All credits for the materials posted in this tread go to Renhaxue and his amazing blog about Swedish armor.

Hello everyone,

so, we all know about the Kanonenjagdpanzer, right? To sum it up:

There were several prototypes (some tied to Switzerland) and in the end, it was the “last urrah” of the casemate turretless tank destroyers with forward-facing gun, kind of like an oversized Jagdpanzer IV, only with a 90mm gun from Bundeswehr M47 Pattons. The gun of course was somewhat of a raison d’etre for this vehicle, since the Germans phased out the obsolete M47′s and didn’t know, what to do with the guns they had on their hands. In the end, cca 1500 were built between 1965 and 1967, some were even exported to Belgium. With the 90mm gun becoming rapidly obsolete, some were converted to ATGM tank destroyers, others were pulled back to reserve units and in one way or another, they remained in service until 1990 or so.

This is a bit boring, because you can read that on wikipedia. So here’s something that you might not know.

Seeing the German companies develop the German army and producers to develop their tank destroyers and APC’s, the Americans wanted a share of that pie as well. Specifically, the Food Machine Company Inc. (FMC), the creator of the US M113 APC (developed a few years earlier), wanted to sell something to the Germans. Therefore, in April 1963, an offer was made by FMC to the Germans for two types of armored personell carriers, called APC Type A and Type B (Schützenpanzer Typ A and Typ B).

Schützenpanzer Typ A isn’t that interesting, although it looks very pretty.

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Hello everyone,

so, more than a year passed since its introduction to the gamefiles (two years even?) and Panzer IV Hydro tier 5 premium tank finally arrived. Not with a bang, unfortunately, but with a whimper.

Basically, it comes with Razer shit bundle. I really dislike Razer company, because its junk got “advertised” on FTR via massive comment spam. Until today, the word “Razer” is in fact banned from comments and if you write it, your comment will drop straight to spam folder.

It’s actually sad… a lot of people kinda waited for this vehicle and now you have to buy some useless junk to get it. No thanks, you can fuck off with that, Wargaming.

Hello everyone,

this is something I kinda forgot to post earlier, for which I am sorry. In the last “Developer Diary” video (can be seen here), a strange tank can be seen in one of the scenes (5:41):

You can see even with one glance that it’s probably not a “regular” model, but a decoration – an interesting one though. What I think it is is some sort of “bronetraktor” (armored tractor) improvised armored vehicle. The Soviets built several of them, the best known of them being the famous NI Tank. I think that this one is actually called “CHTZ-16″ (or T-16 CHTZ).

There is a short wikipedia article on it as well. As I wrote, these improvised vehicles were not uncommon. Of this type (built around the STZ-3 tracked tractor), around 70-100 were built (numbers vary from source to source, Zaloga for example mentions only 60) between 1941 and 1942 in Kharkov. Originally, the entire class of vehicles (improvised modified tractors) was meant as a stop-gap measure, with the Soviets hurling every piece of equipment they had to stop the German onslaught. It was supposed to be produced not instead of regular tanks, but beside them. There were several armored tractor projects as I mentioned, but this one by Kharkov was the most successful.

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Thanks to Taifuuni for this one. Looks like the developers had a bit of fun. From today’s micropatch:

“Karl-Gerät”

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Hello everyone,

just a quick announcement: today’s micropatch started causing crashes of World of Tanks for many people. This is, according to Gnomefather (prominent mod-creator), caused by sound mods, which the patch made incompatible for some reason. ANY sound mods are causing this, including Gnomefather’s historical sound mod. If the game crashes for you, uninstall them and wait for an updated version.

Author: CaptianNemo

Everyone remembers the Porsche VK.45.01(P) Type 101 and its failure to win a production contract against Henschel’s VK.45.01(H) c10. But there was another Porsche VK.45.01(P) in the early conception and design of the Tiger I tank. One, that did in fact make it to the prototype stage – the Type 102.

Early on in the development of heavy and super-heavy tanks, in competition with the Henschel organization, doubts were expressed from the Porsche company on the suitability and reliability of mechanical transmission. With that concern in mind, the Porsche company began to look into engineering an alternative. The concern with mechanical drives was not unfounded at the time, as it was a serious concern for any would-be designer. As if to reassure the Porsche company, Char 2C(1920), B1(1935) and B1-Bis(1937) also incorporated the gas-electric design with mechanical designs, at the time being limited to about 25-30 tons. And so Porsche produced their Type 100 (VK.30.01(P) “Leopard”) and Type 101 gas-electric tanks.

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Thanks to Louie Xia for this one.

Hello everyone,

would you like to buy the T23E3? Or perhaps the T95E6 from a shop? Well, if you do, you gotta move to China, because a (legit) Chinese webstore is pre-selling (not yet implemented) tanks. That’s the first time I see a pre-sale for a vehicle, that’s not yet in the game.

T23E3 is being sold for 148 RMB (cca 24 USD)

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Hello everyone,

as some of you might have noticed, a micropatch did hit the EU server as well (without any notice on the portal). This micropatch contains following fixes:

- hotfixed the disappearing arty shells in arty mode bug
- new hangar (WGL-themed), that will be active from 2nd to 6th April

Because that’s exactly what we need. Another hangar.