Designed by Georgy Shpagin, this submachine gun became a staple of Soviet infantry, known for its reliability, simplicity, ...

Assaulting Ukrainian positions northwest of the 30-building chemical campus, the equivalent of half a Russian battalion—17 MT-LB armored tractors, three tanks and no fewer than 100 infantry ...

On July 24, the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade, holding the line outside the town of Kurakhivka in eastern Ukraine, repelled one of the biggest Russian attacks of the year—a mass assault by 11 ...

The reliance on mass infantry attacks, reminiscent of World War I trench warfare, highlights challenges in adopting modern maneuver warfare tactics. The Russian military is pushing hard to achieve ...

On the pro-Kremlin site Topwar.ru, an interesting analysis explained the need—or rather the necessity—of having heavy, ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

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Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

All aged under 40 and with two years of fighting experience, the six men held their ground despite a barrage of rockets and killed over 100 Russian ... The Ukrainian infantry is most acutely ...