Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "650 Tanks per Day - Soviet Tank Losses in WW2" video.

  1. Cool video. You kind of show how this kind of analysis could be broken up into to parts. Barbarosa and post-Barbarosa. Or maybe "peak German advance" vs. its recession. Many of the early losses were from entire Soviet divisions worth of armor being cut off and abandoned/surrendered. Likewise German losses accelerated as they were pushed back after '42. Also, and i did not bother to go look it up, but the total losses I believe included vehicles that were combat losses, that were later put back into service either by recovery and repair by own side, or captured and put back into service against them. So this kind of inflates the total, especially when you consider this opens the possibility that the same tank could be "destroyed" more than once.
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  2. This is reflected in the chart @7:50 comparing the total inventory vs what was the strength of frontline units. However, this reflect the "flux" of vehicles forward, just like a tide isn't just the water that is at the shore at the moment, but the huge mass behind it as well. It didn't matter that the average Soviet tank was only good for 1 battle, there were 10 more to replace it.
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