"Object 279" prototype

Prototype Soviet heavy tank. Note the quadruple tracks and elliptical shield. Quite interesting

 

Oh boy ! Not that again ! It was basicly a failure, and was never brought beyond the testing fase.

 

Seems like a transported UFO to me. Nice picture. Pretty radical though.

 

Just Guess what all those tracks were fore !

So it wouldnt turn over in a "Nuclear-explosion" !! :lol: :lol: I mean the Soviets have had some wierd ideas and concepts, but this is one of the more "Unique" ones !
:roll:

 

Didn't this picture appear in a quiz somewhere? I think I've seen it before but I can't recall the context.

 

All I know about this tank is that the idea was to make a low ground-pressure
tank. This was in 1960's.

 

I believe the tracks where there so that the ground pressure could be reduced.

 

That´s correct, the tracks were there to reduce the ground-pressure. It was the shape of the hull that would keep the tank from being overturned by the shockwave from a nuclear explosion. The tank was far from a failure btw, the reason it never entered production was because it was found to be too complex and expensive.

 

i think it was in the ugo secction

 

It would have been just as big a failure as the MAUS would have been for the Germans !

 

Exactly why? It would have been less of a failure than the E100 atleast :roll:

 

They have one of these in Kubinka and if I ever get there I intend to look it over real close.

The tank was made to be not only able to survive on a nuclear battlefield but to utilize the swampy muddy terrain found in Russia. A good thought but just not practical.

The Russians are quite innovative when they need to be.