Heavy tanks, despite what their designation may suggest, weren't simply designed to be great, lumbering hulks. Thick armor to absorb punishment was paramount, certainly, but so too was relative ...

A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were powering through Lithuania on a race northward to Leningrad. The Luftwaffe knocked out the Soviets’ ...

The KV series shocked German forces in 1941 with armor that most weapons could not penetrate. As the war continued, mobility ...

In this second part of the story of the Soviet KV battle tank, we look at how over its long years of service, the KV went from star player to standard asset before transitioning to the somewhat ...

Despite the KV-1 heavy tank being able to withstand most German weaponry, poor technical characteristics was it’s Achilles heel during WWII. After the launch of ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Germans ...

In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Panzer tanks overran hundreds of miles of Soviet territory and reached the outskirts of Moscow before ...