Battlefield™ V: List of Weapons by Class and Country + Some historical facts

This guide is a list of the various weapons in BF V and which countries used them.

Historical Accuracy Challenge

If you keep only picking the best weapons in multiplayer, the game gets quite stale after a while. So for added fun, I made this list to help me play the game with a bit more historical accuracy and challenge in multiplayer, by choosing only weapons that would make sense for the country to have that I am playing for. So for example if you are playing German medic -> you take MP40. If you are American Assault -> M1 Garand, etc. You don’t use weapons that don’t make sense or that were barely used IRL.

I have split the guide by class and country. You can use the table of contents to help pick suitable weapons more quickly.

In each section the weapons are roughly sorted by what was most used, with the most used on the top and least used on the bottom.

The infos I have included for each weapon are for fun, but are also supposed to give you an idea of how plausible it was for a soldier of a certain country to use a weapon, as some were only prototypes or rarely used. As part of the challenge, you should only use such weapons rarely in-game as well.

Semi-Auto Rifles

• M1 Garand
  The United States Army official service rifle in 1936
• M1A1 Carbine
  The M1 Carbine served as a lighter and more compact alternative to the unrelated M1 Garand, and was typically issued to airborne infantry, vehicle crewmen, and rear line elements. The M1A1 variant is a Paratrooper model of the M1 with a folding stock and pistol grip.
  Despite having a similar name and physical outward appearance, the M1 carbine is not a carbine version of the M1 Garand rifle. From 1925 onwards, the U.S. Army began using a naming convention where the “M” is the designation for “Model” and the number represents the sequential development of equipment and weapons. Therefore, the “M1 carbine” was the first carbine developed under this system. The “M2 carbine” was the second carbine developed under the system, etc.
• M1941 Johnson
  Although rejected for large scale US use in favor of the already adopted M1 Garand, it was used by the United States Marine Corps Paramarines.
• Turner SMLE
  Designed by American gunsmith Russel Turner, it was intended for use by Canada. A single unit was manufactured in 1941 for testing as a potentially cheaper alternative to the M1 Garand, which it was trialled against. Although Turner’s conversion performed comparatively well it was rejected for formal adoption by the Canadian Army due to its high mechanical complexity.

Assault Rifles

• M2 Carbine
  Variant of the M1 Carbine that enables fully automatic fire.
• M1907 SF
  Winchester Model 1907 chambered in .351SL (self-loading)
  Produced in the United States from 1906 to 1957. During World War I, the weapon was ordered in various numbers by the US, French, British and Imperial Russian armed forces. Allegedly, these were modified for fully automatic fire and doubled the magazine size from 10 rounds to 15-20 rounds in 1917. No evidence of the fully automatic conversion has ever been found.

Assault Rifles

• M1907 SF
  As a US ally, Britian also used this weapon.

Semi-Auto Rifles

• Gewehr 43
  It was seen in very small numbers with standard German soldiers, but was more so issued to specialist soldiers and elite units.
• Selbstlader 1916
  Selbstlader-Karabiner M1916, also known as the Mauser M1916
  Rejected by the German Army in WW1 as its frequent malfunctions when exposed to the slightest amount of dirt prevented it from reaching the trenches, but adopted by the German Air Corps as an aviator’s rifle – the main armament of aircraft before the advent of synchronized machine guns. Only about 1000 of these rifles were obtained by the German army, and both rifles were phased out as aircraft machine guns became commonplace.
• Gewehr 1-5
  Used by Germany late in World War II. Intended as last-ditch weapons for national militia Volkssturm, the rifles were highly simplified and often crudely assembled. The rifles were semi-automatic only, though there were rumors that some selective-fire prototypes exist. From the start of production in January 1945 to the end of the war, around 10,000 of the Gustloff type were manufactured.

Assault Rifles

• StG 44
  German: Sturmgewehr 44; English: Assault Rifle model 1944
  In-game description: “Many consider the Sturmgewehr 44 to be the first real assault rifle. It combined a high rate of fire with high accuracy and stopping power. Several modern weapons are based on its design.”
  It was very effective in combat, particularly on the Eastern Front; however, it came too late into the war to have a significant effect. Its design would go on to influence the AK-47 and give rise to modern small arms development. It also gave rise to the class of weapons using the name “assault rifle”.
  The StG 44 would go on to see service in East Germany during the Cold War, and saw limited use in the Korean War and Vietnam War. Rumor has it that StG 44’s have been seen in action in the Iraq War and as recently as the Syrian Civil War.
• Sturmgewehr 1-5
  Select-fire version of the Gewehr 1-5

Nothing, wow… so if you take the historical accuracy challenge strictly, you do not get to play Assault class as Japanese.
If you take the challenge less strict, German weapons are allowed.

Semi-Auto Rifles

• AG m/42
  Automatgevär m/42, also known as the Ljungman, used by Swedish Army in 1942; its only use in World War II came after the liberation of Norway by the Allies in 1945, when it equipped Norwegian police troops trained in Sweden during the German occupation
• MAS-44
  Prototype french rifle only saw limited use during WWII.
• Karabin 1938M
  Kbsp wz. 1938M, Polish: Karabin samopowtarzalny wzór 38M; English: self-repeating rifle model 1938M; an experimental Polish rifle – As the winner of 1934 Poland’s self-loading rifle trials, it received orders for further development and testing. After several redesigns, small scale production began in 1938 to produce rifles for trials by the Polish Army. The further development and production of the weapon ceased due to the Invasion of Poland of 1939, at which point only around 150 units had been produced. The rifle had only one documented combat use.

Assault Rifles

• Ribeyrolles 1918
  French: Carabine Mitrailleuse 1918, English: Machine Carbine 1918
  It was an attempt to manufacture an automatic rifle for French forces. Named after its designer Ribeyrolles (who had previously worked on the Chauchat and the RSC 1917), it fired what is considered an intermediate cartridge (similar in capabilities to an assault rifle cartridge) at 550-600 rounds per minute. It was never adopted by the French, partially because the usefulness of assault rifle-type weapons prior to World War II was not known, but more likely due to the gun malfunctioning too frequently during tests.
• Breda M1935 PG
  The Breda PG (Italian: Presa Gas, Gas Operated) was an Italian magazine-fed automatic rifle that was produced by Breda Meccanica Bresciana. Originally developed as a semi-automatic, self-loading rifle for the Italian Army, it was rejected from domestic service. However, it did achieve sales to Costa Rica in 1935; the Costa Rican contract model featured a unique select-fire system including semi-auto and 4-round bursts, making it one of the first rifles to incorporate a burst fire mode. Only a few hundred were ever made.
  The Breda PG is the first and so far only weapon in-game to feature a burst fire mode, which produces a four round burst when fired.

SMGs

• M1928A1
  Thompson “Tommy Gun”; invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although early models did not arrive in time for actual combat. The Thompson was widely adopted by the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and was also used extensively by other Allied troops during the war. Its main models were designated as the M1928A1, M1 and M1A1 during this time. More than 1.5 million Thompson submachine guns were produced during World War II.
  The weapon was also sold to the general public. Because it was so widely used by criminals, the Thompson became notorious during the Prohibition era as the signature weapon of various organized crime syndicates in the United States in the 1920s. It was a common sight in the media at the time, and was used by both law enforcement officers and criminals.
  It is the first weapon to be labelled and marketed as a “submachine gun”.
  The original selective-fire Thompson variants are no longer produced, although numerous semi-automatic civilian versions are still being produced by the manufacturer Auto-Ordnance. These models retain a similar appearance to the original models, but have various modifications in order to comply with US firearm laws.
• M3 Grease Gun
  The “United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3” was also known as the M3 Grease Gun because of its resemblance to a mechanic’s grease applicator. Introduced as a lower cost, lighter and quicker to produce replacement for the Thompson submachine gun, it entered frontline service in 1944.

SMGs

• Sten
  Sten is an acronym, derived from the names of the weapon’s chief designers: Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold J. Turpin, and “En” for the Enfield factory.
  Used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II, the Sten paired a simple design with a low production cost, facilitating mass production to meet the demand for submachine guns.
  As well as equipping regular units, the Sten was distributed to resistance groups within occupied Europe. Its simple design made it an effective insurgency weapon for resistance groups.
  Around four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41.
• M1928A1
  In the European theater, the Thompson was widely utilized in British and Canadian commando units, as well as in the U.S. Army paratrooper and Ranger battalions, where it was issued more frequently than in line infantry units because of its high rate of fire and its stopping power, which made it very effective in the kinds of close combat these special operations troops were expected to undertake.
• Welgun
  The Welgun was a prototype submachine gun commissioned by the British irregular warfare organisation, the Special Operations Executive, and produced by Birmingham Small Arms. It was designed for use by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents in France, and underwent trials in 1943, but owing to certain design issues it was not given priority over other more promising submachine guns and was never adopted. Only a small batch of prototypes were ever made.

Bolt Action Carbines

• Commando Carbine
  The De Lisle carbine (or De Lisle Commando carbine) was a British firearm that was designed by William Godfray de Lisle for use by special operations forces, primarily the British Commando Brigades.
  The primary feature of the De Lisle was its extremely effective suppressor, which made it very quiet in action.
  The in-game descrption claims:
  “It had an integrated suppressor, which was combined with subsonic ammo to make it one of the quietest firearms ever.”
• Jungle Carbine
  The Rifle, No. 5 Mk I was a shorter and lighter derivative of the British Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk I, introduced in 1944 to equip airborne forces. Although it saw only limited use in World War II, the weapon became associated with the Far Eastern Theater and post-war British military intervention in Malaya, gaining it the nickname of the Jungle Carbine.

SMGs

• MP40
  It was developed by Germany in WW2 and was heavily used by infantrymen (particularly platoon and squad leaders), and by paratroopers, on the Eastern and Western Fronts as well as armoured fighting vehicle crews.
• MP28
  This SMG was designed by Hugo Schmeisser in 1928, as an improved version of the World War I-era MP 18. The gun was never formally adopted by the Wehrmacht, but it saw use by German police and Waffen-SS units during World War II.
• EMP
  Heinrich Vollmer designed a series of submachine guns based on the MP18. The final design was the VMP1930 which was sold to Erma Werke after Vollmer lost his financial backing from the German Reichswehr. Erma added a cooling jacket to the VMP1930 and marketed the weapon as the EMP “Erma Maschinenpistole”. From 1931 to 1938, roughly 10,000 units in three main variants were produced and exported to Mexico, China and Yugoslavia, as well as to Spain, who produced it under licence and used it in the Spanish Civil War. The SS also adopted the weapon in 1936.
• MP34
  The Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 was a Swiss-Austrian submachine gun that produced between 1929 and 1940. Originally conceived at the German Rheinmetall plant, the S1-100 was produced in Switzerland and Austria. It was adopted by the Austrian Army as the MP 34 in 1934, and was sold to various other countries. During the late 1930s, Japan imported a small number of MP 34s for testing and limited issue.
• ZK-383
  Developed by the Koucký brothers in Czechoslovakia, with production starting in 1938. The production of the ZK-383 continued at Brno arms factory even during the German occupation during World War II. Most of the guns produced were supplied to the Waffen-SS.
• MAB 38
  Italian: Moschetto Automatico Beretta Modello 1938
  Introduced in 1938, it primarily equipped the Royal Italian Army but was also used by other members of the Axis Powers such as Germany and Romania.

Bolt Action Carbines

• M28 con Tromboncino
  Carcano M91, or simply Carcano, it was developed by the chief technician Salvatore Carcano at the Turin Army Arsenal in 1890 and called the Modello (model) 91 or simply M91.
  It was produced from 1892 to 1945. The M91 was used in both rifle (♥♥♥♥♥♥) and shorter-barreled carbine (moschetto) form by most Italian troops during the First World War and by Italian and some German forces during the Second World War.
  The Tromboncino M28 (“Little Trombone”) is an Italian single-shot muzzle loaded grenade launcher introduced in 1928, designed to be used with the Carcano M91 TS (Truppe Speciali) variant of the Carcano rifle. The M28 is fitted to the right side of the carbine, with the rifle trigger linked up to the it. The M28 uniquely shares its bolt with the base Carcano; to use the launcher, the carbine’s bolt must be removed from its receiver and installed in the launcher. The weapon was considered impractical due to its weight, production cost, and the time taken to transition from rifle to grenade launcher, leading to the system being retired by 1934.
  In-game description: “A modernized M91 carbine that comes with a grenade launcher, useful both against infantry and vehicles”
  Game Tip: The weapon’s most unique feature is its integral rifle grenade launcher. The player may switch between firing rifle bullets or grenades by pressing Fire Mode.

SMGs

• Type 100
  In-game description: “Perhaps the only submachine gun manufactured within Japan in any significant quantity, it utilized a smaller caliber ammunition than most other SMGs of the time.”
  Designed in 1940 by Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company. It was first issued to the Imperial Japanese Army in 1940, usually only to officers, and its production continued to the end of the war.
  It was heavily based on the Bergmann MP 18, and used a chrome body for resistance against humidity.
• Type 2A
  The Nambu Type 1, sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Type 2A, was a Japanese submachine gun that was developed in 1934 and produced by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company. The Type 1 was one of the first submachine guns to feed magazines through the pistol grip. It was trialed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the mid-1930s and offered for commercial export, but saw no sales. Very few examples were made.
• MP34
  During the late 1930s, Japan imported a small number of MP 34s for testing and limited issue.

SMGs

• Suomi KP/-31
  Suomi-konepistooli or “Finland-submachine gun” designed by Aimo Lahti in 1931, it was adopted by the Finnish Defence Forces after entering production in 1932, and saw service during the Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War between the years 1939 and 1945.

LMGs

• BAR M1918A2
  Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
  Designed by John Browning in 1917. Although the weapon did see action in late 1918 during World War I, the BAR did not become standard issue in the US Army until 1938. Many variants were imported to other Allied factions. It fired the .30-06 Springfield cartridge from a 20-round magazine.
  The in-game description mentions that “The new version made reloading easier and could be used with a bipod”.
  Uniquely among the LMGs in the game it has a fire selector that allows the user the choice between a higher or lower rate of fully-automatic fire.
• Lewis Gun
  Was mostly used by Britian, but the US Navy also used the weapon on armed merchant cruisers, small auxiliary ships, landing craft and submarines. The US Coast Guard also used the Lewis on their vessels. It was never officially adopted by the US Army for anything other than aircraft use.

MMGs

• M1919 Browning
  An American general purpose machine gun designed in 1919 by John Browning, usually used mounted on a bipod or tripod. It was used mostly by American forces, but also many other Allied nations.

Shotguns

• 12g Automatic
  The Browning Auto-5 is an American 12-, 16-, or 20-gauge semi-automatic shotgun designed by John Browning in 1898. It was the first successful, mass-produced semi-automatic shotgun ever. It used a 4-round tubular magazine feed system, and can have a maximum capacity of 5 rounds with an extra round in the chamber. It was, and still is, widely used by law enforcement, military and civilian groups. The shotgun saw military service worldwide from World War I through the Vietnam War.
• M1897
  Winchester Model 1897
  In-game description: “The US-made M1897 is most famously known as the “Trench Gun”. More than one million were built. It was used by soldiers, policemen and hunters around the world.”
  From 1897 until 1957, over one million of these shotguns were produced.
  It has been said that American soldiers who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with these guns and stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair.
  Shortly before the end of WWI, the German government protested the use of shotguns in combat, claiming it to cause unnecessary suffering, violating the rules of war. It was used again in World War II.
• Model 37
  The Winchester Model 37 (M37) is an American firearm. It was in production from 1936 to 1963, with 1,015,554 units made.
  During World War II, the US National Guard used Winchester Model 37 12-gauge shotguns.

LMGs

• Bren Gun
  Designed during the 1930s, it was based off the Czech ZB vz. 26 and used .303 British calibre ammunition, the same as Lee-Enfield rifles. It was adopted by the British Army and other Commonwealth forces in 1938, and used extensively during World War II.
• Lewis Gun, LMG
  The Lewis gun was invented by U.S. Army colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911. Despite its origins, the Lewis gun was not initially adopted by the U.S. military most likely because of political differences between Lewis and General William Crozier, the chief of the Ordnance Department. The design was finalised and mass-produced in Britain and put into use during World War I and, to a lesser extent, in World War II.
  By the Second World War, the British Army had replaced the Lewis gun with the Bren gun for most infantry use.
  The Lewis gun was the first machine gun fired from an aeroplane; on 7 June 1912, Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army fired a prototype Lewis gun from the foot-bar of a Wright Model B Flyer.
  In-game description: “The Lewis Gun entered Allied service in 1914. In World War II, the British again used it as an anti-aircraft gun. Its barrel shroud and top-mounted pan magazine made it easy to recognize.”
  The design of the Lewis would go on to be an inspiration for the German FG42, which in turn inspired the M60 machine gun still in use today.
  Total production of the Lewis gun during the Second World War by BSA was over 145,000 units.
  The Lewis was officially withdrawn from British service in 1946.
• BAR M1918A2
  Britain bought 25,000 from 1940, issued to the Home Guard units.

MMGs

• VGO
  Vickers K machine gun, also known as Vickers Gas Operated
  Developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs, a British engineering firm.
  “Vickers GO No.2 Mk.1 Land Service” machine guns s found their way to a variety of British commando and scouting units which operated in Europe during 1944 and 1945.
• M1919 Browning
  As an ally of the US, the British also used this MG.

Shotguns

• 12g Automatic
  British troops utilized the unaltered Browning Auto-5 Sporter with a 28 inch barrel.
  The British found that the number of semiautomatic shotguns in a patrol were directly proportional to the number of kills made when encountering a guerilla group.

LMGs

• FG-42
  Fallschirmjägergewehr 1942 (English: Paratrooper rifle 1942)
  Intended for use by the German Fallschirmjäger units of the Luftwaffe and was used in very limited numbers until the end of the war.
  It was a response to the early failures of German paratroops in Crete and other places, who had to have their weapons dropped in separate crates and had only sidearms to defend themselves before they could retrieve the crates.
  Considered one of the most advanced weapon designs of World War II, the FG 42 influenced post-war small arms development, and many features of its design, such as general shape, stock style, gas-rotating bolt operation (itself copied from the Lewis gun) and sheet metal and plastic construction were copied by the US Army when they developed the M60 machine gun.
  In-game desctiption: “With its selective fire functionality the FG 42 was way ahead of its time. German paratroopers used and liked it, but it was never produced in great numbers.”
• Madsen MG
  The Germans used captured Madsens for second line units throughout the war, and Danish production continued for the German armed forces until 1942.
• Lewis Gun
  The Germans used captured British Lewis guns during the war under the designation MG 137(e).
• BAR M1918A2
  The Wehrmacht captured a number of Polish-made versions of the gun and used them until the end of World War II under the designation IMG 28(p)
• Chauchat
  Seized Chauchats from Poland, Belgium, France, Greece and Yugoslavia.[31] Ex-French guns were designated LeMG 156(f), ex-Yugoslav and ex-Polish LeMG 147(j), ex-Greek LeMG 156(g) and ex-Belgian LeMG 126(b).

MMGs

• MG 42
  Used extensively by Germany during the second half of WWII. Entering production in 1942, it was intended to supplement and replace the earlier MG 34, which was more expensive and took much longer to produce, but both weapons were produced until the end of World War II.
  The MG 42 formed the basis for the nearly identical MG1 (MG 42/59), chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO, which subsequently evolved into the MG1A3, and later the Bundeswehr’s MG 3.
• MG 34
  In-game description: “The MG34 was the first of a kind: a portable, air-cooled machine gun with a high rate of fire. Too complex to properly mass-produce, it was later supplanted by the MG42.”
  It was often mounted onto vehicles; German tanks would use them as co-axial machine guns. They also found use as anti-air guns.
• S2-200
  Steyr-Solothurn S2-200, also known as MG 30
  Saw limited use by Germany in WWII. The blueprints were originally drawn up at the German firm of Rheinmetall, but to circumvent contemporary restrictions on Germany’s arms industry, production of the gun was handled by the combined Swiss-Austrian firm of Steyr-Solothurn AG.
• M1922 MG
  Darne mahcine gun
  Captured French Darnes were used by German occupation forces for coastal defense.

Shotguns

• M30 Drilling
  The M30 Luftwaffe Drilling was a German triple-barrel hunting rifle developed in 1930 for Luftwaffe pilots as a survival weapon. The weapon was produced until 1942, and was primarily issued to Luftwaffe crews participating in the North African campaign. The M30 incorporates two 12-gauge shotgun barrels over a rifle barrel.
  Game note: It is fairly unique amongst the shotguns, as the player can use the select fire function to switch between the two shotgun barrels and the single rifle barrel. The two systems have individual ammo pools and are reloaded independently of one another by using the fire selector.

LMGs

• Type 11 LMG
  Designed by Kijirō Nambu, based on a modification of the French M1909 Benét-Mercié machine gun, Introduced in 1922, the Type 11 saw action as the primary Japanese light machine gun of the early Second Sino-Japanese War. Although it was largely superseded by the Type 96 light machine gun in 1936, the Type 11 remained in service to the war’s end.
• Type 97 MG
  This was the standard machine gun used in tanks and armored vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and as a heavy machine gun by infantry forces. It was based on the Czech ZB vz. 26. It had a 20-round box magazine and used the same 7.7 mm cartridges used in the Type 99 Arisaka rifle. Introduced into service in 1937, it was used until the end of the war.
• Lewis Gun
  The Japanese copied the Lewis design and employed it extensively during the war; it was designated the Type 92 and chambered for a 7.7 mm rimmed cartridge that was interchangeable with the .303 British round.
• Madsen MG
  The Imperial Japanese Army used some after capturing them during the Dutch East Indies Campaign.
• BAR M1918A2
  Japan took some from disarmed Chinese forces with original markings removed to use Japanese markings.
• Chauchat
  Chinese-made copies of the Chauchat were captured by Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Shotguns

• 12g Automatic
  Japan apparently also used this shotgun (although I couldn’t tell if during WWII or only afterwards for their police force).

LMGs

• Madsen MG
  Designed by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schouboe, it was the world’s first true light machine gun produced in quantity, used by the Royal Danish Army from 1902-1955. It was sold in 12 calibres to over 34 countries. The gun saw extensive combat usage for over 100 years, with continued use in limited quantities worldwide into the 2010s.
  Madsen machine guns were used until 1940 as the Norwegian Army’s standard light machine gun.
  As of 2018, the Madsen was still used by the police of Rio de Janeiro.
• Chauchat
  French: Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG, English: Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG
  The standard light machine gun or “machine rifle” of the French Army during World War I (1914–18). Beginning in June 1916, it was placed into regular service with French infantry, where the troops called it the FM Chauchat, after Colonel Louis Chauchat, the main contributor to its design.
  A total of 262,000 Chauchats were manufactured between December 1915 and November 1918, making it the most widely manufactured automatic weapon of World War I.
  French third-line units that faced the German breakthrough during the Fall of France in May and June 1940 were still equipped with Chauchat machine guns.
  The US American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) only used the Chauchat when they arrived in France towards the later half of WWI in April 1917, preferring the M1918 BAR instead, when it became available.
• M1922 MG
  The M1922 Darne machine gun is a French MG that was produced by the firearm company Darne. Developed and tested by the French Army in 1916 it did not see action in World War I due the war ending before production contracts could be signed. Despite this, an aircraft weapon was adopted by the French and other countries. In the 1920s and 1930s Darne offered a number of lightweight belt-fed machine guns for infantry or vehicle use.
  In-game description: “The French never got to field their M1922 light machine gun during World War I. Many variants lived on into World War II however, where they were mainly used in the French Navy.”
• LS/26
  The Lahti-Saloranta M/26 was the Finnish army’s main light machine gun that saw use in the Winter and Continuation War against the Soviet Union. Production started in 1927 and lasted until 1942. More than 5,000 weapons were produced during that time.
• KE7
  SIG KE7 was a joint collaboration between SIG’s chief engineer Gotthard End and Hungarian draftsman Pál de Király, production of the KE7 started in 1929 in Switzerland until 1938. While the weapon saw export sales, it was never used domestically by the Swiss Army.
  Production commenced in 1929, with most weapons being exported to the Republic of China chambered for 7.92×57mm Mauser ammunition. The Chinese government purchased 3,025 from Switzerland between 1928 and 1939. The KE7 would be used during the Chinese Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  In 1930, examples were provided for trials being run by the British Army to find a replacement for the Lewis gun although a modified ZB vz. 26 was finally adopted as the Bren gun.

Shotguns

• Sjögren Inertial
  A 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun designed by Swedish inventor Carl Axel Theodor Sjögren produced from 1908 to 1909, for commercial sale. It found little success in its day, but the inertia system on which it operates was later revived by the Italian firm Benelli and is today widely used in shotguns.
  In-game description: “While its inertia-based loading system proved to be ahead of its time, the Sjögren’s service in World War II was mostly centered around different resistance groups.”

Bolt Action Rifles

• Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk I
  Some US Army units attached to British Commonwealth units in Burma during WWII were issued Lee–Enfield rifles on logistics grounds.
• Krag–Jørgensen
  There was probably little to no usage of the Krag in WWII.
  It served as the US military’s primary rifle for only 12 years, when it was replaced by the M1903 Springfield rifle in 1906 and many units did not receive it until 1908 and later.
  Around 500,000 “Krags” in .30 Army (.30-40) calibre were produced in the US from 1894 to 1904. Two-thousand rifles were taken to France by the US Army during World War I; but there is no evidence of use by front-line combat units during that conflict.
• Ross MkIII
  Canadian rifle, barely used by the US.

Self-Loading Rifles

• Model 8
  Remington Model 8, formerly the Remington Autoloading Rifle
  In-game description: “The first successful American-made semi-auto rifle, the Model 8 shares the same long recoil mechanism as the Automatic 5 shotgun.”
  Designed by John Browning and first produced in 1906 by Remington Arms in the US.
  The primary market for the Model 8 was sport hunting. Only saw limited use in WWI.
  This was the rifle used by Texas ranger Francis Hamer who tracked down and killed the infamous ciriminal couple Bonnie and Clyde.

Semi-Auto Rifle

• M3 Infrared
  The M3 carbine was an M2 carbine with the M2 infrared night sight. The M3 did not have iron sights. It was first used in combat by Army units during the invasion of Okinawa, where about 150 M3 carbines were used. For the first time, U.S. soldiers had a weapon that allowed them to visually detect Japanese infiltrating into American lines at night, even during complete darkness. A team of two or three soldiers was used to operate the weapon and provide support. At night, the scope would be used to detect Japanese patrols and assault units moving forward. At that point, the operator would fire a burst of automatic fire at the greenish images of enemy soldiers. The M3 carbine had an effective range of about 70 yards (64 meters), limited by the visual capabilities of the sight. Fog and rain further reduced the weapon’s effective range. However, it is estimated that 30% of Japanese casualties inflicted by rifle and carbine fire during the Okinawan campaign were caused by the M3 carbine.

Bolt Action Rifles

• Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk I
  The Lee-Enfield rifle served as the main firearm of the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada) during the first half of the 20th century, and was the standard service rifle of the British Armed Forces from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957.
  The No. 4 variant was designed in 1939 to answer to the need of easily manufactured rifles of the carbine.
  It is still used by the Bangladesh Police, which makes it the second longest-serving military bolt-action rifle still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant.
  The Lee–Enfield takes its name from the designer of the rifle’s bolt system—James Paris Lee—and the location where its rifling design was created—the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield.
  Many wartime No. 4 rifles were manufactured in Canada due to a shortage of supplies in Great Britain, and due to the damage caused to British manufacturing.
  Total production of all Lee–Enfields is estimated at over 17 million rifles.
• Ross MkIII
  Very limited use of this Canadian rifle.

Self-Loading Rifles

• Model 8
  The British Home Guard used the rifle during World War II.

Pistol Carbines

• P08 Carbine
  Lugers were used by the British SOE units.

Anti-Material Rifles

• Boys AT Rifle
  It was often nicknamed the “elephant gun” by its users due to its size and calibre. The firearm was developed by Captain Henry C. Boys
  In-game description: “A British anti-tank rifle. Proving ineffective against improved axis tanks, it was replaced by the PIAT during the war.”
  Game tips: The weapon is capable of destroying light vehicles and aircraft with three to five shots. Tanks are far more resilient. However, the weapon has high potential for dealing systemic damage – aiming for treads, turret or engine can leave vehicles vulnerable to attack by other AT weapons.

Bolt Action Rifles

• Kar98k
  German: Karabiner 98 Kurz, English: Carbine 1898 Short
  A bolt-action rifle created and designed in 1934 by Mauser arms manufacturers. Its predecessor, the Gewehr 98, was designed in 1898, hence its name. The Kurz model was developed to be more versatile as it has a shorter barrel. Although supplemented by semi-automatic and fully automatic rifles during World War II, the Karabiner 98k became the primary German service rifle in 1935 and remained so until the end of the war in 1945.
  Millions were captured by the Soviets by then end of the war and were widely distributed as military aid. The Karabiner 98k therefore continues to appear in conflicts across the world as they are taken out of storage during times of strife.
• Gewehr M95/30
  During World War II, the Gewehr M95/30 was reissued to second-line troops, reservists, and police units on the Eastern Front due to a lack of available weapons for those units.
  The Mannlicher M1895 was the standard bolt-action service rifle of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I.
  The weapon employed a revolutionary straight-pull action bolt that gave the unique weapon a high rate of fire, supplementing its favorable reliability.
  Post-World War I, these rifles were converted to fire more powerful pointed-head Spitzer bullets, leading to the M95/30.
  This rifle was in service with the Austrian Republic until the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, where most of the rifles were sent into storage.
  After World War II, most were sold off as surplus to other nations.
  It is believed this weapon served as an inspiration for the Ross Rifle, with the Ross borrowing many of M.95’s features, including the straight-pull action.
• Krag–Jørgensen
  A Norwegian bolt-action repeating rifle that was first fielded by Denmark in 1886. One of the earliest rifles to use smokeless powder.
  During the German occupation of Norway, Krags were to be manufactured for second-line units of the Wehrmacht. However, very few of these rifles were manufactured due to sabotage and slow work by employees.
  Production of the Krag–Jørgensen continued until 1951, with around 750,000 rifles being made in total.

Self-Loading Rifles

• ZH-29
  During the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany in 1938, a small numbers ZH-29s were issued to German troops. It is said to have inspired the design of the StG 44 assault rifle.
• RSC
  RSC 1917, Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 (English: Model 1917 Automatic Rifle)
  RSC rifles were captured during the German occupation of France and were issued to Volkssturm units.
  RSC stands for its designers, Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat, who previously designed the Chauchat.
  French semi-automatic infantry rifle produced until the end of World War I, it went into service with the French Army near the end of the war. With 86,000 rifles manufactured before production ended in 1918, the RSC 1917 was one of the first semi-automatic rifles to be adopted on such a large scale.
• Selbstlader 1906
  The Luger Selbstlader Model 06 was a German semi-automatic rifle designed by Georg Luger. Only a few prototypes were believed to be manufactured, although one is still known to exist in a private collection. The weapon has a strong recoil spring and was unsuccessful largely due to the necessity for such a spring, and apparently suffered frequent stoppages. Production was stopped after a few prototypes as the problems could not be resolved.

Pistol Carbines

• P08 Carbine
  The P08 Luger had a carbine variant that saw frequent usage in trench warfare.
  In the event of close combat, the pistol was intended to be used as a carbine with the shoulder stock attached to the heel of the pistol frame. While initially intended for use by German artillery units who could not be encumbered by the long and heavy K.98 rifle, the LP 08 was also used by Aviation units (prior to equipping aircraft with machine guns) as well as the infantry, primarily on the Western front during World War I.
  Existing LP 08 pistols that had remained in storage were re-issued in World War II with new-production board stocks for some German units such as artillerymen and Waffen-SS units, and these continued in use until the end of the war in 1945.
• Trench Carbine
  WW1 prototype weapon that was never really used.
  A close relative to the Mauser C96 Carbine, the M1917 Trench Carbine, was designed to fulfill the need for a trench-raiding weapon German troops. However, due to it not being fully-automatic and the fear that its production may interfere with that of other weapons, it was never mass-produced. However, German officials still found the 40 round magazine impressive.

Anti-Material Rifles

• Panzerbüchse 39
  In-game description: “Compared to most anti-tank rifles, the Panzerbüchse 39 fires a very light projectile at very high velocity, relying on speed rather than mass to penetrate armor.”
  This was a single-shot anti-tank rifle developed in Germany that was first produced in 1939. Developed from the earlier PzB 38, it was the Wehrmacht’s standard infantry anti-tank weapon during the early portion of World War II.
  While sufficient for disabling light vehicles, the increasing effectiveness of armor on Allied tanks throughout the war rendered the weapon mostly obsolete, leading to its official removal from service in 1944.
  (while in reality this was a single-shot rifle, the in-game weapon is bolt-action with a multi-round magazine)

Bolt Action Rifles

• Type 99 Arisaka
  A bolt-action rifle designed and used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. First introduced in 1939, the weapon intended to replace the 6.5x50mm Type 38 Arisaka then in service, with the Type 99 firing the new 7.7x58mm cartridge which proved superior at range.

Bolt Action Rifles

• Ross MkIII
  The Ross Rifle was a straight-pull bolt action rifle produced in Canada from 1903 until 1918.
  The Mk II of the rifle was highly successful in target shooting before World War I, but Mk III was unsuitable for the conditions of trench warfare.
  The Ross rifle was eventually withdrawn from front-line service, but because of its exceptional accuracy, it was continued to be used by many of the Canadian Expeditionary Force’s snipers until the end of the First World War.
  The most notable action the Ross rifle saw in World War ll was being used in the Allied operations on Spitsbergen, Norway, due to a lack of equipment and supplies by German bombing.
• K31/43
  The Karabiner Model 1931 or K31 is a Swiss straight-pull bolt-action rifle. It served as the standard service rifle of the Swiss armed forces from 1933 to 1958, at which point it was phased out in favor of the Sturmgewehr 57.
• ZH-29
  A Czech semi-auto rifle designed in the late 1920s. Uses a novel side-tilting bolt that would go on to influence locking systems on future weapons. This system necessitates that both the barrel and sights are offset to the left side of the receiver, giving it a unique asymmetric profile. The ZH-29 was not adopted by the Czech Army and only saw limited export sales. The largest orders went to the Republic of China. It was also trialed in the United States and Britain, but rejected by both. Due to slow sales, the ZH-29 never entered mass-production.

Pistols

• M1911
  The Colt M1911 was designed by John Browning, was widely copied, and its firing system became the preeminent type of the 20th century and of nearly all modern centerfire pistols.
  The U.S. military procured around 2.7 million M1911 and M1911A1 pistols during its service life. The pistol served as the standard-issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985, after which it was replaced by the Beretta M9. However, production and procurement delays kept the 1911A1 in service with some units past 1989. The 1911A1 has never been completely phased out.

Revolvers

• Model 27
  The Smith & Wesson Model 27 is a large-frame revolver of American origin, first produced in 1935. It is the first production firearm to chamber the powerful .357 cartridge.
  Although used mostly by police, revolvers were also used in in WW2, although less common than pistols.
  Game Note: This revolver has the best damage profile and highest muzzle velocity of all sidearms. It has a higher maximum and minimum damage compared to the only other revolver in-game, the Mk VI Revolver, as well as better damage retention over distance, capable of killing in two body shots or a single headshot out to 30m. However, the weapon suffers from a lower rate of fire and stronger recoil.

Pistols

• M1911
  Saw service among elite and special forces during WWII.
• Welrod
  The Welrod is a suppressed, bolt-action, magazine-fed pistol developed by the British and used during World War II.
  The pistol was intended for use by clandestine or partisan forces as a silent assassination weapon, and was designed at the request of the Special Operations Executive.
  The weapon had a very short range but was exceptionally quiet due to a 73 dB muzzle report and a manually operated bolt. It could also be disassembled into sections to aid in concealment. Between 2,800 and 14,000 units were built, and it was still in service with British special forces during the Falklands and the Gulf War.

Revolvers

• Mk VI Revolver
  The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Top-Break Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was, a standard issue service revolver for the armed forces of Britain and Commonwealth countries of Nations, from 1887 to 1963.
  The Mk VI was introduced in 1915, during wartime, and is the best-known model.
  In-game description: “The Mk VI was the standard revolver for the British army in both World War I and World War II. The earliest version, the Mk I, was the first put into service by the army in 1887”

Pistols

• P38 Pistol
  The Walther P38 was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible P38 once World War II started took longer than expected, leading to the P08 remaining in production until September 1942 and copies remained in service until the end of the war.
• P08
  Pistole Parabellum, ‘Pistole Modell 1908 (Pistole 08) or more commonly known as the Luger
  The luger was widely used by the German army in both world wars, as well as many other countries. The design was first patented by Georg Luger.
• Repetierpistole M1912
  The Steyr M1912, also known as the M.12, is a semi-automatic pistol, chambered in 9mm Steyr, and developed by Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher for the Austro-Hungarian army, who adopted it in 1912. During World War I, the weapon was supplied to the professional units of the Austrian Landwehr while older designs were issued to the conscripted Common Army.
  Its use continued in World War II, where pistols in 9mm Luger were produced for the Wehrmacht after Austria’s annexation.
  Game Tip: The pistol is on par with the Ruby as the fastest firing sidearm.
• PPK
  In-game description: “While the newer P38 was the standard sidearm of German military during World War II the PPK was adopted in small numbers throughout the war.”
  The Walther PPK (Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell) was developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen and released in 1930. The smaller size made it more concealable than the original PP and hence better suited to plainclothes or undercover work. The pistol is famous for the death of several historical figures such as Adolf Hitler and Park Chung-hee. Most notably, it is used by the fictional character James Bond in many novels and films.
• Ruby
  Germany captured and used these during the occupation of France.
• M1911
  The German Volkssturm used captured M1911s at the end of World War II.

Pistols

• The Nambu Type 94 was a Japanese self-loading pistol. It was adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1934 and was issued to Japanese officers during World War II. Plagued with design faults, the Type 94 was notoriously unreliable and is often considered to have been one of the worst pistols to see military service. Approximately 94,000 were produced before the end of the war in September 1945.

Pistols

• Ruby
  The Ruby pistol is a Spanish-produced derivative of John Browning’s FN Model 1903, chambered in .32 ACP. Originally developed by Gabilondo y Urresti and first manufactured in 1914, eventually over fifty different Spanish companies would be involved in its production due to its high demand. Although adopted by several European militaries including Belgium, Greece and Italy, the Ruby is perhaps best known for its service with the French Army, who used it extensively in World War I. Although due for replacement by the outbreak of World War II by the Modèle 1935 pistol, budgets cuts meant the Ruby remained in frontline service during the Fall of France, after which it saw continued use by the Wehrmacht and French resistance.
• Liberator
  The FP-45 Liberator was a single-shot .45 caliber pistol manufactured by the United States during World War II. Intended to be airdropped to resistance fighters in Axis-occupied territories, the gun would supposedly allow its user to incapacitate an enemy soldier and retrieve a better weapon from them. However, its unrifled barrel resulted in severe inaccuracy, meaning it could only be used effectively at extremely close range, while its single-shot capacity left the user vulnerable if their shot did not kill their target.
  Owing to its crude simplicity, 1,000,000 guns were manufactured within eleven weeks, but very few actually reached resistance organisations due to its impracticality in combat paired with the logistical effort required to distribute them. None were ever issued to regular Allied forces, and post-war most pistols were melted down or dumped into the ocean.

All info is from the BF V wiki and Wikipedia.

BF V Wiki Page – Weapons and Gadgets[battlefield.fandom.com]

List of American military equipment of World War II[en.wikipedia.org]

List of British military equipment of World War II[en.wikipedia.org]

List of German military equipment of World War II[en.wikipedia.org]

List of Japanese military equipment of World War II[en.wikipedia.org]

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