tank design

Hello everyone. Today I wanted to share one of Japan's heavy tanks, the Aichi 96. Designed sometime after the Type95 heavy tank, Japan delved into producing new tanks in an attempt to fielding them across China. Multiple companies are listed to have taken part. This tank had at least unit built...

It seems that CA Parsons suddenly constructed gas turbines in 1954 for Conqueror prototype P.7 07BA70 and made it the first AFV to have a gas turbine engine. Cuz I have never read any materials about the development of early British gas turbines for ground vehicles. Anyone knows something about...

Well, this was an early Western hard kill APS of the most obvious kind. A remotely controlled (twin) machinegun turret on top of the tank turret roof with its own sensor, shooting at incoming missiles. A kind of Vulcan Phalanx CIWS for tanks. I understand that a millimetric radar would cost a...

As we know the Russians managed to standardise their tanks forces in the 60s and 70s on two designs: The T55 and later the T72. What tank should NATO have chosen if politics had been no object?

G'day gents. Can I request the assistance/input of our resident 'Tank' experts/enthusiasts please? I'm intrigued with the Swedish adoption of the Bofors 105mm L/62 rifled gun, which they developed and employed on their Stridsvagn 103 tank. From what I'm able to ascertain, this gun was a...

RM released this late last year. MGCS=Main ground combat system= the supposed Leo III MBT.

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/are-weaponized-crab-walker-robots-future-chinese-land-wars ORIGINAL CAPTIONS FOR IMAGES BELOW:

Photo taken from the Bulgarian forum, according to the author obtained from Kharkov. Link: http://forum.boinaslava.net/showthread.php?13811-%E2%FA%E7%EC%EE%E6%ED%EE-%EB%E8-%E5-%F2%EE%E2%E0/page3 Object 477 'Molot' also known as "Boxer" or FST-2. Design work of the Object 477 next generation MBT...

[IMAGE CREDIT: MoD (Japan)/TRDI] The new name seems to have been adopted sometime later on in 2011, as can be seen in this TRDI pamphlet (page 8 [pdf pg 9]).

i found this on the internet only info on picture was "US prototype" from design, it look like a Tank destroyer

i found this You tube video on 1960s prediction on 1970s weapon system sadly it's show only a fragment of original film View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FydcxZt4Xdk&feature=player_embedded

At present it looks unlikely if the Army will need a Challenger 2 replacement for the foreseeable future. I got into hot water for suggesting that when and if we ever did, we should take a leaf out of the Australian or Canadian book and buy off the shelf. What options are out there? What would...

The Challenger tank was arguably born in about 1970 when the UK, impressed by the performance of their BURLINGTON (Chobham) armour, but concerned that a wholly new MBT would not be in service before about 1985, proposed the development of a near-term improved tank using some existing components...

Filed in 1941 and approved for patent in 1945, the first tank was designed by Harry M. Pflager for GSCC seems based on the M4 though the application was filed after the U.S. Army had already selected the M4 design. Was this one of the competing designs which lost out? The second, designed by...

While searching patents for French tanks, found this German tank design put forth by Wegmann. I've attached the tank image from the patent as well as the patent itself. Did Wegmann ever build it or did it remain a patent design only?

During WWII the British Army came up with the idea of an Assault Tank to defeat German emplaced anti tank guns (PAK) via artillery suppression. Trialled with Churchills the idea was that the assault tank unit would advance into a friendly artillery bombardment that would suppress the anti tank...

during 1980s the Red Army look in new weaponsystem to beat NATO at war 1k17 Tank is one of those system with a 66-pound synthetic ruby rods Laser, it was not cut true US tanks but blind pilots and dazzling optical and electronic mechanisms of enemy weapons systems even in bad weather condition...

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The Jaguar was a joint Chinese/US project between Cadillac Gage and the China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corporation with the intent of modernizing the Type 59 tank and its variants in the mid-1980s. The political fallout of the Tiananmen Square Massacre forced the US and...

Here are a few pictures of the British Army development of the Chieftan tank. The first was the original concept for the Leyland FV4201 medium tank to replace the Centurion when Conqueror production was due to end in 1957. Then there is the '40 ton Centurion' FV4202 to prove the reclined...