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** ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company]]'' erroneously has the M3A3 Bradley, BMD-3 Bakhcha, and 2T Stalker as the Light Tanks for the US Army, Russians and Middle Eastern Coalition respectively when they are all Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The Stalker deserves special mention as it and the MEC's main battle tank the Black Eagle never left the prototype stage in reality; both were canceled before the game came out but these next-generation designs are used not by the Russians who designed them but the Middle Eastern Coalition. [[Fridge Logic|Outside of the fact the MEC only appears in the final level, why would the Russians still use older Soviet designs and export their next generation ones?]]
** ''[[Battlefield 3]]'' is not as bad as the other entries as all the tanks are real tanks. However, this trope does still occur due to questionable placement of vehicles in the campaign. For example the Iranian Army is shown using T-90As when in reality they use modified T-72s (which also appear in the campaign), and the [[It's Raining Men|VDV]] uses BMP-2Ms instead of the actual air transportable BMD line which does get referenced in dialogue in the same mission.
** ''Battlefield 1''":
*** The game lacks faction tanks (unlike previous entries), which makes for Entente tanks (such as the Mark V Landship and Renault FT-17) which were captured and used by the Germans so often it outpaced their own tank production, but not so much for the German A7V "Moving Fortress" which had only 20 built.
*** The tank category also features the Pierce-Arrow Anti-Aircraft Armored Lorry (erroneously stated to be used by the French, when it was built for the [[Brits With Battleships|Royal Marine Artillery]]) and the Garford-Putilov Armored Car.
*** The inclusion of the French Char 2C, the only operation superheavy tank in the world. It wasn't in service until 1923. It would have been more appropriate to use the FCM 1A<ref>A prototype 30 ton superheavy design that was offered as an alternative to the larger C model which was ultimately selected.</ref> which had been built during [[WWI]].
** ''Battlefield V'':
*** The "Light Tanks" includes two actual light tanks (the German Panzer 38T and Japanese Amphibious Ka-Mi), three armored cars (the British Staghound T17E1, American M8 Greyhound, and German Sdkfz 234 Puma<ref>Itself an erroneous name, as it refers to variant of the 234 which was armed with the 50mm gun intended for the Leopard light tank. The stock 234 seen in the game is the 234/1 armed with a 20mm gun. The 50mm is an upgrade along with the 75mm L/24 gun from the 234/3.</ref>), and an amphibious landing vehicle (the American LVT).
*** The heavy tanks class has the Churchill Gun Carrier Tank Destroyer and the Sturmtiger Self-Propelled Artillery.
*** The US is depicted as using the T48 Gun Motor Carriage Tank Destroyer, which wasn't used by them because it was passed over in favor of the M10.
*** The Valentine AA Mk 1 SPAA was a fictitious vehicle meant to stand in for the real Crusader AA vehicles.
* The first ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' used upgunned M2 Bradley IFVs as the Brotherhood of Nod's "Light tank". ''Renegade'' changed them into small (and quite low-profile) tanks.
* Subtlety averted in the [[Halo (series)|''Halo'']] franchise. While the [[Hover Tank|Covenant Wraith]] appears to be a case of this trope being the counterpart to the [[Tank Goodness|UNSC Scorpion MBT]] despite the main weapon behaving more like a mortar than a tank cannon, [[All There in the Manual|the official lore]] refers to it as an Assault Gun Carriage instead of a tank.
* ''[[Call of Duty]]: World At War'' has a wrecked Tiger II tank show up in a mission during the Siege of Stalingrad in 1942 a year before it was designed and two before it entered service. There is also the level where Private Dimitri gets to control a tank in a series that often avoids the [[Do-Anything Soldier]] trope but it also misidentifies the tank as a T-34-85. The tank is equipped with a [[Kill It with Fire|flamethrower]] making it the OT-34-85.
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== Troping ==
* The first troper to describe [[Audie Murphy]]'s famous stand in the [[Draft Dodging]] article (under subversions) placed him in a burning tank instead of on an M10 tank destroyer - a tank-like vehicle with thin armor, an open turret, and a big gun. That said, the definition of "tank destroyer" gets complicated. The British had two classifications for tanks: "Infantry" and "Cruiser." Infantry tanks were heavily-armored yet slow and, as they were mainly intended for infantry support, only rarely equipped with armor-piercing ammunition. Cruiser tanks were fast, lightly armed vehicles intended to engage and destroy enemy armor. The US used the same distinctions but called them "tanks" and "tank destroyers" respectively. Gradually, as armor got heavier and engines got better, both were merged into the single "main battle tank" category that dominates the battlefield to this day. Categorisation gets even more complicated when Soviet and German tank destroyers are factored in. Vehicles such as the SU-85 and Jagdpanther (based on the T-34 and Panther respectively) were simply turretless and sometimes up-armoured versions of an existing tank chassis, mounting a limited-traverse gun in the hull that was typically bigger than the original tank could carry.
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