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Originally Posted by TRDG
1943 was Kursk, a turning point I think, then in 1944, there was Bagration, your thoughts Scott if the trucks were not there to support these 2 Operations, or only Russian trucks may be my poojnt here. Any clue on how much tank and othe vehicles might have been cut down if they had to build their own trucks as well, instead of the U.S. ones?
Cheers, thanks for the reply so quickly on the last one sir!!
Tom
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I can't really answer that without some very specific information not to hand. To the end of 1943, roughly 130,000 trucks were received. I have information on the cost of materials and manpower required to build one T-34, but nothing similar for the production costs of a GAZ or ZiS. There is not a 1:1 correlations — tanks were very much more expensive to produce than a truck, and it is
that cost that must be compared to calculate roughly how many tanks would be sacrificed to build an equivalent number of trucks.
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