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Vickers-Berthier – light machine gun adopted by British Indian Army before the war, and used until replaced by Bren guns around 1942. Besal – designed as a lighter, simpler, and cheaper to manufacture alternative to the Bren gun, never went into mass production.
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
It was the standard British/Commonwealth sidearm in the Second World War, alongside the Webley Mk IV and Smith & Wesson Victory Model revolvers chambered in the same calibre. Note that in the context of British service revolvers, the .38 S&W cartridge has often been called ".380" [1] (no relation to the common modern .380 ACP pistol cartridge).
The official service pistol for the British military during the Second World War was the Enfield No. 2 Mk I.38/200 calibre revolver. [16] Owing to a critical shortage of handguns, a number of other weapons were also adopted (first practically, then officially) to alleviate the shortage.
The Welrod was used in Denmark during the war, was dropped in several other countries, and is reported to have been used during the 1982 Falklands War, throughout The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and during operation Desert Storm by British Special Forces. [1] [6] Welrod guns were also found in weapons caches from Operation Gladio. [12]
The .476 calibre Enfield Mk I and Mk II revolvers were the official sidearm of both the British Army and the North-West Mounted Police, as well as being issued to many other Colonial units throughout the British Empire. The term "Enfield Revolver" is not applied to Webley Mk VI revolvers built by RSAF Enfield between 1923 and 1926.
Crusader tank mk III main British built tank in British service in the middle of World War II. However it was not the most numerous in service. The main British tank in 1942 was the M3 Lee and the M3 Grant a British variant of it and in 1943 it was early M4 Sherman variants.
And became the standard-issued pistol of the German army) [215] [216] [217] Luger P-08 (Original standard-issue military pistol, was intended to be replaced by the Walther P-38 as it was cheaper to produce, the P08 however was still produced until 1942 because of production movement to different factories.) [217] [218] [219]