Object 279

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Object 279
Object 279 (heavy tank) .jpg

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General properties
crew 4th
length 11.09 m
width 3.4 m
height 2.64 m
Dimensions 60 t
Armor and armament
Armor 305 mm (tower front), 269 mm (tub bow)
Main armament 1 × 130 mm M-65 cannon
Secondary armament 1 × 14.5 mm MG KPW
agility
drive H16 diesel engine 2DG-8M or DG-1000
1000 HP or 950 HP
suspension hydropneumatic
Top speed 55 km / h
Power / weight 16.7 hp / t or 15.8 hp / t
Range 300 km

Object 279 ( Russian Объект 279 ) is the prototype of a heavy Soviet tank, which was designed by a development team around Lev Trojanow in 1957.

description

The tank was specially designed to withstand nuclear weapon explosions in close proximity. Tests by the Soviet Army had shown that tanks that are in the immediate vicinity (less than 1000 m) of the explosion zero point were knocked over by the pressure wave, but remained largely operational. The exterior of the object 279 was therefore designed in such a way that the shockwave has very little resistance to it. Furthermore, the center of gravity of the vehicle was very low, so that the stability was further increased. To protect the crew, radiation protection material was used in the tub and in the tower. The four chain strands also provided additional stability and had a positive effect on the ground pressure. The ground pressure of the 60 ton vehicle was less than 0.6 kg / cm². During test drives, the vehicle managed to drive on soft ground that was not considered to be passable by tanks. It was planned to equip only reserve units of the high command with this unusual tank. The Object 279 was tested successfully, but its development was discontinued in 1959 at the behest of Nikita Khrushchev , as it preferred tank destroyers like the IT-1 ( Russian ИТ-1 ). So the termination of the project was politically motivated. The only example is in the Kubinka Tank Museum .

The armament was unusually strong for the time of development; a stabilized 130 mm cannon was provided.

As the drive were two H16 - four-stroke diesel engines to choose from: the DG-1000 with an output of 950 hp and 2DG-8M with an output of 1,000 hp.

literature

  • Rolf Hilmes: Main battle tanks today and tomorrow: Concepts - Systems - Technologies . 1st edition. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-613-02793-0 .
  • AW Karpenko: Soviet-Russian tanks . 1905-2003. Ed .: Rudi Meier. Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2004, ISBN 3-933395-44-5 , p. 436 (491 pp., Russian: Обозрение отечественной бронетанковой техники (1905–1995 гг.) . Translated by Rudi Meier).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h A. W. Karpenko: Soviet-Russian tanks . 1905-2003. Ed .: Rudi Meier. Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2004, ISBN 3-933395-44-5 , p. 436 (Russian: Обозрение отечественной бронетанковой техники (1905–1995 гг.) . Translated by Rudi Meier).
  2. ↑ a b c Unique Nuclear War Tank. englishrussia.com, accessed April 10, 2020 .

Web links

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