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 ...

Ukraine’s T-84 Oplot-M was developed as the most advanced evolution of the Soviet T-80 line, combining a new turret, upgraded protection, improved optics, better mobility, and external ammunition ...

Ukraine has just five or six copies of one of its best tanks—the T-84 Oplot. That’s enough for just one platoon. But when you’re fighting for your country’s survival, one T-84 platoon is better than ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: In late 2003, the U.S. military obtained four of the Ukrainian tanks, which apparently underwent tests at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland in December 2003 ...

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 ...