Total amount of Soviet equipment captured by Germans in 1941?

Cmyers1980

Banned
How many Soviet tanks, artillery guns, rifles, ammunition, vehicles, machine guns, etc did the Wehrmacht capture during Operation Barbarossa from June to December 1941?
 

Angrybird

Banned
These are the official losses admitted by Soviet sources.

Keep in mind that they are probably falsified - losses for tanks and soldiers are most certainly to low - also some of this equipment was destroyed and therefore not captured by the Germans.

Losses from 22nd June to 31st December:

5.55 million rifles and carbines
4100 anti-aircraft guns
12 100 anti-tank guns
101 100 artillery guns and mortars
20 500 tanks
21 200 aircraft
159 000 motor vehicles

2 335 482 captured and missing, and 802 191 killed soldiers, for a grand total of 3 137 673 during the same time period
 

Pangur

Donor
These are the official losses admitted by Soviet sources.

Keep in mind that they are probably falsified - losses for tanks and soldiers are most certainly to low - also some of this equipment was destroyed and therefore not captured by the Germans.

Losses from 22nd June to 31st December:

5.55 million rifles and carbines
4100 anti-aircraft guns
12 100 anti-tank guns
101 100 artillery guns and mortars
20 500 tanks
21 200 aircraft
159 000 motor vehicles

2 335 482 captured and missing, and 802 191 killed soldiers, for a grand total of 3 137 673 during the same time period

How much of this would have been top of the range for the time & place?
 

Angrybird

Banned
How much of this would have been top of the range for the time & place?

Most of what the Soviets had when Barbarossa started had been produced in the years 1935-1941 and was thus not obsolete.

As for the quality of the equipment - most was decent - the BT-7 and T-26 tanks which made up a majority of the Soviet tank park for example were better then the Pz I, Pz II and Panzer (t) 35/38 and could even challange the early versions of the Pz III and Pz IV
 
Most of what the Soviets had when Barbarossa started had been produced in the years 1935-1941 and was thus not obsolete.

As for the quality of the equipment - most was decent - the BT-7 and T-26 tanks which made up a majority of the Soviet tank park for example were better then the Pz I, Pz II and Panzer (t) 35/38 and could even challange the early versions of the Pz III and Pz IV

Of course it also included things like the T-35, at least one of which ended up being used by the germans for a while and was probably worse than useless, particularly if you needed to bail out of it.
 

Angrybird

Banned
Of course it also included things like the T-35, at least one of which ended up being used by the germans for a while and was probably worse than useless, particularly if you needed to bail out of it.

The Soviets had around 25 000 tanks of which some 7000 were BT-7 and some 13 000 T -26 tanks - together around 20 000 - tanks like the T-35 made up a tiny fraction of the Soviet tank park
 

Sir Chaos

Banned
The Soviets had around 25 000 tanks of which some 7000 were BT-7 and some 13 000 T -26 tanks - together around 20 000 - tanks like the T-35 made up a tiny fraction of the Soviet tank park

According to Wikipedia, the Soviets had a total of 61 T-35. That isn´t even a blip on the radar. And rightly so, given what a piece of crap it was.
 
The Soviets had around 25 000 tanks of which some 7000 were BT-7 and some 13 000 T -26 tanks - together around 20 000 - tanks like the T-35 made up a tiny fraction of the Soviet tank park

How many of the T-26 were the version with just machine guns? Quite a few IIRC.

Yes the Germans captured a lot of BT-7 and T-26, however the limiting factor in how much of this kit they chose to use was trained men to crew them. As far as I'm aware, most of the captured tanks they chose to use against the Soviets were T-34 and KV-1, and even then they only used them after some modifications to german standards (installation of radios and commander's cupolas, etc). Stuff like the BT-7 and T-26 if they did get used, were in support roles such as anti-partisan operations, where pretty much any tank is useful as the enemy don't have many anti tank weapons, if any.

They did capture huge numbers of 76mm guns and ammunition, some of which were used on the early Marder tank destroyers.
 
Considering how much they captures it shame how they were not able to help their small allies Romania, Hungarian, Finland and Slovakia with Soviet equipment at least in 1941/42. Slovaks actually were smuggling some of captures equipment to Slovakia at least for evaluation.
 
Keep in mind that they are probably falsified - losses for tanks and soldiers are most certainly to low - also some of this equipment was destroyed and therefore not captured by the Germans.

Actually, those tank losses sound pretty spot-on, even if they are approximates. The losses in men are also on the low end of the "reasonable" scholarly estimates I have heard, but they could be higher.
 

Cmyers1980

Banned
These are the official losses admitted by Soviet sources.

Keep in mind that they are probably falsified - losses for tanks and soldiers are most certainly to low - also some of this equipment was destroyed and therefore not captured by the Germans.

Losses from 22nd June to 31st December:

5.55 million rifles and carbines
4100 anti-aircraft guns
12 100 anti-tank guns
101 100 artillery guns and mortars
20 500 tanks
21 200 aircraft
159 000 motor vehicles

2 335 482 captured and missing, and 802 191 killed soldiers, for a grand total of 3 137 673 during the same time period

Are there any statistics concerning the amount of captured small arms ammunition?
 
The trouble of using foreign made equipment is that one does not have a ready supply of spare parts. Moreover, the standards of production are likely to be very different and producing it would involve such a distraction that it won't pay off.

The Germans have the additional problem that their production was already running with virtually maximum capacity producing the German designed equipment. They had very little or no spare capacity to introduce wildly different vehicles, which in any case exasperates their existing problem of having a large variety of vehicles to begin with. Even capturing entire Soviet factories intact means very little if there is no additional workforce to employ in them and no raw materials to start production with. And very little remaining logistics available to transport the raw materials from their point of origin to factories and then to transport resulting equipment to the troops on the front.

I'd also wager that majority of the equipment captured was likely incapacitated (for guns it is an easy expedient of puncturing gun tubes and removing pins). For trucks, they would probably be used until they broke down and then discarded, ditto for tanks.

Giving this equipment to minor allies would require those to provide fuel and ammo in order to make the equipment fully functional. And train their man to use this. None of which is possible in the short enough term to actually matter. In June/July 1941, the Germans expected the operations to be over by winter. There is little point in training tank crews to operate the Soviet vehicles, updating those to German standards, providing for the machine tools (sorely needed for other purposes, btw) to make spare parts for them if all that will come into use well after projected end of hostilities.
 
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