World War 2 Rifles
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World war 2 rifles. The most prominent being the standard rifle and the machine gun which made up the majority of the weapons available to german infantry with submachine guns and anti tank weapons supplementing them. These weapons were made in the millions and some were the standard issue in. World war ii saw rapid technological innovation in response to the needs of the various combatants.
Bolt action service rifle infantry carbine. Browning m1918 captured from the americans browning wz. Rifles were a widely used type of weapon during the second world war.
Infantry weapons of world war 2 began mostly as the standard issue weapons that had been used in world war 1 but by the end of the war numerous modern assault rifles automatic pistols and machine guns were being made. 1928 captured from the polish in 1939 and used under the designation of leichtes maschinengewehr lmg 28 p bren light machine gun used captured examples under the designation leichtes maschinengewehr lmg 138 e breda m1930. There are a total of 67 world war ii rifles 1939 1945 entries in the military factory.
A nation would field one or more types of infantry rifles. During world war ii germany had developed a long line of various weapons to issue to their infantry units. While some were more specifically identified with particular nations others were used by various countries more randomly with no apparent partialities.
List of world war ii weapons of canada. This list does not consist of all weapons used by all countries in world war ii.
