280-mm SM-79 Stator
The 280-mm SM-79 Stator is a very poorly attested Soviet atomic artillery project of the mid-1950s. After the end of the Great Patriotic War a new arms race began. In the troops began to arrive nuclear weapons. For its application in the USA and the USSR were created artillery of large caliber. As early as 1947, the design of a 280 mm self-propelled recoilless gun began at TsNII-58 , which was assigned the code "7940" (in documents it was called an "active-reactive cannon"). By the time the Soviet Union started developing nuclear power systems, the artillery in the USA already in 1952 had accepted the 280-mm gun T-131, capable of firing a 15 KT nuclear warhead. These guns were placed in Europe.
Soviet designers also did not lag behind and by the middle of 1950s. They developed and tested several systems: 406-mm self-propelled cannon "Kondenser-2p", 420-mm Self-propelled mortar "Oka" and 420-mm recoilless gun S-103. These works were led by famous designers Artillery armament of Ivan Ivanov, B Shavyrin and V.G. Grabin. In 1955-1957, the first Soviet artillery projectile with a nuclear charge RDS-41 was developed at KB-11.
Further development of the 280-mm [11 inches] artillery "Stator" was in progress, for this KB-1 TsKB-34 developed the moving part of the CM-79. The 280 mm and 420 mm recoilless guns were mounted on a single carriage on the chassis of a heavy tank. For the development of ammunition and verification of the design of the trunks in the Central Research Institute-58, ballistic installations of 280 mm with the cipher "0132BU" and 420 mm with the cipher "0114BU" were designed.
But by that time the guidelines for the development of new military equipment had been revised, the development of art systems was not "fashionable." The country's leadership encouraged the work on missile technology and for this the further design of the Stator system was discontinued.
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