This is a list of weapons used by Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian weapons mainly consisted of the various small arms that Ethiopia had bought over the years.
Small arms
Sidearms Beretta M1934 (captured) Mauser C96
Rifles Berdan rifle (some cut-down rifles) Berthier rifle (some cut-down rifles) Carcano (captured) Chassepot FN Model 24 and Model 30 Fusil Gras mle 1874 – most popular (some cut-down rifles) Gewehr 1888 (some cut-down rifles) Gewehr 98 Karabiner 98k Kropatschek rifle Lebel Model 1886 rifle (some cut-down rifles) Lee Enfield M1870 Italian Vetterli (some cut-down rifles) Mannlicher M1888 (some cut-down rifles) Mannlicher M1890 carbine Mannlicher M1895 Martini–Henry Mauser Model 1871 Mauser Standardmodell Mosin–Nagant Remington Rolling Block rifle Snider–Enfield Werndl–Holub rifle ZH-29
Carbines Revelli-Beretta M1918 and Beretta M1918/30
Machine guns Breda M1930 (captured) FN Model 30 Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun M1917 Browning machine gun Madsen machine gun SIG KE7 Vickers Class C ZB vz. 26 ZB vz. 30
Submachine guns Bergmann BMP-34/I Haenal MP-28/II OVP 1918 (bought from Italy before the war) Steyr-Solothurn MP-34
Armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs)
Tanks Fiat 3000 – four Model 1921 models bought from Italy in 1925–1930
Tankettes L3/33 – captured from Italy during the war
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