Nationalist infantry was armed with a mixture of domestically produced and imported arms, Italy being the largest foreign supplier. The Italians sent around 250,000 65mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifles, over 5,000 light machine guns, especially the 6.5 mm Breda, and around 3,500 heavy machine guns, over 2,000 of these being 8mm Fiat M-35s. The Germans sent about 5,000 heavy machine guns, mostly MG-30s, 1,000 light machine guns, and about 200,000 rifles. Franco's other requirements were met by whatever could be purchased in the international arms market, captured, or produced by the modest Spanish arms industry. The Nationalist situation improved with the capture of the Basque region, with its industries intact, in mid-1937.

Franco's undistinguished tank force was organized into grupos of two to four companies, each company consisting of 15 tanks, either German Pzk I's some of which were up-gunned with 20mm antitank guns, Italian L-3s or of groups of captured Russianbuilt T- 26s. There was a bounty on the intact capture of Republican T-26s tanks or BA-6 armored cars. There were also a small number of domestically produced armored cars and APCs of various models and effectiveness. These grupos were eventually formed into three agrupaciones with differing compositions. The Germans sent about 250 Pzk I's to the Spanish during the war, the Italians sent around 150 L-3s.

Nationalist antitank batteries were almost entirely equipped with German 37mm PAK 37s, although captured, Russian-made 45mm M-32s were added whenever possible. The Germans supplied somewhat more than 400 PAK 37s; the small amount of Italian antitank guns were used by the CTV. Nationalist antiaircraft had many types of guns, more common ones being German 75mm FLAK 60s, 20 mm FLAK 30s and Italian 20mm Breda 35s. The Germans sent about 90 FLAK 60s and about 100 FLAK 30s. The Italians supplied around 60 Breda 35s and a few hundred antiaircraft machine guns of various types and calibers.

Nationalist artillery was organized as before the war, in grupos of three four-gun batteries. Each division was supposed to have an agrupacion of two to four grupos, mostly made up of Italian 65/17s or 75/27s, Spanish-built Vickers Model 1922 105s, French Schneider 75/06s, or German 77mm FK 16s. Army corps and the artillery reserve had agrupaciones most commonly made up of Spanishbuilt 155mm Schneider M- 1917s or Vickers 105s, Italian-supplied Canone 105/28s or Obice 149/12s. Germany sent only about 250 artillery pieces, almost entirely 77mm FK-16s. But Italian aid was quite extensive, as the following table illustrates:

Gun	Calibre	Batteries Supplied (approx.)
Infantry gun c 1916	65mm	56
Cannon c 1926	75mm	65
Howitzer mod 16	100mm	52
Cannon c105/28	105mm	13
Mountain Gun c105/11	105mm	6
Howitzer Mod 1914	149mm	19
Cannon Mod 1917	149mm	4
Siege Mortar	260mm	4
Siege Howitzer	305mm	4
(This excludes artillery used by CTV units.)

Franco's Armed Forces Spanish Civil War

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