List of Chinese military equipment in World War II

The following is a list of Chinese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords (including Japanese collaborators) and communist rebels.

Swords and bayonets

Small arms

Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)

Automatic pistols and submachine guns

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns

Produced locally

Import Only

  • DWM Maxim M1909 commercial heavy machine gun (16-60 purchased)
  • Bergmann M1910 heavy machine gun (6 purchased)
  • Skoda M1909 heavy machine gun (20 purchased)
  • Madsen light machinegun M1916/M1930/M1937 – relatively common in ROC armies
  • Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun – some mounted on Chinese FT-18 tanks and some given to infantry
  • Hotchkiss light machinegun M1922/M1926
  • Hotchkiss heavy machinegun M1930 (also captured Japanese copy Type 93 machine gun)
  • Fürrer light machinegun M1925 (few bought from Switzerland)
  • Neuhausen KE-7 (about 5000 purchased from Switzerland)
  • Lewis gun (also captured Japanese copies Type 92 machine gun)
  • ZB-53
  • Degtyarev DP machine gun (Provided by Soviet in the early period of war, mostly used by NRA elite forces such as 200th Division, 74th Army)
  • PM M1910
  • Vickers Class "C" heavy machine gun (32 purchased)
  • Browning Automatic Rifle M1930 (4148 purchased)
  • Browning Automatic Rifle Model D (3022 purchased)
  • Colt–Browning MG-38 heavy machine gun (207 purchased)
  • MG 08
  • Lahti Saloranta light machine gun M1926 (1200 delivered from Finland)
  • Bren light machine gun (Provided by Britain and Canada from 1941 to 1945; Mk. IM, Mk. II/I, Mk. II (39300 of 7.92mm caliber and around 10000 of 7.7mm caliber))
  • Type 11 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
  • Type 96 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
  • Type 99 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
  • Type 3 heavy machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
  • Browning M1917A1 heavy machine gun (3363 by (U.S Lend Lease))
  • Browning M1919A4/A6 medium machine gun (1218 by (U.S Lend Lease))
  • Browning M1919A5 medium machine gun (1640 by (U.S Lend Lease)) – tank gun, but mostly used by infantry

Vehicle and aircraft machine guns

  • Type 92 aircraft gun (captured)
  • Type 89 Lewis aircraft gun (captured)?
  • Breda-SAFAT light machinegun M1926 (used on L3/33 and L3/35)
  • Degtyarev M-1928 (DT and DA versions)
  • Maxim PV-1 aircraft gun
  • Vickers Class "E" aircraft machine gun (70)
  • Vickers Class "F" aircraft machine gun (9)
  • Colt–Browning MG-40 aircraft machine gun (1038 delivered)
  • Colt–Browning MG-38T tank machinegun
  • FN Browning Modèle 1932 aircraft machine gun
  • Browning M-2 fixed and flexible aircraft machine gun (460 delivered)
  • MG-13 light machine gun (for German armored vehicles, 100 delivered)
  • Solothurn Model T-6-220 aircraft machine gun (captured Japanese copies)
  • Browning M-1919A5 armor machine gun (1640 delivered)

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Heavy mortars & rocket launchers

  • 240 mm infantry mortar (likely single unique unit to fire captured Japanese ammunition)

Field artillery

Fortress and siege guns

15-cm artillery was built for warlord Yan Xishan.

Anti-tank guns

Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

Anti-aircraft weapons

Chinese did not produce an AA-guns on their own, but used every foreign gun they can put their hands on. Madsen 20 mm cannons were especially widespread.

Light anti-aircraft guns

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

Vehicles

Tankettes

Tanks

  • Fiat 3000- bought from Italy
  • Renault FT (most of delivered 36 tanks, 3 tanks captured by Japanese in 1931)
  • M4 Sherman (35 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M3 Stuart (M3A3, M5A1) (50 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M24 Chaffee – 233
  • M18 Hellcat
  • Type 95 Ha-Go (Captured only)
  • Type 97 Chi-Ha (Captured only)
  • Panzer I (10 Bought from Germany before the war)
  • Vickers 6-ton (20 Bought from UK before the war)
  • Vickers amphibious tank M1931 (29 tanks purchased from GB)
  • British 12-ton tank (type unclear - likely Vickers Medium Mark II, possibly Cruiser Mk I, or remotely Matilda I)
  • T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938)
  • Marmon-Herrington CTLS (few diverted from Dutch after fall of Java)
  • AMR 35
  • T-34 Supplied from Russia

Self-propelled guns

Armored cars

Passenger cars

  • Chung Ming coal car

Aircraft

Secret weapons

B-24 heavy bomber

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Second Sino- Japanese War: Military Equipment". Museum of Learning. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  2. Charles H. Smith. "History of the Thompson submachine gun". Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  3. Ball, Robert: Mauser Military Rifles of the World Gun Digest Books, 2006
  4. Philip Jowett, "China's Wars: Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949", p. 130
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