Patents, the government license issued to an inventor or company to commercially protect or exploit an innovation or design, are wide ranging and can be as small as a new way of doing something up to a total rethink of how an existing thing might work. Julien Wieczorek (viechoreck), a Polish national living in France, falls into this latter category. Between 1986 and 2000, he submitted a set of design patents for a completely new tank. That is, a tank not just new in design, but new in philosophy as well. Wieczorek’s designs are from a skilled engineer looking at some of the fundamental problems associated with tank design and finding a way to work around them to produce a new bigger, and better tank. A tank with formidable armament, impenetrable armor, and a level of mobility to surpass any contemporary vehicle in NATO or beyond. Music gathered from the Half Life 2 OST If you liked this video, please consider donating on Patreon or Paypal! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tankartfund Paypal: paypal.me/tankencyclopedia Article: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/wieczorek-engin-blinde-de-combat-ebc-and-engin-blinde-de-combat-lourds-ebcl/ Sources can be found in the full article found on our website. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankEncyclopedia/ TE Shop: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/Goodies/tanks-posters.php Our website: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com Gaming News Website: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/games/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tanksencyclopedia Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanksenc Discord: https://discord.gg/3VjQ8Zq Email: tanks.encyclopedia@gmail.com An article by Andrew Hills Narrated by WOOD Edited by S.V.
If the 1986/87 EBC was not a sufficient step change in design for a tank, then the 1998 EBCL was a leap into a future where a military budget for a giant tank might once again exist. The designer himself, Julien Wieczorek, is a bit of an enigma, leaving a long legacy of well thought out and carefully considered patents on a wide variety of civil and military engineering topics. The EBL from the late 1980’s shows a level of out of the box thinking which is extravagant enough to solve that critical problem of a unitary ammunition carousel loader. It was also an idea sufficiently grounded that it is not hard to see it legitimately considered at a time of the Leclerc being prototyped. Music gathered from the Half Life 2 OST If you liked this video, please consider donating on Patreon or Paypal! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tankartfund Paypal: paypal.me/tankencyclopedia Article: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/wieczorek-engin-blinde-de-combat-ebc-and-engin-blinde-de-combat-lourds-ebcl/ Sources can be found in the full article found on our website. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankEncyclopedia/ TE Shop: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/Goodies/tanks-posters.php Our website: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com Gaming News Website: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/games/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tanksencyclopedia Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanksenc Discord: https://discord.gg/3VjQ8Zq Email: tanks.encyclopedia@gmail.com An article by Andrew Hills Narrated by WOOD Edited by dv2321