The greatest tank battles kursk
What’s all the more remarkable is that the Soviet corps had considerable numbers of heavier KV and T-34 tanks, tougher than the German army’s best tanks at the time. German warplanes bombed them incessantly, and fast-moving Panzer divisions with coordinated artillery support chopped them apart. The six Soviet corps were disorganized and lacked enough trucks and tractors to transport infantry, howitzers and supplies, and their attacks were uncoordinated. Making sense of the chaotic battle on available maps is … difficult.
It’s unclear how many tanks of the 1st Panzer Group were destroyed in the battle, but the force did lose 100 of its tanks during the first two weeks of the war.
The battle which developed and then concluded on June 30 was a confusing morass that swallowed 2,648 Soviet tanks out of a total force of 5,000 versus some 1,000 German tanks. Mikhail Kirponos launched a counter attack into the advancing 1st Panzer Group advancing toward Kiev. Beginning on June 23 between Dubno, Lutsk and Brody in far western Ukraine, six Soviet mechanized corps under Gen. Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Glantz describes the Battle of Brody at 15:45