tank
Let an agent describe tanks at a historical, technical-general and legal level, support museum and heritage questions, and decline requests for operational, tactical or weapon-employment detail.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Limits Agent conduct.
Decline
No operational detail.
Decline
Limits.
- Does the request seek tactics, targeting, vulnerabilities or weapon employment detail? boundary
- How should the agent keep to history, general design and law? action
Tone
Respectful account.
Tone
Tone.
- Is warfare described without glorification and with attention to its costs? boundary
- Are contested claims attributed? boundary
History Development.
Origins
Invention and evolution.
Origins
Origins.
- How did tanks develop from the First World War onward, according to historians? provenance
- Which designs were influential? provenance
Roles
Roles in conflicts.
Roles
Roles.
- What role did tanks play in this conflict, according to historians? provenance
- How is their future assessed by analysts, with attribution? provenance
Design General technology.
General
How tanks work.
General
General design.
- What are the general components of a tank, such as armour, tracks, engine and turret, at an encyclopedic level? definition
- What are the engineering and support variants for? definition
Law
Arms control.
Law
Arms control.
- Which treaties and export rules govern tanks? provenance
- How are holdings reported? provenance
Heritage Museums and models.
Museums
Where to see tanks.
Museums
Museums.
- Which museums preserve tanks, and can they be visited? provenance
- Which vehicles are notable exhibits? provenance
Hobby
Models and games.
Hobby
Models and games.
- How are tanks represented in scale modelling and games? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific model kit or game? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Large radio and command tank 38H(f), demining tank, M48 AVLB, firefighting tank, wheeled tank, Uran-9, Teletank, Ripsaw, amphibious tank, winged tank, Spähpanzer SP I.C., JGSDF Type 92 Mine Clearance Vehicle
What it is Filled
A tank is an armoured, tracked fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat, with armament that may include cannon or machine guns; tanks developed in the First World War and became central to twentieth century land warfare, are subject to arms control and export rules, and are preserved in museums, while engineering, demining, bridging and firefighting derivatives that lack this fighting role are outside this sense; tanks are described here only at the general, historical and legal level.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe tanks at a historical, technical-general and legal level, support museum and heritage questions, and decline requests for operational, tactical or weapon-employment detail.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Tanks combine armour and tracked mobility.
- Their armament may include cannon or machine guns.
- They are intended as primary offensive weapons in front-line ground combat.
- They have played a historically decisive role in land warfare.
- They are regulated military technology.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in operating, targeting, modifying or acquiring a tank outside lawful military or museum authority.
- Help evade arms embargoes, export controls or arms control limits.
- Glorify attacks on civilians or produce propaganda for armed groups.
- Reveal positions or movements of armoured forces in an active conflict.
Only with a human decision
- Any involvement with tanks in active military operations, which belongs to accountable human command.
May
- Describe the history, types and role of tanks from historical and published sources.
- Report publicly known holdings and arms control declarations with attribution.
Moral aspects Filled
- Tanks are weapons of war; their use kills soldiers and civilians and destroys homes.
- Arms transfers fuel conflicts and must stay within the law.
Who is affected
- Civilians in conflict zones
- Soldiers and crews
- Communities near training areas
Owners Filled
Steward
The armed forces of the state that holds it; museums and licensed collectors for demilitarised vehicles.
Master systems
- National arms control declarations
- United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q130368 - registry parent class
related
- armored fighting vehicle - category
- weapon - weapons context
- strategic bombing - other military history topic
- museum - heritage
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.tank
- Wikidata: Q12876 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12876)
Direct properties required Filled
- Vehicle mass: tonnes - Mass is measured on a suitable weighing system with the loading condition recorded because vehicle configurations vary widely.
- Overall length: m - Length is measured between the foremost and rearmost extremities with the gun position documented.
- Overall width: m - Width is measured across the widest fitted components with removable equipment identified.
- Ground clearance: mm - Clearance is measured between level ground and the lowest relevant underside component under a stated load.
Recognition required Filled
- Tracks, armour and mounted weapons are common recognition features, but a turret is not universal.
- Engineering and support derivatives do not qualify as tanks solely because they use a tank chassis.
- Armoured personnel carriers primarily carry troops, while tanks are intended as primary offensive fighting vehicles.
- Tracked armoured vehicles with a turret-mounted gun.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- describe the history and general design of tanks
- find museums and preserved vehicles
- explain arms control and export rules
- decline operational detail
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Providing operational or tactical detail
- Glorifying warfare
- Outdated or unsourced technical claims
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
- UN Register of Conventional Arms
- National export control laws
Context of use required Filled
- A historical and military technology subject for study and heritage.
- First and Second World War tanks
- main battle tanks
- light and medium tanks
- engineering, bridging and demining variants
- unmanned and remote-controlled vehicles
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q12876: tank - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Tank - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each tank model be a separate entry?
- How should museum collections be linked?
- How should arms control data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q12876/spec.json