Was the T34 as good as the King Tiger? What did Kursk tell us?
Not all Tigers and not all T34's but the numbers speak a clear language:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
German strenghth:
3,000 tanks
900,000 infantry
2,110 aircraft
German losses:
50,000 dead, wounded, or captured
248 tanks destroyed
200 aircraft downed
Russian strength:
3,600 tanks
20,000 guns
1,300,000 infantry and supporting troops
2,792 aircraft
Russian losses:
180,000 dead, wounded, or captured
1,600 tanks damaged or destroyed
1,000 aircraft damaged or downed
The Germans managed to inflict much more damage than they got.
Hitler ordered the end of the battle because of the allied invasion in Italy.
The victory had not been cheap however; the Red Army, although preventing the Germans from achieving the goals of Citadel, lost considerably more men and matériel than the Wehrmacht .