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

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

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

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

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