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53 conflicts · 149 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 · 27 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.
🧪 Prototype1 built
Design: Oleg Antonov (1940–1942)
A T-60 light tank with detachable biplane wings and a tail, to be towed as a glider behind a bomber to partisans or airborne troops. On its only flight, in September 1942, the tow aircraft could barely cope with the weight; the tank did land safely. The project was abandoned.
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'.
🔧 Limited production
Design: Rheinmetall (1943–1944)
A curved barrel attachment for the StG 44, for firing around corners from cover or from inside a tank. The 30-degree version went into limited production; the 90-degree one never got past trials. Bullets often broke up in the bend and a barrel lasted only a few hundred rounds.
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.
📐 Paper design onlyNever built
Design: Krupp, after a proposal by Edward Grote (1942)
A design for a thousand-tonne 'land cruiser': 35 metres long, with a naval gun turret mounting two 28 cm guns. Hitler approved the idea in 1942, but armaments minister Speer cancelled it in early 1943. None was ever built; bridges and roads could not have carried it anyway.
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.
🧪 Prototype2 built
Design: Ferdinand Porsche; built by Krupp and Alkett (1942–1944)
The heaviest tank ever built: 188 tonnes. Two prototypes were completed, one of them with a turret. They never saw action; the Red Army assembled a single vehicle from the wrecks, which stands in the Kubinka museum.
A Soviet submachine gun; drum and box magazines were used.
🔧 Limited production2 built
Design: Krupp (1934–1941)
The largest gun ever fired in war: 80 cm calibre, 1,350 tonnes, shells of up to more than seven tonnes. Built to break the Maginot Line, but first used in 1942 at the siege of Sevastopol, where it fired 48 rounds. Thousands of people were needed to assemble and operate it. Two guns were completed: Gustav and Dora.
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.
🔧 Limited production310 built
Design: C.G. Haenel and AEG/Leitz (1944)
An active infrared night sight for the StG 44: a searchlight with an infrared filter and an image converter on the weapon, powered by a battery pack of more than thirteen kilograms carried on the back. A few hundred sets were delivered in the last months of the war; the men who carried them were called 'Nachtjäger'.