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PPSh-41
The PPSh-41 () is a selective-fire, open-bolt, blowback submachine gun that fires the 7.62×25mm Tokarev round. It was designed by Georgy Shpagin of the Soviet Union to be a cheaper and simplified alternative to the PPD-40.
Sten
The STEN (or Sten gun) is a British submachine gun chambered in 9×19mm which was used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and during the Korean War. The Sten paired a simple design with a low production cost, facilitating mass production to meet the demand for submachine guns. As well as equipping regular units, the Sten was distributed to resistance groups within occupied Europe. Its simple design made it an effective insurgency weapon for resistance groups.
80 cm K (E)
German 80 cm ultra-heavy railway guns
PTRD-41
The PTRD-41 () is an anti-tank rifle that was produced and used from 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. It is a single-shot weapon which fires the 14.5×114 mm round, which was able to penetrate German tanks such as the Panzer III and early models of the Panzer IV. Although unable to penetrate the frontal armor of late-war German tanks, it could penetrate their thinner side and top armor at close ranges as well as thinly armored self-propelled guns and half-tracks.
M101 howitzer
1941 United States 105 mm field howitzer
PTRS-41
The PTRS-41 () is a World War II-era semi-automatic anti-tank rifle firing the 14.5×114mm cartridge.
ZiS-3
1942 Soviet 76 mm field gun
Lanchester submachine gun
submachine gun
Gewehr 41
semi-automatic German rifle
QF 6-pounder 7-cwt gun Mark 2
1940s towed 57 mm anti-tank gun of British origin
14.5 x 114 mm
anti-tank rifle ammunition used by the PTRS-41
M1941 Johnson rifle
semi-automatic rifle
ZiS-2
1940s towed 57 mm anti-tank gun of Soviet origin
Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
dagger
M30 Luftwaffe drilling
combination rifle-shotgun for aircrew survival
U-505
1941 Type IXC submarine
M50 Reising
submachine gun
7.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40
recoilless rifle
4.2 cm Pak 41
type of Panzerabwehrkanone
8 cm Granatwerfer 42
1940s portable 81 mm mortar of German origin
7.5 cm Pak 41
antitank gun by Friedrich Krupp AG
Ampulomet
The Ampulomet (, also rendered Ampulomyot, ampulla mortar, etc., lit. "ampule/vial thrower" cf. миномёт) was an expedient anti-tank weapon which launched a 125 mm incendiary projectile made of spherical glass. This weapon was introduced in 1941 and used (to a limited degree) by the Red Army in World War II, but by 1942 was largely obsolete.
Flammenwerfer 41
1941 German portable flamethrower
BL 5.5 inch gun
British field artillery
17 cm Kanone 18
1941 German 170 mm field gun-howitzer
Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23
23 mm autocannon aircraft armament
Ho-103
12.7 mm machine gun aircraft armament
Nebelwerfer 40
1940s wheeled 100 mm mortar of German origin
25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940
anti-aircraft gun of the Soviet Army
RG-41 grenade
thumb|150px|Drawing of RG-41 grenade The Soviet RG-41 was a fragmentation grenade developed during World War II. It was in production for only short time from 1941 to 1942 before being replaced by RG-42.
Blockbuster bomb
large conventional bombs used by the Royal Air Force in World War II
Type 1 37 mm Anti-Tank Gun
ammunition
75 mm Gun M2/M3/M6
standard American tank guns of the Second World War
7.3 cm Propagandawerfer 41
type of Rocket artillery
Blacker Bombard
World War II-era British anti-tank weapon invented by Lt Col Stewart Blacker
28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41
German rocket launcher in World War II
Stielgranate 41
type of artillery round
210 mm gun M1939
type of heavy siege gun
Hamada Type pistol
semi-automatic pistol
10.5 cm leFH 18M
German light howitzer
38 cm Siegfried K (E)
railway gun
16 inch/45 Mark 6 gun
American naval artillery
Gebirgsflak 38
anti-aircraft gun
M8
110 mm artillery rocket
15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette
German heavy gun used in the Second World War
M1 flamethrower
type of flamethrower