Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt

Glossary

ABTU – Auto-Bronetankovoe Upravlenie (Main Tank Directorate), 1934–40.

AFV – Armoured Fighting Vehicle.

AOK – Armeeoberkommando (Army).

AP – Armour Piercing.

APBC – Armour Piercing Ballistic Cap.

APHE – Armour Piercing High Explosive.

C² – Command and Control.

cbm – cubic meter of fuel, equivalent to 5,000 liters or 739kg.

DD – Dal’noe deistvie (long-range tanks).

DPP – Dal’nia podderzhka pekhotny (Distant infantry support tanks).

Fliegerverbindungsoffizier – Flivo, Luftwaffe liaison officer at Panzerarmee, created May 1942.

GABTU – Glavnoe Avto-Brone-Tankovoe Upravlenie (Chief Department of Autos and Armoured Vehicles), 1940–45.

Gefechtstroß – Combat trains, including ammunition trailers.

Gepäcktroß – Baggage train, including field kitchens.

GKO – Gosudarstvennij Komitet Oboroniy (State Defense Committee).

Großtransportraum – Large transport (GTR).

HEAT – High Explosive Anti-Tank.

HKL – Hauptkampflinie (main line of resistance).

Instandsetzungsgruppe – Repair group.

Kradschützen – Motorcycle infantry.

LSSAH – Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.

MD – Military District.

NKO – Narodnyi Kommisariat Oborony (the People’s Commissariat of Defense).

NKTP – Narodnyi Kommissariat Tankovoy Promyslennosti (the People’s Commissariat of the Tank Industry).

NKVD – Narodnyi Kommisariat Vneshnykh Del (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs).

NPP – Neposredstvennaia podderzhka pekhoty (direct infantry support tank).

OKH – Oberkommando des Heeres (German, Army High Command).

OTB – Отдельные танковые батальоны (Independent Tank Battalion).

OTTPP – Otdelniy Tyazhelij Tankovij Polk Proriva (Independent Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment).

PP – podderzhka pekhoty (infantry support tanks).

Pz.Regt – Panzer Regiment.

PZAOK – Panzerarmee.

RKKA – Raboche-Krest’yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya (the Army of Workers and Peasants/the Red Army).

RVGK – Rezerv Verkhovnogo Glavnokomandovaniya (Reserve of Supreme High Command).

SAP – Samokhodno-Artillerijskij Polk (Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment).

SR – Schützen-Regiment [Motorized Infantry].

StZ – Stalingrad Tank Factory.

TSAP – Tyazhelij Samokhodno-Artillerijskij Polk (Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment).

TTPP – Tyazhelij Tankovij Polk Proriva (Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment).

UMM – Upravlenie Motorizatzii i Mekhanizatzii RKKA (Directorate of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army), 1929–34. Re-named ABTU.

VAMM – Voennaya Akademiya Mekhanizatzii i Motorizatzii RKKA (Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army).

V.S. – Verbrauchssatz. A basic load of fuel or amunition.

Vorausabteilung – Vanguard battalion (abbrev. V.A.).