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Originally Posted by Vespers War
Very nice. One thought is that the Handbooks could include some things that were expected to see use in the 1960s but never did, like the fused silica glass bolt-on armor for the M60, the American T95 medium tank, or the late 1950s Soviet heavy tanks (Object 277 and Object 770). For air defense, either the T249 Vigilante, M163 VADS, or MIM-46 Mauler would also be potential options. The VADS was rushed into production in 1965 after the Mauler failed in development, while the Vigilante had been canceled because Mauler was supposed to be gun-based air defense obsolete. If people want to keep the main sections of the book purely historical, maybe a "what-if" section could be added with the plausible equipment that never actually saw service or was just barely too late for this timeline.
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That was a thought I had, actually. I made the vehicle profiles from plastic model kits people made and posted pictures of online... so for vehicles that don't exist I never had a good solution. That said, my first priority was to get all the vehicles that were most common and/or emblematic of the era. What-ifs would have come later.