Tanks, like most combustion-powered vehicles, rely on transmissions to move under their own power. But do they have manual or ...

Modern main battle tanks, including the M1A2 Abrams, have largely moved to automatic transmissions. It’s part of a wider ...

The Omsktransmash tank plant in Siberia. A shortage of modern optics is throttling Russia’s ability to manufacture new T-72BM3 and T-90M tanks, and restore older T-72s, T-80s and T-90s, to make good ...

Car air conditioning has been around since the 1940s, but what about military vehicles? With so many tanks deployed in hot climates, are they air conditioned?

Russian T-90As on parade on Red Square in 2016. But why is Russia fielding older tanks in Ukraine rather than these modern ones? The war in Ukraine is the best-documented in history, with online ...