David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles.

1430th MRR T-55 tanks. In mid-August, as Ukrainian brigades began breaking through Russian lines in and around Robotyne—a key strongpoint along the axis leading all the way to Russian-occupied ...

Russia's biggest film studio said it helped shore up the Kremlin's losses in 2023 with 36 aging tanks. Mosfilm's head told Putin that it donated 28 T-55 tanks and eight PT-76 tanks to the defense ...

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March 30, 2024: The war in Ukraine began with a Russian attack that included several thousand of the best tanks Russia had. Most of these tanks were quickly destroyed by innovative Ukrainian weapons ...

December 6, 2024: Since early 2023 Russia has been moving ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks out of storage for use in Ukraine. The 36-ton T-54 was the first post-World War II tank. It used a 100mm gun and a ...

What You Need to Know: 3 Key Points – Russia’s Mosfilm, the country’s largest film studio, has donated Soviet-era military vehicles to aid the Russian military amid ongoing losses in Ukraine. -The ...

The Thai Army confirmed a direct clash between armored vehicles with Cambodian forces along the shared border, after videos ...

Prototype of heavy armored vehicle based on T-55 discovered in Ukraine with reinforced protection (X @ArmoredWar) A prototype of an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) based on the T-55 tank was found in ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

A strange video from the war in Ukraine showed a modified old tank. The footage seemed to show a T-54 or T-55 with a huge "cope cage" on top. The devices are a kind of crude defense against anti-tank ...

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