Russia’s tank forces have long been a symbol of military strength, with thousands of armored vehicles at its disposal.

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Russian tanks are cramped and hard to operate in for long stretches, especially compared to NATO models. That goes back to Soviet design philosophy: keep the tanks small to make them harder to hit.

Russian tanks captured by Ukraine are being used against Vladimir Putin's own forces. Ukrainian officials may continue to push the West to provide more military hardware but their efforts in the ...

Russian state media is portraying the M1A1 Abrams tanks in Ukraine as flawed machines that are easily destroyed. Here, we address those claims, point by point.

A Russian T-72B isn’t a bad tank because it can’t defeat an equally aged Ukrainian Leopard 1A5. It’s a bad tank because it’s only useful between sunrise and sunset.

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.

Images from Ukraine show Russian tanks completely disintegrated after being hit. The catastrophic losses are the side-effect of a calculated design decision with the T-72 tank.

Russian tanks tend to be lighter and simpler, and have thinner, less-advanced armor than Western tanks. The design vulnerability was probably “just cheaper and lighter,” Hamilton said.