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 IS-2 Heavy Tank helped establish the Soviet Union as one of the world's superpowers during World War II and the Cold War.

The PT-76 Light Amphibious Tank was the first new tank that the Soviet Union produced after World War II.

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 21st century.

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.

Putin said that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake.

The Soviet Union Learned Why Flying Tanks Are A Terrible Idea The Hard Way There's a good reason why the idea didn't take off.

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?

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.

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.