From the Bronze Age to armored vehicles
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From the Bronze Age to armored vehicles
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53 conflicts · 135 unique items. This is a growing selection, not a complete list of weapons from every war. You can compare items from different conflicts; filtering does not clear your selection.
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1941 – 1945 · 21 catalogue items
A German anti-aircraft gun that was also feared as an anti-tank gun. The Condor Legion already used it against ground targets in the Spanish Civil War; a tank gun derived from it armed the Tiger I, among others.
A Soviet heavy tank with a 122 mm gun, intended against Tigers and fortified positions; a spearhead of the advance on Berlin.
A German standard bolt-action rifle.
A Soviet truck-mounted rocket launcher that fired sixteen 132 mm rockets in quick succession. German soldiers called the howl of the rockets 'Stalin's organ'.
A Soviet heavy tank whose thick armour withstood most German anti-tank guns in 1941. Later versions became heavier and slower; figures vary by production year.
A German pistol with a distinctive toggle-lock action. The 9×19 mm Parabellum cartridge developed for it is still the world's most widely used pistol cartridge.
A water-cooled machine-gun family; calibre and mount varied by country.
The most-produced fighter aircraft in history (34,248 built); it first saw action with the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Figures are for the G-6; top speed is measured at sea level.
A German general-purpose machine gun.
A German general-purpose machine gun with a high cyclic rate of fire; there is no universal combat-performance score.
An improvised incendiary weapon: a breakable bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a fuse. First used in the Spanish Civil War; during the Winter War of 1939 the Finns gave it its mocking name, after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
A Russian/Soviet bolt-action rifle in several models.
A German submachine gun designed by Heinrich Vollmer, with a folding stock for vehicle crews and paratroopers. The Allies mistakenly called it the 'Schmeisser'.
A German tank with a 75 mm gun; performance varied by model.
The workhorse of German armoured divisions, upgraded with a longer 75 mm gun.
A Soviet submachine gun; drum and box magazines were used.
The first successful assault rifle: an intermediate cartridge made automatic fire controllable. It influenced post-war weapons such as the AK-47.
A German assault gun without a rotating turret: low, cheaper than a tank and the most-produced fully tracked German armoured fighting vehicle of the war.
A Soviet medium tank with sloped armour; straightforward to manufacture in very large numbers.
A heavy German tank armed with the 8.8 cm KwK 36; heavily armoured but complex and expensive.
A German heavy tank of almost 70 tonnes with the long 8.8 cm KwK 43 gun and up to 185 mm of armour. Powerful but mechanically fragile; because of Allied bombing only 492 were built.