List of World War II weapons of Germany
This is a list of air and land weapons used by Germany during World War II.
Weapons by popular name
Few German weapons of World War II were given popular names, and those that were recognized officially as such numbered even fewer.
- Flakvierling: A concatenation of the official type designation for the four-barrel 20 mm antiaircraft cannon.
- Panzerfaust: A German weapon which went only by its name and not a traditional designation, the Panzerfaust was produced in a number of marks, each adding a new number after the name correlating to nominal range of the weapon
- Panzerschreck
Weapons by type
The Germans used a number of type designations for their weapons. Each section is headed by the official name for the weapon type along with its usual abbreviated form in parenthesis, followed by the weapons using the designation in series number order. Usually, 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 designation, at which point one must reference the calibre to differentiate.[1]
- (FK): Field gun
- FlugzeugabwehrKanone (FlaK): Antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 18: 88 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 30: 20 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 36: 37 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 37: 37 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 38 (2 cm): 20 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 38 (10.5 cm): 105 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 40: 128 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 41 (5 cm): 50 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 41 (8.8 cm): 88 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlaK 43 (3.7 cm): 37 mm antiaircraft gun
- FlugzeugabwehrKanonevierling (FlaK v): Quad antiaircraft gun
- FlaK v 38: Quad 20 mm antiaircraft gun
- Gebirgsflugzeugabwehrkanone (GebFlaK): Mountain antiaircraft gun
- GebFlaK 38: 20 mm mountain antiaircraft gun
- Haubitze (H): Howitzer
- Kampfwagenkanone (KwK): Tank gun
- Kanone (K): Gun/cannon
- K 3: 238 mm gun
- K 4: 238 mm gun
- K 18 (15 cm): 149 mm gun
- K 18 (17 cm): 173 mm gun
- K 39: 149 mm gun
- K 331(f): 105 mm gun of Japan origin
- K 333(b): 105 mm gun of Belgian origin
- K 433/2(r): 152 mm gun of Russian origin
- K 18: 105 mm gun on same carriage as sFH 18
- leichte Feldhaubitze (leFH): Light field howitzer
- leFH 18: 105 mm L/28 light field howitzer
- leichter Granatwerfer (leGrW): Light mortar
- 5 cm leichter Granatwerfer 36: 50 mm light mortar
- Maschinengewehr (MG): Machine gun
- Mörser (Mrs): Mortar
- Mrs 18: 211 mm mortar
- Mrs 601(f): 279.4 mm siege howitzer
- Panzerabwehrkanone (PaK): Antitank gun
- Raketenpanzerbüchse (RPzB): Antitank rocket launcher
- schwere Feldhaubitze (sFH): Heavy field howitzer
- sFH 18: 149 mm heavy field howitzer
- sFH 37(t): 149 mm heavy field howitzer of Czech origin
- sFH 443(r): 152 mm heavy field howitzer of Russian origin
- schwerer Granatwerfer (sGrW): Heavy mortar
- schweres Infanteriegeschütz (sIG): Heavy infantry gun
- sIG 33: 149 mm L/11 heavy infantry gun
- SturmGewehr (StG): Assault Rifle
- StG 44: Assault Rifle 44
Notes
- ↑ "World War 2 Weapons". Military Dictionary. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
References
- Chamberlain, Peter & Gander, Terry. Light and Medium Field Artillery. New York: Arco, 1975
- Gander, Terry. Heavy Artillery of World War II. Wiltshire: The Crowood Press, 2004 ISBN 1-84037-414-4
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