‘Battle of Khalkhyn Gol’ experience
Hello gents
I was reading about the almost forgotten - but still important Battle of Khalkhyn Gol.
This was a decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet-Japanese Border War, or Japanese-Soviet War, fought between the Soviet Union and Japan in 1939.
‘I’ see it as being important for a few reason-
-It was the first time that the then unknown Soviet commander: Lt. Gen. Georgy Zhukov had been exemplified as an outstanding and very competent military commander in large and modern mechanized warfare.
-It was the first modern military campaign in which the Japanese military had been defeated.
-It was the first major campaign in which the Japanese had experienced and surcumb to modern combined arms warfare.
-It was the first military engagement in which the new advanced and very capable Russian T34 medium tank had been deployed and used in battle.
-The defeat of the Japanese at Khalkhyn Gol convinced and influenced the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo that the policy of the North Strike Group, favoured by the army, which wanted to seize Siberia as far as Lake Baikal for its resources, was untenable. Instead the South Strike Group, favored by the navy, would be persuade, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
-The Japanese failure to appreciate or make no major changes to their tactical doctrines.
They failed to appreciate the importance and power of armour in modern warfare (wether in their own tank or anti-tank development.), which would plague them again and again when they would face the building might of Americans and British Commonwealth which both appreciated and utilised armour as part of their spear force to defeat of the Japanese Empire.
My question to the forum is this-
Did the Japanese manage to destroy or capture any of the advanced T34 tanks?
Did the Japanese liaise in any way or form with their so-called German allie regarding their experience against the infamous new Russian T34 tank, or was the German invasion of Russia the first time that they new anything of this outstanding design?
Did the Japanese capture and study any of the outstanding Russian anti-tank guns and powerful howitzers during this battle?
The reason that I ask these questions is simply due to the fact that I find it very difficult to comprehend that the Japanese failed to capitilise on this devastating defeat.
I completely understand and comprehend Japan’s issue with its concerns with its supply and shortage of raw materials, for use in its weapons, but to me, this would have been more reason to have fielded fewer – but far more capable and powerful tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and field howitzers.
Regards
Pioneer
Hello gents
I was reading about the almost forgotten - but still important Battle of Khalkhyn Gol.
This was a decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet-Japanese Border War, or Japanese-Soviet War, fought between the Soviet Union and Japan in 1939.
‘I’ see it as being important for a few reason-
-It was the first time that the then unknown Soviet commander: Lt. Gen. Georgy Zhukov had been exemplified as an outstanding and very competent military commander in large and modern mechanized warfare.
-It was the first modern military campaign in which the Japanese military had been defeated.
-It was the first major campaign in which the Japanese had experienced and surcumb to modern combined arms warfare.
-It was the first military engagement in which the new advanced and very capable Russian T34 medium tank had been deployed and used in battle.
-The defeat of the Japanese at Khalkhyn Gol convinced and influenced the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo that the policy of the North Strike Group, favoured by the army, which wanted to seize Siberia as far as Lake Baikal for its resources, was untenable. Instead the South Strike Group, favored by the navy, would be persuade, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
-The Japanese failure to appreciate or make no major changes to their tactical doctrines.
They failed to appreciate the importance and power of armour in modern warfare (wether in their own tank or anti-tank development.), which would plague them again and again when they would face the building might of Americans and British Commonwealth which both appreciated and utilised armour as part of their spear force to defeat of the Japanese Empire.
My question to the forum is this-
Did the Japanese manage to destroy or capture any of the advanced T34 tanks?
Did the Japanese liaise in any way or form with their so-called German allie regarding their experience against the infamous new Russian T34 tank, or was the German invasion of Russia the first time that they new anything of this outstanding design?
Did the Japanese capture and study any of the outstanding Russian anti-tank guns and powerful howitzers during this battle?
The reason that I ask these questions is simply due to the fact that I find it very difficult to comprehend that the Japanese failed to capitilise on this devastating defeat.
I completely understand and comprehend Japan’s issue with its concerns with its supply and shortage of raw materials, for use in its weapons, but to me, this would have been more reason to have fielded fewer – but far more capable and powerful tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and field howitzers.
Regards
Pioneer
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