One of the first major breakthroughs in Soviet tanks was the T-34 which would be a game-changer. It gained notoriety in World War II, particularly at the Battle of Kursk in 1943, where large ...

Laser tanks aren't just a sci-fi concept — they're very much real, and prototypes have existed since the Cold War era. From the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, a clandestine ...

As per the Allies in World War II, lighter, more maneuverable tanks became the focus of Soviet command, even among those that had been so enamored with the concept of formidable, heavier ones before.

The tanks are T-55s, a model first commissioned by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1948, shortly after the end of World War II. They’re so old, you can find them in museums. “This was the ...