Statement of Intent

This is a blog about heavy tanks. That sentence alone has probably already given you about a hundred questions. For example: Why write a blog about heavy tanks? What demand could possibly exist for such a thing? While I could give a relatively standard answer, such as “Because I want to”, or “Because I have to do it for school”, there are much better reasons for doing this. Most importantly – heavy tanks are fun. There is nothing boring about a large steel box with a giant cannon sticking out of it, striding across a battlefield at 20 kilometers per hour, impervious to anything it sees before it. And it’s fun to blog about fun things, so why not? But there’s another reason as well – many people tend to assume a general definition of what a heavy tank is based on what they’ve heard in popular culture, from movies or comics or video games. And it’s those people to whom the information here is primarily addressed – people who either consume media and have an incorrect definition of what a heavy tank is, and the people who produce this media using these incorrect definitions in the first place. This blog is all about what a heavy tank really is, and the engineering principals behind them.