To eliminate the long-range advantage of German tanks a local Soviet Commander named Nikolai Vatutin decided to bury his tanks and only have the turret above ground.Even thought the Soviet Union had twice as many tanks, the German’s had introduced two new type of tanks that had a farther effective range, the Tiger Tank and the Panther Tank. The Soviet Union had almost twice as many tanks as the German’s during the Battle of Kursk.The Battle of Kursk had one of the biggest tank battles in armored warfare history on July 12th, 1943.It’s estimated that the Soviet Army and the German Army had a combined total of casualties over one million.
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