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: frontal ...

The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive ...

The tank was known only as Object 279, one of those opaque Soviet designations that could mean just about anything. But just looking at the experimental Soviet heavy tank from the 1950s is enough ...

However, the Kremlin continued building thousands of heavy tanks into the 1960s until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev effectively put a stop to it. The Object 279 was part of this tradition.

The Atomic Tanks of the 1950s - Object 279 and Chrysler TV-8. Posted: May 25, 2025 ... the American heavy tank and the Soviet Object 279, both shaped by the atom in the 1950s.

This Soviet heavy tank looks more like a UFO mounted on the two pairs of tracks. The unique “Object 279” was designed by the Soviets in the late 1950s to participate in nuclear warfare.

The IS-2 was developed during the last few years of World War II. It went by the name Object 240, as per the Soviet system of naming military prototypes (such as Object 279, the unique Soviet tank ...

Object 279, the Soviet experimental heavy track. Developed at the Kirov Industrial Plant in Leningrad. Only one was built, in 1959. The tank has a four-track running gear and a 2000 hp 2DG-8M ...

These futuristic battle machines were supposed to change the face of warfare, yet never came into mass production, due to World War II. From 1925 until 1960, Soviet engineers experimented on ...