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An estimated appearance of a Soviet prototype tank that had never got a chance to see the light.
How about that...
Assuming this was real, I doubt it ever got off the drawing board...
Most unlikely. Although, considering the USSR's absolutely ridiculous defence spending at the time, we might be surprised...
Also, Overlord chassis anyone?
Basically the bastard child of a BMP-1 & SPG platform on steroids eh?
I see no BMP here. Most likely SPG T-80 variant.
This is "Possible variants of the unconventional layout scheme for tank". Published in Journal of armored vehicles, №7. 1991. Authors: Gnedash, Mazurenko, Morozov.
Source (on Russian) - Btvt.narod.ru
This 3d reconstruction can have some mistakes and speculations.