The Atomic Tanks of the 1950s - Object 279 and Chrysler TV-8

looks like the tank i drew in 5th grade

Something to do with nukes = tank has to look like it came out of Fallout

We almost became a real life Fallout video game.

Chrysler made a gas turbine automobile back in1959 I believe not real powerfull but it ran nice.
No funds to R&D such odd ptojects these days

The 1950s when science was king not like today with computer generated AI .
It was a time of nuclear game of Chicken.

"Nuclear powered" vehicles seems kinda silly and scary at the same time

Obj 279 was just one heavy tank out of three proposed (there were also 277 and 770, the latter having the most chances of being adopted as ultimate Soviet heavy tank).

The object 279 was actually built compared to American concepts

glad even the americans laughed at it before tossing it in the trash to Project pluto

How about VK 16 02 leopard?
Can you tell us why the machine gun equipped tank never made it to production and it's flaws ,advantages,dis-advantages and other stuff about it plese

chrysler looks so ugly wtf 😭

I sometimes wonder if the weapons systems of the cold war were dreamt up by adolescent toddlers with far too many dark green crayons.

it's nuts that it was being put into the shot loki seriously that's nuts

People imagine the Object 279 being the size of like a Tiger tank, but people easily forget that this is a Soviet tank we're dealing with here. It was shorter and much smaller than most people imagine it and you'd be lucky if you could fit inside.

Knowing that some vehicles actually became nuclear like battleships and submarines, you should cover what would happen if one were to be sunk or destroyed. What aftermaths would play out and could it be as bad as Chernobyl

Haha object 279 has video of it working tv8 does not

What about the Centurion Mk.IV that wasput at pointblank from a nuke and lived to see action

TV 8 look like a M VI Yoh and a M VII Yoh

If only we continued the nuclear research to advance our society 😔

God the 279 is such a cool looking design.

treasonous Jews are the only reason the Soviets got nukes

I bet wargaming would introduce this as a new line in world of tanks

Good work you do. Thannks

3m
249kw
6.7kl

nukes are fake. hiroshima and nagasaki were firebombed. nuclear test footage is CGI and/or TNT explosions

All comments below about the shaping not having been done for the atomic blast protection have one major flaw. The rim is very thin and the chance of a projectile hitting it just there thus low. that leaves deflection as an argument but this would increase the chance of projectiles getting trapped between the shell and the turret on the Sovjet design and tearing apart the drive system on both, at least turning the vehicles into static bunkers. I’d say the blast theory is still a strong contender. About things being mentioned in literature in the past. An example: Nobody ever mentioned radar stealth when discussing the Blackbird spy plane at the time. Everybody explained it’s shape on the basis of speed requirements. Still the stealth shaping rings through once one knows. I for one never understood those rudders being canted inwards. Now I do.

except that 279 was actually built, where as tv-8 never left a pipe dream stage

Glupoty. Wszystkie rosyjskie czolgi z automatem ladowania byly szykowane na wojne atomowa.ladowniczy z powodu wysilku pierwszy slabnie i umiera. .zolnierze w ruskich czolgach funkcjonowali by kilka dni dluzej. Glupota? Nie, to polityka wojskowa rosji.

Seems like at some point there was this obsession with anything radioactive. I remember reading about the case of Eben Byers.
He gained notoriety in the 1930's because he died after consuming some sort of "medicine" which contained the radioactive material Radium.
There's a picture of him depicting how his entire jaw had just disintegrated and fallen off.
Which is just a "jawdropping" thing to happen.

I'm sorry. But i'm also not sorry.

As for "A tank weighing 60 tons would sink into the ground" - tell that to modern tank designers and they'll laugh. Both the Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams in their most modern configurations clock in at more than 60 tons. And they work just fine, with the standard drive train configuration of two tracks (and not the complex mess of 4 that Object 279 used).

A gasoline powered tv8 with a hydrogen fuel cell might be an interesting idea. Floatation is provided by air-tight hull and might mean bio,chemical immunity. I wonder if an old design with a new eltric tesla batter/hydrogen fule cell combo might be an interesting drone tank. To gather intelligence unmanned?.

It's as if Red Alert units came alive :)

Anyone else just see the video with the Obj. 279 running then this video came up

What a dumb idea🤣

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I was a Cold War m60 tanker

When they actually see how disastrous the aircraft carriers will be when used in naval warfare they will finally leave Nuclear Power alone for warfare

Ahh yes, rhe real world and much more boreing bc not a giant mech Metal Gear

The 279 is not an atomic tank and has never been one, it's just a project of a heavy cross-country tank

It's a good thing we got Sokolov out when we did. Oh wait..

fvckyeah metal gear is a real shlt now

1 gram of diesel has the same energy density as 1gram of uranium . Because E=mc2 .

And they want to build nuclear cars for us civilians to enjoy that sweet sweet nuclear fumes mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I remember first seeing the Object 279 in the Metal Gear Solid 3 and thinking how strange, but captivating design it had. At that time I was not sure if it was a real tank or just a product of the game

I wouldn’t want to repair the inner tracks in the field.