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List of military vehicles of World War II

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The following is a list of Second World War military vehicles organized by country, showing numbers produced in parentheses.

Afghanistan

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Tanks

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Albania

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Tanks

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  • Fiat 3000

Armoured cars

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  • Lancia 1ZM

Tankettes

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  • CV-33

Argentina

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Tanks

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Utility vehicles

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Australia

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Tanks

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Armoured cars

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Belgium

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Tanks

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Utility vehicles

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  • FN Tricar (331 ordered and partially delivered)

Bulgaria

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Tank-based

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Armored cars

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Utility vehicles

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Canada

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Tanks

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  • M3 Stuart (432) light tank used by America and Canada
  • Ram (2,993) regular tank not used in combat, specialist models used
  • Grizzly I (188) A modified version of the M4A1 Sherman tank license produced in Canada
  • Valentine (1,420) Valentine tanks produced in Canada. Most sent to the Soviet Union as Lend-Lease aid. Some were retained in Canada for training.
  • Badger – a flame tank version of the Ram

Self-propelled artillery

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Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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Utility vehicles

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China

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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  • Renault FT (most of delivered 36 tanks, 3 tanks captured by Japanese in 1931)
  • M4 Sherman (35 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M3 Stuart (M3A3, M5A1) (50 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
  • M24 Chaffee – 233
  • M18 Hellcat
  • Type 95 Ha-Go (captured only)
  • Type 97 Chi-Ha (captured only)
  • Panzer I (10 bought from Germany before the war)
  • Vickers 6-ton (20 bought from UK before the war)
  • Vickers amphibious tank M1931 (29 tanks purchased from GB)
  • British 12-ton tank (type unclear – likely Vickers Medium Mark II, possibly Cruiser Mk I, or remotely Matilda I)
  • T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938)
  • BT-5 (4 provided by Soviets in 1938)
  • Marmon-Herrington CTLS (few diverted from Dutch after the fall of Java)
  • AMR 35
  • T-34 (supplied from Russia)

Armored cars

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Croatia

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Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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  • AB-41
  • Oklopni samovoz
  • Several Improvised armoured cars

Tanks

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Tank destroyers

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Czechoslovakia

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Tanks

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Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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Denmark

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Estonia

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Tanks

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  • Mark V Composite (4)
  • Renault FT (12)

Tankettes

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  • TKS (6)

Armoured cars

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  • Landsverk L-180 (1)
  • Arsenal Crossley M27/28 (13)

Finland

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Tanks

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Anti-aircraft

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Assault guns

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France

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Tanks

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Armoured reconnaissance tanks

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Armoured combat tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Tank destroyers

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  • Laffly W15 TCC (70)
  • AMR 35 Renault ZT2 (10)
  • AMR 35 Renault ZT3 (10)
  • Somua S40 (trials)

Self propelled guns

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Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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Germany

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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  • VK 4501 (P) (91, one used as command tank, most of the others converted to Elefant tank destroyers)
  • Tiger I (1,347)
  • Tiger II a.k.a. "King Tiger" or "Royal Tiger" (489)

Super-heavy tanks

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  • Maus (2 prototypes completed)

Armoured cars

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Utility vehicles

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Motorcycles

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  • BMW R75 (two wheel drive motorcycle with side car)
  • Nimbus (made in Denmark)
  • Zündapp KS750 (two wheel drive motorcycle with side car) (18,000)

Half-tracks

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Self-propelled artillery

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Assault guns

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Tank destroyers

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Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

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Remote controlled vehicles

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Hungary

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Captured tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Tank destroyers

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Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

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Armoured cars

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Utility vehicles

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India

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Armoured cars

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Iran

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Half-tracks

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  • Citroën-Kégresse P1T ?

Armoured cars

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Iraq

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Tankettes

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Armoured cars

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  • Iraqi Crossley MkI (≈14)

Italy

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Tankettes

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  • Carro Veloce L3/33 (CV-33) (760)
  • Carro Veloce L3/35 (CV-35) (1,740)

Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Tank destroyers and self-propelled guns

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Armoured cars

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Utility vehicles

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Japan

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Amphibious tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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Latvia

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Armoured cars

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  • various dating from WW1

Tankettes

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  • Carden Loyd MK IV (1)

Tanks

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  • Vickers Carden-Loyd M1937 (6)
  • Vickers Carden-Loyd M1936 (12)
  • Mark V Composite (5)
  • Mark Medium B (2)
  • Fiat 3000 (6)

Lithuania

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Armoured cars

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  • Landsverk L-181 (6)
  • various from WW1

Tanks

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  • Vickers Carden Loyd M1934 (16)
  • Renault FT (12)

Manchukuo

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Armoured Cars

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Tankettes

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Tanks

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Mexico

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Tanks

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Netherlands

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Tankettes

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Light tanks

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Armoured cars

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Armoured personnel carrier

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Self-propelled anti-air-gun

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  • Ehrhardt Potkachel (1)

New Zealand

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Converted tractors

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Light tanks

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Also American M3 Stuart Tanks, called "Honeys" by the Brits and Commonwealth, used in Italy as recon vehicles

Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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  • Beaverette NZ (208) light armoured car similar to the British Beaverette

Norway

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Light tanks

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Poland

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Tankettes

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  • TK-3 (280)
  • TKS (260)
  • TKS with 20 mm gun (24)

Tanks

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  • 4TP
  • 7TP (162)
  • 9TP (2 prototypes + 11 possible production models)
  • 10TP (1 prototype)
  • 14TP

Armored cars

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Self-propelled guns

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Artillery tractors

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Utility vehicles

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Reorganized National Government of ROC

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Tankettes

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Romania

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Tankettes

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  • R-1 (Modified Czechoslovak AH-IV, 1 prototype + 35 imported from Czechoslovakia)

Tanks

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Tank destroyers

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Armoured cars

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Artillery tractors

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Demolition vehicles

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Slovakia

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Tanks

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Armoured cars

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South Africa

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Armoured cars

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Soviet Union

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Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225).

Tankettes

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  • T-27 (3,328 pre-war)

Tanks

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Light tanks

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Amphibious tanks

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Medium tanks

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  • T-28 (503 pre-war)
  • T-34 (1,225 pre-war)
    • T-34-76 (33,805)
    • T-34-85 (21,048)
  • T-44

Heavy tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Rocket artillery

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Anti-aircraft

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Armoured cars

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Amphibious armoured cars

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Half-tracks

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Artillery tractors

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Improvised AFVs

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Utility vehicles

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Motorcycles

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Light utility vehicles

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Trucks

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Thailand

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Tanks and tankettes

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Self-propelled guns

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Anti-aircraft

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United Kingdom

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Artillery tractors

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Cruiser tanks

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Infantry tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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Lorries

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NB: In British nomenclature, a vehicle with load-carrying capacity of less than one imperial ton (20 hundredweight) was designated as a truck.[4]

United States

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Medium tanks

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Heavy tanks

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Tank destroyers

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Self-propelled artillery

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Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

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Armoured personnel carriers

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Armoured cars

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Artillery tractors

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Amphibious

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Utility vehicles

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Yugoslavia

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Tanks

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Light tanks

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Tankettes

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  • Škoda Š-I-D/T-32 (8)
  • Škoda Š-I-J ((1)trialed, but not adopted)

Self-propelled guns

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  • M3 Stuart modified with various captured German weapons

See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Ware 2012, p. 191.
  2. ^ Ware 2012, p. 193.
  3. ^ Ware 2012, p. 216.
  4. ^ War Department Technical Manual, Volume 30, Issue 410. Washington, D.C.: US Government. 1943. p. 113.
  5. ^ Ware 2012, p. 196.
  6. ^ Ware 2012, p. 198.
  7. ^ a b c d Ware 2012, p. 199.
  8. ^ Ware 2012, p. 201.
  9. ^ Ware 2012, p. 205.
  10. ^ Ware 2012, p. 207.
  11. ^ Ware 2012, p. 211.
  12. ^ Ware 2012, p. 213.
  13. ^ Ware 2012, p. 214.

Bibliography

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