Russian tanks and armor IS-8 IS8

This heavy tank was a prototype in the IS-series called IS 8 or Object # 266. Developed in Leningrad design office under Z.J.Kotina's management. It had a one-line hydromechanical transmission, a planetary box of transfers with two degrees of freedom, two-level planetary mechanisms of turn, disk stopping brakes and automatics of switching of transfers. It was made in one single copy still intact in the Kubinka Armour Museum outside Moscow.
IS 8 photo

IS 8 Object 266
1950
Prototype
Heavy tank Weight: 50 tons Length: 9,72 m Width: 3.39 m Height: 2,46 m Armour: 120-200 mm Gun: 122 mm Mach. guns: 2x12,7 mm Engine: 700 hps Crew: 4 Speed: 42 km/h	This heavy tank was a prototype in the IS-series called IS 8 or Object # 266. Developed in Leningrad design office under Z.J.Kotina's management. It had a one-line hydromechanical transmission, a planetary box of transfers with two degrees of freedom, two-level planetary mechanisms of turn, disk stopping brakes and automatics of switching of transfers. It was made in one single copy still intact in the Kubinka Armour Museum outside Moscow. IS 8 photo