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The Independent State of Croatia was established by Germany and Italy 10 April 1941 after Yugoslavia had fallen to Axis forces. The Croatian State survived until January 1945, then the Soviet offense pushed Axis-supporting Croatians back into Austria. The list below covers military equipment of Croatian Axis supporters (Croatian Home Guard, Ustaše militia and Croatian Armed Forces) in the years 1941–1945. It does not include the equipment of the pro-Allies partisans. Also, the equipment of German-controlled units comprising a large fraction of ethic Croatians (373rd, 392nd and 369th infantry divisions) is excluded from this list.

Knives and bayonets

Small arms

Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)

Automatic pistols and submachine guns

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Recoilless rifles

Flamethrowers

Machine guns

Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns

Vehicle and aircraft machine guns

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Heavy mortars and rocket launchers

Field artillery

7.5cm horsky kanon vz. 15
Skoda houfnice vz 14
Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider (105mm M.13)
10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 (M.15/25)
10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 (105mm M.98/9)
Canon Court de 105 M(montagne) modèle 1919 Schneider
10.5 cm leFH 16 (105mm M.16)
10.5 cm hruby kanon vz. 35 (local designation 105 mm M.36)
Schneider-Canet 120mm M.15^[1]

Fortress and siege guns

12-cm Kanone M 80 (local designation 120 mm M.80 )
Skoda Model 1928 Gun (local designation 150mm M.28)
De Bange 155 mm cannon (local designation 155 mm M.77)

Anti-tank guns

Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

Anti-aircraft weapons

Light anti-aircraft guns

2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

Vehicles

Tankettes

TKS - 18 received 10 October 1941
L3/33 - 10 received from Hungary in autumn 1942. 30 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
L3/35 - imported from Italy

Tanks

Renault FT or Renault R35- 16 ex-Yugoslavian vehicles not used in combat, but either scrapped or integrated in armored train
Hotchkiss H39 - received from Germany in spring 1944
L6/40 - 24 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
M14/41 - 15 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
Panzer I - 21 received in the first half of July 1942
Panzer III N - 20 to 25 vehicles received in late 1944
Panzer IV, models F, G and H - 15 received in late 1944

Self-propelled guns

Tank-based

Semovente da 47/32 - 10 received from Germany in May 1944
StuG III Ausf. G - 8 received from Germany in August 1944

Other

improvised armored Train, using turrets of either Renault FT or Hotchkiss H39

Armored cars

Autoblindo 41 - 10 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
Sd. Kfz. 221 - 12 received from Germany

Armored carriers

Sd.Kfz. 251 - 12 to 15 vehicles received in middle 1944

Engineering and command

Trucks

Opel Blitz A

Passenger cars

Motorcycles

BMW R75

Tractors and prime movers

C2P artillery tractor (unarmoured design based on TKS)

Miscellaneous vehicles

Navy ships and war vessels

Croatian Navy was restricted until September, 1943 to do not have any vessel over 50 tons displacement. Therefore, the Navy was limited to coastal patrol crafts.