The following is a list of military equipment of the ROC in World War II (1937–1945) which includes aircraft, artillery, small arms, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...

, various warlords and including the Collaborationist Chinese Army and Manchukuo Imperial Army, as well as Communist guerillas, encompassing the period of the

Second United Front The Second United Front ( zh, t=第二次國共合作 , s=第二次国共合作 , first=t ) was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Seco ...

Swords and bayonets

* Dao * Miaodao * HY1935 bayonet * Qiang (spear) *

Shin guntō Shin may refer to: Biology * The front part of the human leg below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates Names * Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese g ...

(used by pro-Japanese officers) * Type 30 bayonet (used by pro-Japanese forces)

Small arms

Pistols

Submachine guns and automatic pistols

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Flamethrowers

Machine guns

Infantry held Anti-tank weapons

Vehicle, aircraft and anti-air machine guns

* Vickers .50 Type-D * Hotchkiss M1929 machine gun both single- and twin-barrel versions * Type 92 aircraft gun (captured) * Type 89 Lewis aircraft gun (captured)? * Breda-SAFAT light machinegun M1926(used on L3/33 and L3/35) * Degtyarev M-1928 (DT and DA versions) * Maxim PV-1 aircraft gun * Vickers Class "E" aircraft machine gun (70) * Vickers Class "F" aircraft machine gun (9) * Colt–Browning MG40 aircraft machine gun (1038 delivered) * FN Browning Modèle 1932 aircraft machine gun * Browning M-2 fixed and flexible aircraft machine gun (460 delivered) * MG-13 light machine gun (for German armored vehicles, 100 delivered) * Solothurn Model T-6-220 aircraft machine gun (captured Japanese copies) * Browning M-1919A5 armor machine gun (1640 delivered)

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Field and mountain artillery

Fortress, naval and coastal guns

Anti-tank guns

Anti-aircraft weapons

The Chinese did not produce AA guns on their own, but used every foreign gun they could put their hands on. Madsen 20 mm cannons were especially widespread.

Vehicles

Tankettes

* V-C-L Tankette Mk VI (24 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1929 and 1930) * Renault UE (10 were bought and delivered from France between 1936 and 1937) * CV-35 (101 were bought and delivered from Italy between 1937 and 1938) * Type 94 tankette (18 were supplied to the Collaborationist Chinese Army in 1941) * Universal Carrier (1,100 in the machine gun version and 400 with 3-inch mortar to the X Force in the Burma Campaign in 1943, but only used for training and never saw combat)

Tanks

* Renault FT (36 in total are reported, with 14 being bought between 1924 and 1925 and the rest having been captured by Zhang Zuolin after France withdrew from the Russian Civil War in 1920) * V-C-L Light Amphibious Tank (29 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1933 and 1935) * Vickers Mark E Type B (20 were bought and delivered from the United Kingdom between 1934 and 1936) * Panzer I (15 were bought and delivered from Germany between 1936 and 1937) * Renault ZB (16 were bought and delivered from France between 1936 and 1940) * T-26 (82 were supplied in the Soviet Aid Program in 1938) * BT-5 (4 were supplied in the Soviet Aid Program in 1938) * M3 Stuart (536 shipped as part of US

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, but only 100 used in the Burma Campaign by the X Force between 1943 and 1945) * M4A4 Sherman (466 provided by the United Kingdom to the X Force in the Burma Campaign in 1944)

Armored cars

Leichter Panzerspähwagen The ''Leichter Panzerspähwagen'' (German: "light armoured reconnaissance vehicle") was a series of light four-wheel drive armoured cars produced by Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944. Development history The Sd.Kfz. 221 was the first in a series of ...

(15 in total between 1936 and 1937, mostly Sd.Kfz. 222, two Sd.Kfz. 221 and at least one Sd.Kfz 260) * M3A1 White Scout (36 were supplied in the

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program in 1941, and 104 more from 1942 onwards) *

BA-10 The BA-10 ( ru , Broneavtomobil 10, italic=yes) was an armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1938 and produced through 1941. It was the most produced Soviet pre-1941 heavy armored car – 3311 were built in three versions. These versio ...

(the odd captured example given to

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

), BA-3/6 and

BA-27 The BA-27 was a Soviet first series-produced armoured car, manufactured from 1928 to 1931, and used for scouting and infantry support duties early in the Second World War. The BA-27 was a heavy armoured car, having the same turret and armament a ...

(purchased by the

KMT The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Taiw ...

)

Navy ships and war vessels

* Chinese cruiser Ning Hai * Chinese cruiser Ping Hai *

Chinese cruiser Chao Ho ''Chao Ho'' () was the lead ship of a class of Chao Ho-class cruiser, her class of training protected cruisers originally built for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Development The ''Chao Ho'' class were part of a largely unrealized seven-year moderniza ...

* Chinese cruiser Ying Swei *

Chinese cruiser Yat Sen ''Yat Sen'' (, Pinyin: Yi Xian), named after the founding father Dr. Sun Yat-sen of the Republic of China and completed in 1931, was a light cruiser— having more in common with the small cruisers of pre–World War I era—in the ROC N ...

(later in war has become a Japanese training ship "Atada") * Hai Chou – former British sloop * Minelayer Huying * Gunboats ** Yi Sheng ** Hsien Ning ** Chung Ning ** Sui Ning ** Chung Shan (warship) (Capt Sa Shih Chun)** ** Chu Tung ** Yung Sheng ** Chu Chien ** Hu Fu ** Chu Kuan ** Yung Chi ** Chiang Yuan ** Yin Ning (Capt Yen Chuan Ching) ** Hai Ning ** 7 more unknown gunboats * Unknown boat class ** Chung Shan ** Chaing Chen ** Min Sheng * List of ships of the Second World War

Aircraft

* 1st AFAMF XP-1, indigenous experimental fighter *

Aichi AB-3 The Aichi AB-3 was a Japanese ship-board reconnaissance floatplane of the 1930s. The AB-3, a single-seat, single-engined biplane, was designed to equip a light cruiser ''Ning Hai'' being built in Japan for the Chinese navy, a single aircraft bein ...

– 1 bought from Japan and 1 copy built in China *

Chu XP-0 The Chu XP-0, also known as the Chu (AFAMF) XP-0, was a Chinese fighter prototype in the Second World War. Development Designed by the Chief of the Air Force Technical Bureau, Major General Chu Chia-Jen, in 1941, the XP-0 was a single-seat figh ...

– prototype only *

Breda Ba.27 The Breda Ba.27 was a fighter produced in Italy in the 1930s, used by the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Design and development The Ba.27 was a low-wing braced monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. As or ...

– imported from Italy *

Fiat CR.32 The Fiat CR.32 was an Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. Designed by the aeronautical engineer Celestino Rosatelli, it was a compact, robust and highly manoeuvrable aircraft for its era, leading to i ...

– imported from Italy *

Breguet 27 Breguet or Bréguet may refer to: * Breguet (watch), watch manufacturer **Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), Swiss watchmaker **Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804–1883), French physicist, watchmaker, electrical and telegraph work * Bréguet ...

– 6 imported from France * Gloster Gladiator * Henschel Hs 123 – 12 bought from Germany * I-15bis – 29 * I-152 – 252? (may be aka I-15bis) * Polikarpov I-153 – 75 * I-16 Model 5 – 100+? * I-16 Model 10 – 132 * I-16 Model 17 – 10 * SB-2M-100A – 179 * SB-2M-103 – 100 *

DB-3 The Ilyushin DB-3, where "DB" stands for ''Dalniy Bombardirovschik'' (Russian: Дальний бомбардировщик) meaning "long-range bomber", was a Soviet bomber aircraft of World War II. It was a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane that f ...

– 24 *

TB-3 The Tupolev TB-3 (russian: Тяжёлый Бомбардировщик, Tyazhyolyy Bombardirovshchik, Heavy Bomber, civilian designation ANT-6) was a monoplane heavy bomber deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and used during the early ...

– 6 * Tupolev SB – 13 *

Yakovlev UT-1 The Yakovlev UT-1 (russian: Яковлев УТ-1) was a single-seater trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until the late 1940s. Development The Yakovlev UT-1 was designed as a single-seater advanced trainer and aerobatic air ...

trainer – 13 *

A-12 Shrike The Curtiss A-12 Shrike was the United States Army Air Corps' second monoplane ground-attack aircraft, and its main attack aircraft through most of the 1930s. It was based on the A-8, but had a radial engine instead of the A-8's inline, water ...

* Northrop A-17 *

Vultee A-19 The Vultee V-11 and V-12 were American stressed-skin monocoque monoplane attack aircraft of the 1930s. Developed from the Vultee V-1 single-engined airliner, the V-11 and V-12 were purchased by several nations for their armed forces, including C ...

* A-29 Hudson * Martin B-10 * C-19 Alpha * Beechcraft Staggerwing C-43 *

Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932. Development At the height of the Great Depression, aircra ...

D-17 medevac (10 received) * Beechcraft Model 18 C-45 *

Curtiss C-46 Commando The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a twin-engine transport aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company pub ...

* Northrop Gamma 2E *

Curtiss BF2C Goshawk The Curtiss BF2C Goshawk (Model 67) was a United States 1930s naval biplane aircraft that saw limited success and was part of a long line of Hawk Series airplanes made by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the American military, and f ...

(aka Curtiss Hawk III – Models 67 and 68) *

Curtiss F11C Goshawk The Curtiss F11C Goshawk was an American naval biplane fighter aircraft that saw limited success. It was part of a long line of Curtiss Hawk airplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the American military. Design and develo ...

(aka Hawk II) *

Curtiss-Wright CW-21 The Curtiss-Wright Model 21 (also known as the Curtiss-Wright Model 21 Demonstrator, the Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Interceptor, the Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Demon) was an American fighter-interceptor developed by the St. Louis Airplane Division of Curtis ...

– 6 flown, 27 kits not built * Boeing P-12 * Boeing P-26 Peashooter (aka Model 281) – 11 bought from USA *

Curtiss P-36 Hawk The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, is an American-designed and built fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 40s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was one of the first of a new generation ...

– license production as Hawk 75A-5 and Mohawk IV (8 completed) * Lockheed P-38 Lightning * Curtiss P-40 Warhawk * Republic P-43 Lancer * North American

P-51 Mustang The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team headed by James ...

* Vultee P-66 Vanguard * North American T-6 Texan trainer (20 received) * Beechcraft Model 18, trainer modification AT-7 (8 received) * Cessna AT-17 Bobcat trainer (15 received) * Boeing-Stearman Model 75, trainer modification PT-17 (150 received) *

Fairchild PT-19 The Fairchild PT-19 (company designation Fairchild M62) is an American monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the United States Army Air Forces, RAF and RCAF during World War II. Designed by Fairchild Aircraft, it was a contempora ...

trainer (127 received) *

Ryan PT-22 Recruit The Ryan PT-22 Recruit, the main military version of the Ryan ST, is a military trainer aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training. Design and development The PT-22's fuselage is a simple monocoque ...

trainer (70 received) * Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer (30 received)

References

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