Swiss Tanks – Part 1
Swiss Tanks – Part 2

By Vollketten

The first part of the Swiss tank destroyer article covered the wartime vehicles, so let’s take a look at some of the post-war vehicles. This article will just focus on tracked vehicles – wheeled vehicles of Switzerland shall have to wait for another day.

In the 1950′s, the MOWAG company was founded by the inimitable Walter Ruf and started designing a variety of wheeled and tracked vehicles for military and civilian use. Early in the 1950′s, they were testing the MOWAG Pirat, which was a fully enclosed rear turretted tank destroyer, fitted with a powerful 90mm MECAR gun.

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Hello everyone, just a quick warning to those, who are playing Clanwars. Due to some screwup on WG side (maybe it’s even intentional as a part of some event, but judging from the amount of confused people who just wrote me, I doubt that), tanks are now being locked during landings. So be careful. If anyone finds any explanation of this crap, please post it in comments.

Edit: confirmed that it is a bug, they are “working on it”.

Hello everyone,

at this point, several sources from supertest already confirmed that the PvE mode on supertest is some sort of “tower defense” mode. Basically, a team of players defends against stronger and stronger waves of enemy bots. Currently, it is in a stage of “discussion” – the developers are trying to gather feedback from supertesters, whether such a mode would be interesting.

Well, would you be interested?

Enjoy!

Well, we’ve waited for ages for this…

http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/World_of_Tanks

Some data are still missing, but at least it works. Enjoy.

Well, apparently the separatists did it again. After looting a memorial IS-3 and pressing a T-34 “in service”, on 7.7.2014, they removed a T-54 from the Great Patriotic War Museum in Donetsk. What kind of retarded trend is that?

Hello everyone,

from the “usual” source – developers currently dealt with PVE battles on Supertest. There are no details yet as everything is still in flux and the supertester thinks that they will announce it soon anyway. But looks like we will be fighting bots outside of random battles as well…

Source: challenges.fr website

Thanks to Barilzar for the link and the translations from French.

Hello everyone,

this is a translation of an article (or, rather, a picture gallery) of the new Wargaming EU offices (seen from stylistic point of view) with the comments from Jean Nouvel, a well-known French architect. The article is about design and architecture mostly, Wargaming name is there just to “sell it”, but let me tell you, seeing the pics in connection with today’s “insider” post about WG EU not being able to afford good translators… you know, I can see why.

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“The Horizons tower” (la Tour Horizons) in Boulogne-Billancourt was built by the ateliers Jean Nouvel*. The construction work started in Feb 2009 and was completed in Nov 2011. * (means Jean Nouvel Workshop, but it’s a kind of posh name for an architect office; you know, the guy is french AND trendy…)

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Hello everyone,

as you know I usually don’t use FTR for personal messages to specific people, but I will make an exception in this case. Those, who are on EU forums as long as I am (over two years now) probably do remember one of the more interesting forum dwellers, Ed Francis, aka Edfrancis001, a (well deserved) community contributor, an author of many historical articles on EU forums (example) and a man known for his passion for tanks and their history.

Unfortunately, today, I recieved an e-mail from his brother, Ben. I hope he won’t be angry for me publishing it, but… here goes.

Good Morning

This is Ed Francis brother Ben

As some of you may know, my brother after a long period of illness was taken into hospital in a critical condition in June after multiple blood clots damaged his lungs and heart. despite the odds he has survived and is slowly recovering in care. he is worried about any projects or outstanding work he had left unfinished but not able to go into detail at this time.

I’ve sent a round robin email from his account just to let everyone know where he is and why he may not be answering his emails or replying to queries etc. if there was anything outstanding or something he was working on please let me know and I will pass on the details, but for now its rest and rehab.

Thanks in advance for your patience and hopefully he will be up and back to his old ways soon

Ben Francis

So, without any more comments – best of luck, Ed, wishing you all the best and get well soon!

Thanks to Elcomandante for this one. This video makes me sad :(