Tanks prior to the laser rangefinder had to rely on stadiametric rangefinding, where an enemy tank was bracketed between markings on the sight to estimate the distance, or stereoscopic rangefinding, ...

Military history tends to remember iconic vehicles such as the Tiger tank or the Soviet T-34, but countless other designs have faded into obscurity. Many experimental vehicles were produced in small ...

In the 1950s, both the Soviet Union and the United States tried to build nuclear-proof tanks. The USSR’s Object 279 had four tracks, a hemispherical hull and 270 mm of armor to survive atomic blasts.