WWII Weapons And Equipment Still In Use
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T-34/85 Tank. SKS Carbine. M-1 Carbine. DC-3 Aircraft.
Until recently there were some T-35/85 tanks. That tank design dates to 1944. I suspect that North Korea still has a few. Possibly some of the Arab nations, Serbia and Afganistan as well.
I think there as still some SKS carbines floating around. That weapon dates to 1945.
There are still a few M-1 carbines floating around in 3rd world insurgencies.
There may still be a few DC-3 aircraft in operational use.
I think there as still some SKS carbines floating around. That weapon dates to 1945.
There are still a few M-1 carbines floating around in 3rd world insurgencies.
There may still be a few DC-3 aircraft in operational use.
In our country we are still using the F-86 Sabre aircraft, for flight training. But as the terrorist widely spread at the south, they are now using it (though this plane did not built after the end of the war, we are still using it.)
Also our Soldiers still using the M1 Garand and M14, in training and some tactic operations.
Also our Soldiers still using the M1 Garand and M14, in training and some tactic operations.
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Wether the M14 nor the F-86 were used in WWII.faf_476 wrote:In our country we are still using the F-86 Sabre aircraft, for flight training. But as the terrorist widely spread at the south, they are now using it (though this plane did not built after the end of the war, we are still using it.)
Also our Soldiers still using the M1 Garand and M14, in training and some tactic operations.
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Yes, they were built and used AFTER the war. But this thread is about weapons of WWII used today. Sabre and Garand were used only post war.faf_476 wrote:Yes, even today 50. cal is widely used by the US forces. Esp. the Africa campaigns.
Thanks von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, I thought they were built after the war?
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Re: WWII Weapons And Equipment Still In Use
The MG-42 based machinegun used world-wide (German military being one of the users) is MG-3. The two don't use same ammunition and there were also couple of other improvements.Animal wrote:I know that Germany still uses, or recently still used the MG-42 and the Walther pistol, and the British use a modified version of the Bren Gun, while the US still uses the Browning .50 caliber(soon to be phased out I believe). What other weapons, equipment, etc., from the WWII era remain in oficial use today(excluding guerillas and irregular forces)?
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As far as known Bren in 7.62 x 51 is also gone - replaced by newer weapons.
From these three only Browning .50 remains in large scale military use in rather unchanged form.
Jarkko
Unfortunately I have to suggest that start using other sources than the ones, which gave you these ideas - almost all of them seem to be plain wrong. For example:ChristopherPerrien wrote:The Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun. Of course if you consider derivatives of WWII guns there are a bunch of Brownings. The Beretta 92F is derived from the Browning 9mm Hi power, the M240 is a FN/Mag and is nothing more than a belt fed version of the M1918! BAR. Besides Various Browning Mg's I suppose the AK 47 could be considered nothing more than a different caliber STG44.
1. Beretta 92F is not directly related to Browning High Power and certainly not derived from it - I own both, so I am pretty familiar with them. Both use 9 x 19 Parabellum/Luger ammunition and have high capacity magazines, but the similarities end there. Beretta 92F has double-action trigger mechanism and locking system based to one first used P-38 / P-1 Walther. FN / Browning High Power has single action trigger mechanism and the typical "tilting barrel" locking mechanism based to Moses Browning's earlier designs (such as Colt 1911A1). In addition Browning is all steel, while Beretta has alunium frame and the two have very different outward appearance and safety arrangements.
2. AK-47 is copy of STG44 in different calibre. They are certainly related in concept level - both are assault rifles and Mihail Kalashnikov without doubt got ideas from STG44 while developing his AK-47. But while they are both gas-action weapons (as assault rifles tend to be) their actual bolt-arrangements are very different (AK-47 bolt and trigger mechanism could be considered related to ones used in M1 rifle and carbine).
Jarkko
Most of these are getting scrapped right now - both old 152-mm howitzers (too heavy and too short range) and old mortars (most WW2-era mortars were modernised to increase their traverse post-WW2.) Some 105 H 61-37 may have still remain in warehouses (they were reserved for seperate batteries of local troops and I have not heard anything about scrapping them - their salvation might be that unlike more modern guns they are light enough to be towed by just about anything - any normal civilian truck or agricultural tractor will do). Suomi-submachineguns are pretty much gone also - FDF has been selling deactivated Suomi M/31 like no tomorrow for several years now and as it has little use for old submachineguns now that is has assault rifles intended for 500,000 men for wartime manpower reduced to 350,000.Harri wrote:WW II era weapons used (or still in the army stocks) in Finland:
- 105 mm howitzer m/37 (Finnish made Bofors design, modernized as 105 H 61-37)
- 150 mm howitzer m/40 (German 15 cm sFH 18, modernized as 152 H 88-40)
- 152 mm howitzer m/37 (USSR ML-20, modernized as 152 H 88-37A)
- 122 mm canon m/31 (USSR A-19, modernized as 152 H 88-31)
- 81 mm various Tampella mortar models (standardized and modernized in the 1950's)
- 82 mm mortar (USSR, modernized as 82 Krh 36 RT)
- 120 mm Tampella m/40 mortar (120 Krh 40, I don't know if modernized at all?)
I'm not quite sure if 120 mm Soviet mortars are still in our stocks? Probably.
Also 9 mm m/31 "Suomi" SMGs have been used until these days (until 2000's). They were slightly modified in the 1950's for a new Swedish magazine type.
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Dan W. wrote:
I wonder if any poorer countries somewhere in the world continue to use the K98?
Considering the plentiful supply of these weapons they are still readily available, many times the German markings were just filed off after WWII and they were put back into use into some nations respective army. You can always find a few of these, missing original markings, for sale at local gunshops.
Also, when I was deployed to Thailand in the 80's the Thai Air force was still flying DC-3's, I went flying in one and the nameplate had the manufacture date clearly listed as 1942.
they where used in croatian-serbian war like snipers-i got one