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The use of German tanks in Soviet army
captured Pz.IV F1 and Pz.III J medium tanks
During the war, the Soviets captured large numbers of enemy armoured vehicles,
mostly PzKpfwIII, PzKpfwIV (Russian designation T-3 and T-4), PzKpfw38(t) (called Prague) and
different self-propelled guns (called "Artshturm"). Some of them were pressed into temporary service because of their small caliber
armament and lack of ammunition and spare parts, some were used for training.
Sometimes captured tanks there were used in a different temporary units or as a separate tanks.
Diversion raids and recon operations were usual - in such cases the tanks carried original German insignias. But for a regular service the
Soviet symbols or the red flag were applied to prevent friendly fire (note -
the Soviet-made tanks usually carried only unit/vehicle numbers only, or the tactical insignia
and no any stars and so on, except the Guard's sign in the Guard's units).
The Soviets liked to use T-3 as a command vehicle, because of their great comfort and an instruments (optic and radio).
Pz.V Panther (T-5 Pantera) tanks were mostly used for anti-tank purposes. Also the Soviets used different halftracks and armoured cars.
In USSR even worked some factories which repaired the broken captured tanks.
Sometimes these tanks were re-equiped with the Soviet engines or armament.
Vehicles which were unuseful for Soviet army (for example PzBfwg and French tanks) were rebuld and/or rearmed.
the column of the trophy Pz.III and StuG.III
Examples of the combat units:
| Date | Unit | Ally vehicles | Axis vehicles |
| 27th jun 1941 | 8 mech corps | ? | 13 Pz.III and Pz.IV (T-3 and T-4) |
| 5th May 1942 | 150nd tank brigade | 1 KV, 7 T-34, 7 BT, 18 T-26, 1 T-40, 1 T-60 | 1 Pz.III (T-3) |
| 25th July 1942 | 32nd tank regiment | ? | 1 Pz.II (T-2), 3 StuG.III (SU-75) |
| March 1942 | 121st tank brigade | ? | 3 Pz.III (T-3) |
| 14th May 1942 | 52nd tank brigade | 5 KV, 2 T-34, 13 T-60, 3 M3 Stuart, 1 Valentine | 1 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 5th July 1942 | 107th separate tank battalion | 1 KV, 2 T-34, 1 BT-7 | 2 Pz.III (T-3), 1 Pz.IV (T-4), 3 StuG.III (SU-75), 1 Pz.I (T-1) |
| 1st August 1942 | "B" separate battalion | 9 T-60 | 12 Pz.III (T-3), 7 Pz.IV (T-4), 2 StuG, 10 Pz.38(t) |
| 1st April 1943 | 151st tank brigade | 3 M3 Stuart, 25 Valentines | 4 Pz.IV (T-4), 5 Pz.III (T-3), 2 Pz.II (T-2) |
| 1st April 1943 | 266th separate tank battalion | ? | 4 Pz.III (T-3) |
| 6th May 1943 | 62th separate tank battalion | 3 T-34, 15 Valentines | 2 Pz.III (T-3), 1 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 30th May 1943 | 75th separate tank battalion | 15 Valentines | 9 Pz.III (T-3), 1 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 10th June 1943 | 29th tank corps | 129 T-34, 84 T-70, 1 KV | 1 Pz.38(t) |
| 7th July 1943 | 244th tank regiment | 16 M3 Grant, 2 M3 Stuart | 9 Pz.III (T-3), 4 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 10th August 1943 | 1938th self-propelled gun regiment | 2 SU-122, 2 SU-76 | 2 StuG.III (SU-75) |
| 28th August 1943 | separate company, 44th army | 1 M3 Grant, 1 M3 Stuart | 13 Pz.III (T-3), 3 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 4th September 1943 | 1448th self-propelled gun regiment | 14 SU-76 and SU-122 | 1 Pz.III (T-3) |
| 11th November 1943 | 213rd tank brigade | 4 T-34 | 11 Pz.IV (T-4), 35 Pz.III (T-3) |
| November 1943 | 53rd Guards tank brigade | ? | almost 30 halftracks |
| 27th July 1944 | 28th Guards tank brigade | 32 T-34, 13 T-70, 4 SU-122, 4 SU-76 | 2 Pz.VI (T-6 Tigr) |
| 1st September 1944 | 5th Guards tank brigade | 23 T-34, 47 T-70 | 2 StuG.40, 1 Pz.IV (T-4) |
| 10th September 1944 | separate battalion, 5th Guards tank brigade | 32 Hungarian vehicles | |
| 30th October 1944 | 8 Turan, 2 Toldi, 3 Zrinji, 2 Nimrod | ||
| 16th July 1944 | 511th tank regiment | 2 T-34, 17 Valentine | 4 Pz.V (T-5 Pantera) |
| 3rd March 1945 | 991th self-propelled gun regiment | 16 SU-76 | 3 Pz.V (T-5 Pantera) |
| 7th March 1945 | separate self-propelled gun regiment, 27th army | ? | 8 Hummel (SU-150), 6 Nashorn (SU-88) |
| 12th March 1945 | united tank battalion, 27th army | 5 SU-76 | 1 Wespe (SU-105), 6 StuG (SU-75) |
captured Pz.IIIJ (T-3) medium tank
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captured Pz.V Panther (T-5) tank in 1945
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trophy Pz.IVF1 (T-4) medium tank in 1942
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captured Pz.V Panther (T-5) tanks in 1944
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captured Pz.38(t) light tanks (T-38) |
Captured German Panzers , SPGs , APCs in Red Army
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