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 ...
Topic: Nuclear war and tanks are not exactly a winning combo. In a war that never happened, formations of heavy and rather odd-looking Soviet tanks would have powered through atomic explosions in ...
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The Soviet tank built to survive nuclear war

Object 279 was a Soviet super heavy tank designed to operate on a nuclear battlefield. Its oval hull and four track ...