List of Second Italo-Ethiopian War weapons of Ethiopia explained

This is a list of weapons used by Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian weapons mainly consisted of the various small arms Ethiopia had brought over the years.

Small arms

Rifles

• Fusil Gras mle 1874^[1] -Most popular
• Chassepot
• Lebel Model 1886 rifle
• Berthier rifle
• FN Model 24 and Model 30
• Mauser Model 1871
• Mauser Standardmodell
• Gewehr 1888^[2]
• Gewehr 98
• Werndl–Holub rifle
• Kropatschek rifle^[3]
• Mosin–Nagant
• Mannlicher M1888
• Mannlicher M1890 carbine
• Mannlicher M1895
• M1870 Italian Vetterli^[4]
• Carcano^[5]
• Snider–Enfield^[6]
• Martini–Henry
• Berdan rifle^[7]
• Remington Rolling Block rifle

Carbines

• Revelli-Beretta M1915^[8]

Machine guns

• Madsen machine gun^[9]
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle^[10]
• ZB vz. 26^[11]
• ZB vz. 30^[12]
• Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun^[13]
• M1917 Browning machine gun^[14]

Submachine guns

• Bergmann MP 34/I^[15]
• OVP 1918 (Bought from Italy before the war)^[16]

Traditional weapons

Swords

• Shotel^[17]

Spears

• Spear^[18]

Bows

Bow and arrow

Armoured fighting vehicles(AFV's)

Tanks

• Fiat 3000^[19] -Four Model 1921 models bought from Italy in 1925-1930.

Tankettes

• L3/33^[20] -Captured from Italy during the war.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Association. National Rifle. American Rifleman Official Journal Of The NRA Emperor Selassie's Treasure: The Guns of Royal Tiger Imports. 2021-07-12. American Rifleman Official Journal Of The NRA. en.
2. Web site: Ethiopian military rifle cartridges: Part 2: from Mauser to Kalashnikov. - Free Online Library. 2021-07-13. www.thefreelibrary.com.
3. Book: McLachlan, Sean. Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia. 2011-09-20. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-84908-938-8. en.
4. Web site: Original Italian Vetterli-Vitali M1870/87/15 Infantry Magazine Rifle Converted to 6.5mm - Dated 1883. 2021-07-13. International Military Antiques.
5. Web site: Ethiopian military rifle cartridges part 1: from the Queen of Sheba to Adowa. - Free Online Library. 2021-07-13. www.thefreelibrary.com.
6. Web site: Cartridges as Coins: Ethiopia, 1928 Pocket Change. 2021-07-14. en-US.
7. Web site: Berdan Rifle - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games. 2021-07-14. www.imfdb.org.
8. Web site: Beretta Model 1918 automatic carbine . firearms.96.lt . 14 February 2024.
9. Book: Smith, Joseph E. Small Arms of the World (11th ed.). The Stackpole Company.. 1969. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 342.
10. Web site: Limited. Alamy. Stock Photo - Ethiopian machine gunner in battles with Italians during Second Italo-Ethiopian War. 1935-1936. 2021-07-14. Alamy. en.
11. Web site: ethiopian-30-06-7-62-x-51-mm-7-92-x-57-mm-cartridges.. 30 September 2018. Armamentresearch.com.
12. Web site: ZB VZ 30. 2021-07-14. Imperial War Museums. en.
13. Web site: An Abyssinian soldier aims a French-made Hotchkiss Mle 1914 8mm.... 2021-07-14. Getty Images. it.
14. Web site: 2018-09-30. Ethiopian .30-06, 7.62 × 51 mm & 7.92 × 57 mm cartridges - Armament Research Services (ARES). 2021-07-14. armamentresearch.com. en-GB.
15. Web site: Bergmann-Maschinen-Pistole Modell 1934. 2021-07-14. Imperial War Museums. en.
16. Web site: Revelli OVP submachine gun . firearms.96.lt . 14 February 2024.
17. Web site: Ethiopia - Shotel - Sword. 2021-07-15. Catawiki. en.
18. Web site: Study.com Second Italo-Ethiopian War. 2021-07-16. study.com.
19. Web site: Fiat 3000 (1921). 2021-07-22. tanks-encyclopedia.com.
20. Web site: Italian tankette L3/33. 2021-07-22. www.tanks-encyclopedia.com.