"A Proportionate view of Lend-lease Soviet Armour" Topic

"Lend-lease Armour comprised some 15% of the Soviet armour fleet. Zalogaš is still the go-to author for this. At present, I have very little svoiet lend-lease painted up, so I can either pretend that in the NQM campaign, lend-lease was shipped in allied colours, or I can repurpose some existing stuff. Either way, I am going to have to buy a Churchill…"

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From the Not Quite Mechanized blog.

15% is still a pretty good number. Even with the USSR's eventual massive production levels. It all when to defeating the Nazis and their allies.

IIRC we sent more trucks than tanks, thousands more, and they arguably made a much bigger contribution than the tanks did. So did our planes and the high octane gas that went with them.

We wargamers tend to fixate on tanks, and the more armor and bigger the gun the better. You realize that the French tanks outnumbered, out armored and outgunned the Germans in 1940.

Where did that get them. Cheers!

Share of Lend-Lease deliveries in planes and tanks in the charts:

Blue – Lend-Lease
Orange – was in the USSR army at the beginning of the war
Red – produced during the war.
The share of cars delivered under the Lend-Lease (taking into account Soviet cars produced before the war and mobilized into the army during the war) was 38.4%.
Of the number of cars produced during the war, Lend-Lease was 64%.

There is also the question of "when?" Meaning that the USSR's own production presumably increased as the war went on, so that the lend-lease deliveries might have constituted a larger percentage during some periods.

Cuprum, I assume for "car", you mean not a civilian automobile, but a truck/lorry/camion? Not sure of the appropriate Russia word.

The fact of the matter is that the bulk of the supply of all military equipment through the Lend-Lease fell on 1944 and 1945. At that moment, the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front had already come. The only question was when exactly the war would be over. The most difficult problem with tanks, aircraft and other weapons was in 1942 and the first half of 1943, until the factories evacuated to the Urals and Siberia started working at full capacity. During this period, allied assistance was relatively small. But thanks for that too!))) And without the supplies of the allies, the offensive of the Red Army at the end of the war would not have been so fast.
In addition, aircraft and trucks were generally superior in quality to similar Soviet-made products.

I mean army jeeps and trucks of course)))

I consider the most important supply of explosives and components for its production by the allies to the USSR. After the Nazis seized the European territories of the USSR, a large share of the capacity for the production of high-quality gunpowder and explosives was lost. The share of allied supplies in this segment was one third of the total volume used by the USSR during the war.

The Valentine was kept in production until '44 due to Soviet demand.

Not to mention millions of tons of iron and armor plate that were used to build their own tanks.