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9×19mm Parabellum. Luftwaffe. 10,450 Astra 600s had been delivered to Germany until German occupation of France ceased. [ 4] The remainder of the German order, consisting of 28,000 pistols, was intercepted by Allied forces in September 1944. [ 1] [ 3] Astra 900. Astra-Unceta y Cia SA. 7.63×25mm Mauser.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Bismarck. / 48.167°N 16.200°W / 48.167; -16.200. Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck -class battleships built for Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when ...
Germany developed numerous new weapons during the war although was unable to field many of these weapons in any meaningful number, including the first mass-produced assault rifle in the world. Beginning in 1940, Germany solicited developmental prototypes for a semi-automatic rifle to replace the commonly used Karabiner 98k , a bolt-action rifle ...
Indian workers check new fuel tanks at the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in Bangalore, 1944. Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
It usually goes with the truck to unload where there is no specific handling equipment. [ 234] Steinbock 2,5 Y4. Feldumschlaggerät FUG 2,5t. Germany. Forklift. 577. In use in all branches of the German military, entered service in 1983, the remaining number in service is unknown.
Motor gunboat. The motor gunboat (MGB) was a small, high-speed British military vessel of the Second World War, which was armed with a mix of guns, in contrast to the physically similar motor torpedo boat (MTB), whose main offensive weapon were torpedoes. The small size of the MGBs, and their high speed, made them difficult targets for German E ...
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system . The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used ...