AHC: Germans Maintain Air Superiority in World War 2

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Not in 1941-42. That stuff only really began to arrive en-made in '43. Without lend-lease, the Soviets would have actually still have had more trucks then the Germans by the end of '42, although maybe not by the end of '43.
Source? The Soviets produced fewer trucks and other vehicles than the Germans from 1941-45 and had fewer on hand than the Germans in 1941. The Germans rolled into the USSR with 600k vehicles. By the end of the war in 1945 the Soviets had fewer on hand that that, even with LL and captured German vehicles on top of their own production.
 

From your own link to "Engines of the Red Army", the category "LEND-LEASE MOTOR VEHICLES IMPORTED". Total trucks shipped to the USSR by the end of 1942 amount to ~32,900, as opposed to . Soviet truck production in the same time period was ~78,400 vehicles. The Soviets started the war with ~200,000 vehicles and mobilized an additional ~220K over the course of 1941 from the civilian economy as part of their general mobilization.

The Soviets produced fewer trucks and other vehicles than the Germans from 1941-45 and had fewer on hand than the Germans in 1941. The Germans rolled into the USSR with 600k vehicles.
Yeah, they started the war in 400-600,000 (I've seen varying estimates, although always within this range. I generally split the difference and say half-a-million). But that number steeply declined as 1941 rolled on. They lost a quarter of the vehicles in the first 20 days alone. Even the domestically produced and sustained German trucks were suffering a loss rate roughly double that of their Soviet counterparts. By the time of Operation Uranus, the mass permanent operational and combat losses of vehicles had reduced their motor park down to some ~200K. The Soviets, for their part, mustered ~250K. Without L-L trucks, they would still have ~210-220K.

By the end of the war in 1945 the Soviets had fewer on hand that, even with LL and captured German vehicles on top of their own production.
Actually, they had roughly around the same amount. And captured vehicles made up an extremely small portion of their motor pool (60,000, or ~8% of trucks received from all sources during the whole war) since the Soviets weren't interested in complicating their spare parts situation.
 
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