By Marisa Belhote
/ September 27, 2021
Germany (May/June-August 1944) Improvised self-propelled anti-aircraft gun - 1 converted The Germans armed forces made wide use of captured equipment...
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By Stan Lucian
/ September 26, 2021
By Stan Lucian
/ September 26, 2021
By Arturo Giusti
/ September 25, 2021
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (2016 - present) Main Battle Tank - 305 planned to be converted The T-54M3 is a...
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By Ed Francis
/ September 24, 2021
United Kingdom (1950) Heavy Tank Project - None built Chimera began as a design exercise in April 1950 at the...
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By Leander Jobse
/ September 22, 2021
German Empire (1908-1909) Armored Car - 1 prototype built As is the case with many early armored vehicles, the armored...
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By Pavel Alexe
/ September 20, 2021
Soviet Union (1949) Heavy tank - Blueprints only With the end of the Second World War (Great Patriotic War in...
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By Pavel Alexe
/ September 18, 2021
Nazi Germany (1944) Fake Super Heavy tank The engineering prowess and military might of Nazi Germany still fascinate many, from...
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Tank Encyclopedia®: The Destination for Tank enthusiasts, since ten years. 7,000,000 visitors, 1,300+ pages
If you are interested in history in general and warfare in particular, Tank Encyclopedia is the place to find ALL armored vehicles that ever roamed the battlefield, from H.G. Wells’ “land battleships” to the latest main battle tanks, our articles cover all eras of armor development and cover a wide swathe of armored vehicle designs ranging from bridge layers and engineering vehicles to tank destroyers and troop carriers. You can also find articles on “softskin” vehicles, anti-tank weaponry, tactics, battles, and technology. Ten years of nerdy obsession for the tracked kind.
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The Four Eras We Cover:
WW1: Mud, Barbed Wire and Trenches The United Kingdom and France started development of tanks in order to break through enemy lines. They were intended to breach no man’s land, but the tank quickly became a killing machine integrated in combined arms operations.
WW2: Proving Ground For Armoured Warfare: For the first time, large numbers of Tanks and Armoured vehicles would combat one another. From the jungles of Pacific Atolls to the arid desert of Libya, the icy and windy steppes of the Soviet Union and the rainy bocage of Normandy.
The Cold War: East vs West: Two opposed superpowers led to the splitting of the world into East and West. The USA and USSR, together with their own alliances, forged a new generation of armored vehicles learning from numerous proxy wars.
The Modern Era: Are Tanks Still Relevant?: Despite numerous prophets heralding the demise of the tank, armor is still an important branch of all the World’s militaries. There are no signs of this changing soon, with the development of tanks continuing to adapt to the modern battlefield.
