Secret data on losses of the USSR near Prokhorovka disclosed

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The volleys of the Great Patriotic War have long died down, and, it would seem, there is nothing new, no matter what we might know about the sacrifice made by our grandfathers, however, time opens up new pages of that great tragedy.



Leading researcher at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Makovsky unveiled new, previously unknown data on the losses of the Red Army in the battle of Prokhorovka.

Thus, the losses of the Fifth Guards Tank Army amounted to 75% of the combat equipment: Of the 670 vehicles, 470 units were damaged and destroyed. Losses of the enemy amounted to 50 tanks out of 490 destroyed.

Under Prokhorovka, more than 6 thousand servicemen of the Red Army were killed, another 10 thousand were missing.

The losses of our army were caused by a number of both objective and subjective reasons. One of them was the use by the Germans of Tiger tanks and Ferdinand self-propelled guns, 88 mm of which pierced the armor of the most massive Soviet tank, the legendary T-34.

But the main result of the battle was the defeat of 30 German divisions and 150 kilometers of Soviet territory liberated from invaders.

Each victory has a price, and our grandfathers in the war paid it in full. The battle of Prokhorovka will always be a model of their steadfastness and self-sacrifice.
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  1. optika4 Offline optika4
    optika4 (Alexander ) 16 October 2018 16: 56
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    Out of 670 units, 470 are damaged and destroyed. The Germans have 50 units. destroyed from 490. How did we win? Why did the Germans stop the attack at all with such a loss ratio? Why did our losses result in damage and (must be written OR) destroyed, the Germans just destroyed. Again it turns out that the Germans destroyed whole armies, they defeated everyone, only the war for some reason in the 45th, in Berlin ended.
    1. Vkd dvk Offline Vkd dvk
      Vkd dvk (Victor) 16 October 2018 22: 55
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      Quote: optika4
      Out of 670 units, 470 are damaged and destroyed. The Germans have 50 units. destroyed from 490. How did we win? Why did the Germans stop the attack at all with such a loss ratio? Why did our losses result in damage and (must be written OR) destroyed, the Germans just destroyed. Again it turns out that the Germans destroyed whole armies, they defeated everyone, only the war for some reason in the 45th, in Berlin ended.

      The Germans were retreating from the battlefield. And so even the damaged tanks they lost forever.
      All true.
  2. Sergey Usenko Offline Sergey Usenko
    Sergey Usenko (Sergey Usenko) 16 October 2018 22: 17
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    Yes, this is no secret for a long time, this is German statistics.
    I don’t remember the exact data, but approximately the report looks like this:
    Repair unsuitable 50 units
    300 units subject to long-term repairs
    Medium Term 100 units
    Repair at the location of 30 cars.
    At the same time, in half of these repairable vehicles, our artillery men honed their skills before future battles in a couple of months !!!
  3. Molot1979 Offline Molot1979
    Molot1979 17 October 2018 09: 11
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    Some garbage is written. There is nothing secret in the amount of lost equipment. Figures with a difference of ten units wander from article to article, from book to book. For losses l / s - again, the nonsense comes out. 10 thousand missing people for 6 thousand dead - this is a complete defeat and captivity of a significant part of the fighters. But how can this be if OURS are attacked? Well, the Germans would have broken through our defenses, achieved a serious penetration and scattered at least a couple of divisions. Then, I agree, there could have been twice as lost against the dead. But this is absolutely impossible if the Germans were just defending themselves, and ours were trying to break them. In this case, the double preponderance of the missing over the dead is nothing in the cube. Anyway, how are you? Only the attack that everyone writes about (which the Germans successfully repulsed)? And the fact that the German bridgehead was defeated somewhat on the sidelines and most of its defenders remained to fertilize the Kursk fields - did you honor this battle? Otherwise, friends, the Germans would have entered Prokhorovka the very next day, there would have been nobody and nothing to stop them after the huge losses on July 12th. But success at one point was balanced by total defeat at another. Therefore, on 13-14 the Germans did not really attack and did not try, and then completely rolled back.
    In general, I noticed that both the correlation of forces and the ratio of losses are always brought with very large nit-picking to ours (in the direction of increasing both forces and losses, of course) and with full confidence in German sources. As a result, the Germans lost, or won, but there were always ten times less, and they already lost twenty times less. It’s even strange that they were retreating to Berlin. The Russians were supposed to end in June 1941 near Minsk. And the German losses are always completely inadequate. In this case, they are inadequate to the scale of the defeat, after which the strategic initiative in the East forever eluded them. And is it just 40 thousand people? Do not make me laugh.
  4. Sergey Latyshev Offline Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev (Serge) 17 October 2018 11: 11
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    Yes, some garbage.
    And by the way, they even argue about the participation of tigers - there were / weren’t how much was, how much was lost, whether there was infantry, artillery, aviation, etc.
    Experts somehow all describe in different ways ...