Key Points and Summary - The T-80 main battle tank, once a feared Soviet spearhead, has proven to be a "rolling coffin" in Ukraine, with over 1,200 Russian losses documented by Oryx. -Its failure is ...

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 ...

A Russian tank rolls toward the Kharkiv front. Then, it vanishes. Gone without a trace and erased from the map forever. Putin, in his infinite wisdom, comes to a conclusion. If he can’t send tanks, he ...

Russia’s new T-80BVM tank is designed to dominate combat in the Arctic—but has proven far from ideal in Ukraine. The Russian T-80BVM is one of Russia’s most advanced and modernized main battle tanks ...

Russia has long since exhausted its supply of modern main battle tanks—and is quickly running out of antiquated reserves, too. At the end of the Cold War in 1991, the Soviet Union was the largest ...

For civilians looking at a tank on display in a museum, it can look all but impenetrable. Unfortunately for those servicepeople who crew them, that's not the case. Engineers have introduced and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a South London-based technology journalist, consultant and author We cannot count tanks coming off the production line. But we ...