The Armata is a new-generation tank. It is a clean sheet design with a number of advanced features. It has little in common ...

From 1991 to 1999, Yeltsin’s eight-year rule was a rollercoaster of historic gains for freedom and crushing economic and political chaos, leaving a legacy as messy and contradictory as Russia itself ...

If the Armata were a good tank, it seems unlikely that Moscow would not deploy it in Ukraine. Nearly three-and-a-half years into its Ukraine invasion, Russia has yet to deploy its latest and “greatest ...

The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...

Three main types of Russian main battle tank (MBT) have come to dominate Russia’s fleet in very different proportions compared with the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February ...

Tanks are becoming steel porcupines in the latest round of improvised armor upgrades in Ukraine. First seen on Russian vehicles, bizarre ‘Dread’ armor with arrays of metal rods or spikes is now being ...