Former equipment of the Maavägi

This is an (incomplete) list of former equipment used by the Maavägi^[1]:

Contents 1 Armor 2 Artillery 3 Infantry weapons 4 See also 4.1 Notes and references

Armor

Tanks

• 12 FT-17 light tank
• 4 Mark V heavy tank
• 6 TKS tankette

Armored cars

• 23 Arsenal Crossley armored car

Anti-tank weapons

• 44 Rheinmetall 37mm Pak 36 L/50 anti-tank gun (Note:The Estonian Rheinmetall gun had a longer barrel length compared to Wehrmacht standard L/45.)
• 4 Bohler 47 mm anti-tank gun model 1935
• 15 Solothurn-Arsenal 20 mm antitank gun
• TM-34; TM 37; anti-tank mines: 12,000

Artillery

Cannons

• 98 Russian 76 mm divisional gun M1902;
• 59 British 84mm Ordnance QF 18 pounder;
• 20 Russian [Schneider] 107 mm gun M1910;
• 23 British 110 mm QF 4.5 inch Howitzers;
• 8 German 15 cm sFH 13 howitzers;
• 29 Russian [Schneider] 152 mm howitzer M1910;

Mortars

• 34 mortars: 81.4mm Brandt mle 27/31

Infantry weapons

Pistols and rifles

• Pistols: Nagant M1895: 900, Browning FN Model 1903: ~4,600 (Replaced by ~5,300 Browning Hi-Power P35 in 1938)
• Rifles: Russian Mosin–Nagant M1891: 72,000, British Pattern 1914 Enfield: 46,000, Japanese Arisaka Types 30 and 38: 24,000

Submachine guns

• Tallinn Model 1923 Arsenal submachine gun: ~600, (Replaced by ~500 Suomi M/31 submachine guns in 1938)

Machine guns

• Russian Maxim PM M1910: ~1,600, British Lewis Gun: ~1,200, Dannish Madsen machine gun M1920: ~1,700

Grenades

• Hand grenades: 133,000

Electronics

• Field Radios: 133

See also

• Military of Estonia
• Equipment of the Maavägi

Notes and references