International attention has been drawn to tank warfare in Ukraine. Tanks have big guns, but medium-caliber cannons on other armored vehicles can be just as deadly. Those smaller cannons have "shaped ...

An MT-LB-12 in 2022. In 1944, the Soviet Union’s state defense committee ordered the country’s industry to develop a better anti-tank gun—one that could penetrate the armor of the latest German tanks.

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Soviet Union probably produced more battle-tested tanks than any other country. Russia inherited a formidable and highly varied inventory of tanks after the collapse ...