Given their potency in combat, it's not much of a surprise that famed models such as the Sherman tank had prominent roles to play in the biggest conflict humanity has yet seen: World War II. In the ...

Object 279 was a heavy tank with some startling capabilities and an emphasis on cross-country performance to more easily traverse sloppy Russian spring conditions. To that end, the Object 279 had four ...

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 ...

The Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s ultimate Cold War tank—engineered to cross swamps, break front lines, and even survive nuclear shockwaves. Weighing over 60 tons and armed with a 130mm gun, it ...