List of World War II military equipment of Poland
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
- Lublin R-VIIIbis
- Lublin R-VIIID
- Lublin R-XIIIE (prototype)
- Lublin R-XIIIF (prototype)
- Lublin R-XIIIG (prototype)
- Lublin R-XVIB
- Lublin R-XXII (project)
- Lublin R-XXIII (R-XIIIDr.)(project)
- LWS-3 Mewa
- LWS-7 Mewa II (project)
- PWS-16
- PWS-18
- PWS-26
- PWS-27 (project)
- PWS-28 (project)
- PWS-29 (project)
- PWS-24bis
- PWS-35 Ogar
- PZL P.7a
- PZL P.11c
- PZL P.11g Kobuz (prototype)
- PZL.50 Jastrząb (prototype)
- PZL.23A Karaś A
- PZL.23B Karaś B / Karaś II
- PZL.37B Łoś B
- PZL.38 Wilk (prototypes)
- PZL.43 Karaś
- PZL.46 Sum (prototype)
- PZL.48 Lampart (project)
- PZL.49 Miś (project)
- PZL.54 Ryś (project)
- RWD-8
- RWD-13
- RWD-13S
- RWD-14 Czapla
- RWD-17
- RWD-17W (prototype)
- Bartel BM-4a
- Bartel BM-4c
- Bartel BM-4e
- Bartel BM-4f
- Bartel BM-4g
- Bartel BM-4h
- Bartel BM-5
Armament and other equipment on combat aircraft
- Aerial Photo cameras (for reconnaissance use)
- 7.9 mm (0.311 in) M1919 Browning machine gun
- 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers E
- 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers F
- 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers E/KM Wz 7.7 mm Machine gun
- KM Wz 33 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Machine gun[1]
- KM Wz 36 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Machine gun[1]
- KM Wz 37 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Machine gun[1]
- KM Wz 38 20 mm (0.787 in) Cannon[1]
- Oerlikon FF 20 mm Cannon
- 40 kg bomb
- 50 kg bomb
- 600 kg bomb
- 700 kg bomb
- 1,000 kg bomb
- 2,600 kg bomb
Foreign aircraft
- Schreck FBA-17
- LeO H-13
- LeO H-135
- Latham 43
- Avro Tutor Mk. I (2 examples)
- Breguet Bre XIX B.2
- CANT Z.506B Airone (1 example)
- Fokker F.VIIb-3m/M (21 examples)
Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in France (1939–1940)
- Bloch MB.152
- Caudron C.714 C1 "Cyclone"
- Koolhoven F.K.58
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.406
Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in Great Britain (1940–1947)
- Avro Lancaster
- Boulton Paul Defiant
- Bristol Beaufighter
- de Havilland Mosquito
- Fairey Battle
- Handley Page Halifax
- Hawker Hurricane
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Taylorcraft Auster
- Vickers Wellington
- Vickers Warwick
- Westland Lysander
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- North American P-51 Mustang
Aircraft in use by Polish Air Force in Soviet Union (1943–1945)
Tanks, armored cars and other military vehicles
Tankettes/light tanks
- TK-1
- TK-2
- TK-3
- TK
- wz.31
- TKF
- TKW
- TKD
- TKS-B
- wz.39
- TKS
- wz.33
- Renault FT (France)
- CWS FT-17
- Vickers E Twin Turret
- Vickers E Single Turret
- Vickers E Mark A & B
- VAU33dw
- VAU33jw
- 7TPdw (dwuwieżowy-twin turret; only two wz. 30 Brownings)
- 7TPjw (jednowieżowy-single turret; 37 mm Bofors anti-tank gun) and its improved version 9TP or PT-9
- PZInż.322
- PZInż. 130 amphibious tank
- PZInż. 140(4TP) reconnaissance tank
- Renault R35
- Polish/Soviet T-70
- Hotchkiss H35
Medium tanks
- 10TP wheel & track fast tank (only prototypes)
- 14TP Medium tank (only prototype never completed)
- 20/25TP Medium tank (never entered production)
- Matilda Mk I – training only for Polish units in UK
- Cromwell Cruiser Tank
- M4 Sherman – lend-lease via UK
- T34/76
- T34/85
Self-propelled vehicles/Tank destroyers
Tank and armored car armaments
- 7.5 mm MG
- 7.92 mm Browning MG
- 7.92 mm Hotchkiss MG
- 7.92 mm Hotchkiss-wz.25 MG
- 7.92 mm Colt–Browning-wz.30 TMG
- 13.2 mm MG
- 20 mm FK AT Automatic Cannon
- 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
- Bofors 37 mm
- 37 mm SA-18 Puteaux L/21
- 3.7 cm PaK 36 (captured)
- 47 mm Tank Gun
Captured German/Italian vehicles
- German
- Italian
- AB 41 Armored Car
Armored cars, motorcycles, trucks, half-tracks, jeeps
- Peugeot Armored Car
- Samochód Pancerny Ford Tfc ("Ford Tfc Armored Car")
- wz.28 (Citroën-Kegresse B2 10CV)
- Motorcycles CWS M55
- Motorcycles CWS M111 (Sokół 1000)
- wz.29 Ursus
- French Citroën-Kegresse P.14
- French Citroën-Kegresse P.17
- French Citroën-Kegresse P.19
- Polski FIAT 508/518
- PZInż.302 (Polski FIAT 508/518 variant)
- Polski Fiat 621L 2.5 ton truck
- ZIS-5/5V truck
- C2P tow
- Wz.34 Half Track
- C4P Half Track
- C7P
- Samochód pancerny wz. 34 Armoured car model 1934
- PZInż.342 4x4 artillery tractor (C5P)
- wz.34 Halftrack
- "Kubuś" improvised Armoured car/APC – 1 built during Warsaw Uprising
- Polish/Soviet BA-64 Armored Car
- Polish/Soviet BA-20 Armored Car
- Polish/American M17 Halftrack
- Polish/American Jeep
- Studebaker US6 – US design also produced in USSR
- Ursus A Ambulance
- Ursus AW Bus
- Ursus A Truck
- Saurer 4BLDP Bus
- Ursus TKS Tank Transporter
- Ursus A TK Tank Transporter
- Saurer 4BLDP TKS Tank Transporter
- FT-17 4-wheel Road Transporter
- Ursus A FT-17 Truck Transporter
- "local Jeep" Polski Fiat 508
- Polski Fiat 518
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
- Bayonet Bagnet 28" – For use with Poln M29, Poln 98, Karabinek 1898 rifles and carbines
- Infantry Rifle "Poln M29"- Calibre 7.9 mm Kbk wz. 1929
- Infantry Rifle "Poln 98"- Calibre 7.9 mm Kb wz. 98a
- Infantry Semi Automatic Self—repeating Rifle Kbsp wz. 1938M (only 150 made by the time of war)
- Carbine "Karabinek 1898"- Calibre 7.9 mm
- Carbine "Karabinek 91/98/25" (Mossin-Nagant 91)- Calibre 7.9 mm
- Revolver Rewolwer Nagant wz. 30 - Calibre 7.62 mm
- Pistol Pistolet Vis Vz-35 (Version 1935; development of Colt 1911; replaced Mauser on the Eastern Front: 500,000 made and issued by Germans in 1943 and 1944) (wz. 35 Vis)"- Calibre 9 mm
- Bechowiec-1 Machine Pistol – Calibre 9 mm
- Błyskawica Machine pistol – Calibre 9 mm
- KIS Machine Pistol – Calibre 9 mm
- Polski Sten machine pistol – Calibre 9 mm
- ET-38 anti-tank grenade
- Filipinka ET wz.40 hand grenade (250 g of cheddite or ammonal)
- Sidolówka R wz.42 hand grenade (250 g of cheddite or amonite)
- Anti Tank Rifle 7.92 mm "Karabin przeciwpancerny" wz.35 – Calibre 7.92 mm aka "Uruguay" (Platoon—level AT weapon)
- Light Machine gun wz. 28 (Polish version of the Browning Automatic Rifle) caliber 7.9 mm
- Heavy Machine Gun 30 (Polish-made clone of the American Browning M1917 heavy machine gun) caliber 7.92×57mm Mauser
- Granatnik wz.36
- Mosin Nagant
Weapons in use by Polish volunteers in foreign armies
- Fusil Mle 1907/15-M34" – Calibre 7.5 mm
- Fusil Automatique 1918" (Semi-automatic) – Calibre 8 mm
- Fusil Mle 1907" – Calibre 8 mm
- Springfield M1903 – Calibre .30-06
- Sten MK I – Calibre 9 mm
- Sten MK II – Calibre 9mm
- No3 MK I – Calibre .303
- M1 Garand (Semi-automatic rifle) – Calibre .30
- "Carabin M1" – Calibre .30
- "Smith & Wesson Mod 1917" – Calibre 45
- PPD-40 – Calibre 7.62 mm
- PPD-34/38" – Calibre 7.62 mm
- Tokarev 1930" – Calibre 7.62 mm
- Mosin–Nagant M91/30 in 7.62 mm
Naval weapons
Surface vessels, submarines and other ships
- Destroyers
- ORP Błyskawica
- ORP Grom
- ORP Burza
- ORP Wicher
- ORP Garland
- ORP Orkan
- ORP Huragan
- ORP Piorun'
- Escort Destroyers
- ORP Krakowiak
- ORP Kujawiak
- ORP Ślązak
- Cruisers
- Heavy minelayer ORP Gryf
- Submarines
- Torpedo vessel ORP Mazur
- Auxiliary boat ORP Nurek
- Sea patrol boat ORP General Haller
- River patrol boat ORP Kraków
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
- Williams, Anthony G.; Dr Emmanuel Gustin (2003). Flying Guns World War II, Development of aircraft guns, ammunition and installations 1933–45 (1st ed.). Ramsbury. ISBN 978-1-84037-227-4 – via Google Books, snippet.
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