Author Topic: World War II Trivia (025) (Read 516 times)

Rafe35 · « **on:** June 29, 2004, 12:31:02 AM »

Where was the biggest tank battle on the Russian front?

Easy Question

MadSquirrel · « **Reply #1 on:** June 29, 2004, 01:15:21 AM »

July 5, 1943.

Operation Citadel:

The battle for Kursk. This is where the largest tank battle in history unfolds. 2700 German tanks and assault guns are arrayed against nearly 4000 Russian.

LTARsqrl

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #2 on:** June 29, 2004, 03:04:13 AM »

and for another 5 bonus points which battle after Kursk employed more tanks?

Boroda · « **Reply #3 on:** June 29, 2004, 07:39:24 AM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
and for another 5 bonus points which battle after Kursk employed more tanks?

1973 Doomsday war.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #4 on:** June 29, 2004, 01:12:18 PM »

Give the man a cigar!

Blooz · « **Reply #5 on:** June 29, 2004, 01:53:22 PM »

A whole war? I thought you said battle?

You did say battle....

...but if you want war then Persian Gulf War 1991 would be my answer.

Rafe35 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 29, 2004, 04:36:04 PM »

This is World War II Trivia

MadSquirrel is correct! Congrats!

GScholz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 29, 2004, 05:54:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Blooz
A whole war? I thought you said battle?

You did say battle....

...but if you want war then Persian Gulf War 1991 would be my answer.

It doesn't even come close to WWII as a war or Kursk as a battle. In the battle of Kursk the Russians alone deployed 5,040 tanks, while the Germans deployed 2,696 tanks. Add to that 19,000 Russian guns and 2,900 combat aircraft against the Germans 1,830 combat aircraft.

More tanks were deployed in the battle of Kursk than in the entire 1991 Gulf War. More aircraft too. In fact no entire war other than WWII saw the deployment of more tanks and aircraft than in this single battle.

Angus · « **Reply #8 on:** June 29, 2004, 06:48:35 PM »

I remember from the Gulf war in 1991, that the news said the amount of air sorties equalled (on a peak) the sorties being flown in WW2.
This being hairy and easy to misunderstand caused me to look into it a bit better.
What I found out from available sources was that the peak sorties days of the gulf war had the same level as an average day in WW2.
In sheer manhours, there is no warfare that matches WW2.
And Kursk is the way biggest tankbattle.

However, you'd be surprized how some things on the western front were big as well......

Blooz · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2004, 07:14:24 PM »

I'm sorry. I was answering Schadenfreude's "bonus question" about the next biggest tank battle after Kursk.

Boroda answered 73 war and I answered 91 Gulf war. Except that the question asked for a battle.

If I chose a battle thats second to Kursk, offhand I'd say Battle of Berlin. Two whole Russian fronts involved in that. Must've been quite a few tanks. But then again maybe Kharkov? germans still had lots of tanks then.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2004, 12:03:01 AM »

1973 Yom Kippur, the battles for the Valley of tears were large but the attempted breakout of the Egyptian forces after crossing the canal and the the fighting around Chinese Farm and the recrossing of the canal were the largest tank battles since Kursk.

Boroda · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2004, 09:58:52 AM »

Sorry, I don't know much about Yom Kippur war. Just stumbled on that fact somewhere in Russian press, was quite impressed. Arabs performed as usual - they are all "warriors" only until it comes to real fight

(no national offences please - with Soviet command they performed great, like Syrian SAM crews).

The whole 1973 war can be compared to battle of Kursk - by distances and duration. If you speak about "tank battle" - you should mean battle of Prokhorovka, a part of Kursk Arch battle. It was pure "tanks vs. tanks" fight.