This is a list of weapons, vehicles and aircraft used by the Swiss Army at present or in the past.

Small arms

5130 026 40 mm Gewehraufsatz 97 zum Sturmgewehr 90

Weapons marked in bold are considered personal equipment of the soldier, who is responsible for their well-functioning and were required to keep them at home until the end of the military service (unless living near an external border of Switzerland). In 2010, the regulation that allowed members of the Swiss militia to keep their assigned personal weapon in their home was amended, and now allows members of the militia to voluntarily deposit their issued firearm in an armory. Between brackets is the number of such weapons in personal equipment as of 31 January 2009. Swiss Army knives are also issued, but are not considered weapons.

Individual weapons

* Sturmgewehr 90 assault rifle + bayonet (200,000) * Sturmgewehr 07 assault rifle (

Swiss Grenadiers The Special Forces Command (German: Kommando Spezialkräfte) is an infantry corps of the Swiss Armed Forces specialised in rapid offensive operations, intel gathering and urban warfare, operations in urban areas, open fields and other difficult ...

, ARD 10, FSK-17, Military Police) * Pistole 75 semi-automatic pistol (30,000) * Pistole 03 semi-automatic pistol (Military Police) * Glock 17 / 19 semi-automatic pistols (

, ARD 10, FSK-17, Military Police) *

FN Minimi The FN Minimi (short for french: Mini Mitrailleuse; "mini machine gun") is a Belgian 5.56mm light machine gun/squad automatic weapon developed by Ernest Vervier for FN Herstal. First introduced in the late 1970s, it is now in service in more tha ...

(5.6mm Leichtes Maschinengewehr 05) *

Heckler & Koch MP5-A5 The Heckler & Koch MP5 (german: Maschinenpistole 5) is a 9x19mm Parabellum submachine gun, developed in the 1960s by a team of engineers from the German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. There are over 100 variants and clones of the MP5, ...

submachine gun (Military Police) * Heckler & Koch MP5-SD submachine gun ( ARD 10) *

Remington 870 The Remington Model 870 is a pump-action shotgun manufactured by Remington Arms Company, LLC. It is widely used by the public for shooting sports, hunting and self-defense, as well as by law enforcement and military organizations worldwide. D ...

multipurpose shotgun (Mehrzweckgewehr 91) *

Sako TRG-42 The Sako TRG is a bolt-action sniper rifle line designed and manufactured by Finnish firearms manufacturer SAKO of Riihimäki. The TRG-21 and TRG-22 are designed to fire standard .308 Winchester ( 7.62×51mm NATO) sized cartridges, while the TRG ...

8.6 mm anti-personnel sniper rifle (8.6mm Scharfschützengewehr 04) (196) *

PGM Hécate II The Hécate II is the standard heavy sniper rifle and anti-materiel rifle of the French Army, sometimes known as the FR-12.7 (french: Fusil à Répétition de calibre 12.7 mm or "12.7 mm calibre repeating rifle"). It is manufactured by PGM Pr� ...

12.7 mm anti-materiel heavy sniper rifle (12.7mm Präzisionsgewehr 04) (20)

Crew served weapons

MG 51 The ''7.5 mm Maschinengewehr 1951'' or Mg 51 is a general-purpose machine gun manufactured by W+F of Switzerland. The weapon was introduced into Swiss service when the Swiss Army initiated a competition for a new service machine gun to r ...

machine gun A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic shotguns and automatic rifles (including assault rifles and battle rifles) ar ...

Browning M2 The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. Its design is similar to Browning's earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, ...

Heavy machine gun A heavy machine gun (HMG) is significantly larger than light, medium or general-purpose machine guns. HMGs are typically too heavy to be man-portable (carried by one person) and require mounting onto a weapons platform to be operably stable or ...

(Mg 64) *81mm mortar *60mm mortar

Other weapons

* Gewehraufsatz 97

40mm 40 mm grenade (also styled 40mm grenade) is a generic class-name for grenade launcher ammunition ( subsonic shells) in caliber. The generic name stems from the fact that several countries have developed or adopted grenade launchers in 40 ...

grenade launcher (mounted under "Sturmgewehr 90" assault rifle for grenadiers and fusiliers) *

HG 85 The HG 85 (''Hand Granate M1985'') is a round fragmentation hand grenade designed for the Swiss Armed Forces and still produced by RUAG Ammotec in Switzerland. HG 85 is the internal designation of the Swiss Army and replaces the HG 43 from WWII ...

hand grenade *

Panzerfaust 3 The Panzerfaust 3 (lit. "armor fist" or "tank fist") is a modern semi-disposable recoilless anti-tank weapon, which was developed between 1978 and 1985 and first entered service with the Bundeswehr in 1987 (although they did not officially adopt ...

shoulder-launched recoilless anti-tank

weapon A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, ...

* H&K P2A1 flare pistol (26.5mm Rakp 78) *

BGM-71 TOW The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided") is an American anti-tank missile. TOW replaced much smaller missiles like the SS.10 and ENTAC, offering roughly twice the effective range, a more powerful warhead, and a greatly ...

FIM-92 Stinger The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters as the Air-t ...

NLAW The Saab Bofors Dynamics NLAW (pronounced: ''"N-LAW"'', ), also known as the MBT LAW or RB 57, is a fire-and-forget, lightweight shoulder-fired, and disposable (single-use) line of sight (LOS) missile system, designed for infantry use. The mi ...

MATADOR A bullfighter (or matador) is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. ''Torero'' () or ''toureiro'' (), both from Latin ''taurarius'', are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter and describe all the performers in the activit ...

Vehicles

Aircraft

Former equipment

References

* Betriebsanleitung Entpannungspanzer 65 (1972) K + W (Hrsg.): Entpannungspanzer 65 Betriebsanleitung. Nur für den dienstlichen Gebrauch. Auflage von 1972. K+W (Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte) - Thun(Entpannungspanzer 65 Operating Instructions. Only for official use. Edition of 1972. K+W (Swiss design workshops) - Thun) * Book ''Die Panzer der Schweizer Armee von 1920 bis 2008'', Urs Heller (2008

* Book ''Fahrzeuge der Schweizer Armee von 1900 bis 2020'', Markus Hofmann, Max Martin and Christoph Zimmerli (2020), ISBN 978-3-033-07130-8

Presented are all military vehicles, which served in the Swiss Army from 1900 until 2020. * Military Museum Full-Reuenthal, Switzerlan

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