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M2 Browning
heavy machine gun
Walther P38
semi-automatic pistol
Browning Hi-Power
American-Belgian semi-automatic pistol
Bren light machine gun
light machine gun
DShK
The DShK M1938 (, for ) is a Soviet heavy machine gun. The weapon may be vehicle mounted or used on a tripod or wheeled carriage as a heavy infantry machine gun. The DShK's name is derived from its original designer, Vasily Degtyaryov, and Georgi Shpagin, who later improved the cartridge feed mechanism. It is sometimes nicknamed Dushka (, ) or Dochka () in Slavic-speaking regions and in the DShK using countries, from the abbreviation.
8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41
anti-aircraft warfare
Beretta Model 38
submachine gun
3.7 cm PaK 36
anti-tank gun
Boys .55in Anti-Tank Rifle
British World War II anti-tank rifle
Type 99 rifle
Japanese bolt action rifle
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
series of autocannons
Flammenwerfer 35
1935 German portable flame-thrower
Beretta M1934
Italian semi-automatic pistol
Shpitalny-Komaritski AS
7.62 mm machine gun aircraft armament
MG 13
machine gun
Lahti L-35
semi-automatic pistol
Sauer 38H
semi-automatic pistol
Shpitalnyi-Vladimirov AK
20 mm autocannon aircraft armament
MG 30
machine gun
MG 17
7.92 mm machine gun aircraft armament by Rheinmetall-Borsig
152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20)
1937 towed 152 mm gun-howitzer
Type 99 light machine gun
light machine gun
Vis 35
Polish semi-automatic pistol
10.5 cm leFH 18
1935 towed 105 mm howitzer by Rheinmetall
122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)
1930s towed 122 mm howitzer of Soviet origin
8 cm GrW 34
1930s portable 81 mm mortar of German origin
Breda Model 35
20 mm anti-aircraft gun produced in Italy
MP35
The MP35 () was a submachine gun used by the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and German police both before and during World War II. It was developed in the early 1930s by Emil Bergmann (son of Theodor Bergmann) and manufactured at the Bergmann company in Suhl (that also built one of the first submachine guns, the MP 18).
Rheinmetall-Borsig MG 15
7.9 mm machine gun aircraft defensive armament
Ordnance QF 2-pounder
British anti-tank and vehicle-mounted gun
Chain Home radar system
radar defense system in Britain in WW2
2 cm KwK 30
1935 20 mm tank gun by Mauser and Rheinmetall-Borsig
HS.404
20 mm autocannon
85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K)
anti-aircraft gun by the Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek rifle
Chinese bolt-action rifle
S-mine
The German S-mine (Schrapnellmine, Springmine or Splittermine in German), known by enemy Allied Forces as the "Bouncing Betty" on the Western Front and "frog-mine" on the Eastern Front, is the best-known version of a class of mines known as bounding mines. When triggered, these mines are launched into the air and then detonated at about from the ground. The explosion projects a lethal spray of shrapnel in all directions. The S-mine was an anti-personnel mine developed by Germany in the 1930s and used extensively by German forces during World War II. It was designed to be used in open areas aga
ZB-53
The ZB-53 was a Czechoslovak machine gun. A versatile weapon, it was used both as a squad support weapon, as a mounted machine gun for tanks and other armoured vehicles, and on fixed positions inside Czechoslovak border fortifications. Adopted before World War II by the armies of Czechoslovakia (as Těžký kulomet vz. 37, heavy machine gun model 37) and Romania, it was also license-built in the United Kingdom as the Besa machine gun. Following the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, large quantities of the weapon were captured by the Wehrmacht and used during the war under the designation of MG 3
203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4)
1930s howitzer of Soviet origin
7.5 cm KwK 37
tank gun
RGD-33 grenade
anti-personnel fragmentation stick grenade
DS-39
DS-39 () was a Soviet medium machine gun, designed by Vasily Degtyaryov, that was used during the Second World War. The work on the gun's design began in 1930, and it was accepted by the Red Army in September, 1939. About 10,000 were made from 1939 to 1941, but the weapon was not successful in service and its production was discontinued after the German invasion began in June, 1941, with factories converted to produce the older, more reliable PM M1910 (a WWI-era Maxim machine gun design) which was in turn replaced by the SG-43 Goryunov medium machine gun in 1943.
MG FF
20 mm autocannon aircraft armament
Molotov bread basket
Soviet incendiary cluster bomb used during the Winter War
leichter Granatwerfer 36
1930s portable 50 mm mortar of German origins
37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939
anti-aircraft gun of Soviet origin
Type 92
7.7 mm heavy machine gun
Type 96 light machine gun
light machine gun
Freya radar
early-warning radar
Type 97 20 mm
Japanese semi-automatic anti-tank rifle
Bofors 37 mm Gun Model 1934
1930s towed 37 mm anti-tank gun by Bofors
3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37/43
anti-aircraft warfare
21 cm Mrs 18
1939 German 210 mm field howitzer
45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)
type of Anti-tank gun
Erma EMP
submachine gun
10.5 cm FlaK 38
anti-aircraft gun
Ithaca 37
shotgun model
15 cm sFH 18
1933 German 150 mm field howitzer
ZK-383
The ZK-383 is a submachine gun developed by the Koucký brothers, who worked at the pre-war Československá zbrojovka, akc.spol. (under its name of Zbrojovka Brno after World War II) arms factory in Brno, Czechoslovakia. It was produced at a slow rate from 1938 onwards and was exported as far away as Bolivia and Venezuela.
ROKS flamethrowers
Soviet flamethrowers
ZH-29
The ZH-29 was a semi-automatic rifle developed in Czechoslovakia during the late 1920s, and used by the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.