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I've always had a bit of an interest in tanks and am currently reading up on British tank development in the inter-war years and WW2 and whilst doing some browsing I ran across an interesting post on another site. The general gist of it was that up until the problems with the A6 and A7 medium tank programmes at the start of the 1930s British thinking was that the best mix of armour they could have was a light tank to take care of reconnaissance and a medium tank to take care of supporting the infantry and mobile duties. After the A6 and A7 though they changed their minds and decided to instead split the medium tank into a heavy infantry tank and a medium cruiser tank. So assuming that this was correct is there any way to keep the British using simply a light recon tank and a universal medium tank for everything else? And if so how is that likely to affect their tank development, assume for simplicities sake that the recon duties are met by a CVR(T) type of machine.
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