Where did one of the biggest tank battles of the late 20th century take place?

The Battle of Kursk between the USSR and Germany.

The Battle of Kursk, one of the decisive battles of the Soviet-German theater during World War II, was the largest tank battle of World War II; It was also the largest offensive battle of World War II, a battle that broke out at Kursk, in which the German army and the Soviet Red Army dispatched nearly 8,000 tanks.

A total of about 2.8 million soldiers were deployed by both sides of the war, and more than 5,000 aircraft were involved in the air force, which also set two records, namely the largest tank battle in history and the largest single-day air battle.

The Battle of Kursk was also the last strategic large-scale offensive launched by the German army against the Soviet Union, intending to regain the strategic initiative by inflicting a large number of ** on the Soviet army.

The Battle of Kursk was a watershed moment in the Soviet-German war.

Before the battle, the German army had limited strategic initiative and was able to independently choose the time and place to launch a strategic offensive. After the battle, the German army completely lost the strategic initiative and switched from strategic offensive to strategic defense, from which the Soviet Red Army began a large-scale offensive to regain its territory.

The Battle of Kursk is also seen as another and final key turning point on the Eastern Front.

Historians have always believed that on July 12, 1943, a total of more than 1,500 tanks and self-propelled guns on the Soviet and German sides fought in the battle of Prokhorovka, which is considered the largest tank battle in the history of human warfare. The Battle of Kursk, as mentioned by the LS, is the sum total of the campaign, not the campaign.

Every square kilometer, not every square meter, mistakes!

In the history of World War II, there was one of the largest tank battles, and the tanks of both sides set a record at that time, which was the famous Battle of Kursk. The Battle of Kursk was a watershed moment in the Soviet-German war.

"The biggest tank battle in history"Refers to the Battle of Kursk

July 5, 1943 August 27, 1943.

The Germans threw in 2,928 tanks in the battle; The number of tanks that the Soviets threw into this battle was 5,128.

The Battle of Kursk was a watershed moment in the Soviet-German war. Before the battle, the German army still had a certain degree of strategic initiative, and was able to independently choose the offensive campaign and the direction of the attack; After the battle, the Germans completely lost the strategic initiative, and the arc of the Soviet front disappeared, forming a new, stronger front, from which the Red Army began a large-scale all-out offensive to regain its territory.

During World War I, the British army fought with tanks for the first time, in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It was the first real tank battle in the world's military history, the Battle of the Somme.

The first time the British used tanks during World War I was at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In June 1916, the Anglo-French forces launched an offensive against the Germans in the Soma River region of France. The Anglo-French forces were divided into two routes, with the British attacking along the north bank towards Babom and the French attacking Peron.

However, due to the complete firepower of the German fortifications, the offensive was repeatedly thwarted. After several days of fierce fighting, the warring parties suffered heavy casualties, with the British losing 420,000 men, the French losing 200,000 and the Germans 600,000. Just when the Anglo-French attack was resisted by the German army again and again, the first batch of 49 tanks of the British army arrived at the battlefield of the Somme after a long period of operation, except for 17 vehicles that were left to be repaired due to mechanical failure on the way, the remaining 32 vehicles quietly drove into the attack area.

In the early hours of September 15, heavy fog covered the banks of the Soma River, and at this time, German soldiers were sleeping soundly. However, the German soldier in his sleep was suddenly awakened by a loud "boom boom" sound. It turned out that 32 British tanks took advantage of the vast fog and rumbled into the German position.

The sleeping Germans were immediately stunned by the behemoth in front of them when they were awakened by the sound of tanks approaching. I saw them on a rampage, and the trenches and barbed wire fences had no effect on these monsters. In a panic, the German soldiers grabbed their guns and fired fiercely, only to hear the "whizzing" of bullets, but these steel monsters were invulnerable, and instead drove forward more fiercely.

Seeing this scene, the German soldiers suddenly became a mess, some dropped their guns and ran, some shot while running, and those who could not escape were crushed into meat cakes by the iron monsters, and those who did not have time to run away became a pile of meat paste under the monster's tracks. In the blink of an eye, the German army was crushed, strewn with corpses, and the battle line that had been held for several days collapsed. This was the first time that the tank was used on the battlefield since its birth, and it was also the first victory achieved by the world's first tank unit.

After the British army, which used tanks for the first time, tasted the sweetness in the Battle of the Somme, it accelerated the mass production of tanks, which also made Britain the first country to use tanks in World War I, and provided a very useful experience for the development and use of tanks in the future with a large number of tanks and the most extensive use on the battlefield.

Sudkursk tank battle.

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of July 1943 was the largest tank battle in human history to date, and it was an offensive campaign orchestrated by Field Marshal Manstein, the best German commander in World War II, to force the Soviet Union to sign a peace treaty. Two of the best Marshals of the Soviet Red Army, Marshal Zhukov and Vasilevsky, commanded the Soviet Red Army to successfully carry out a defensive counterattack, crushing the German offensive and exhausting the offensive potential of the German army at the cost of great sacrifices. From then until the end of the war, the Germans never took the initiative to launch an offensive campaign.

Thus, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov called the Battle of Kursk a turning point in the Great Patriotic War for the USSR and a turning point in World War II.

The Soviet Union had 400,000 or even 1.1 million more troops than Germany, and it was the head of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union had a mass base.

Comparing the military strength of the two sides is clear at a glance.

The Germans mobilized 17 panzer divisions, 3 motorized divisions and 16 infantry divisions of Army Group ** and Army Group South. Army Group ** to the north sent the 9th Army under the command of Moder, with 6 armored divisions, 1 motorized division, and 11 infantry divisions; Army Group South on the southern flank dispatched two corps, the 4th Panzer Army under the command of Hult and the Keff Corps under the command of Kef, with a total of 11 armored divisions, 2 motorized divisions and 5 infantry divisions. About 20 more divisions were prepared to operate on the flanks of the assault group, with air support from the 4th and 6th air groups.

The total strength is 900,000 troops, 2,700 tanks, 10,000 artillery pieces and more than 2,000 aircraft.

The Soviets amassed 1.3 million troops, more than 20,000 artillery pieces, 3,400 tanks and more than 2,100 aircraft in the Kursk salient area. To the north was the ** Front under the command of Rokossovsky, and to the south was the Voronezh Front under the command of Vatutin. In addition, to the north of the salient was the Bryansk Front, commanded by Popov, and to the south was Malinovsky's Southwestern Front.

Tank battle of Sudkursk in July 1943.

Commander of Army Group ** Germany: Krupp.

Commander of Army Group South: Manstein, Tiger Tank, Leopard Tank, 900,000 Soviet Union: Zhukov, Konev, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, T34 tank, 3 million.

Battle of Kursk.

There were also tank battles in the North African theater.

Commander of Army Group ** Germany: Krupp.

Commander of Army Group South: Manstein, Tiger Tank, Leopard Tank, 900,000 Soviet Union: Zhukov, Konev, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, T34 tank, 3 million.

In 1916, Britain produced the "Mark" type tank, with a diamond-shaped outline, rigid suspension, protruding gun mounts on both sides of the hull, two tracks around the hull from the top, and a pair of steering wheels sticking out from the rear of the car. The tank can hold 8 people and is available in both "male" and "female" versions. The "male" was armed with 2 57-mm guns and 4 machine guns, and the "female" was armed with only 5 machine guns.

On September 15, 1916, 48 "Mark" tanks entered the Battle of the Somme for the first time, but for various reasons only 18 entered the battle. In 1918, France also developed the Renault FT-17 tank, which also played a successful role in World War I.

As can be seen from the above, tanks were not actually used on a large scale in World War I, and tanks that can hold 8 people are more like current armored vehicles than tanks in the traditional sense. It's just that the weight of the First World War was seriously insufficient, and there were no aircraft to bomb in the air, so this kind of armored vehicle was rampant on the battlefield, and by the time the tank technology was a little decent, the First World War was over.

In fact, World War II is the peak period of tanks, Hitler's Germany suffered from tanks in World War I, and innovated blitzkrieg warfare based on tank cluster charges in World War II, destroying Poland in one month, Belgium in two weeks, and Luxembourg in four hours. Fortunately, the Soviet Union had a vast territory and ran through Hitler's chariot clusters, and the Soviet Union paid the price of the destruction of millions of troops.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, under Zhukov's strong leadership, also learned from Germany to adopt armored cluster operations, and concentrated the tanks originally assigned to the infantry to establish a tank army and a tank group army, forming a powerful shock force, and finally inflicting heavy losses on Germany at the end of the crossbow, and finally won the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The Battle of Concre on the Western Front.

At 6:20 a.m. on November 20, 1917, it was still only light, and visibility was limited to about 200 yards. At that time, the engines of the three hundred and eighty-one tanks roared at the same time, and the vehicles rumbled along the lanes marked by the line at night.

When the noisy tanks advanced towards the trenches of the front line, the dense obstacles with barbed wire were flattened. Each trench had been dug twelve feet wide to prevent tanks from crossing the trench, but Colonel Fuller overcame the trap. All British tanks carried long bundles of firewood tied with chains, which they threw in trenches as makeshift bridges.

The British omitted the barrage of fire, which often heralded the attack, and the Germans were subjected to a completely unexpected attack. The troops in the outpost area surrendered or fled, and by nightfall, the Third Army had infiltrated seven thousand yards on a six-mile front. The operation was an indisputable victory - the British captured the enemy's trenches at an unusual cost of four thousand men.

Sixty-five tanks were destroyed by German artillery fire, another one hundred and fourteen were broken down or overturned in the trenches, however, about seven and a half thousand German prisoners were captured. At 6 p.m., night fell, and the assault forces had occupied a wide area of their salient. Without tank support, these lost German positions were almost impossible to attack.

The Battle of Cambrai, the world's first large-scale use of tanks, was planned and commanded by British Army officer Fuller (the father of tank warfare).

I think it should be the Battle of Amiens.

Battle of the Somme!

In the battle, the British army used tanks for the first time in the offensive, with a total of 49 vehicles, and 18 actually participated in the battle!

In the Battle of the Somme, in order to break the deadlock on the battlefield, Britain dispatched the newly developed Mark 1 tank to participate in the battle, defeating the German army, and thus established the position of the tank on the land battlefield.

The Battle of Verdun, historically known as the "Verdun Meat Grinder".

The Battle of Cambrai during World War I was the first example of the large-scale use of tanks and had a significant impact on the development of military scholarship. The formation of the principle of coordinated action of infantry and tanks and the principle of defense against tanks, as well as the emergence of the method of artillery firing in which the method of precision determines the beginning of the elements, are closely related to this campaign. This battle was recognized by later generations as an important practical symbol of the formation of contract tactics.

The Battle of Cambrai was a battle between the British and German armies during World War I between November 20 and December 7, 1917 in the area of Cambrai-sur-Scheldt in northern France.

The Battle of Cambrai, to be precise, should be this, upstairs, you are not accurate.

In support of France, which had fought hard at the Battle of Verdun and had almost drained its blood, the British launched the Battle of the Somme. The British used tanks for the first time in this campaign.

Before the campaign was launched, the British and French armies concentrated more than 2,000 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 mortars to bombard the German positions for seven days and nights, almost completely destroying all the surface positions of the German front-line positions.

But the Germans were completely brought underground, and the soldiers were intact.

On the first day of the Anglo-French infantry attack, the British were defeated by 60,000 men (of whom 20,000 were killed). After two months of fierce fighting, the average day and night of the British and French was only 120-200 meters.

In the third month of the campaign, the British army put tanks into the battlefield in September, and although only 18 were actually put into battle, they broke through 5 kilometers in one day with the cooperation of infantry.