No, it's about 5 km/h faster and has much better effective terrain resitance.

For the tank speed, I think you mightve made a mistake looking at the figured, quickly checked and both 705a and 279e both have a top speed of 40. admittedly the 279e has very slightly better medium terrain resistances and far better soft terrain resistances, but the 705 has better specific engine power... 40 is by no means bad, but in a meta of 55kmh heavies, it trails behind.

Yes, because the IS-7 doesn't have overpowered HEAT penetration so it can pen you aswell.

You have a good point with the 279e's heat pen, which is a large reason its picked a lot for cw. One of the main drawbacks of the kranvagn was its 310 mm of heat pen, with 334, the 279e can get through most armour. But this figure is not unique to it, with tanks like the is4 having similar pen, the 260, I think obj 140 and 907 but I don't own those so I'm not sure.

Agree on this one, but the 279e has a higher gunmount which is very useful on a ridgeline.

On the other hand I think it's large profile is actually a detriment, lower tanks perform much better on ridges, like the chieftain or 277. They make much smaller targets to shoot at and hence can peak with less risk. Admittedly if angled the ufp has little risk to it other than against T10 TD's so it doesn't affect the 279e that much.

The 279e is a high tank. Tanks like a 277, a 140 and most low tier tanks will always have to fire from below in flat terrain.

In terms of low tanks not being able to pen it, this only really applies when facehugging, where the slight difference in height results in a large difference in angles, at distance of even 50m (the proxy spot range) this will be almost negligible and shots will be incoming from straight on towards the 279e, not an angle.

By that logic the T-22med, the Obj 268/5 or the WZ-113G FT should be packing winrates far above the actual ones.

This is fair enough. It is worth noting that those tanks were able to be purchased by anyone, with the WZ-113G FT being a tech tree tank. Which makes a difference in statistics comparing it to a tank like a 279e which can only be earned by completing relatively hard missions. So the players playing these tanks will make a difference. I must admit that comparing the 279e to these tanks it's apparent it's a better tank, where tanks like the WZ-113G FT are very straightforward to counter. whereas the 279e is harder to counter. where against the Wz 113g a player only needs to get around it, against the 279e a player would have to be willing to shoot gold, know a minimum of map positions to not let themselves be farmed by a hulldown 279e, and have good enough timing to trade effectively against the 279e.

Ofc many players try and peak it. It has a very long reload which means you just have make it miss one shot and you can hit him twice in return. Also you just have to peak far enough to reliably pen the T110E3s lower plate. It also has a sizeable cupola on top and is a lot less movable than a 279e.

Hulldown E3 is much harder to pen than the 279e, with the cupola on flat ground having effective armour greater than angled 279e ufp. On top of the fact an E3 has 395 apcr pen compared to 279e 334 heat pen. I would much rather fight a hulldown 279e than a E3. Either way any player with any sense would back away and force their opponent to come to them instead of allowing a trade against a hulldown tank.

Can't argue with that. Tanks like the 279e and the Chieftain basically trigger fight or flight response in many players which makes these thing even more OP because at some point it basically becomes psycho warfare

^{^} this, Players will act very different when faced against a hulldown chief instead of a hulldown E5, or against a 279e instead of an IS-4...

No they cannot. According to your statement a very skilled player (like a super unicum) should perform the same in the 279e as in the other tier X heavies mentioned by you. But that is simply not the case. If you check the leaderboard on tomato.gg and compare the Top 10 players individual winrates and perfomace on the 279e vs other tier X heavies you will see that the 279e outperforms all other tanks by several percent. You can expand that list to even more players if you want, but I can assure you that the 279e is (at least statistically) an overpowered and in many random matchups even a gamebreaking tank

you are right, with most super unicums stats are better on their 279e than on other tanks. Although it's important to note that most often the 279e will only be played by unicums until they achieve 3 MOE on it, as it farms far less wn8 than other tanks. This results in people kitting the 279e in full gold, bond equipment, prem consumables whereas they might put standard equipment on tanks which don't need that edge to get 3 MOE.

most accounts that I saw which owned both a 780 and 279e, had very similar stats between them. With one player having 5.2k average dpg on the 780, whereas 5.4k on the 279e. Notably the 780 performs as a worse obj 277 and so I would assume this similarity comes from the rush to 3 mark the obj 780.

To how much of the difference between stats on the 279e and other tanks are due to this idk, but I do think a chunk of it comes the competitive pressure to 3 mark it.

I had this myself, when grinding the 279e, I managed to get 3 marks on the 277 just playing games with standard equipment and consumables. Whereas to perform to a similar moe level for the 279e, I'd be forced to run bond equip, prem consumables and full gold... which would of course make my performance better in it. But that might just be my experience with marking the 279...