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List of Croatian military equipment of World War II

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The Independent State of Croatia was established by Germany and Italy 10 April 1941 after Yugoslavia had fallen to Axis forces. The Croatian State survived until January 1945, then the Soviet offense pushed Axis-supporting Croatians back into Austria. The list below covers military equipment of Croatian Axis supporters (Croatian Home Guard, Ustaše militia and Croatian Armed Forces) in the years 1941–1945. It does not include the equipment of the pro-Allies partisans. Also, the equipment of German-controlled units comprising a large fraction of ethic Croatians (373rd, 392nd and 369th infantry divisions) is excluded from this list.

Knives and bayonets

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Small arms

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Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)

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Automatic pistols and submachine guns

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Rifles

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Grenades and grenade launchers

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Recoilless rifles

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Flamethrowers

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Machine guns

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Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns

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Vehicle and aircraft machine guns

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Artillery

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Infantry mortars

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Heavy mortars and rocket launchers

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Field artillery

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Fortress and siege guns

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Anti-tank guns

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Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

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Anti-aircraft weapons

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Light anti-aircraft guns

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Heavy anti-aircraft guns

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Vehicles

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Tankettes

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  • TKS - 18 received 10 October 1941
  • L3/33 - 10 received from Hungary in autumn 1942. 30 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
  • L3/35 - imported from Italy

Tanks

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Self-propelled guns

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Tank-based

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Other

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Armored cars

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Armored carriers

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  • Sd.Kfz. 251 - 12 to 15 vehicles received in middle 1944

Engineering and command

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Trucks

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Passenger cars

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Motorcycles

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Tractors and prime movers

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  • C2P artillery tractor (unarmoured design based on TKS)

Miscellaneous vehicles

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Croatian Navy was restricted until September, 1943 to do not have any vessel over 50 tons displacement. Therefore, the Navy was limited to coastal patrol crafts.

Aircraft

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Initial batch (1941)

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Reinforcements (1942)

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Frontline reinforcements (1943)

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Last reinforcements (1944-1945)

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Secret weapons

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Radars

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Missiles and bombs

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Cartridges and shells

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References

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  1. ^ "Schneider-Canet 120mm M1915 howitzer". Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-16.