In the Cold War era, Soviet engineers developed Drozd — the world’s first operational hard-kill active protection system (APS ...

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 ...

The Soviet T-72 tanks were launched in 1973 and are still used by the Russian Army ... Devised during the Cold War, this tank featured a new look that set it apart from earlier tank designs, ...

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 ...

Entering service just after the Second World War, in 1948, the T-54 was the original Cold War tank. ... (AFVs) now being supplied to Ukraine, as the Soviet tanks lack sufficient armor, ...

Russia is dusting off the cobwebs from military deep storage facilities in the country’s Far East, for the first time railing un-upgraded Cold War T-54B tanks westward, possibly bound for ...

Russia first pulled Cold War-era T-62 tanks out of storage at the end of May 2022, says a report; Russia also pulled Soviet-era T-54 and T-55 tanks out of a storage facility in Primorsky in March 2023 ...

Putin said that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake. Skip to main content Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market ...

The U.S. funding will cover the refurbishment of 45 of the Soviet-era tanks by the Czech Republic, ... which has an inventory from its Cold War years and has deployed them in its invasion of Ukraine.