With the Il-2, the Soviet Union’s Ilyushin aerospace bureau ... The pilots also were apparently not too worried about a direct fuel tank hit. “If a fuel tank was hit, that wasn’t bad either ...

As the troops trudged toward their new firing point, six panzers appeared, rampaging into the Russian rear ... the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Red Army began working on multiple tank ...

In this second part of the story of the Soviet ... barrel. On the battlefield In the early stages of World War II, the German forces were startled by the KV’s resilience to fire. The tank ...