The Soviet's Decade-long Quest for a Laser-armed Tank Vitaly V. Kuzmin/Wikimedia Commons The 1K17 was one of the many prototypes the Soviet Union built in its quest for a "Self-propelled Laser ...

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks capable of disabling missiles, blinding pilots, and destroying optical ...

With Ukraine's armed forces claiming to have destroyed more than 3,600 Russian tanks since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022, Netkachev stressed the sheer quantity of old Soviet ...

Equipped with an Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, this tank was created specifically to destroy enemy tanks, but to save money, instead of developing a new chassis around the weapon, British military brass ...

T-54 Tank: Creating a Cold War Staple T-54 production began modestly, with about 1,500 tanks initially built. The Soviet Army began accepting the tank in 1945, noting the design improvements over ...

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 is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War, and even into the earliest fringes of the 21st century. Of course, being ...