ATL tank 1940

Hendryk

Banned
Dean's twin tandem Merlin XX contrarotating monster!
Thanks, Redbeard. The Dean and I had been thinking about that prototype for some time, in the context of my "Superpower Empire" TL. The basic idea comes from the Fokker D-XXIII; after looking at the Saab J-21, I wondered how an evolved version of the D-XXIII would look like with both propellers at the back, in a contrarotating pusher configuration (the contrarotating bit itself inspired by the Westland Wyvern), so that the nose could house serious armament. The result is the Fouke-60, and this is a great drawing of it.
 
German version

I don't understand why the Germans did not have a tank like this in the pipeline for late 1940 or early 1941. Given that the Russians were introducing their T-34, the French would have had their G1 and the Americans were not that far away from their Sherman, why not? And what impact would it have had?
 
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