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/
Part III: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/15/swedish-tanks-part-iii-landsverk-l-100-and-l-120/
Part IV: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/21/swedish-tanks-part-iv-landsverk-l-60/

In 1937, Sweden decided to modernize its armored forces by purchasing 16 pieces of the Landsverk-designed L-60 tank. Alongside the cannon-armed L-60, lighter machinegun tank was also acquired. This was the Czechoslovak AH-IV tankette, which had already been exported to Iran and Romania previously. In total, Sweden bought 46 production tanks and 2 prototypes.

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Played on iPhone 4S

Hello everyone,

we all know that Wargaming EU is sometimes… well, let’s say not too eager to ban nasty offenders (just remember the impotent EU “bot hunt” before the shit was stirred up by St0rmshadow), but this surprises even me.

Remember the asshole nazis from the _LOL_ clan? Well, they did get reported and “punished”.

What is the punishment for stuff like “you Jewish swine”, “SIEG HEIL” and “fuck off Polish jude” – things, punishable by law with prison?

Two days of ban.

No more than two days, I kid you not. Check this out. The nazis were punished on March 24th, a day after the post on FTR came out (I checked, they weren’t banned by the time the article went out). A day later, on 24.3.2014, this is what their clan screen showed:

All the “crossed” names participated in the nazi spam and all of them were banned for the same duration: from 24.3. to 25.3. (as you can see on the screenshot). Two fucking days (maybe even not complete ones). So this is how seriously does Wargaming take the nazis in games? Bleh.

And yes, I know these people are probably not real nazis, just idiotic kids, spamming stuff they don’t understand. That’s actually even worse, because it proves that there are people, who take nazism casually. It should never be taken casually, this is not what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers bled for, especially coming from Czechs. I am truly ashamed that these people share the same country as me.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/62740/22306/3/Nemnogo-o-WoTBlitz

Hello everyone,

a few bits of info about the mobile version of World of Tanks, World of Tanks: Blitz:

- FPS on iPad Air is stable 59-65
- very similiar system of training (exping) to the PC version
- all the possibilities and features of the game are unlocked after playing 10 battles
- there are premium tanks as well, such as КV-5,Lowe,Т34,Т-127,А-32,Ram II,SU-100Y,Т15,Pz.IIJ,Т-25,Dicker Max,Panther/M10
- each day you recieve 250 gold (test mode)
- at the beginning of the game, you get 1500 gold (test mode)
- there is no gold buying atm
- you can buy premium for 1 to 360 days
- it’s possible to change gold for credits
- it’s possible to transfer XP for gold

And a few screenies:

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Hello everyone,

okay, check this out. Wargaming claims that the yesterday’s micropatch (apart from pointlessly breaking pretty much all the sound mods, causing the game to crash with them and introducing unfunny April “joke”) fixed the bug, where artillery shells disappear, right?

Wrong. Check this out. This is a German stream from last night (you can check the date – 13 hours ago) from EU server, eg. from time when the micropatch was already updated (thanks to St0rmshadow for sending it to me)

Watch live video from wasilijsaizev on TwitchTV

It’s live recording, so can’t be any bug of replays. Now, go to time 1 hour 32 minutes and 15 seconds and watch. At cca 1:32:22 or so, enemy Jagdpanzer E-100 will roll on the player and the artillery shell will vanish directly in front of it.

Ooops. By the immortal words of Storm himself:

Hello everyone,

what follows are the “Karl-Gerät” stats from Tank Inspector. As you already probably know, this “vehicle” will be a part of the April 1st “joke” (so much for surprise).

This is how it looks:

And the stats:

Also, one more thing. Hillin (Tank Inspector) developer asks everyone to download the newest Tank Inspector version here, because otherwise, the application will crash.

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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