The videos depict Kaluga workers hand-crafting a gearbox for a gas-turbine tank engine—their first in 30 years. The goal, apparently, is to produce a new 1,500-horsepower turbine.

The M1A2 Abrams is one of the most powerful and technologically advanced battle tanks in the world, weighing in at 68 tons of ...

The AGT1500 gas turbine engine works by using an air inlet to draw in air. This air is then compressed, mixed with fuel, and combusted, creating a hot, fast-moving flow of gas.

The Soviet-era T-80 main battle tank, envisioned as a high-speed spearhead for a Cold War conflict in Europe, has suffered staggering losses in the war in Ukraine, particularly on the Russian side.

The M1 Abrams tank is one of the largest but also one of the fastest U.S. military tanks ever made. How fast can this ...

The M1 Abrams, weighing 72 tons, boasts a 1,500 horsepower gas turbine engine and can reach a speed of 42 miles per hour. The tank’s engine differs from those in European tanks, which typically ...

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This is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War, and even into the earliest fringes of the 21st century. Of course, being ...