Cmyers1980
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How many Soviet tanks, artillery guns, rifles, ammunition, vehicles, machine guns, etc did the Wehrmacht capture during Operation Barbarossa from June to December 1941?
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?
FTFYWhen they start attacking your grammar, you know that they have run out of arguments.
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.
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
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.
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.
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