From the 1970s until its collapse, the Soviet Union's military worked on this clandestine laser tank.

It was "Corvette Day" at Cars & Coffee Morrisville, the Saturday morning gathering that each month draws thousands of auto ...

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 ...

China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

The T-80BVM is Russia’s bold attempt to give a Cold War icon a new lease on life. Fitted with advanced Relikt reactive armor, a modern fire control system, and a powerful gas turbine engine, the ...

Models like the T55 were once the pride of the Soviet Union, and Russia still has thousands. They aren't built for today's combat, but they could still be deadly.

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a ...

After decades of Cold War tension and confrontation, Gorbachev struck nuclear arms deals with the United States and brought the Soviet Union closer to the West than at any point since World War Two.

The Cold War was a time of great geopolitical tension, not much unlike today, with two global superpowers on the brink of nuclear war. Lines were drawn across Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union ...

The Cold War was a fertile period for designing and manufacturing new military tanks, and some companies really took big liberties with accepted design trends.

Marshall was early to perceive that the Soviet Union was far weaker than understood, and he spotted the percolating threat from China while the U.S. was still focused on fighting in the Middle East.