At the end of the Cold War, the sizeable Communist empire of the Soviet Union shattered into several independent states.

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks capable of disabling missiles, blinding pilots, and destroying optical ...

Laser tanks aren't just a sci-fi concept — they're very much real, and prototypes have existed since the Cold War era. From the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, a clandestine ...

The notorious Putin loyalist, known for his frothing rants, pro-war rhetoric, and unapologetic nationalism, issued the ...

the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important conflicts: World War II and the Cold War ...

the T-54 was the original Cold War tank. Dubbed the "Beast From the East" during that East-West standoff, the tank represented a massive leap in Soviet design. It was followed by the introduction ...

liberated the arts and pulled Red Army troops from foreign conflicts such as the Soviet Union’s 10-year debacle in Afghanistan. He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies, freed ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the ...

Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union’s decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake.

One suitably stupid (and short-lived) invention was the flying tank, dreamed up by the Soviet Union during World War II. Tanks, even the small ones, are pretty hefty, making transporting them to ...