The following is a list of Chinese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords (including Japanese collaborators) and communist rebels.
Swords and bayonets
Dadao
Miao dao
HY1935 bayonet
Qiang (spear)
Type 30 bayonet (captured from Japanese forces)
Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)
Mauser C96 (includes Chinese copies)
Browning Hi-Power (Burma Campaign X-Forces and Y-Forces)
Colt M1911 (U.S Lend Lease)
Tokarev TT-30/TT-33 Chinese copy (Later known as the Type 54 in the Cold War)
FN M1900 (Chinese copy)
FN Model 1910
FN Model 1910/22
Nambu Pistol (captured from Japanese forces)
Type 26 revolver (captured from Japanese forces)
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (issued to officers only)
Luger P08
Walther PP - private purchases through Japanese
Spanish Ruby pistol
Spanish Llama-III pistol
Spanish Llama-VII pistol
Spanish Llama-VIII pistol
Spanish Llama-XI pistol
Smith & Wesson Model 3 revolver – some private purchases from 1878
Colt New Service revolver – some private purchases
M1917 revolver – substantial quantity after 1942
Automatic pistols and submachine guns
Mauser 712 (automatic version of Mauser C96)
MP 18 (Chinese licensed copies) – includes MP 18.1 and MP 28
M3 submachine gun – some re-chambered for 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge
Thompson SMG (U.S Lend Lease, later local produced Chinese copies)
Sten Mk. II – only in Indian theatre
PPSh-41
PPS
Type 100 submachine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
Mauser Model 1871 rifle (about 26000 rifles and 1000 carbines)
Murata rifle types 13,18,22
Fusil Gras mle 1874
M1882 Remington-Lee (about 9000 rifles and carbines)
Steyr-Mannlicher M1888
Gewehr 1888 and Chinese licensed copy Hanyang 88
Mondragón rifle
Mauser M1895 rifle
Steyr-Mannlicher M1904 – large quantity
Gewehr 98 (mainly given to the early German trained divisions)
Mauser Karabiner 98k (mainly given to the early German trained divisions)
Mauser rifles and carbines M1906/M1907 – small quantity (based on Gewehr 98)
Mannlicher–Schönauer – very small quantity
Mauser rifle M1912 (small quantity (2000–3000))
General Liu rifle – only indigenous semi-automatic rifle, prototype only
Mosin–Nagant M1891/30, M1907/1910, M1938, M1944 – widely used by White Russian mercenaries
ZB vz. 98/22 – about 70000 purchased
Vz. 24 – about 100000 purchased, also Chinese copy
ZH-29 – about 550 purchased
FN M1924/1930 short rifle – 24000 M1942 and 165000 M1930 (may be actually light machine gun?)
Type 21 (copy of the FN M-1930)
Mukden arsenal Mauser rifle – hybrid between Arisaka and Mauser M1912 (under Japanese supervision)
Mauser M1933 short rifle, local copy known as Chiang Kai-Shek rifle(Type 24 rifle)(Jiang Jieshi rifle) - most common rifle in Chinese service during World War II
Various Mauser rifles left from Imperial Germany (Kar. 98AZ and others)
Arisaka: Type 30 rifle, Type 35 rifle, Type 38 rifle, Type 38 carbine, Type 44 carbine, and Type 99 rifle (captured from Japanese forces)
SMLE No. 4 Mk 1 – 40000 from 1942 onward
M1 Garand – large numbers from 1942
Springfield M1903 (mostly model M1903A3) – 2nd most common lend-lease rifle
Enfield M1917 rifle – most common lend-lease rifle
SVT-40
Johnson rifle – about 500 rifles diverted to China after fall of Dutch East Indies
Grenades and grenade launchers
Model 24 grenade (Chinese copy)
Chinese Type 36 recoilless rifle (Chinese copy of M18 recoilless rifle)
Type 24 (Model of 1935) Maxim heavy machine gun (36032 produced, making it most common World War II machine gun in China)
ZB vz.26 and ZB vz.30 (purchased in large quantity from former Czechoslovakia, later local produced Chinese copies)
MG34 (Chinese copy)
Chinese Type 30 heavy machine gun (Chinese copy of Browning M1917)
Colt–Browning M1919 heavy machine gun (unauthorized Chinese copy, around 5000-10000 made)
DWM Maxim M1909 commercial heavy machine gun (16-60 purchased)
Bergmann M1910 heavy machine gun (6 purchased)
Skoda M1909 heavy machine gun (20 purchased)
Madsen light machinegun M1916/M1930/M1937 – relatively common in ROC armies
Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun – some mounted on Chinese FT-18 tanks and some given to infantry
Hotchkiss light machinegun M1922/M1926
Hotchkiss heavy machinegun M1930 (also captured Japanese copy Type 93 machine gun)
Fürrer light machinegun M1925 (few bought from Switzerland)
Neuhausen KE-7 (about 5000 purchased from Switzerland)
Lewis gun (also captured Japanese copies Type 92 machine gun
ZB vz. 26 and ZB vz. 30(5000–10000 purchased)
ZB-53
Degtyarev DP machine gun (Provided by Soviet in the early period of war, mostly used by NRA elite forces such as 200th Division, 74th Army)
PM M1910
Vickers Class "C" heavy machine gun (32 purchased)
Browning Automatic Rifle M1930 (4148 purchased)
Browning Automatic Rifle Model D (3022 purchased)
Colt–Browning MG-38 heavy machine gun (207 purchased)
MG 08
Lahti Saloranta light machine gun M1926 (1200 delivered from Finland)
Bren LMG(Provided by Britain and Canada from 1941 to 1945)
Type 11 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
Type 96 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
Type 99 light machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
Type 3 heavy machine gun (captured from Japanese forces)
Browning M1917A1 heavy machine gun (3363 by (U.S Lend Lease))
Browning M1919A4/A6 medium machine gun (1218 by (U.S Lend Lease))
Browning M1919A5 medium machine gun (1640 by (U.S Lend Lease)) – tank gun, but mostly used by infantry
Bren light machine gun Mk. IM, Mk. II/I, Mk. II (39300 of 7.92mm caliber and around 10000 of 7.7mm caliber)
Vehicle and aircraft machine guns
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 MG-40 aircraft machine gun (1038 delivered)
Colt–Browning MG-38T tank machinegun
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)
Locally produced 75 mm Stokes-Sutton-Chang mortars and other improvised mortars (mostly in use by warlords or communist forces) of calibers 53mm, 75mm, 83mm to launch sub-caliber projectiles from tubes made of low-quality metal.
Brixia Model 35 (45mm) – few imported for use by elite units
Type 10 grenade discharger (50mm, captured from Japanese and copied locally as Type 27 with cost-reduction features, 40909 produced)
Type 89 grenade discharger (50mm, captured from Japanese)
Brandt Mle 1935 (60mm)
M2 mortar (60mm) – from 1942 onward, local copy with longer barrel produced as Type 31
Type 11 70 mm Infantry Mortar – captured from Japanese and copied locally
Stokes mortar (81mm) – bought from GB or France
Brandt Mle 27/31 (81mm) – directly bought from France or copy (Type 3 81 mm Mortar) captured from Japanese, local designation Type 20
Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar – captured from Japanese
Type 99 81 mm mortar – captured from Japanese
M1 mortar (81mm) – from late 1941 onward
8 cm Granatwerfer 34 (81mm) – bought from Germany
Ordnance ML 3 inch Mortar (81mm) – received from Great Britain
82-BM-37 (also PM-37, PM-36, BM-36) (82mm) – supplied by USSR
Type 94 90 mm Infantry Mortar – few captured from Japanese
Type 97 90 mm Infantry Mortar – come captured from Japanese
M2 4.2 inch mortar (107mm rifled bore) – received from US from 1943 onward
120mm infantry mortar – most likely received from US, no data
Type 96 150 mm Infantry Mortar (also Type 97) – not captured, but crude copy (known from Japanese as 150mm infantry Situokesi (Stokes) mortar) was manufactured locally. It was the largest artillery piece mass-produced in China
Newton 6-inch Mortar – used by some local warlords
240 mm infantry mortar (likely single unique unit to fire captured Japanese ammunition)
53mm Gelusen (legacy Hotchkiss gun)
57mm Gelusen Guo
57mm Lu
70mm Gai Liang (copy of Japanese Type 92 Battalion Gun or 37/70mm Skoda gun?)
75mm Type 10 Gan (copy of Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903)
75mm Type 13 Liao (copy of Type 38 75 mm field gun which was based on Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903)
77mm Type 14 Liao (copy of 8 cm FK M 18)
75mm Type 18 Liao
75mm Type 12 Jin or Type 12 infantry gun (copy of Krupp 7.5 cm Mountain Gun Model 1904) – developed for warlord Yan Xishan
75mm Type 13 Jin (copy of captured Japanese Type 41 75 mm Mountain Gun)
105mm Type 16 Jin (drilled-out version?)
75mm Type 17 Jin (copy of captured Japanese Type 41 75 mm Mountain Gun improved by Japanese in 1917)
88mm Type 18 Jin (copy of Gruson 9 cm C/1873 Kanone)
75mm Type 46 Jin (copy of Type 94 75 mm Mountain Gun))
88mm Type 18 Liao (copy of 9 cm L/31 Rheinmetall-Solothurn gun-howitzer)
Type 41 77.7mm Field Gun – Produced in China
Type 14 10 cm Howitzer – (105mm) – developed for warlord Yan Xishan
Type 14 10 cm Cannon – (105mm) Chinese design developed for warlord Yan Xishan, unrelated to Japanese Type 14 10 cm Cannon of accidentally the same name
Type 14 12 cm Howitzer – developed for warlord Yan Xishan, design related to Japanese Type 38 12 cm Howitzer
122 mm gun M1931 (A-19)
122 mm gun M1931/37 (A-19)
10.5 cm leFH 18
15 cm sFH 18 – 24 of L/24 and 24 of L/30 barrel
Fortress and siege guns
15-cm artillery was built for warlord Yan Xishan.
Type 14 150mm howitzer (copy of Japanese Type 38 15 cm howitzer)
Type 19 150mm howitzer (copy of Japanese Type 4 15 cm howitzer)
37mm Manchurian type 14 Inf Gun (copy of Japanese gun?)
PaK 36 (Chinese copy) – 124 provided by Germany
37 mm anti-tank gun M1930 (1-K) (Russian copy of PaK 36) – small amount provided by USSR, copied locally
45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K) – unknown quantity supplied by USSR
37 mm Gun M3 – supplied by US from 1943 onward
Cannone da 47/32 M35 – few received from Italy
Type 94 37 mm Anti-Tank Gun – captured from Japanese, common
Type 1 47 mm Anti-Tank Gun – few captured from Japanese
ZiS-2 (doubtful)
ZiS-3 (doubtful)
Boys anti tank rifle
PTRD
Type 97 automatic cannon – captured from Japanese
Chinese did not produce an AA-guns on their own, but used every foreign gun they can put their hands on. Madsen 20 mm cannons were especially widespread.
Vickers Class "D" High Velocity heavy machine gun (20 delivered) (other users were Japan and Siam)
Madsen 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon
Breda Model 35
8.8 cm SK C/30 naval gun
8.8 cm Flak 18
Carden Loyd tankette Mk VI (53)
L3/33 (Bought from Italy before the war)
L3/35 (Bought from Italy before the war)
Renault FT (most of delivered 36 tanks captured by Japanese in 1931)
M4 Sherman (35 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
M3 Stuart (M3A3, M5A1) (50 tanks, only used in India-Burma Theater by Chinese Expedition Army)
M24 Chaffee – 233
M18 Hellcat
Type 95 Ha-Go (Captured only)
Type 97 Chi-Ha (Captured only)
Panzer I (10 Bought from Germany before the war)
Vickers 6-ton (20 Bought from UK before the war)
Vickers amphibious tank M1931 (29 tanks purchased from GB)
British 12-ton tank (type unclear)
T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938)
Marmon-Herrington CTLS (few diverted from Dutch after fall of Java)
AMR 35
Dova (no data)
GMC M1931 (Chinese copy)
Leichter Panzerspähwagen (Sd Kfz 221 and Sd Kfz 222) – 12 bought from Germany
BA-10 and BA-20 – about 50
Chung Ming coal car
Navy ships and war vessels
Chinese cruiser Ning Hai
Chinese cruiser Ping Hai
Chinese cruiser Chao Ho
Chinese cruiser Ying Swei
Chinese cruiser Yat Sen (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
Aichi AB-3 – 1 bought from Japan and 1 copy built in China
Chu X-PO – prototype only
Breda Ba.27 – imported from Italy
Fiat CR.32 – imported from Italy
Breguet 27 – 6 imported from France
Gloster Gladiator
Henschel Hs 123 - 12 bought from Germany
I-15bis – 29
I-152 – 252? (may be I-15)
Polikarpov I-153 – 75
I-16 Model 10 – 132
I-16 Model 17 – 75
SB-2M-100A – 179
SB-2M-103 – 100
DB-3 – 24
TB-3 – 6
Tupolev SB – 13
Yakovlev UT-1 trainer – 13
A-12 Shrike
Northrop A-17
Vultee A-19
A-29 Hudson
Martin B-10
B-17 Flying Fortress
B-24 Liberator
B-25 Mitchell
B-29 Superfortress
C-19 Alpha
Beechcraft Staggerwing C-43
Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing D-17 medevac (10 received)
Beechcraft Model 18 C-45
Curtiss C-46 Commando
Northrop Gamma 2E
Curtiss BF2C Goshawk (Curtiss Hawk III) (Models 67 and 68)
Curtiss F11C Goshawk
Curtiss-Wright CW-21 – 6 flown, 27 kits not built
Boeing P-12
Boeing P-26 Peashooter (Model 281) – 11 bought from USA
Curtiss P-36 Hawk – license production as Hawk 75A-5 and Mohawk IV (8 completed)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
Republic P-43 Lancer
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
North American P-51 Mustang
Northrop P-61 Black Widow
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 trainer (127 received)
Ryan PT-22 Recruit trainer (70 received)
Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer (30 received)
