that failed t...
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...
1929
Emmanuel Holek designed the ZH-29 as a military-minded automatic service rifle. The rifle was born in the famous Czech Brno f...
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