Object 279, at around 60 tons in weight, absolutely put the heavy in heavy tank. With armored plating around 11 inches thick, the concept for Object 279 was seemingly focused on one thing: ...

The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive nuclear shockwaves. Weighing over 60 tons and armed with a 130mm ...

Object 279 was the brainchild of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad. Designed in 1957, the sixty-ton vehicle would have been assigned an assault role typical of World War II heavy tanks, which was to ...