Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: amoss%BATATA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: When were tanks last used? Message-ID: <1990Dec14.003407.28651@cbnews.att.com> Date: 14 Dec 90 00:34:07 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 42 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Amos Shapira Hello, I got the numbers. You were right, the number of tanks used during the Yom Kippur war (which was the largest Israeli-Arab war) was far smaller than the number of tanks used in the Kursk Battle (1943, BTW there was another Kursk battle in 1941). The numbers: Kursk: 6000 tanks involved. I didn't understand from the source (see below) if this is the number of German tanks (seems more likely to me) or the total. Yom Kippur: 1300- Syrian tanks the day the war broke. 1700 Egyptian tanks (out of 2200) at the same time. Other numbers: 3000 tanks lost for the Germans during the battle of Kursk. Probebly the same but a little bit less were lost for the Russians. 177 Israeli tanks in the Golan the day the war broke. 268 Israeli tanks in Sinai at the same time, only 3 of them on the water line, the rest were 5-10 Kilometers eastward. 1000 Egyptian tanks on the eastern shore of the Cannel in 14 October 1973. 200 of them were hevily hit in this day. Only 20 Israeli tanks hit in this day (this was the turnning point of the war). Refferences: The Encyclopedia of Military History, Second Revised Edition. The Dictionary of Battles. The Lexicon of the Security of Israel. Bye, --Amos Shapira amoss@batata.huji.ac.il