Thanks to John for this one.

Russian TV is a really funny place :) Check this out – these are the supersecret Russian military plans for Europe!

Yes, it’s some comedy show and yes, I actually had a good laugh :) Good job.

Thanks to haze_bird for this one.

So, guess with which company World of Tanks is cooperating now? :)

Yes, that’s a Jagdpanzer 38t and yes, that’s Nicholas “Chieftain” Moran playing World of Tanks with some modded crosshairs. Nice advertisement tho :)

Author: Okinoshima (US server)

The development of Britain’s cruiser tanks has always been a rocky, sometimes confusing series of missteps and red tape. An exemplary case of this was the long, and occasionally painful development of the A27M Cromwell cruiser tank, which took approximately two years to reach from its earliest order for an improved heavy cruiser tank by the British General Staff in 1940, to the production of the first A27M Cromwell prototype in January 1942. During this time though, many companies were involved attempting to get their designs through to production. Some, such as Vauxhall Motor’s A23, a shortened, lightened variant of Vauxhall’s infantry tank design, the A22 Churchill tank, were dropped early. While other designs such as Nuffield Mechanisation and Aeros A24 ‘Cavalier’, and the joint Leyland Motors and Rolls-Royce ‘Cromwell’ (that would eventually be taken over from as well by Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company), continued development. Even during these early stages, plans to improve on the ‘A27’ design were underway by its designers to adapt the A27 into other roles. One such plan was devised by Rolls-Royce to develop the existing A27 into an infantry tank but only use existing A27 plate armour. This new ‘infantry A27’ as it was called was given the General Staff number ‘A.28’. This was the first, of a long series of attempts to improve the basic Cromwell design that would continue well after the end of the war, culminating with the FV4101 Charioteer. This plan was likely conceived as an attempt to design a cheap, easier to produce infantry tank that would offer a commonality of parts to Britain’s cruiser tank force.

This is the only known drawing of the A28 “Infantry A27″

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Hello everyone,

new patch is here and with it, new version of Battle Assistant mod for artillery. This mod is extremely useful – for myself, I must say it is this mod that helped me complete the artillery individual missions the most.

You can get the mod here, at Plazmakeks’ site (there’s a link right below the pictures) along with other interesting mods. Check it out!

Hello everyone,

Wargaming announced the clan missions mechanism, as you probably noticed. What they didn’t announce (on EU anyway) are the rewards. Here are a few examples of unique camo, emblems and inscriptions, that are going to be the reward for this thingie.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3741218.html

Upcoming tier 7 premium, possibly the E-25 “replacement” (not sure here).

Description: Project of the Steyr company, created as a part of the competition to create a special artillery tractor, capable of not only transporting the artillery piece from place of place, but also of firing from the chassis. In order to make the design as cheap and simple as possible, it was proposed to use a lot of components from the tracked tractor Raupenschlepper Ost, while the turret and the gun were built by the Krupp company. By 2.9.1944, nine mock-ups and one prototype were built.

Characteristics (100 percent crew, full MM):

Tier: 7
Hitpoints: 850
Engine: 140 hp
Weight: 14 tons
Power-to-weight: 10 hp/t
Maximum speed: 35/15 km/h
Hull traverse: 40 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 0,959/1,055/2,014
Turret traverse: 33,4 deg/s (turret is rotating 360 degrees)
Viewrange: 380
Radio range: 710

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Made at the request of several interested players from the Czechoslovak community, who actually got lost in all the recent changes.

Right. So, this proposal includes the medium and heavy premium candidates. What is missing:

- clones (well, T-40/75 is very borderline)
- a bunch of lowtier stuff
- LT, TD premiums

The most likely first vehicle to come is the T 40 premium medium tank, which is either tier 6 or tier 7 stuff (I think tier 6, but some in Wargaming would like to bump it to tier 7 with some – unhistorical – buffs, not exactly the best outcome).

Weight: 40 tons
Engine: 700hp
Max.speed: 50 km/h
Armor – hull: 65/40/30
Armor – turret: 65/40/40
Gun: 88mm PLK Vz.37 (L/56  from Tiger I, depression -5/+20)

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Source: http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_paderborn/borchen/borchen/20332273_Panzer-rollt-in-Borchen-in-den-Vorgarten.html

Thanks to Opferlamm113 and H.S., who sent me this story :) Something lighter today – while the streets of various cities in war areas across the world are littered with burned-out husks of destroyed fighting vehicles, the problems with tanks in Germany are of completely different nature.

British school vehicle (apparently a Warrior IFV) driver in Borchen (Paderborn) lost control over his vehicle and bumped into the local house’s garden. The reason for the incident was that the vehicle lost a bolt in one of its roadwheels, leading to the loss of control over the vehicle and the subsequent drift, which ended after the vehicle ran into the hedge and stopped over the small wall under it, sparing the house itself. Noone was injured in the incident.

The occupant of the house, an elderly man by the name of Ulrich Tilsner was about to leave the house to visit his granddaughter when the crash happened. His surprised family then recieved a phonecall for him, in which he announced that he’s going to be a bit late, because he has a tank in the garden.

The recovery of the vehicle took several hours.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3740559.html

Hello everyone,

I already made this post partially, so I’ll be just brief. These are various hangars, appearing or modified to work with 9.6 client – basically, Wargaming forgot to remove all kinds of event hangars from the 9.6 build. Thanks to Awasaky for this one.

Asian hangar (Chinese New Year) – download link

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Hello everyone,

time for another big thank you to the FTR contributors :) First, as usual, the people who donated via Paypal:

Clay H. (Texas, USA)
Nebojsa D. (Portugal)

Thank you both, guys :) And now, the Patreon cycle, that went without any issues (Patreon really improved these last few months, they have a really good system for the payments, so if you are considering some form of subscription for your channel/blog/whatever, I can only recommend Patreon).

Out of the 608,59 USD pledged at the point of the cycle activation:

- 553,59 USD came in successfully (the rest didn’t go through for some reason on the contributor side, insufficient funds on account etc.)
- out of 553,59 USD, after the Patreon and CC fees and all that, 487,87 USD were left for FTR – much appreciated! The list of contributors can be viewed here.

But wait.. let’s have a look at the Patreon patrons, because those guys usually don’t get named, yet they contributed time and time again. I am grateful to all of you of course :) But there are couple of guys, that deserve extra recognition, because their help has been enormous in the past.

Very special thanks go to:

Tugboat1964 (USA)
Kkessu (Germany)
GeographerNA (USA)
Mamizoom (UK)
McBain (Denmark)
EdFrancis01 (UK)
Brenthos (Israel)
Robert M. (?)
Azntrigboi (USA)
Tstuka (Norway)
“Alexander” (?)
Kalashnikitten (Germany)
DeAngel0 (Czech Republic)
Jodgi (Norway)
KvetoslavWoT (Czech Republic)
Alex78i (Romania)
Panzer_Fenris (Norway)
Layers (UK)
Cochonpaspropre (France)
Jericool (Germany)
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Mywotmods.com (Webium)
AdamF (Slovakia)
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Der_Tod_42 (Germany I presume :) )
Veselin K. (Bulgaria)
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SpeikerNA (USA)

All these guys donated more than 50 USD via Patreon. Much appreciated, thanks everyone for the support!