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 to ...
In the shadow of the first nuclear explosion in 1945, engineers on both sides of the Cold War raced to create tanks that could survive and even harness atomic power. America’s Chrysler TV-8 and the ...
Key Point: It didn’t make it to the battlefield. Enter the Object 279 tank, a curious oddity from the late 1950s which was obsolete — despite its design principles deliberately reflecting the fear of ...
As the Atomic Age dawned in the late 1940s, both sides of the Iron Curtain looked towards nuclear power to revolutionize their military hardware and way of life. Two very different designs emerged ...
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