In the Cold War era, Soviet engineers developed Drozd — the world’s first operational hard-kill active protection system (APS ...

The first post-war Soviet tank J. Żołnierkiewicz / Wikimedia Commons The T-54 was one of the first post-war Soviet tank designs, alongside the IS-4, which was also produced around the same period.

The Soviet's Decade-long Quest for a Laser-armed Tank Vitaly V. Kuzmin/Wikimedia Commons The 1K17 was one of the many prototypes the Soviet Union built in its quest for a "Self-propelled Laser ...

Famously, the first vehicle built by the new Soviet Tank Bureau, the T-18 derived from the French Renault FT light tank, sported an engine with a paltry 35 horsepower.

The largest tank battle in history , the Battle of Kursk, involved an estimated 10,613 tanks — 3,253 German tanks and 7,360 Soviet Union tanks. This conflict turned the tide on the eastern front.

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.