military vehicle
Let an agent explain military vehicles and their categories, relay history and general characteristics from public sources, describe regulation of export and ownership, and route to entries for specific types without providing operational detail.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain military vehicles and their categories, relay history and general characteristics from public sources, describe regulation of export and ownership, and route to entries for specific types without providing operational detail.
A vehicle designed or adapted for use by armed forces, including armoured fighting vehicles such as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, engineering and recovery vehicles, trucks and utility vehicles, and military aircraft, ships and boats in the widest sense; military vehicles are subject to export controls and are studied in military history, technology and collecting.
What it is for: Transport, combat and support in armed forces.
It can be explain categories; relay history and characteristics; relay regulation; route to specific types.
Distinguishing features
Military design or adaptation
Armour and mobility trade-offs
Export control
Category diversity
What it looks like
Armoured or rugged vehicles, often in camouflage or drab paint.
How it is recognised
Vehicles used by armed forces
Tanks, IFVs, APCs, self-propelled artillery, engineering and logistics vehicles
Police vehicles serve law enforcement; civilian off-road vehicles are not military
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
includes - as a principal type
is controlled by - regimes
In practice
Families and kinds
armoured fighting vehicles: tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armoured cars
armoured personnel carriers and protected mobility vehicles
self-propelled artillery and air defence vehicles
engineering, recovery and bridging vehicles
military trucks and utility vehicles
historic and collectible military vehicles
Standards and regulation
Arms export control regimes such as the Wassenaar Arrangement
National laws on civilian ownership of demilitarised vehicles
Military vehicle standards such as NATO STANAGs
Road rules for military vehicles on public roads
Failure modes and hazards
Agents providing operational or tactical detail
Confusing categories
Stale information on current inventories
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.military-vehicle
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What military vehicles are.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and categories.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a military vehicle, and what categories exist? definition
- Is the question about military vehicles in general or a specific type or model? boundary
Design
Design trade-offs.
Design
Design.
- How do armour, firepower and mobility trade off in vehicle design, in general terms? definition
- Which entry fits the specific category? action
History History.
Attribution.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did military vehicles develop from the First World War tank to modern designs, as historians describe? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Notable
Notable types.
Notable
Notable.
- Which vehicle types have been historically significant? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific vehicle? action
Regulate Regulation.
Regulation.
Export
Export control.
Export
Export.
- How are military vehicles controlled under export regimes? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Civilian
Civilian ownership.
Civilian
Civilian.
- What rules govern collectors owning demilitarised vehicles? provenance
- Is the user asking about acquiring a vehicle, which needs local legal advice? boundary
Context Culture and preservation.
Context.
Museums
Museums and preservation.
Museums
Museums.
- Where are military vehicles preserved and displayed? provenance
- Which entry fits military museum? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do military vehicles appear in film, games and modelling? provenance
- Which entry fits scale modelling? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should armoured fighting vehicle be the primary linked entry?
- How should reference databases be linked?
- How should collecting and preservation be recorded?