Let’s take a look at a meek tier 2 light tank, the T-26. It never had much advantage over the BT-2, and since the advent of Pom-Pom autocannons and softer tier 2 TD matchmaking, it doesn’t have much going for it. Let’s see what historical resources exist for a buff!

First, the armament. The “top” gun on the T-26 is the 45 mm 20K, based on the 45 mm model 1932. This gun was installed on the tank in 1933, but the tank remained in service for over a decade after that. Let’s see what other armament options are available.

T-26 model 1931 with 76.2 mm recoilless gun

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kW6SgUgzuc

Murazor is well known and popular Russian blogger with very good info access. In his latest video, he confirmed, what you might have read earlier here:

If you have VK3001H in garage the moment 8.8 goes live, you will get your VK3001H tier 5 heavy tank with your original crew and you will get for free a VK3002M tier 6 medium tank with a free garage slot and a 100 percent crew.

Hello everyone,

today, we have another bunch of photos from one of FTR readers. This time, Deathmongrel from US server decided to share with us some photos from the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation – the largest American privately-held collection of armored vehicles. As he himself states, you might know it from Chieftain’s Hatch, because that’s where he shoots it.

According to Deathmongrel, the owners continuously work on various restoration projects, while keeping the vehicles in three climate-controlled halls. Enjoy!

T-54

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Source: http://wotbase.ru/

Apart the already mentioned Tiger I armor changes, Tiger II armor got changed too overall in 8.8 test.

Old:

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A lot of people asked what the 8.8 model change of the E-100 is. Well, here’s a comparison, courtesy of Orkel

- the hull becomes a bit longer
- tracks are slightly moved (up and forward)

Hello everyone,

today, we have a guest article from sp15 (NA server), dealing with the S-tank’s development history. I did only some minor edits (typos and such). Enjoy!

The S-Tank

Today I’ve decided to write about Swedens most iconic tank the Strv 103 or – as everyone knows it – the S-tank. The reason for this is that the S-tank is the only known hope for a historical tier 10 TD for the European tree and wargaming don’t know what to do with it. Let me explain.

Strv 103A

The Strv 103 has a hydraulic suspension, which means in practice that the whole hull moves to aim the gun. This means that Wargaming would have to implement new aiming system for this sort of tank – and Wargaming does not want to do that for one separate tank, but they have stated this:

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Hello everyone,

so, I asked around a bit (or, rather, was reminded) how exactly it is with the Rising Sun Japanese flag (Kyokujitsu-Ki) and Japanese armor. The result was surprising:

Historically, the Japanese used this flag only for the Navy, it was never put on the Japanese tanks themselves. In fact, allegedly the only case of a Japanese flag painting on a tank is a real Japanese flag (white field, red circle) and it was on a Chi-Nu tank and it was one case. The Imperial Japanese Army never used that flag either in general. The Japanese “did use a small brass start near the nose of the front glacis plate, but that’s it”, according to Daigensui, who informed me of all this.

In other words, Wargaming was historically correct not to put this decal on tanks, but of course since there were no such pictures at all on Japanese vehicles, the question as to what decal will the Japanese tanks have in game is allegedly not yet decided and the Japanese flag on Chi-Nu Kai is temporary.

With this, I will be closing the discussion under the original flag article, you can continue here, but please, be civil.