You’ve seen it in Russian, now – a week later (translatink stronk) it’s out in English. Enjoy.

Hello everyone,

what follows is the test, performed by the Romanian EU server player Am3r1knu, who decided it would be actually interesting to see how WoT performs when running from a SSD and how it performs when running from a HDD and whether it affects the game FPS. Here are his findings. It gets a bit technical, so I guess this post is aimed at people, who understand what Am3r1knu is actually saying.

World of Tanks disk usage test (comparisson between Hard Disk Drive and a Solid State Drive)

Computer and software used

PC configuration (phase 1):
Intel i5 760 @ 2.8ghz
nVidia GTX 760, 2gb, EVGA SuperClocked edition
8gb DDR3 1333mhz
Asus Xonar DX
OS HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 250gb, S-ATA II
Game HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 500gb, S-ATA II

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By Carramba66 – now you can compare them to vanilla sounds and Gnomefather’s mod. Regarding the sound intensity, Storm stated that it cannot be made louder, because the sound would distort. You can clearly hear the distortion in the ultra-high caliber sounds of Gnomefather’s mod.

By Vollketten, and a thankyou to Sp15 and SilentStalker for their help

The defensively minded nation of Switzerland has been surrounded by Italy, Germany, Austria and France Switzerland and thus many of its tank choices reflect this. The Swiss military is well respected and was interested in tanks from at least the early 1920’s. Not tied to any formal defensive treaty with other nations, Switzerland prides itself in its neutrality, although it did have strong links with Germany during WW2. However, this freedom from treaties allowed Switzerland a large amount of freedom in choosing tanks from other nations and designing their own vehicles.

A brief rundown of some of the medium and light tank options for Switzerland. (Yes we know about the Swiss ‘Hetzer’, but we’ll deal with that in a later part about tank destroyers). This is the first part, dealing with an overview of medium tank options. Artillery and tank destroyers will come later.

The first tanks imported to Switzerland came from France in 1922, when they bought some Renault FT-17′s. In Swiss use, they were known as the Mosquitos. Keeping up with many European powers on the 1920’s and 30’s, Switzerland obtained some of the Carden-Loyd Mark VI light tanks in 1927-28 and Vickers-Carden-Loyd vehicles from the UK in 1934. (2 Vickers-Carden-Loyd tanks arrived in 1934 and 4 more arrived in 1935, bringing the total to 6).

Renault FT-17 ‘Mosquito’

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Not bad :)

Source: Wot-news, Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Hello everyone,

with a bit of delay, I am reporting this sad news that Mikhail Nikolaevich Svirin passed away on 24.5.2014 after long illness. For those, who don’t know the name – he was the foremost Soviet tank researcher, one of the first ones to start writing about the Soviet tanks in detail and he was as important for Soviet tank history publication as Hilary Doyle is for the German tank history – he did a tremendous amount of work in the field and in his last years, he created a military history club near Moscow, where he worked with “troubled” youth.

According to Sergei “SerB” Burkatovsky, Svirin’s work was instrumental in creating the early World of Tanks Soviet tank line, M.Svirin also helped SerB with writing his historical science fiction book “Main Date”.

Rest in Peace.

Hello everyone,

history shows us a lot of examples of countries, that didn’t have the resources to support their own indigenous tank research, which started instead modifying the western (or Russian) designs. This was very typical not only for smaller European nations, but it was especially pronounced in Africa and South America. South-American engineering made often do with designs, that were considered obsolete for decades in the countries of their origin – in other cases (Nahuel), South American countries (Argentina) were even possible to construct their own tanks literally from nothing. Back to the upgrades however – one such design was the Brazilian X1 (heavily modified Stuart tank), another such case, which we are going to discuss today, was the Crusader Argentino SPG.

Argentina undisputedly belongs to the most powerful countries of the continent (when it comes to military), along with Brazil and Chile. In Argentina’s case, this is even confirmed by the history – due to the Allied embargo on Argentinian military industry during WW2, Argentina was basically forced to create their own medium tank and – surprisingly enough – they actually succeeded, creating something that actually resembled the Sherman in a lot of aspects. In the end, it was quite a bite to chew for the undeveloped industry of Argentina, but nevertheless, 16 tanks of the indigenous type called “Nahuel” were made.

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