The Object 279 is one of the most legendary and uniquely designed tanks in military history. Developed by the Soviet Union in ...

The Soviet Union’s turbine tank however, the T-80, suffered from reliability problems and Russia today still finds it difficult to maintain them in service. The rocket-powered tank is a weird ...

The Soviet Union also delivered 60 IS-2s to China in 1950 and 1951 to fight in the Korean War, which was a proxy war between the Soviets and the U.S. IS-2 tanks were also delivered to North Korea ...

The engine was also a beast—a 1,000 horsepower diesel that could propel the tank to speeds of up to 35 miles, or about 55 kilometers per hour. The Object 279’s main gun was quite large, 130 ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a ...

The T-34 first made waves during Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. The initiative, which launched in mid-1941, saw the Red Army confront their enemy with T-34s ...

Known as the “flying tank”, in total some 36,000 single-engine Sturmoviks were built – the greatest number of any military aircraft in history – and this is one of only a dozen survivors.