Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union's Leningrad Kirov Plant set about ... Object 279, at around 60 tons in weight, absolutely put the heavy in heavy tank. With armored plating around 11 inches thick ...

Known as the “flying tank”, in total some 36,000 single ... It is surprising there aren’t more, it was one of the Soviet Union’s most important aircraft of World War 2.

The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management ... has featured on everything from the T-10 heavy tank (V-12-5), the T-54/T55 (V-54/55), arguably the first ...

There was the Klimenti Voroshilov KV-2 heavy tank, which was first “blooded ... Hitler’s ill-advised invasion of the Soviet Union. Indeed, during one engagement early on in the Barbarossa ...

The Soviet Union’s T-34 tanks won an impressive victory in Kursk The T-54 and T-55 were some of the most mass-produced tanks ever The T-14 Armata is the next generation of Russian tank Also ...

The Mi-24 ranks as the fastest helicopter in the fleet, and it comes from the Soviet ... providing heavy fire support. This is in part how it earned the nickname the “Flying Tank”.

between the Soviet Union and several communist states in Eastern Europe that it had heavy influence over. Stalin died in 1953, and his successor Nikita Khrushchev eased some of the persecutions ...