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Tank-to-tank battles were rare at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa as the Germans did not seek them they preferred to bypass the Soviet armour whenever possible. The 8th MC lost up to 95% of its tanks in fierce fighting in the Dubno area between 26 June and 1 July 1941.The 15th MC destroyed 43 German tanks for the loss of 13 KVs, six T-34s and 32 BTs from 22 to 26 June 1941.All of their engagements with German tanks happened during or just before the Battle of Brody: The 6th MC operated in the Białystok area, and all of the others in the Soviet Ukraine. On the day of German invasion, about 70% of the total T-34 and KV tanks produced at that time were deployed in the 4th, 6th, 8th, and 15th MC. German disposition of tanks on 22 June 1941 German corpsĪny other unit of Army Group North, Centre, or South Īmong the mechanized corps (MC), four formations were especially well equipped. Selected Soviet mechanized corps on 22 June 1941 Soviet corps Zhukov had drawn a different conclusion about armoured warfare from the success of the panzers in France and from his own experience in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol against Japan. Voroshilov had been replaced by Marshal Timoshenko as Commissar in May 1940. Originally done under Marshal Tukhachevsky, the mechanised corps had been broken up by the Commissar for Defence Marshal Voroshilov in a misreading of the lessons of the Spanish Civil War and the Winter War with Finland. While the re-creating of the mechanised corps had been organised as proposed by Georgy Zhukov, this had not been completed when Nazi Germany attacked in 1941. The new tanks were concentrated into dedicated types of formations, such as the mechanized corps. Historians initially believed that the new tanks were "scattered" among the army in small numbers, but recent research shows the exact opposite. See also: Mechanized corps (Soviet Union)
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It stalled the German advance for a full day while being attacked by a variety of anti-tank weapons before being overrun after it finally ran out of ammunition.
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The next day, at a crossroads near Raseiniai, Lithuania, a single KV heavy tank managed to block the advance of elements of the 6th Panzer Division, which had established bridgeheads on the Dubysa River. German Panzer 35(t) light tanks and anti-tank weapons were practically ineffective against the Soviet armoured giants, which closed with and, even though some of them were out of ammunition, destroyed some German anti-tank guns by simply driving over them. The Soviet 2nd Tank Division from the 3rd Mechanized Corps attacked and overran elements of the German 6th Panzer Division near Skaudvilė on 23 June. It was in the Battle of Raseiniai where German forces encountered the Soviet KV for the first time. The most common model of KV was the KV-1. The KV tanks were usually assigned to the same units as the more numerous T-34 and, although they were much larger, their overall performance was quite similar many sources discuss the impact of both types.
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The much smaller German 11 tonne Panzer 35(t)