Hello everyone,

as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.

Contributors

*nobody this week*

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Source: wot-news.com

Hello everyone,

here are the tier 10 RU server statistics from wot-news for last 4 weeks. I am posting this, because some are quite surprising (Maus, Leopard, STB-1). Check this out:

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Author: sp15 (US server)

Part I: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/07/swedish-tanks-part-i-strv-m21-29/
Part II: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/12/swedish-tanks-part-ii-strv-m31-strv-fm31/

After it became clear that Sweden would not be interested in buying more of the L-10 or L-30 tanks, Landsverk people started to consider exporting their designs. Most would be unsuccessful, but they are interesting nonetheless, so let’s take a look at some of them.

Landsverk L-100

Landsverk had been working on several designs in late 20′s and early 30′s. One of these designs was a light tank, similiar to the German Panzer I. This was the L-100 light tank. It was first designed in 1930 alongside the L-10 and L-30. The vehicle was a 4,5 ton light tank, armed with either two machineguns or the 20mm Madsen autocannon and it had 9mm of armor. The first prototype was allegedly produced around 1934 and was essentially a thinned down version of the L-60 tank, that was currently under development. It seems likely that this first prototype was produced to test the new torsion bar suspension, planned to replace the earlier suspension used on Landsverk designs, such as the L-10.

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Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2858031.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok posted a nice summary of the Panzer III Ausf.J, standing in Kubinka. Let’s have a look at it.

It’s one of the most mass-produced models of Panzer III, the Ausf.J with 50mm L/60 gun. In Spring 1942, this version was renamed to Ausf.L. These vehicles formed the backbone of the German armored units in 1942 and it was this tank, that fought against Soviet KV’s and T-34′s. This took a heavy toll on them and to this day, only one Ausf.J with L/60 50mm survived, this one – and only because it was captured by the Soviets at some point in 1942.

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Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

it looks like the roaming testers are using… unorthodox vehicles to do so. Here’s a couple of screenies from the EU server by MartinoPL.

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Hello everyone,

just quick heads-up. Yep, Wargaming screwed something once again. When you go on the EU portal (worldoftanks.eu) and press “Wiki” on the top bar, you will get to…

…Russian wikipedia. Now, since you are here, reading this English blog, I am going to assume most of you don’t speak Russian. I am sure Vladimir Putin would like to change that (one peninsula at a time), but before he manages to do that, we’ll stick to English. Now, if you try to go to RU wiki and manually try to set the language to en (http://wiki.wargaming.net/ru/ to http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/), you will get an error. That’s due to the fact English wiki is not ready yet (because, you know, copying the new template and filling the text from the old wikipedia is very, very hard and takes half a year), you can use the OLD English wikipedia, that still works:

http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/Main_Page

I hope that explains the issue. English official Wargaming wiki should appear soon(TM).