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 ...
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 ...
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 various ...