>>64452417
>Why do the hans name all their tanks After felinids
the tradition started with the tiger, initially an informal nickname because it was ridiculously large and heavily gunned for its time
then they named the panther because it had the same engine as the tiger but weighted 10 tons less, so they named it panther because it was leaner and more agile

> and russians After T-#, and americana M#,
T and M are both just model numbers
the US started naming their vehicles after generals due to the influence of the british, who dubbed the M3 as the lee and modified M3s as the grant to tell them apart from each other and the tradition continued

the germans also had a generic numerical naming scheme, the panzerkampfwagen Is through VIII
they dropped it in favor of just using the nickname as the model number
so kampfwagen leopard 1 and 2
it helps that armored vehicles arent replaced by new models nearly as quickly, so there isnt much need for a generic model number naming system

>frogs and bongs
french used the AMX-number naming scheme for most of the cold war and only dropped it with the leclerc
british still use the FV-number naming scheme for vehicles, with the challenger 2 being FV4034