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".
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