🔥 1943 | World’s Largest Tank Battle | Kursk What you’re seeing: Soviet T-34 tanks crossing open fields during World War II’s Battle of Kursk. The camera is low in a shallow firing position, with empty shell cases in the dirt as the tanks fire and move across the steppe. Where is this? The open country around Kursk in western Russia. Mostly flat farmland with gentle rises and almost no cover, so it suited long range tank and artillery fire. What was happening at Kursk? Germany launched Operation Citadel to cut off the Kursk bulge (a large outward curve in the Soviet front line around the city). The Red Army met it with deep minefields, trenches, and then massed armored counterattacks like this. How big was this battle? Across the wider battle, both sides together used roughly 6,000 tanks and self-propelled guns and about 2 million troops. Estimates put total casualties at around 800,000 Soviet and 200,000 German killed, wounded, or missing over the full Kursk campaign. What were ...