"From June 1, 1944 to 1 Janurary 1945, Soviet Artillery Strength rose from 100,000 guns and mortars to 114,600" This serviced some 6-6.5 million Soviet troops. In comparison, German artillery strength on the Eastern front (probably only referring to artillery, not mortars) was ~over 7 k down to over 5 K in the same period) This serviced some 2.7-1.9 million German troops. Soviet losses of Guns and Mortars during the war was 218,000 pieces (all over 50mm). A titanic quantity was lost, even in 1945. My question is, why and how did the Soviets field so many guns and mortars? Their army was much less motorized than that of the western allies, yet they were able to bring such an enormous quantity on the battlefield. I don't think even think that even the US army, with the best artillery in the war, had even close to such a ratio of artillery delivery systems to ground forces.