In this thread, we do military equipment that is used by another country, but is fighting on the same side as the country that made it. ETA or would be!

Any conflict or era.

US made destroyers in Canadian service



US made Studebaker fueling truck in Soviet service.



Italian Macchi 205 used by the Germans.

US Half track in Philippine service

We are not really an ally though !

White M3 scout car in Russian service.

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That top pic is awesome.  Are they Australian?

I like what these guys did with them better.

Israeli M14s. Im lusting after one of these stocks
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Probably dates from the Harper administration or before.

ETA: Canadian optic.

Guatemalan P51s.

How about you guys add a brief description of the picture?

Weekday ANA, weekend muj count?

This little beauty saw service in 28 nations by the time production ceased in 1960 or so.  The German military liked it so much that they used whatever captured ones they could get their hands on

This is the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign just after commissioning into the Soviet Navy as Archangelsk.



History:

The moment Italy gave up in Sept 1943 the Russians right away laid claim to 1/3 of the Italian navy as reparations for the destruction created by Italian ships in the Black Sea. However the Allies had limited option with no motivation to make this agreement, they sacrificed by relocating several of their own vessels on loan, until such moment as the captured Italian ships could be apportioned.

As elements of this settlement the British made available the aged battleship Royal Sovereign, which had been launched in 1915, together with four submarines ( U and S class) and nine ex-US Flush-decker destroyers.

The Royal Sovereign class (or short ‘R’-class) was the last British battleships built during World War One. This class was originally to have comprised eight ships, but only five were actually completed: Resolution, Revenge, Royal Oak, Ramillies and Royal Sovereign.
Their dimensions were slightly smaller than the Queen Elizabeth class, but the armour distribution was better, while the main armament of eight 15in (381mm) in four twin turrets was the same.

These five ships were refitted but not modernised in the inter-war years and during WW2 they undertook second-line, but nevertheless important duties such as protecting convoys against attacks by German surface raiders.

The only war loss was Royal Oak, which was sunk in Scapa Flow by U-boat U-47 on October 14, 1939. Resolution was torpedoed by a French submarine in 1940 and Ramillies by a Japanese midget-submarine in 1942, but both were repaired and returned to service. Ramillies was used for shore bombardment during the Allied landings in Normandy and south of France.

Battleship Royal Sovereign after handed over to the Soviet navy Battleship Royal Sovereign after handed over to the Soviet navy as Arkhangelsk. 3d model battleship Revenge 3d model of battleship Revenge of Royal Sovereign class.

The old battleship Royal Sovereign had previously been provided with fresh anti-aircraft guns and radar equipment, however she was unwanted to Royal Navy demands aside from shore bombardment duties. A Russian crew found its way to the United Kingdom at the beginning of 1944 and commissioned the battleship officially as the Arkhangelsk on May 30, 1944. She steamed in the direction of Kola Inlet with Arctic convoy JW59 in August 1944 and stayed in the Arctic without having fired just one shell for the remainder of WW2.

Like a strange sidelight on the Russian nature at this days, the moment she had been went back in February 1949 it had been discovered that each and every weapon of the ship was still loaded, from 15-inch heavy artillery right down to Two-Pounder AA-guns. Furthermore the mess decks had been covered within human excrement.
https://ww2-weapons.com/russian-battleship-arkhangelsk/

P-43s in Chinese service.

Martin B-57A Canberra.
British designed, American licensed built. Note the round bubble canopy. Later changed to traditional teardrop canopy for the B-57B.

This is the "USS Robin"  - a code name given to HMS Victorious during her service with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific when we were down to one fleet carrier.

Americna M4 Sherman - cast turret, welded hull, horizontal volute suspension, in Soviet service.

Is the top one a 63 or 39?

Supposedly the Soviets liked the 39 as a dogfighter, which I always thought was interesting, given their mediocre reputation in the US.

ETA nevermind, can tell from the link.

Crap, most of WW2 Russian hardware was built in the USA.

That's assuming the link is correct.  ETA: Which on looking back at it, it is.



http://www.airvectors.net/avp39.html

The altitude of the fight is what makes the difference/

63

Interesting paint scheme.

Technically only equipment or materiel in the harshest sense.

some of the stories I have heard is our pilots did not like it as the main gun tempted to jam and they would not even use it at the start. Imagine the Soviets did not tend to engage as long as our pilots did.

SOE supplioed Italian partisans with british stens


U.S. Army Company A, Ninth Machine Gun Battalion. Three soldiers man set up a machine gun in railroad shop in Chateau Thierry, France, on June 7, 1918






SS with Czech MG

Japanese Kawasaki Ki-32 Mary light bomber in service with Manchukuo puppet state.



WW2 Japanese Imperial Army Type 4 Ke-Nu light tank... in Manchukuo service.

We had a few of them as well. They didn’t see much service due to the non-standard round.

Manchuko is a good one.

I was trying to find some pics of Thailand using Japanese stuff.   A lot of people would be surprised to learn the Thais allied themselves with the Japanese.

Of course, after the nukes got dropped, they deposed their prime minister and declared that their Declaration of War against allied countries was "unconstitutional" and therefore, they were not "defeated" by the western allies.

USA was like, yeah, okay, so you're ours now right?  And they were like, "Yes! and we always were!"

lol

Do you have any idea how weird it is for an American to hear 45 ACP referred to as non-standard?

Technically neutral, so not allies, but neither enemies.

Irish?

My father always told me that anybody with gumption leaves Ireland, and that's why Ireland was so fucked up.

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I started looking up pictures of EE9s, but I suspect Brazil just sells to whoever wants to buy.

It’s not like we had a production line for the stuff.

9x20 Browning Long, on the other hand, was standard.

Oops, I thought that pic was from the UK and not Ireland.  Well, then I suppose it's a gun from a country that stayed neutral going to another country that stayed neutral.

French 2nd Armored division, Normandy 1944


French crusader (not the deus veult type) kept in use until 2000.

RNZAF