Key point: China has finally fielded a first-class main battle tank. China has a lot of tanks. Like, eight to nine thousand of them. Who else would bother to maintain such a ridiculous number? The ...

The war in Ukraine has brought multiple Soviet-era tank designs back into active combat. This guide explains how to visually distinguish key models such as the T-64, T-72, and T-80 using turret shape, ...

However, the majority of Beijing’s tanks are old designs, particularly Type 59 and 69 tanks more or less directly copied from the 50s-era Soviet T-54 tank. Such is their profligacy that I once had the ...

Ukraine has outfitted another NATO tank type with unusual cage armor. The steel screens help protect German-made Leopard tanks from inbound Russian munitions. The screens, made by Rinat Akhmetov's ...