{"id":190791,"date":"2009-10-24T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/obyekt-279-soviet-tank-photos\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:14:00","slug":"obyekt-279-soviet-tank-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/obyekt-279-soviet-tank-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Obyekt 279 Soviet Tank Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at Pravda article about Libyan arms purchases, and and came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moscowtopnews.com\/?area=postView&amp;id=927\">photo gallery for the  Soviet obyekt 279 heavy tank, which they mischaracterized as the T-10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in at about 60 metric tons in the late 1950s, which makes it a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> heavy tank for its day, as does the 130mm rifled gun it sported, along with twin treads on either side to improve mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, but by the time it hit test, the ATGM had largely eclipsed the heavy tank, which was replaced by the by the MBT, the T-54s on the WarPac side, and M-60, Leopard I, and the AMX-30, which were all at least 10 tonnes lighter, and the Centurion\/Chieftain which was at least 10t lighter.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img190.imageshack.us\/img190\/1046\/279test5794804.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img194.imageshack.us\/img194\/4504\/962i.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/2157\/963h.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/9216\/964g.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/2042\/965.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/7677\/966y.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>Video after break:<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f76_1207804827\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f76_1207804827\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at Pravda article about Libyan arms purchases, and and came across a photo gallery for the Soviet obyekt 279 heavy tank, which they mischaracterized as the T-10. It comes in at about 60 metric tons in the late 1950s, which makes it a very heavy tank for its day, as does the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1006,1124,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-photographs","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}