Object 279 |
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1957 | ||
Prototype | ||
Weight: 60? tons Length: c. 7/11 m Width: c. 4 m Armour: 266-305 mm Gun: 130 mm Shells stored: 24 Machine-gun: 14,5 mm Engine: 16/960 hps alt.: 2DG-8M (1000 hps) Speed: km/h Crew: 4 |
In 1957, a group headed by engineer L.S.Troyanov, devel-oped a prototype of a heavy tank, named "Object 279".
photoNotable is the four-band design (two pairs) to lower the ground pressure of this heavy vehicle, probably the only one of its kind in the history of combat tanks. It had great tract-ability in snowy and swampy terrain. The hull was covered by a thin elliptical shield protecting it against HEAT ammu-nition and preventing it from overturning by the shock wave of a nuclear explosion. The project was abandoned in the late 1957. The only sample of this unlikely vehicle is today (2002) ex-hibited at the Kubinka Armour Museum outside Moscow. |