This video looks at the Vickers-Armstrongs Type E, a British tank design from the interwar years that influenced armored warfare worldwide. It covers its innovative twin- and single-turret variants, ...
In my October 2022 blog about the Netherlands liquid hydrogen (LH 2) composite tank consortium, I discussed the 45-month project funded by the Dutch government and its aim to validate a fully ...
South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem has formally launched the development of its next-generation main battle tank, the K3, in coordination with the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and the Defense Agency ...
Tank design has been refined for more than a century to create massive, agile, and deadly weapons of war. Initially, tanks were slow and marginally effective on the battlefields of World War I, but by ...
After work with BMW showed cuboidal tanks could provide higher volumetric efficiency than multiple small cylinders, TU Munich began projects to develop a composite design and manufacturing process ...
The European Union aims to draw up a master military strategy document to define future threats, goals and ambitions in defence while focusing on six new areas of joint weapons development including ...
Collins Aerospace has been selected to lead a group developing thermoplastics technology for liquid hydrogen tanks that will power sustainable aircraft in the future. The consortium will bring ...
Challenger 3 may serve as a capable stopgap, but it embodies a design philosophy already nearing obsolescence argues former ...
Key point: The Sherman tank was useful because it was reliable but it was also not the best technology had to offer. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. The same American tanks were ...
Key Point: The Sherman’s inadequacies were products of its origins. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection ...
ClassNK has issued an approval in principle (AiP) for a methanol fuel tank design concept developed by SRC Group, which uses ...