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Points of Divergence : Tanks and other armoured vehicles

Points of divergence dealing with alternate developments of armoured military vehicles. Entries in both POD sections are sorted as chronologically as possible.


General musings

Widely used war wagons ?

Plausibility check: Elephant "APCs" ?

Hussite war wagon POD

Plausibility check: Medieval or Ancient Tank

What was the absolute earliest that tanks could have emerged ?

Let's discuss the effects of steam driven tanks if they're invented in the late 1800s

Tanks with American Civil War era technology (1)

Tanks with American Civil War era technology (2)

"Need good alternate names for the tank" thread (1)

"Need good alternate names for the tank" thread (2)

"Need good alternate names for the tank" thread (3)

Tanks invented before WWI (1)

Tanks invented before WWI (2)

WI: Tanks in the Russo-Japanese War

Armored vehicles without WWI

No tanks in WWI

Future of tanks in a not-stalemated WWI timeline

Small tank guns ?

And what about British tanks ?

British armour development prior to WWII

Sloped armour invented earlier

Reactive armour developed prior to WWII

How to improve Italian armour ?

Design a better wagon for British tanks

Best ATL tank design for Allies in 1940 ?

Western Allies' usage of Soviet equipment

Wide Tracked, Diesel Panzers

Post-WWII Czechoslovak arms industry if it remains non-communist

Challenge: Walking tanks

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Development of specific models

The Burstyn Tank in WWI (1)

The Burstyn Tank in WWI (2)

British accept De Mole's tank proposal in 1912

Germany invents the tank during WWI ?

WI the Vezdekhod is mass produced ?

Alternative British Army AVF 1930-40s

Germans adopt the Panzer IV as their MBT in 1938

Sloped Panzer IV armour ?

Most suitable successor to the Panzer IV

And what about British tanks ?

British Universal Tank by January 1941

WI: No T-34

T34M in production before Barbarrossa

Allied T-34

German T-34 ?

Plausibility check: Germany builds the VK3001(H) ?

Comets instead of Shermans

Challenge: Better US tank (than Sherman) by 1942

Alternative Allied tank busters

Challenge: StuG Sherman

Plausibility check: Original Panther design kept

American supertanks ?

Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Cold War

Challenge: Get US to adopt the Centurion Tank after WWII

M1 series cancelled, M60A4 project instead

Indigenous Israeli tanks by 1973

Australian Defence Force goes with Challenger 2 or Leopard 2 tank instead of the M1 Abrams

DBWI: Conqueror MBT vs Panzer XII ?

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Miscellaneous / Discussions

Tanks that never should have entered service

Worst tanks of WWII

Armored vehicles and formations of late World War II - An essay, courtesy of DaleCoz.

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See Also

Points of Divergence : Aircraft

Points of Divergence : Wars and Battles

Useful Resources about Military History

Alternate terms for tanks


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