So lately I've been doing some casual research into Soviet equipment and production figures again. Here's how their real-life armour figures from 1.1.1936 compare with HoI4's.
The following table is based on primary sources from Russian archives, and is Google translated from a page detailing some of Russian military historian Mikhail Meltyukhov's research.
The automated translation is why some of the wording comes out a bit strange. E.g. in this context:
2 bash. = twin-turreted
Chemical = flamethrower
Note that this is not an entirely exhaustive list of every armoured vehicle in the Red Army or available to it. There were relatively small quantities of other AFVs like T-18/MS, FT-17, Mk. V, T-19 tanks, Austin armoured cars, etc. I might include those later.
Most of the tanks and tankettes in the table for 1936 qualify as Light 1 or Great War tanks.
EDIT: With NSB's tank designer these can be represented as variants.
Updated to NSB:
Note that the single-turreted T-26s in the game are named T-26TU mod. 1933. This, as far as I've understood it, is an error, as TU refers to remote-controlled unmanned teletanks specifically, so a T-26 TU (or to use the correct name, a TU-26) would be a teletank version of a T-26.
The idea is to eventually do a table like this for Soviet aircraft as well. For now, you may also be interested in my table on Soviet aircraft on 25.9.1940, that I've personally translated from Meltyukhov's book and checked against the same formerly classified Soviet primary sources that Meltyukhov used. An example of such a document:
The following table is based on primary sources from Russian archives, and is Google translated from a page detailing some of Russian military historian Mikhail Meltyukhov's research.
The automated translation is why some of the wording comes out a bit strange. E.g. in this context:
2 bash. = twin-turreted
Chemical = flamethrower
Note that this is not an entirely exhaustive list of every armoured vehicle in the Red Army or available to it. There were relatively small quantities of other AFVs like T-18/MS, FT-17, Mk. V, T-19 tanks, Austin armoured cars, etc. I might include those later.
Vehicle type | Reality 1.1.1936 | HoI4 1.1.1936 | Percentage of real figures included |
Tanks & tankettes | ~13,339 | 2,985 | 22.38% |
BA-, D-, & FAI-series armoured cars | ~1,710 | 0 | 0% |
Most of the tanks and tankettes in the table for 1936 qualify as Light 1 or Great War tanks.
EDIT: With NSB's tank designer these can be represented as variants.
Updated to NSB:
Vehicle type | Reality 1.1.1936 | HoI4 1.1.1936 | Percentage of real figures included |
T-35 | 17 | 0 | 0% |
T-28 | 123 | 0 | 0% |
BT-2 | 620 | 0 | 0% |
BT-5 | 1,884 | 1,000 | 53% |
BT-7 | 502 | 0 | 0% |
T-26 (twin-turreted) | 1,627 | 0 | 0% |
T-26 (single-turreted) | 2,969 | 1,300 | 44% |
T-26 (flamethrower) | 605 | 0 | 0% |
T-26 (sapper) | 65 | 0 | 0% |
T-37 | 2,216 | 0 | 0% |
T-37 (flamethrower) | 34 | 0 | 0% |
T-27 | 2,547 | 0 | 0% |
T-27 (flamethrower) | 164 | 0 | 0% |
Total | 13,339 | 2,300 | 17% |
BA-, D-, & FAI-series armoured cars | 1,710 | 0 | 0% |
Grand total | 15,049 | 2,300 | 15% |
Note that the single-turreted T-26s in the game are named T-26TU mod. 1933. This, as far as I've understood it, is an error, as TU refers to remote-controlled unmanned teletanks specifically, so a T-26 TU (or to use the correct name, a TU-26) would be a teletank version of a T-26.
The idea is to eventually do a table like this for Soviet aircraft as well. For now, you may also be interested in my table on Soviet aircraft on 25.9.1940, that I've personally translated from Meltyukhov's book and checked against the same formerly classified Soviet primary sources that Meltyukhov used. An example of such a document:
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