What if, rather than converting cavalry units into tankies, they'd treated tanks as an extension of field artillery? Wholly different ethos...
]]>Another major factor in limiting tank development in the inter-war period would be the "10 year" rule imposed by the treasury - as war is not foreseeable in the next decade (rolling start point for decade) so very limited budgets for tank design / acquisition. Some interesting design idea come put of this period - the Vickers Independent for example.
For my money, the Soviets love tanks, they are a key symbol of how far the revolution has come in updating russia from the Revolution, only planes are sexier still - by the mid-thirties they have the biggest tank pool in the world. There are a couple of movies on youtube which show how they thought these would be used...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP_Ah7IbtBk
Tankisti - exploits of a light recconnaisance tank and its crew.
My youtube fu can only locate the catchy theme to "If Tomorrow Brings War"...
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