Russia’s Ambassador Ambarov on the 80th ... he was one of the principal designers of the T-34, a legendary Soviet-made battle tank. His expertise and persistence enabled the creation of one ...

As tensions rise, Ukraine’s tank fleet, largely based on aging T-64 models, faces off against Russia’s more modernized T-72B3 and T-80BVM tanks. Russia’s superior firepower, better mobility ...

NEW DELHI, March 7 (Reuters) - India has signed a $248 million contract with Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport to acquire more powerful engines for its Soviet ... The T-72 tank, first ...

“The Russians have been burning through their Soviet-era stocks,” Barros told me. He said that Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s tank factory, and Tula, its ammunition factory, have been working ...

What You Need to Know: The Soviet-era T-72 Main Battle Tank ... the T-72 has emerged as a reliable choice for Russia. Despite high losses, the tank’s ease of maintenance, mine-clearing ...

Officially, the Kremlin denies that such weapons exist in Russia. Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin acknowledged in 1992 that the Soviet Union had built a bioweapons arsenal, but the Kremlin ...

Although the Soviet Union’s anti-tank missile systems consistently led the world in performance during the Cold War, post-Soviet Russia’s position had notably deteriorated from the 1990s.

Before the Soviet Union’s demise, says Mr Golts, it had as many armoured vehicles as the rest of the world put together. Mr Luzin reckons that Russia ... components for tank production that ...

Russia’s T-64 MBT was a significant advancement in Soviet tank design during the Cold War. Today, it is being reused against Ukraine. And this MBT is not necessarily useless there. In a war that ...

Experts previously told Newsweek that early on in Russia's war effort, there were significant failures in organization and planning of tank assaults ... a smattering of Soviet-era tanks, replacing ...

As an immigrant from Soviet Russia, where religion was outlawed and ... according to a 2022 study conducted by a UCLA Law School think tank, which used data from surveys done by the U.S. Centers ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.