List of World War II military equipment of Poland

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Polish Armament in 1939–45 article is a list of equipment used by Polish army before and during the Invasion of Poland, foreign service in British Commonwealth forces and last campaign to Germany with the Red Army in 1945.[1]

Aircraft[]

Local designs[]

Armament and other equipment on combat aircraft[]

Foreign aircraft[]

Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in France (1939–1940)[]

Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in Great Britain (1940–1947)[]

Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in Soviet Union (1943–1945)[]

Tanks, armored cars and other military vehicles[]

Tankettes/light tanks[]

Medium tanks[]

  • 10TP wheel & track fast tank (only prototypes)
  • 14TP Medium tank (only prototype never completed)
  • 20/25TP Medium tank (never entered production)

Self-propelled vehicles/Tank destroyers[]

Heavy tanks[]

  • Polish/Soviet JS-2 (IS-2)
  • Polish/Soviet JS-3 (IS-3)

Tank and armored car armaments[]

Captured German/Italian vehicles[]

Armored cars, motorcycles, trucks, half-tracks, jeeps[]

  • Peugeot Armored Car
  • Samochód Pancerny Ford Tfc ("Ford Tfc Armored Car")
  • ()
  • Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles CWS M111 (Sokół 1000)
  • French
  • French
  • French
  • Polski FIAT 508/518
  • (Polski FIAT 508/518 variant)
  • 2.5 ton truck
  • C7P
  • Samochód pancerny wz. 34 Armoured car model 1934
  • 4x4 artillery tractor (C5P)
  • "Kubuś" improvised Armoured car/APC – 1 built during Warsaw Uprising
  • Polish/Soviet BA-64 Armored Car
  • Polish/Soviet BA-20 Armored Car
  • Polish/American M17 Halftrack
  • Polish/American Jeep
  • Studebaker US6 – US design also produced in USSR
  • "local Jeep" Polski Fiat 508

Armored trains and annex equipment[]

  • FT17 Rail Transporter
  • TK Rail Transporter
  • "Drezyna Pancerno Motorowa R"(TK And FT Rail Transporter)
  • nr 11 "Danuta"
  • nr 12 "Poznańczyk"
  • nr 13 "Generał Sosnkowski"
  • nr 14 "Paderewski"
  • nr 15 "Śmierć"
  • nr 51 "Pierwszy Marszałek"
  • nr 52 "Piłsudczyk"
  • nr 53 "Śmiały"
  • nr 54 "Groźny"
  • nr 55 "Bartosz Głowacki"
  • Training armoured trains:
  • "Zagończyk"
  • "Stefan Czarniecki"

Improvised armoured trains[]

  • Two of Warsaw Defence Command (Dowództwo Obrony Warszawy):
    • "nr 1"
    • "nr 2"

Light and heavy infantry armaments[]

Anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and artillery pieces[]

  • M-14/19 10.0 cm Artillery Cannon
  • vz 26 7.5 cm Artillery Cannon
  • M-97 7.5 cm Artillery Cannon
  • M-29 10.5 cm Artillery Cannon
  • M-17 15.5 cm Heavy Artillery Cannon
  • Bofors 4.0 cm Antiaircraft Cannon
  • Bofors 37 mm AT Cannon
  • Mortar M 31 (8 cm) -licence built French mortar M 27/31 Brandt
  • Mortar M 36 (4.6 cm)

Rifles, pistols, machine guns, and infantry weapons[]

  • Bayonet Bagnet 28" – For use with Poln M29, Poln 98, Karabinek 1898 rifles and carbines
  • Infantry Rifle "Poln M29"- Calibre 7.9 mm Kbk wz. 1929
  • Infantry Rifle "Poln 98"- Calibre 7.9 mm Kb wz. 98a
  • Infantry Semi Automatic Self—repeating Rifle Kbsp wz. 1938M (only 150 made by the time of war)
  • Carbine "Karabinek 1898"- Calibre 7.9 mm
  • Carbine "Karabinek 91/98/25" (Mossin-Nagant 91)- Calibre 7.9 mm
  • Revolver Rewolwer Nagant wz. 30 - Calibre 7.62 mm
  • Pistol Pistolet Vis Vz-35 (Version 1935; development of Colt 1911; replaced Mauser on the Eastern Front: 500,000 made and issued by Germans in 1943 and 1944) (wz. 35 Vis)"- Calibre 9 mm
  • Bechowiec-1 Machine Pistol – Calibre 9 mm
  • Błyskawica Machine pistol – Calibre 9 mm
  • KIS Machine Pistol – Calibre 9 mm
  • Polski Sten machine pistol – Calibre 9 mm
  • ET-38 anti-tank grenade
  • Filipinka ET wz.40 hand grenade (250 g of cheddite or ammonal)
  • Sidolówka R wz.42 hand grenade (250 g of cheddite or amonite)
  • Anti Tank Rifle 7.92 mm "Karabin przeciwpancerny" wz.35 – Calibre 7.92 mm aka "Uruguay" (Platoon—level AT weapon)
  • Light Machine gun wz. 28 (Polish version of the Browning Automatic Rifle) caliber 7.9 mm
  • Heavy Machine Gun 30 (Polish-made clone of the American Browning M1917 heavy machine gun) caliber 7.92×57mm Mauser
  • Granatnik wz.36
  • Mosin Nagant

Weapons in use by Polish volunteers in foreign armies[]

Naval weapons[]

Surface vessels, submarines and other ships[]

Coastal artillery defenses[]

  • Laskowski 152 mm Coastal cannon
  • "Smok Kaszubski" Improvised Armored train
  • Armored Train (unknown name)

Sea vessel armament[]

  • 120 mm/50 Cannon
  • 130 mm/40 cannon
  • 105 mm/4 cannon
  • 40 mm/60 anti-aircraft cannon
  • 550 mm torpedo launchers
  • 100 mm/40 cannon
  • 40 mm/40 anti-aircraft cannon
  • 122 mm Cannon
  • 145 mm cannon
  • 105 mm cannon
  • 100 mm wz 1914/19P cannon
  • 7.92 mm Hotchkiss cannon
  • 7.62 mm Maxim heavy machine gun
  • 7.92 mm Maxim 03 heavy machine gun
  • 13.2 mm Hotchkiss 03 heavy machine gun
  • 37 mm Puteaux wz. 85 cannon
  • 7.9 mm (1 cm) Maxim 08 heavy machine gun
  • 8 mm cannon
  • 2.1 cm mortar
  • 37 mm (1 cm) cannon
  • 2 cm mortars Hotchkiss wz 30,
  • 76 mm cannon
  • 75 mm cannon
  • 7.92 mm cannon
  • 13.2 mm heavy machine guns

River boat local project[]

  • Type I Fast Monitor
  • Type MC Monitor

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Williams, Anthony G.; Dr Emmanuel Gustin (2003). Flying Guns World War II, Development of aircraft guns, ammunition and installations 1933–45 (1st ed.). Ramsbury. ISBN 978-1-84037-227-4 – via Google Books, snippet.
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