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The original intention behind this page was to make
it easier for me to access my locally-archived materials, without having to
put too much work into it. It was a nice thought. Working on it
and making it look and behave better has become a favorite means of
procrastination for me. The "T-90 vs M1A2" discussion, for instance,
was not very useful, and I've taken the time to organize it and clean it
up. There was a lot of good information in there mixed with utter
garbage, and I tried to distill it for the good information. I've also added a list of external links to other people's web sites at the bottom of the page. This is partly because there are MBT resources I like to keep an eye on which change periodically (ie, "tanks for sale" sites) but also because in some cases, linking to the site was deemed more suitable than caching a local copy. 2003-05-28 - Posted more International Journal of Impact Engineering publications, here (thanks again, Paul!). 2003-05-08 - My MBT Resources site has been a bit neglected of late, partially due to my own procrastination in the face of the daunting tasks of reorganizing the page and adding new material. One point of progress is the addition of publications from the International Journal of Impact Engineering, thanks to Paul Lakowski. The index page for these publications is linked from the Mirrors/Archives section. 2002-07-30 - Egads, I just added a lot of new stuff! Once again, I need to seriously rethink the organizational layout of this web site. I am going to be tweaking the current page for a while, when I have time. The next major change will probably be to break it up into many smaller web pages (but with a site map available, for those of us who like a single large index), add another layer of indexing to some sections, and figure out a better way of organizing the captured usenet posts. Until that happens, I am unlikely to add much more in the ways of content (though I am always collecting stuff as I find it). 2002-07-22 - Once again, I have a lot more content collected which I hope to put on this web site soon. Unfortunately, little of it regards Chinese AFV technology. The darned stuff is hard to come by! I will continue working at it, though. 2002-07-10 - Important News: On request from FAS, I have removed my mirror of the FAS web site from this server. I have been corresponding with FAS to see what I might do to obtain permission to host this information again, but it seems unlikely in the foreseeable future. If the situation changes, the mirror might return. In the meantime, The links to the FAS web site remain intact.  I apologize for the inconvenience. 2002-04-26 - Took the advice of Nanoman, and put up a graphic of a tank near the top of the page. Normally I dislike cluttering a page with needless bandwidth-sucking imagery, but at this point the page html is many times larger than the (8KB) image. Also, decided to take down the background image. I'm trying to research Chinese MBT's some, but good info seems hard to come by. Also, making up a unified database of AFV specifications. When done, it will incorporate information from FAS's site and others, and will be available in XML and tab-delimited formats. Eventually I hope to have some CGI in place here which allows users to generate charts on the fly, segmented by various vehicle characteristics. 2002-03-21 - I have a lot more stuff to put up here, but I want to figure out how to better-organize the site, first. Eventually I hope to get a discussion Phorum working on this page, but getting the Phorum package working is proving a bit problematic. If you need to contact me in the meantime, please send email to "t t k (at) c i a r . o r g". |
These are some generally informative sites I have archived on my local server. Click on the description to view my archive, or click on the '[LINK]' to the right of the description to visit the actual site (which might be faster, depending on network conditions). | ||
Archive | [DEACTIVATED] Mirror of FAS's USA Land Forces Index | [LINK] |
Archive | [DEACTIVATED] Mirror of FAS's "Rest of World" Land Forces Index | [LINK] |
Archive | Mirror of Vasiliy Fofanov's Modern Russian Armour [OLD SITE] | [LINK] |
Archive | Mirror of Vasiliy Fofanov's Modern Russian Armour [NEW SITE] | [LINK] |
Archive | Proceedings of 19th International Symposium on Ballistics - Many physicists' publications on advanced armor and weapon techniques | |
Archive | Some International Journal of Impact Engineering publications - Many physicists' publications on advanced armor and weapon techniques (Updated 2003-05-08) | |
Archive | More International Journal of Impact Engineering publications - Many physicists' publications on advanced armor and weapon techniques (Updated 2003-06-01) |
I have paid a lot of attention to Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT. It just strikes me as a particularly nifty little tank. Everyone I know tends to think of Pakistan (if they think of Pakistan at all) as a third-world backwater, and yet they have managed (with a lot of help from China) to come out with a highly functional, very modern, rather innovative main battle tank, and I find that utterly delightful. Al-Khalid is basically a Chinese Type-90-II (China's standard export model), with imported Ukrainian engine (and a few other components), and the rest manufactured indigenously, with various Pakistani modifications and enhancements. It is a nimble tank with a lot of firepower, an autoloader, and a modern firecontrol system. Kudos to Pakistan! Al-Zarrar is another innovation coming out of Pakistan. It is an upgrade to the Chinese Type-59 light tank which completely overhauls its major systems to modern equivalents -- armor, engine, transmission, suspension, communications, firecontrol, stabilization, autoloader, and main gun (upgraded to 125mm). | |
HTML | Pakistan and the Arms Trade |
HTML | Al-Khalid Article From Jane's Defense |
HTML | Analyst Compares Al-Khalid vs India's Arjun MBT |
HTML | Pakistani Brig. Muhammad Asaad on Al-Khalid |
HTML | Pakistani Lt. General (Retd) Sardar F S Lodi on Al-Khalid |
HTML | Article - Ukraine to Provide 315 Engines for New Al-Khalid Production |
HTML | Overview of Pakistani Al-Khalid MBT Development |
HTML | Rumors of Malaysia Purchasing Al-Khalids from Pakistan |
HTML | Article - Statistics and Developmental Timeline of Al-Khalid MBT |
HTML | Pakistan Army Inventory |
HTML | Pakistani MBT Modernization Plans |
HTML | Opinion Article About Al-Zarrar and Al-Khalid |
HTML | Pakistani Type-59 Upgrade (Al-Zarrar) |
HTML | Description of Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT (biased) |
India's Arjun Tank Project (1996) [.pdf] | |
IMAGE | An Image of Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT |
IMAGE | Another Al-Khalid Image |
IMAGE | Yet Another Al-Khalid Image (Al-Zarrar in Background) |
IMAGE | Excellent Picture of Pakistan's Al-Zarrar (T-59 Upgrade) |
IMAGE | Pakistani T-80UD MBT |
IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid MBT |
IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
IMAGE | Pakistani Type-59 (NOT Al-Zarrar Upgrade) |
IMAGE | Line Drawing of Pakistani Type-59 |