About Jon Hawkes
Writing about tanks, AFVs and land warfare technology
I own The Institute of Tanknology blog, a personal blog by me, an industry commentator on land warfare technology and a Principal at Janes, where I previously was Associate Director and Head of Land Warfare for some years having fulfilled a range of military ground vehicles market forecasting, industry analysis and defence research roles before that. I wouldn't be arrogant enough to say I'm an expert, but I'm certainly a professionally interested informed person with a passion for educating the wider world in this cool little corner of technology and science.
You can also follow my sporadic ramblings and quest for interesting things on Twitter, where I also have a back catalogue of informative threads on interesting defence topics.
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