As the title suggests, I'm interested to hear people's ideas as to the CMP Programme's potential fate, in the event that Nazi Germany A) knocked out the Soviet Union and B) secured hegemony over Europe west of the Urals, with the Second World War reigniting in the mid-1950s.
@CalBear used lack of German intervention in North Africa as his POD, and I'm intrigued by the possibilities presented by Leningrad falling before or soon after the end of 1941. Regardless of what the POD is, the lack of a concrete end to the war with Germany, and greater cooperation between TTL's NATO members as a result, raises the question of military standardization. IOTL, the CMP vehicles made during the war soldiered on into the 50s and 60s, but were ultimately replaced, the programme itself having ended with the defeat of the Axis. With Germany and the European Axis still in the game, would NATO elect to continue the CMP programme, and perhaps even broaden it's horizons?
Britain and the US both continued developing domestic vehicles for their own militaries during the Cold War, there being no 'hot wars' between great powers and civilian vehicle markets being open unlike they had been between 1939-1945. The United States produced some fine post war vehicles, such as the M38 'Jeep', the 3/4 ton M37, and the M35 'Deuce-and-a-half,' while Britain gave the world the Land Rover. But how would the existence of a programme for producing vehicles on standardized chassis, already in use among the Commonwealth and heavily by Britain herself, influence procurement and design ITTL?
@CalBear used lack of German intervention in North Africa as his POD, and I'm intrigued by the possibilities presented by Leningrad falling before or soon after the end of 1941. Regardless of what the POD is, the lack of a concrete end to the war with Germany, and greater cooperation between TTL's NATO members as a result, raises the question of military standardization. IOTL, the CMP vehicles made during the war soldiered on into the 50s and 60s, but were ultimately replaced, the programme itself having ended with the defeat of the Axis. With Germany and the European Axis still in the game, would NATO elect to continue the CMP programme, and perhaps even broaden it's horizons?
Britain and the US both continued developing domestic vehicles for their own militaries during the Cold War, there being no 'hot wars' between great powers and civilian vehicle markets being open unlike they had been between 1939-1945. The United States produced some fine post war vehicles, such as the M38 'Jeep', the 3/4 ton M37, and the M35 'Deuce-and-a-half,' while Britain gave the world the Land Rover. But how would the existence of a programme for producing vehicles on standardized chassis, already in use among the Commonwealth and heavily by Britain herself, influence procurement and design ITTL?