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About This Page | Look here for news, updates, warnings, etc UPDATED 2009-09-08 |
Local Archives | Publications from the International Journal of Impact Engineering, 19th International Symposium on Ballistics, and some web sites of relevant interest |
Tanks - Misc | Documents not specific to any single tank type |
Tanks - Specific | Documents specific to tank types |
AFV's | Documents related to non-tank Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFV's) |
Images | Images of various vehicles |
Al-Khalid | Close-up on Pakistan's Al-Khalid, Al-Zarrar, and military issues in general. |
Armor - Historical | Short list of documents related to historical (ie, WWII era) tank armors |
Armor - Modern | Documents related to modern composite vehicle armor, including much informed speculation on the Chobham/Burlington armor system UPDATED 2023-05-23 |
Other Defenses | Everything besides armor that tanks use to avoid getting hurt -- low profiles, explosive reactive armor (ERA), active defense systems, etc |
Tank Guns | Big things that go boom |
Small Arms | Hand-held things that go boom |
Munitions - General | Documents not specific to any particular munition type |
Munitions - HEAT | High Explosive Anti Tank munitions -- shaped charges |
Munitions - HESH | High Explosive Squash Head (aka High Explosive Plastic) -- warheads that go SPLAT! |
Munitions - APFSDS | So-called "Long Rod Penetrators" -- long, thin darts of dense metal that fly fast and hit hard |
Missiles | Rocket-propelled guided weapons |
Artillery | Indirect-fire weapons, including mortars and howitzers |
Strategy, Tactics | Strategy is what determines when and where battles are fought; tactics are what you use once the shooting starts |
Miscellaneous | Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (including engine specifications) |
Links | Some sites update their contents too often to make an archive practical, so these are just links to those sites. Includes discussion forums, for-sale sites, vehicle enthusiasts' societies, etc |
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