Military Production of Major Powers - World War I - Statistics - The World Wars.net

Home » Statistics » World War I - Military Production of Major Powers

Military Production of Major Powers

Machine Guns
	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	Total
France	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	312,000
Italy	-	300	n.a.	n.a.	14,400	31,030
Russia	833	4,251	11,072	11,320	-	26,634
U.K.	274	6,064	33,200	79,438	120,864	239,840
U.S.A.	-	-	-	-	226,557	226,557
Germany	1,000	6,100	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Austria-Hungary	1,200	3,700	6,300	15,500	12,200	38,900

Total Entente	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	836,061
Total Central Powers	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

Aircraft
	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	Total
France	541	4,489	7,549	14,915	24,652	52,146
Italy	-	382	1,255	3,861	6,488	11,986
Russia	170	722	1,384	-	-	2,276
U.K.	n.a.	1,680	5,716	14,382	32,536	54,314
U.S.A.	-	-	-	-	4,089	4,089
Germany	694	2,950	7,112	13,997	20,971	45,704
Austria-Hungary	64	281	732	1,272	1,989	4,338

Total Entente	711	7273	15,904	33,158	67,765	124,811
Total Central Powers	758	3,231	7,844	15,269	22,960	50,042

Tanks
	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	Total
France	-	-	-	n.a.	n.a.	5,300
Italy	-	-	-	-	6	6
Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-
U.K.	-	-	150	1,277	1,391	2,818
U.S.A.	-	-	-	-	64
Germany	-	-	-	-	-	20
Austria-Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-

Total Entente	-	-	150	1,277	1,461	8,124
Total Central Powers	-	-	-	-	-	20

Artillery
	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	Total
France	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	24,022
Italy	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	11,789
Russia	355	2,065	8,284	4,302	-	15,006
U.K.	91	3,226	4,551	6,483	10,680	25,031
U.S.A.	-	-	-	-	1,826	1,826
Germany	n.a.	3,500	n.a.	12,000	n.a.	n.a.
Austria-Hungary	219	1,463	3,650	4,191	2,038	11,561

Total Entente	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	77,674
Total Central Powers	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

Notes:

Source: John Ellis & Michael Cox, The World War I Databook.

Last modified: 10 December 2022