A Russian T-72B3A tank carrying Moscow's most advanced active protection system — software-updated just six months earlier to intercept first-person-view (FPV) drones — was struck without any visible ...

Historically tank armor has been ‘passive,’ providing protection just by being there, but this has been supplemented with ‘active’ armor which responds to a threat. In the 1980s Russia started adding ...

Russia launched one of its largest mechanized attacks in months, sending tanks, armored vehicles, engineering equipment, motorcycles, ATVs and infantry toward Ukrainian positions in Donbas. The gamble ...

Russian tanks have entered battle for the first time with a new active protection system designed to shoot down incoming drones. But the technology’s recent combat debut in Ukraine met with only ...

What You Need to Know: Russia has deployed a new batch of T-90M main battle tanks to Ukraine, fitted with the Arena-M defense system to counter threats from drones and anti-tank missiles. The Arena-M ...

Soviet era T-34 tanks roll on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2025. Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany ...