Название Soviet Order of Battle WWII (1): The "Deadly Beginning". Soviet Tank, Mechanized, Motorized Divisions and Tank Brigades of 1940 - 1942
Автор: Charles C. Sharp
Издательство: Nafziger Press
Страниц: 103
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6,52 MB
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Английский
Год издания: 2005
ISBN: 1858183642
The Soviet Army was one of the first in the world to experiment with large tank forces, the first (and nearly the only) army to have a coherent strategic doctrine for using large tank forces, and had the largest tank park in the world when most other armies, including the German, were just starting to acquire tanks. Despite this promising beginning, by 1941 the Red Army's tank forces were so unorganized, untrained, poorly maintained, and spottily equipped that 90% of the largest tank force in the world was massacred in less than 6 weeks.