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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the Cold War progressed, American and Soviet planners shifted assumptions ... Object 279 was a heavy tank with some startling capabilities and an emphasis on cross-country performance to ...

A DShK captured by German troops during the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. The wheeled mount with ... The DShK is a very heavy gun, and since the barrel cannot be readily removed for ...

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”.

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.