The Obiekt 775, or Object 775 (Объект 775), was a
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
experimental
missile tank
A missile tank is an armoured fighting vehicle fulfilling the role of a main battle tank, but using only guided missiles for main armament. Several nations have experimented with prototypes, notably the Soviet Union during the tenure of Nikita ...
built in 1964.
The tank had an extremely low profile, with a crew of two which sat in an isolated compartment in the turret. The main armament was a 125 mm rifled missile launcher, with a maximum range of 4 km for the "Rubin"
anti-tank guided missiles
An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulder- ...
, and 9 km for the "Bur"
surface-to-surface missiles
A surface-to-surface missile (SSM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea and strike targets on land or at sea. They may be fired from hand-held or vehicle mounted devices, from fixed installations, or from a ship. They ar ...
. It had a rate of fire of 4-5 rounds/min for the "Rubin", and 8-10 rounds/min for the "Bur". Both munitions were guided by an infra-red beam. The "Rubin" anti-tank missiles were capable of penetrating 250 mm of armor at 60° at a range of 4 km. The tank also featured a hydropneumatic suspension and built-in dozer blade, both of which were uncommon for the time.
The Obiekt 775 used the same engine and transmission from
T-64
The T-64 is a Soviet tank manufactured in Kharkiv, and designed by Alexander Morozov. The tank was introduced in the early 1960s. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served in tank divisions, while the T-62 supported i ...
tank. The Obiekt 775T (Объект 775Т) variant used two gas turbine engines instead of the diesel engine.
Only two prototypes of the Object 775 missile tank were built in 1964. The tank wasn't adopted for a number of reasons. These included the crew having poor visibility over the battlefield, the overall complexity of the design, and the low reliability of the missile guidance system. The only surviving Object 775 is on display at the Patriot Park in Kubinka near Moscow.
See also
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IT-1
The IT-1 (, lit. 'tank destroyer-1') was a Soviet Cold War missile tank based on the hull of the T-62. The tank fired specially designed 3M7 Drakon missiles from a pop-up launcher. It saw a very limited service between 1968 and 1970. The large ...
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Object 287
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SU-152 "Taran"
The Object 120 SU-152 "Taran" () was a fully enclosed Soviet tank destroyer built in 1965, which never progressed past the experimental stage.
History
In the early 1960s, the Soviet military concluded that the armor-piercing ammunition used by ...
References
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* http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/roket/roket1.php
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100603012254/http://www.museum-tank.ru/IIIwar/pages3/o7750.html
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