The following is a list of Soviet military equipment of World War II which includes firearms, artillery, vehicles, aircraft and warships.

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

was the deadliest war in history which started in 1939 and ended in 1945. Following political instability built-up in Europe from 1930,

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

, which aimed to dominate Europe, attacked Poland on 1 September 1939 marking the official start of World War II. The USSR (Soviet Union) used

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

as a buffer from Germany from 17 September 1939, when the Polish state and its government actually ceased to exist. Germany with its allies attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, and the country lost 26.6 million people during four years of the Great Patriotic war. The war in Europe ended on 7 May 1945 with the capitulation of Germany to the allied (including Soviet) forces. About 80-90% of losses during the entire war the German armed forces suffered on the Soviet (Eastern) front, whose contribution to the victory was decisive. By the end of the war, the Soviet Union produced 30.3 million rifles; 1,476 million machine guns; 516,648 artillery guns; 347,900 mortars; 119,769 tanks and self-propelled guns; 265,600 army trucks; 213,742 military aircraft; 2 cruisers; 25 destroyers; 52 submarines.

Helmets

Body Armour

Knives

Small arms

Revolvers and pistols

Rifles, sniper rifles and battle rifles

Submachine guns

Machine guns

Explosives, hand-held anti-tank and incendiary weapons

Grenades and grenade launchers

Mines

Recoilless rifles

Infantry anti-tank rifles and rocket launchers

Flamethrowers and anti-tank incendiaries

Artillery

Light and heavy infantry mortars

Rocket launchers

Vehicular guns

Field artillery

Fortress and siege guns

Anti-tank guns

Ground-based anti-aircraft weapons

Light anti-aircraft guns

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

Armored fighting vehicles

Tankettes

Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Wheeled anti-tank self-propelled guns

Tracked anti-aircraft guns

Armoured cars

Half-tracks

Improvised armoured fighting vehicles

Lend-Lease tanks and SPGs

Motor vehicles

Trucks

Passenger/utility vehicles

Lend-Lease vehicles

Motorcycles

Tractors & prime movers

Engineering and command

Miscellaneous vehicles

Aircraft

Fighter aircraft

Navy ships

List of ships of the Second World War This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing ...

Rockets and bombs

RS-82 (rocket family) RS-82 and RS-132 (Reaktivny Snaryad; Russian: Реактивный Снаряд; rocket-powered projectile) were unguided rockets used by Soviet military during World War II. Development Design work on RS-82 and RS-132 rockets began in the late 19 ...

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Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...