Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone, so, it seems that the earlier information about Malinovka changes was confirmed by another source. The lower base had the buildings apparently removed, but the base recieved some cover (of unknown type for now, possibly stones and such) the way the northern base has it.

Fury is a movie about a crew of a Sherman tank fighting in Germany, that is coming on November 14th, 2014. It’s supposed to be quite realistic – for starters, it has a real Tiger 1 tank in it – how many movies can say the same? Yup, it’s the famous Bovington Tiger, actually captured in Tunisia. Just think about it for a second – a movie with a tank that actually really fired at the Allies in anger, in 2014 – this was not too uncommon right after the war (some Russian, even Czechoslovak movies were made using the authentic German equipment), but now, it’s quite extraordinary.

Sadly, the more I learn about the movie, the more I just can’t seem to actually like it. For one, I hate Brad Pitt – but that’s my personal thing. It’s more like the setting, I am quite afraid of the traditional “dumb evul Germunz vs stronkerest US Superheroes” setting (Red Tails, anyone? Of course the only purpose of that movie was to show that black people fought too, not historical realism, but even so). Even if realistic, I am still worried a bit about the setting, because by 1945 the German army was practically defeated (especially after the Ardennes), so making a movie about American tank crew shooting up “boys and old men” (as one of the real life American commanders characterized his fighting in Germany) in their tank doesn’t sound too well. But we’ll have to see.

Secondly, there is the sorry state the Sherman was left in after the shooting of the movie. While I doubt we will ever learn the truth about the contract between Hollywood and Bovington, having the people who made this movie run down the Sherman so much that the proceedings from cooperation with Wargaming have to fund its restoration instead of actually bringing money to the museum in order to restore other vehicles is appalling and sad.

Oh well, I’ll go see it in cinema nonetheless.

Hello everyone,

two people asked me for help yesterday in their projects and considering I know both well, I accepted, so here’s the thing. First one is carramba66 – you might remember him from the veteran charity, he organized it. Now, he’s starting a Czech blog (sort of like a mutation of FTR along with original content) and needs help of more people with it. Here’s what he asked me to post (in Czech of course):

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As always, courtesy of Vollketten (US Server).

Unlike the previous ones, this design is actually neither silly nor completely unprofessional and it just might work, even in World of Tanks. A proposal for a 6pdr gun carrier (built on the Bren Gun Carrier) from 1942 by Sgt.G.Bradsley, a soldier.

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The T16 Carrier was a vehicle heavily inspired by the legendary British Bren Carrier. It was designed by the Ford Motor Company and produced in Dearborn, Michigan. T16 was in fact a refined version, based on the Canadian-produced version of the Bren Carrier, improved by using the British wartime experiences. Its production started in 1943 and it was supplied to the Commonwealth countries (and others) via the lend-lease program – 2625 T16′s were transferred in 1944, 604 in 1945. After the war ended, it was, along with other arms, sold as wartime surplus to other countries and one of them was Argentina, who originally hired a Belgian company called Indanex to purchase various armored and other vehicles for it for the uniform price of 20 US cents per kilogram. Over 500 vehicles were transported to Argentina, including a Crusader Mk.III tank (in fact, it was a Crusader-based tractor, that later became the platform for the Crusader Argentino self-propelled gun), many trucks, Jeeps, several M5 and M9 halftracks, 360 Sherman tanks and 300 T16E2 carriers.

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Hello everyone,

I normally post just Woras’ RNG stuff, but I’m going to make an exception. While Woras is the king of RNG videos, MrWanWan does aspire to be the prince, I liked his RNG video a lot :) Enjoy.

As always, courtesy of Vollketten (US Server).

Here we have yet another brilliant solution from the mind of the Commonwealth engineers.

Backstrom Amphibian Invasian Tank – 1942

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Source: http://pavel70slama.blog.cz/1405/t-13-hornet-b

T-13 Hornet B was a heavy eight-wheel armored car/tank, developed in the late 30′s by Trackless Tank Corporation. This company from New York started to work on the desing of this fast, heavy wheeld gun carrier in 1937. It was a private activity, not supported by the US Army and the development was led by the president of the company, Floyd del Brown. In 1940, this design evolved into the Hornet Model B High Speed Trackless Tank.

The Hornet consisted of roughly 80 percent of standardized and comercially available parts. It had eight wheels and a riveted armored hull. The rear six wheels were propelled, making the vehicle 8×6. The wheels were attached independently and were equipped with shock absorbers. The Hornet had three possible engine options – Continental or Wright gasoline engines or a Guiberson diesel, but the prototype was equipped with a Guiberson 9-cylinder T-1020 265hp engine, which was mounted in the rear of the vehicle. The driver was sitting in the frontal left part, the right side was given to another crewmember, but the entire crew compartment design was judged as completely unsuitable for the purposes of war. The Hornet weighed 7,5 tons (including the turret) – the prototype however did not have the turret mounted, instead it had a small copula with a machinegun. The vehicle was 2,5 meters wide and 1,9 meters tall (without the turret).

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