In December 1943, the T-34-85 rumbled into action with a new turret and 85 mm gun, which saw it though to victory in 1945. The T-34-85 remained the backbone of the Soviet tank forces until the mid ...

Weapons-wise, the T-34 sported a 76.2mm gun, often referred to as the T-34/76. Over the years, a second iteration of the tank entered production featuring a larger 85mm gun that was better suited ...

Starting with the T-34/76D, the machines had a pair of large round hatches mounted on the top of a new hexagonal turret. When both of the hatches were flipped up, they gave the tank a distinct ...

The T-34 was the backbone of the Red Army during the epic Battle of Kursk in 1943, the largest tank battle ever fought. The German plan was to break through and surround a Red Army group, as they ...

As a result, Soviet tank platoons typically maneuvered closely together, and could not react to changing orders as quickly. The T-34 also had notoriously uncomfortable ergonomics and a cramped turret.

When Soviet T-34s rolled into Berlin in 1945, the battle tank’s fighting days might have seemed nearly over. But the "nut", as crews called it because of its hexagonal turret shape, was only ...

The Soviets also experimentally deployed several hundred T-34 “tank hunters” with 57-millimeter weapons. In 1944, up-gunned variants of the Sherman and T-34 were introduced to deal with the ...

September 4,2008: In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union gave China 1,837 T-34/85 tanks. As of a few years ago, there are at least a hundred of them still in storage and these vehicles appeared to be in ...

However, not everyone knows that the most famous Soviet combat vehicle had a rare modification the T-34-57 called the “tank exterminator”. In 1941, only ten T-34 tanks with a 57-mm gun were made.

Russia's pivot to WWII tanks over the new, better T-14 shows Putin has failed to modernize its military, and that the tank was more theory than tread.