Its poor showing against the modern US M1 Abrams and British Challenger 2 tanks in these actions have highlighted its deficiencies. This is not surprising given the design of the T55, once the ...

“This was the first main battle tank used by the Soviet Union in the Cold War era,” said historian John Delaney, a senior curator at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in Duxford ...

Russia's president Vladimir Putin, 70, is taking tanks as old as he is out of storage in his desperate bid to crush Ukraine on the battlefield. A video showing long obsolete Soviet-era T-54B and T ...

While Ukrainian forces train on modern Western weapons, Russian tank crews appear set to take delivery of machines driven by their fathers' — or even their grandfathers' generations. Last month ...

Mosfilm's head told Putin that it donated 28 T-55 tanks and eight PT-76 tanks to the defense ministry. Russian troops have used similar, aging tanks as fire support on the battlefield. As Russia ...

Each of these describes the T-54/55 series of tanks, designed by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War, incorporating incremental changes that keep the series still relevant on ...

Omsktransmash (part of the Uralvagonzavod defense manufacturer within the state tech corporation Rostec) is holding talks with potential customers on upgrading Soviet T-55 main battle tanks ...

Russia appears to be moving 1950s Soviet-era style tanks out of storage in the far east of the country amid concerns over the lack of modern equipment, a think tank has said. Video circulated on ...