After the first atomic bomb test in 1945, military engineers imagined tanks that could survive nuclear war. The U.S. TV-8 was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developed in the late 1950s, Object 279 was the Soviet Union’s answer to nuclear-age warfare. Designed to withstand shockwaves from distant atomic blasts and operate on soft, swampy terrain, this ...

Ever heard of a flying or hovering tank? What about a tank able to survive a nuclear blast? These over-ambitious projects were never realized, which may come as no surprise considering how ridiculous ...