History of the tank - Article Index

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - World War Ii
During World War II, the tank reached new heights of capability and sophistication. The early tanks of Nazi Germany were technologically ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christie Suspension: Encyclopedia - Christie Suspension
The Christie suspension is a suspension system developed by Walter Christie for his tank designs. It allowed considerably longer movement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare
Armoured warfare in modern warfare is understood to be the use of armoured fighting vehicles as a central component of the methods of war...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cruiser Tank: Encyclopedia - Cruiser Tank
The cruiser tank (also called cavalry tank or fast tank) was a British tank design concept of the inter-war period. This concept was the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - Germany
Germany, constrained by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was not allowed to produce tanks of any kind and only a few armoured cars....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank Classification: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank Classification - Tank Types
There were many names given to different tank types, and similar names do not assure the same design goals. Some light tanks were relativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Royal Tank Regiment: Encyclopedia Ii - Royal Tank Regiment - History
The Royal Tank Regiment's formation followed the invention of the tank. Tanks were first used at Flers in September 1916 during the Battl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fv101 Scorpion: Encyclopedia Ii - Fv101 Scorpion - History
Intended to be a fast and air-transportable reconnaissance vehicle, the Scorpion is built from mainly aluminium armour and mounts a L23A1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Tank Tactics
Tanks rarely work alone; the usual minimum unit size is a platoon (or troop) of four to five tanks. The tanks of the platoon work togethe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Armoured Fighting Vehicles - Related Lists
By period List of World War I armoured fighting vehicles List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles List of World War II military vehic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - Japan
In 1925, the Japanese army decided to produce a tank to satisfy its own requirements. Before that year, all tanks in Japanese service had...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Arab-israeli Wars
Both sides in the Arab-Israeli series of conflicts have made heavy use of tanks and other armoured vehicles. Up until the 1973 Yom Kippur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - United States
After World War I, the United States Tank Corps was reduced in size. The Defense Act of 1920 restricted tanks to infantry use only; as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Second World War
Modern armour warfare doctrine was developed and established during the run up to World War II. The fundamental key to warfare is the con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - First World War
Modern armoured warfare began with the development of the tank during the First World War. Following the First World War, the technical a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia - Tank
A tank is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle, designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use of direct fire. A modern main battle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Foster & Co. Ltd: Encyclopedia - William Foster & Co. Ltd
William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based at Lincoln, UK and usually just called "Fosters of Lincoln". The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Nato And Warsaw Pact
During the Cold War, NATO and the Warsaw Pact assumed armoured warfare to be a dominant aspect of conventional ground warfare in Europe. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - Soviet Union
The Soviet Union initially had only a mix of imports and a few domestic tanks developed from the FTs in the 1920s, but Stalin's enthusias...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Support
Armoured warfare is mechanically and logistically intensive and requires extensive support mechanisms. Armoured Fighting Vehicles require...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank Classification: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank Classification - Specialist Tanks
Tanks have often been modified for special purposes. Often they provide armoured capability for combat engineers. These include tanks wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank Classification: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank Classification - Classifying Tanks
Many classification systems have been used for tanks over the nearly one hundred years of their history. Classification has always been d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armoured Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Armoured Warfare - Airborne Threats
Tanks and other armoured vehicles are vulnerable to attack from the air for several reasons. One is that they are easily detectable - the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - United Kingdom
Following the Great War, many experiments involving armoured vehicles were conducted in Great Britain. Particularly many advances were ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fv101 Scorpion: Encyclopedia Ii - Fv101 Scorpion - Variants
Scorpion 90 - This export version is armed with the long-barreled Cockerill Mk3M-A1 90mm gun, fitted with a prominent muzzle brake. It wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanks 1919-1939: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanks 1919-1939 - France
The French used a very wide range of tanks, including many unique types. France was the second largest tank producer in the world, behind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - History
Tank - World War One: the first tanks. Having already seen Rolls Royce armoured cars used by Royal Naval Air Service in 1914, and aware...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Foster & Co. Ltd: Encyclopedia Ii - William Foster & Co. Ltd - The Tank
Fosters as builders of agricultural machinery were involved in the production and design of the prototype tanks, which were in effect agr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Command, Control, And Communications
Commanding and co-ordinating a tank organisation in the field has always been subject to particular problems. Because of the isolation of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Sonic, Seismic, And Thermal Traces
Stationary tanks can be well camouflaged in woodland and forested areas where there is natural cover, making detection and attack from th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Vulnerability
Whilst being a tremendously powerful weapon and the undoubted king of the land battlefield, the tank is not invulnerable. In fact it is t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - The Future Of Tanks Through Research And Development
There has been much speculation as to how tanks will evolve for modern day conflicts. Current research involves making the tank invisible...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Weapons
Main article: tank gun The main weapon of any modern tank is a single large gun. Tank guns are among the largest-calibre weapons in us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Command Control And Communications
Commanding and co-ordinating a tank organisation in the field has always been subject to particular problems. Because of the isolation of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Design
The three traditional factors determining a tank's effectiveness are its firepower, mobility and protection. The psychological effect on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Protection
The main battle tank is the most heavily armoured vehicle in modern armies. Its armour is designed to protect the vehicle and crew agains...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Mobility
There are essentially two main aspects of mobility to consider, the tank's basic mobility such as its speed across terrain and ability to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Tank - Sonic Seismic And Thermal Traces
Stationary tanks can be well camouflaged in woodland and forested areas where there is natural cover, making detection and attack from th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - The Cold War
In the Cold War, the two opposing forces in Europe were the Warsaw Pact countries on the one side, and the NATO countries on the other si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - Entering The Twenty-first Century
The ongoing development of the tank is covered in more detail in the Tank research and development article. With the end of the Cold War ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - Early Vehicles In Warfare
The problem of advancing to attack while under fire is as old as warfare itself. The idea of using some kind of movingconstruction for pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - World War I: Dawn Of The Tank
The tank was developed by the British in World War I as a solution to the stalemate trench warfare had brought to the western front. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Tank - Between The Wars
Between the two world wars, with the tank concept now established, several nations designed and built tanks. Britain and France were the ...   » Read the article