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Object 279 - The Soviet Nuclear-Proof Tank
The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive ...
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MIL Mi-32- The Soviet Goliath Helicopter
Designed to dwarf all previous helicopters, the Mi-32 would have been the world’s largest rotorcraft. With three rotors and heavy-lift capability, it was intended for transporting tanks and cargo ...
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 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 ...
After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...
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 ...
We excluded prototypes, projects and tanks with limited production runs. After World War II, the Soviet Union continued developing the generation of tanks with new models like the T-54 and T-55 ...
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 ...
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.