Soviet tankers made themselves respect even the best Azes Panzersvaffe, who reluctantly, through their teeth, but recognized the “fantastic fighting spirit of the Russians: some tanks lose their move, receiving 5-6 direct hits, but their crews do not give up and continue to fire. Russian tankers fight to the last shell and cartridge …” That’s just the ratio of loss of armored vehicles on the Soviet-German front 5 to 1 is not in our favor – however, the British with the Americans are no better: none of the allies in the anti -Hitler coalition even approached the sky -high victorious accounts of Panzervaffa.
Why is the results of Soviet tank aces much lower than that of the German? Is the insufficient combat training level to blame? The imperfection of observation devices, sights and means of communication? The lag of domestic tank building, which since 1942 has lost its previous superiority over the enemy? A vicious slogan: “Tanks with tanks are not fighting”? Or a fundamentally different approach to the combat use of armored vehicles, COGD …
Author
Baryatinsky Mikhail Borisovich
Editor
Klimova A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
The world of tanks
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