Modern tanks are built to withstand extreme punishment, but today’s anti-armor weapons are designed to defeat them with ...

Weapons developments out of Ukraine come quick and often sudden. Case in point a Ukrainian Leopard 2 that has appeared in the field sporting an outer crust of explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks ...

Video shows a Russian T-72B3 tank from its Western Military District thundering through the mud with an overhead metal screen, widely termed “cope cage” by Ukrainian troops, with an added layer of ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed explosive reactive armor as a way of quickly adding protection to tanks and other heavier armored vehicles. ERA works by, well, exploding. When an incoming ...

Steve Balestrieri, a National Security Columnist and former U.S. Army Special Forces NCO, provides a technical and strategic ...

Ukraine is receiving refurbished T-72 tanks pulled from old Warsaw Pact stockpiles and rebuilt by a Czech defense company.

The Ukrainian army is up-armoring its American-made M-1A1 Abrams tanks—with a layer of explosive reactive armor. The ERA—sandwiches of plastic-explosive and steel that explode outward when struck—can ...

The first functional tank ever built was the venerable Little Willie, constructed in 1915 by the British William Foster & Co. It was not designed for combat, but rather as a proof of concept. The ...

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 ...

Summary: Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces recently claimed to have destroyed two Russian tanks, a modern T-90 and an older T-72, using first-person-view drones in the Donetsk region. -This ...

Iran's domestically produced Karrar tank, with its 125mm cannon, ERA armor, and speed of 70 km/h, is it a major advancement ...