Laser tanks aren't just a sci-fi concept — they're very much real, and prototypes have existed since the Cold War era. From the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, a clandestine ...

Brig. Gen. Michal Strzelecki, the commander of Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade, told BI that he's focused on light infantry ...

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks capable of disabling missiles, blinding pilots, and destroying optical ...

What need would countries have for tanks if they could just atomize their enemies? Plenty, as it turns out. From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union were embroiled ... of thought ...

the T-54 was the original Cold War tank. Dubbed the "Beast From the East" during that East-West standoff, the tank represented a massive leap in Soviet design. It was followed by the introduction ...

LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War ... Soviet troops stationed across Eastern Europe, would Moscow turn its tanks ...

“When he came to power, the Cold War had gone on for nearly 40 years and communism for even longer, with devastating consequences. Few high-level Soviet officials had the courage to admit that ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union ... leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary ...

Roland Lajoie, head of a U.S. military liaison team authorized to monitor Soviet forces in East Germany under a Cold War accord ... unarmed mission to inspect a tank storage building about ...

Gorbachev did not send in Soviet tanks to crush the uprisings. The following year, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Cold War. The Soviet Union quickly began to disintegrate as the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War ... the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using force — unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks ...

Soviet tanks stand on pedestals just half a mile ... the remains of Soviet servicemen stationed in the area during the Cold War. Officials say their duty to care for such memorials dates to ...