80% of casualties in WWII were caused by artillery.
That statistic sounds dubious, at best. At worst, it sounds like it was made up on the spot.
Yes, random arty is bad bad bad.
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80% of casualties in WWII were caused by artillery.
Just consider this a semi-realistic expression of the vast superiority the Russians enjoyed in artillery during the war.
"Artillery is the real God of War"- J. Stalin
80% of casualties in WWII were caused by artillery.
So if Russians lost over twenty million people in the war, and 80% of all casualities during the war were caused by artillery, then that is one hell of a vast superiority the Russians had, huh?
Seriously, I don't think you know what you're talking about.
I said people, you said casualties. People = civilians, no? Casualties can refer to either civilian deaths or soldier deaths, or both. When people are fighting for their homes, I'd say it doesn't much matter.
The Soviet Union lost more than 10 million soldiers in the war. Germany lost five million, on both fronts.
The Soviet Union lost about 23 million people.
Let's do some basic math.
10,000,000 multiplied by .8 = 8,000,000, no?
5,000,000 multiplied by .8 = 4,000,000.
So, by your logic, artillery killed twice as many Soviet soldiers as it did German ones.
Thanks for the clarification!
You didn't look it up, did you?
1. Estimates of Soviet military casualties vary, but average about 7 million. Several million of these were POW's who died of starvation or mistreatment at the hands of the Germans. These were obviously not battlefield casualties.
2. Lots and lots of Soviets were killed by their own side, either executed or by friendly fire. (Many FF casualties were arty victims, especially at Berlin where the Soviets shelled the hell out of each other out of indifference to casualties and eagerness to be the first to take the center.)
3. In any case, superiority in warfare is not measured by how many enemies you kill. The Americans learned that in Vietnam. The Soviets had a huge superiority in artillery over the Germans. That's a simple fact, whether you agree with the 80% figure or not.
Panzer Meyer why did you have to ruin my fun by stating so bluntly what I was hinting at the entire time?
It's no fun if you just tell him the truth. He has to realize it himself, or he'll never learn.
I've been trying to just get him to look up stuff to refute me, because that would make it plain as day that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
But no, you just have to go in there with all your facts and figures and prove him wrong right off the bat.