Is Russia’s legendary T-34 tank rolling off the production line again? Will Russia’s enemies again be crushed, as Nazi Germany was, under the treads of Russian armor? Alas for tank buffs and Russian ...

The Second World War is an important period in human history for a litany of reasons. Among them is the rate of invention and innovation by those on all sides of the globe-spanning conflict. The ...

Developed towards the end of World War II, the M1945 (D-44) antitank gun was used by Soviet bloc nations until the late 1970s. It used the same 85MM gun found on the T-34/85 tank. The T-34 series of ...

Russia’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 9 January that the country received 30 vintage T-34/85 medium tanks from Laos that are to be used in military parades, museum exhibitions, and films ...

As the Soviets worked to improve the T-34 tanks, one thing they changed were the hatches. Starting with the T-34/76D, the machines had a pair of large round hatches mounted on the top of a new ...

Russia has imported 30 T-34 tanks from Laos -- because it needs them for military parades, exhibitions, and making movies. The T-34 is a Soviet tank icon, used in conflicts from 1940 until as late as ...

In August 1944, the hills of Ogledow saw a dramatic encounter between the Soviet Red Army and Germany’s most feared heavy tanks. Mistaking King Tigers for Panthers, a captured German soldier set the ...