The book's account of British armoured warfare prompts a broader explanation of why military technologies advance unevenly. Technology is described as an inverted pyramid in which each supporting layer opens a wider range of possible applications above it. For tanks, the decisive foundations were increasingly reliable engines and better horsepower-to-weight ratios. Aircraft development accelerated those capabilities because aviation placed exceptional demands on engine power and weight. The passage ties the growing practicality of interwar tanks to engine advances driven partly by aviation.
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British armoured warfare and the engine revolution
A study of British armoured warfare explains how engine reliability, power-to-weight gains, and aviation development made earlier tank ideas increasingly practical.