Summary and Key Points: Main battle tanks (MBTs) are pivotal in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with both sides deploying various models, including Soviet-era tanks. -Russia’s tank fleet has suffered ...

Back in May, Ukraine’s defense minister Oleksii Reznikov donned the heavily padded TSh-4 cap of a Soviet tanker and was seen riding in the driver’s seat of one of Ukraine’s very few T-84U Oplot ...

Ukraine set out to prove it could build a modern main battle tank by transforming decades of Soviet experience into the BM Oplot. We followed its development from the T-80 lineage through ambitious ...