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The first online Tank Museum
THE Destination for Tanks enthusiasts.

From mud, barb wire and trenches
WW1 UK and France started development of tanks in order to save the lives of their soldiers. The first idea was to bring them right in eney trenches across the no man's land, but the tank quickly became a killing machine integrated in combined arms operations.

The armour golden age
Never so many tanks had the occasion to fight. From the Jungles of Guadalcanal to the arid desert of Libya, the icy and windy steppes of Russia and the rainy bocage of Normandy. Tanks with infantry.

Modern Armoured Fighting Vehicles
It takes two diametrally opposed superpowers to make a cold war. The USA and USSR, together with their own alliances, forged a new generation of armoured vehicles learning as it went from numerous proxy wars.

Tanks are alive and kicking !
AFV means "Armored Fighting Vehicles". First of an array of acronyms such as MBT, IFV, APC, SPAAG, SPAAML, SPG, SPH, SPRL, ARV, AVLB well known by the military of all nations today. Part of the professional army parlance today.


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David's Tank Encyclopedia
7,000,000 visitors and counting since 2011
History

Tank Encyclopedia started quietly as a SEO experiment by me with a scratch-built php website, well coded and lightning fast. The tank subject a that time was covered by already a dozen of websites, but there was room for a different concept. Being both an illustrator and webmaster specialist by trade was a gift for technical and aesthetic aspects, less so for the content itself, not being a tank nerd or native speaker. The team quickly took care of that and brought quality to a whole new level. The initial challenge was completed as in three years as the website's pages arrived on top of google, just behind wikipedia. It could have stopped there. But this story is obviously not over. The goal is still to cover ALL models, and in the long run, military vehicles at large, lass than the tanks prototypes covered on the homepage.
Legendary Illustrations

2000+ dedicated illustrations has been made since at least 2009, one of the most proficient collection of that genre on the planet. What makes them so special is the use of photorealitic patterns and elements on photoshop and a method that allow reuse of elements and "mass production". The aim of each page is to bring to modellers all possible references of sub-types and variants deduced from photos and references, with accuracy in mind, and a constant quality and style for easy comparison.
Did your knew military cars and trucks, TELs and other vehicles than tanks were covered ? Discover the military vehicle section
For Modellers

There was no particular angle taken by the author on tank encyclopedia, at first less for historians/nerds and more for modellers. These illustrations made their way in edition, from National geographic, to the World @ war series, Pen & sword, Amber books, and many other publishers, as well as in video and table games. But hold on, the final reference book for modellers is currently on the works. Schedule will depend of the current events (COVID curfew). This book will present perhaps three thousand color references for all armoured vehicles from WWI to this day, covering all nations. The absolute bible on this matter.
2015 archives

In 2015, now six years ago, the static php side was converted into a dynamic CMS with wordpress. Appearance was still quite striking by then. Click the image.
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