Equipment
The first small arms for the Partisans were acquired from the defeated Royal Yugoslav Army. Throughout the war the Partisans used any weapons they could find, mostly weapons captured from the Germans, Italians, Army of the Independent State of Croatia, UstaĊĦe and the Chetniks, such as the Kar98k, MP40, MG34 and Carcano rifles and carbines and Beretta Sub Machine Guns. The other way that the Partisans acquired weapons was from supplies given to them by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, weapons acquired include the PPSH 41 and the Sten MKII. Additionally, Partisan workshops created their own weapons modelled on factory-made weapons already in use, including the so-called "Partisan rifle" and the anti-tank "Partisan mortar".
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