In the midst of the Second World War, the Soviet Union was producing hundreds of brand new IS-2 heavy tanks. However, this ...

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In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed explosive reactive armor as a way of quickly adding protection to tanks and other heavier armored vehicles. ERA works by, well, exploding. When an incoming ...

A T-72 B3 battle tank is seen in Alabino, near Moscow, on August 27, 2022. Russia's military has deployed more than 40 percent of the mothballed, Soviet-era, armored vehicles and tanks from its ...

Russia has lost 850,000 troops and over 10,000 tanks, according to Ukraine's military, providing a staggering estimate of the toll nearly three years of grinding war has taken on the Russian military.

After it became an ally of the Soviet Union, for example, Hungary's army deployed 68 IS-2 tanks between 1950 and 1956. Other European nations that used the tank during this time were Romania ...