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Formations. As of 1981/82 the Soviet Ground Forces had: 36 Tank Divisions, including six Tank Armies with four tank divisions each. 85 Mechanised Infantry Divisions; 6 Airborne Divisions; 2 Naval Infantry Divisions; 3 Naval Infantry Brigades; Tank strength. 20000+ Medium Tanks, T-54/55 and T-62, 1000+ T-10A/M Heavy tanks (reserve) T-10 / T-10M ...
The Soviet Ground Forces, successor to the Red Army, the title changing in 1945, employed a wide range of different military formations.. The Soviets used the term "Театр войны," Theatre of War (TV), to describe a large area of the world in which there might be several teatr voennykh deistvii, (TVDs) usually translated as theatres of military action/operations. [1]
A tank corps (Russian: танковый корпус) was a type of Soviet armoured formation used during World War II. Pre-war development of Soviet mechanized forces [ edit ]
This yields a balance of immediately available tanks of about 4:1 in the Red Army's favour. The T-34 was the most modern in the world, and the KV series the best armoured. The most advanced Soviet tank models, however, the T-34 and KV-1, were not available in large numbers early in the war, and only accounted for 7.2% of the total Soviet tank ...
51st Tank Division (Soviet Union) 60th Tank Division (Soviet Union) 66th Tank Division (Soviet Union) 75th Guards Tank Division; 76th Tank Division; 77th Tank Division; 78th Tank Division (Soviet Union) 79th Guards Tank Division; 90th Guards Lvov Tank Division (1985–1997) 90th Guards Tank Division (1957–1985) 111th Tank Division (Soviet ...
Comprised the 119th, 242nd, 243rd and 251st Rifle Divisions, 51st Tank Division, 43rd Corps Artillery Regiment, 533rd and 758th Anti-tank Regiments on formation. Joined Soviet Western Front. Took part in Klin-Solnechegorsk offensive operation, 1941. Redesignated 10th Guards Army 16 April 1943. 31st Army: By 10 July 1941: 30 July 1945
The formation of the Tank Bureau under the People's Commisariat of Defence in 1924, with the existence of a armoured car battalion under the Technical Directorate of the WPRA (today the Main Agency of Automobiles and Tanks of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation) marked the formation of the modern day Tank Troops, which would ...
That being said, during the war against the Axis, all mechanised corps stationed in frontline areas were destroyed during the early phase of the invasion of the Soviet Union (including 4th and 6th), and less than a month after the attack, the Red Army formally abolished the Mechanised Corps as a formation type. Remaining tanks were concentrated ...