AH Tech Challenge - No WWI and Tanks

Adam Parsons

Before the outbreak of WWI, most of the major European powers were developing armored vehicles that would be an effective counter to the machine guns being developed at the time. Generally, these tended to be just armor-plated cars. With the outbreak of war, it was realized that something more effective was needed, and a series of designed eventually led to the slow, well-armored, heavily armed, catepillar-tracked vehicle we call the tank.

However, suppose that WWI didn't occur in 1914. Suppose that Ferdinand wasn't killed, and that the general state of European affairs continued until another crisis brought the whole system down again, but in 1932. What would armored war vehicles look like in such a war?
 

Ebar

Tanks (or what ever they end being called) will naturally gravitate towards the tracked vehicle with gun in turret template that we know and love today. They will merely do it two or three decades late.

However if you want to see something really oddball here is a model of the biggest tank ever.

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Abdul Hadi Pasha

Banned
Alasdair Czyrnyj said:
Before the outbreak of WWI, most of the major European powers were developing armored vehicles that would be an effective counter to the machine guns being developed at the time. Generally, these tended to be just armor-plated cars. With the outbreak of war, it was realized that something more effective was needed, and a series of designed eventually led to the slow, well-armored, heavily armed, catepillar-tracked vehicle we call the tank.

However, suppose that WWI didn't occur in 1914. Suppose that Ferdinand wasn't killed, and that the general state of European affairs continued until another crisis brought the whole system down again, but in 1932. What would armored war vehicles look like in such a war?
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They might be quite similar, but I suspect tactical doctrine will be different. There will be exercises conducted that should point the way to what a useful armored vehicle should be like - much like the US and Japan were able to develop carrier doctrine pretty much spot-on through exercises and expirimentation.
 

Abdul Hadi Pasha

Banned
Ebar said:
Tanks (or what ever they end being called) will naturally gravitate towards the tracked vehicle with gun in turret template that we know and love today. They will merely do it two or three decades late.

However if you want to see something really oddball here is a model of the biggest tank ever.
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Egad! Armies would develop plier corps to counter these!
 
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