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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.
Light and medium scout and reconnaissance vehicles were used by most British Army units, especially battalions of the Reconnaissance Corps and cavalry units. These fast wheeled vehicles usually weighed from 3 to 10 tonnes. Armament ranged from Bren light machine guns (or Boys anti-tank rifle), Besa machine guns, up to QF 2 pdr and 6-pdr guns.
World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 36 P) W. War Department locomotives (3 C, 28 P) ... British military vehicle markings of World War II;
George Forty - World War Two Armoured Fighting Vehicles and Self-Propelled Artillery, Osprey Publishing 1996, ISBN 978-1-85532-582-1. I. Moschanskiy - Armored vehicles of the Great Britain 1939-1945 part 2 , Modelist-Konstruktor, Bronekollektsiya 1999-02 (И.
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World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 36 P) Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 18 P) A.
This article lists British armoured fighting vehicle production during the Second World War.The United Kingdom produced 27,528 tanks and self-propelled guns from July 1939 to May 1945, as well as 26,191 armoured cars and 69,071 armoured personnel carriers (mostly the Universal Carrier).
Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War Against Germany 1919–1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-24630-4. Fortin, Ludovic (2004). British Tanks in Normandy. Histoire & Collections. ISBN 2-915239-33-9. Fraser, David (1999) [1983]. And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War.