I think there's a lot of romanticism. That and data. There's a fascination with WWII that goes far beyond the hobby group here. WWII was one of the only times in modern history we had large scale tank battles. Aside from Israel's wars in the 60s or so and the first Gulf war, there have been very few significant tank "wars" where tank on tank combat formed such a large part of the action. So, anyone looking at armored combat is going to look at WWII a lot.
There is also the look. WWII was the point where we didn't quite have the science settled, but we were past the crazy era of interwar tank, tankettes, and tank-like objects(that period has it's own fascinations), so we had very interesting and various designs, but they're not as formulaic as modern tanks. Because there has been so much historical research and romaticism about WII versus later conflicts, we also have a larger pool of data on the machines used, and they're old enough there's pretty much zero advantage to withholding design data. So blueprints are available, you can go to museums and crawl on them buy thick books, etc. etc. A little harder to find information on modern tanks, some even still have a fair amount of classified stuff on them. -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
