As exemplified by the elan of the German panzer formations at Oboian and Prokhorovka, the Germans inflicted deep wounds on the Soviets at Kursk while remaining themselves relatively unscathed. Together, Army Group Center and Army Group South lost 323 tanks and assault guns irreparably destroyed during the Kursk battles. Personnel losses amounted to 50,000 men killed, wounded, or missing. Red Army personnel losses amounted to at least 177,000, with combat losses between 20 and 70 percent of the units committed. Soviet tank and self-propelled assault gun losses amounted to 1,614 vehicles irreparably destroyed.
In the battle of Prokhorovka our corps, in the beginning, was in the second echelon supporting the engagement of other corps and only then did we move forward. The distance between tanks was no more than one hundred meters, the only thing they could do was fidgeting, no maneuvering. It was not war, but tank slaughter. They crawled and fired. Everything was on fire. An inexpressible stench was in the air of the battlefield. Everything was so covered with smoke, dust and fire that it seemed that twilight had fallen. The air force bombed all. Tanks and vehicles were on fire. Communications did not work.
Wwii Battle Tanks T-34 Vs. Tiger Crack
By the 1980s, Soviet forces had developed a new generation of tanks, the T-72, later followed by the T-80; both fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Georgia. They have been sold by Russia to its clients all over the world, including the Ukrainians. Upgraded versions of these tanks are now being deployed in Ukraine on both sides. But these designs are forty years old and they are clearly vulnerable to the advanced anti-tank weapons now being supplied by the British and Americans to Kyiv. The Ukrainians claim that the shoulder-held NLAW and Javelin missiles have destroyed at least 450 T-72s and T-80s, while they claim to have captured a further 117 Russian tanks, outweighing their own losses to date of 74 tanks. Ukraine may now have more tanks engaged in battle than it began with. 2ff7e9595c
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