One of the first major breakthroughs in Soviet tanks was the T-34 which would be a game-changer. It gained notoriety in World War II, particularly at the Battle of Kursk in 1943, where large ...

The initial years of World War II were a real catastrophe for the Soviet Red Army’s tanks. Overcoming the first blows, the Soviet Union not only restored its armoured forces but, recognizing ...

The tanks are T-55s, a model first commissioned by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1948, shortly after the end of World War II. They’re so old, you can find them in museums. “This was the ...