Ernest Swinton
An early advocate of the armoured idea in 1914-16 -- one name among a committee.
Role
3
War
3
Note
3
Tiger, T-34, Sherman -- the hobby trinity. Mark I and FT should be in the photograph too.
K2 is a Korean industrial icon, not a global film star.
People
Walter Gordon Wilson
Co-designer of the British rhomboid transmission story -- an engineering name.
Role
3
Machine
3
Point
3
J. F. C. Fuller
Plan 1919 and interwar armour writing -- influential and arguable.
Era
3
Idea
3
After
3
Heinz Guderian
Achtung -- Panzer! and 1940 fame; memoirs that need caution.
Book
3
War
3
After
3
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Deep operations and a 1937 death in the purge -- a lost institutional path.
Idea
3
Death
3
State
3
Mikhail Koshkin
The engineer name on the 1940 type that 1950 brought to Korea.
Type
3
Died
3
Legacy
3
Israel Tal
A named father of the Merkava project -- an Israeli industrial-military story.
Project
3
Era
3
Point
3
Gotthard Heinrici / etc. -- skip; use a Korean
Paik and later ROK armour leaders met the T-34 in 1950 and then built a domestic type line -- see ROK military page.
War
3
Meeting
3
Later
3
Debate
Infantry support or decisive arm?
The interwar fight; history gave both answers in different years.
Is the MBT finished?
A current-events headline this encyclopedia will not umpire; it will note the cyclical question.
Guderian's memoirs are a source with a motive.
Model kits are a memory industry.