The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

The Soviet Union’s vast industrial capacity constructed roughly 100,000 units of the tank throughout its life, and it was widely exported to the developing world.

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 ...

When China had a falling out with the Soviet Union, the U.S. built a relationship with it to help counter the Russians. As part of this relationship-building, America offered to develop a main ...

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.

Tanks, even the small ones, are pretty hefty, making transporting them to battlefields a bit of an issue. Driving them the whole way leaves them exposed to enemy fire, and so the Soviet Union ...

Many of Russia's T-72 tanks have reportedly been exposed to the elements since the fall of the Soviet Union in late December 1991, and have likely suffered for it.

The largest tank battle in history , the Battle of Kursk, involved an estimated 10,613 tanks — 3,253 German tanks and 7,360 Soviet Union tanks. This conflict turned the tide on the eastern front.

In World War Two, the Soviet Union devised a tank that could fly into battle. What happened to this ingenious, if unorthodox, concept?

Putin said the United States was making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union. He said Washington had "no friends, only interests". The 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks and troops.

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.

The Soviet Union’s vast industrial capacity constructed roughly 100,000 units of the tank throughout its life, and it was widely exported to the developing world.