It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...
An MT-LB-12 in 2022. In 1944, the Soviet Union’s state defense committee ordered the country’s industry to develop a better anti-tank gun—one that could penetrate the armor of the latest German tanks.
May 18, 2023: One of the strangest Russian tanks to show up in Ukraine was the amphibious 18-ton 2S25M tank destroyer. Designed for the airborne forces, development began in the 1980s but production ...