Hello everyone,
here’s the VK4502 Ausf.B’s replacement, also known as ‘Mäuschen” (“little mouse”).
Characteristics (for 100 percent crew):
Tier: 9
Hitpoints: 2000
Engine: 1500 hp
Weight: 170 tons
Power-to-weight: 8,82 hp/t
Maximum speed: 20/15 km/h
Hull traverse: 20 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 1,726/1,822/2,877
Turret traverse: 18,8 deg/s
Viewrange: 370
Radio range: 740,4
Not sure this appears on EU portal, as it is the “No Comment” Russian edition. Still, some of it is kinda good :)
Source: http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-63494580-tanky-ze-sternberka-pojedou-do-iraku-bojovat-s-islamskym-statem
Hello everyone,
Czech company Excalibur Army (an arms dealer) won a contract to supply the Iraqi army with more than a hundred of former Czech tanks (likely of the T-72M1 type) and other armored vehicles (BMP-1 variants) to help them fight the muslim radicals from the Islamic State. Dozens of these refitted vehicles are ready in the army depot in Šternberk today and the Iraqi representatives are inspecting them. According to the news server, they are very satisfied.
Jaroslav Strnad, the owner of Excalibur, commented that this is only one part of a larger deal, involving more than a hundred of former Czech army vehicles, mothballed in the depots. The Iraqi representatives looked for a suitable supplier all around the Europe, but also in Ukraine and Russia. In the end, the chose the Czech company due to the good ratio of price versus state of the vehicles. Another advantage is that the Iraqi soldiers are already experienced with the former Soviet vehicles. According to Strnad, this contract is worth of dozens of millions of USD, the first one of its kind for the company, as previously, the Russians and the Ukrainians always won these contracts by using dumping prices.
This contract was approved by the Czech government and army officials as well as much better alternative of helping fight the terrorists than sending our own troops to Iraq, although our representatives are not united in this opinion, as for example Czech president Miloš Zeman recently urged the NATO states to start a full-blown land campaign against ISIS.
Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4199853.html
Hello everyone,
pretty much every large nation’s tank industry produced at least a proposal for some strange superheavy tank and the Soviets were no different. In 1933, this monster (designated T-39) was designed by the Kirov plant special design bureau (ОКМО Опытного завода Спецмаштреста им. С. М. Кирова) under the leadership of N.V.Barykov. It was never built, but here’s how one of its variants looked. You can read more about its properties here.
But wait, this is not all. The French “journalists” and “historians” from the French magazine, that brought you the “Panther is better than IS-3” article produced a drawing of this tank:
In case you didn’t get it, the drawing says “Glory to Stepan Bandera” – these French guys are some SERIOUS wehraboos. And this is not the only crap they produced, by far… stay tuned :)
Sort of an older video, but still good. This is what happens when you park your car wrongly in Vilnius…
Source: http://42.tut.by/434310
Hello everyone,
this is connected to the previous article about WG firing the Kharkov staff and I am including it here for teh lulz, because it’s basically a PR article.Another article was published a day before the last one on how Wargaming helps the Ukrainians get jobs, because the offices of Wargaming in Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev) lately grew by 38 people. Wargaming was 16th largest IT employer in Ukraine at that point, they hired 142 people 2014.
And a day later, the Persha studio layoff was announced. Guess that didn’t work out.
Source: http://lenta.ru/news/2015/02/05/wargamingkharkov/
Hello everyone,
according to the news linked above (thanks to Maiorboltach for bringing it to attention), Wargaming announced they closed the office of Persha Studios in Kharkov (Ukraine). The Kiev office does continue its work. There were cca 50 people working in the Kharkov office. The key staff was offered positions in Minsk in Kiev, the rest was fired. The decision was, according to Wargaming Russian representative, taken “in connection with the restructuralization of the company’s web department”.
Persha Studios was the game designer studio responsible for World of Warplanes and was recently working on World of Tanks: Generals online card game, as well as creating specialized web application for Wargaming. The studio was independent until 2011, when it signed an exclusive contract with Wargaming, becoming for all intents and purposes Wargaming branch.
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
as expected, the tier 10 AMX-30B (should be AMX 30 B, but meh, both are acceptable) was buffed on supertest, and the tier 9 AMX-30 Prototype was nerfed. Here’s how.
AMX-30B (tier 10)
- terrain resistance buffed from 0,959/1,151/2,014 to 0,863/1,055/2,014
- viewrange buffed from 400 to 410
- DPM buffed from 2392,4 to 2741,9
- reload time buffed from 9,781 to 8,534
- ROF buffed from 6,134 to 7,03
- accuracy buffed from 0,326 to 0,288
- aimtime buffed from 2,3 to 2,01
- accuracy on the move buffed by cca 10 percent
That means the vehicle stats look like this now:
Hello everyone,
Wargaming released a map picture of an upcoming map (there are speculations it might arrive in 9.7) on their instagram. Check it out.
Seen it before? Yea, that’s the map, that was first supertested (leaked) in August 2014. Wargaming is asking players, how would they name it – the original name was “D-Day” and it is clearly inspired by the Normandy landings. Here is the previous video, showing how the map looked back then:
Hello everyone,
if you read this blog carefully, you might have noticed one piece of information: Yuri Pasholok (WG’s main military history advisor) and his colleagues visited not that long ago the Hassleholm Militar vehicle museum in Sweden to make a whole bunch of photos of tanks and stuff. They had the opportunity to examine the Swedish vehicles carefully and there’s no doubt that at one point, the Swedes will appear in World of Tanks as well.
As a part of the effort, just out of curiosity and “for teh lulz”, Yuri Pasholok made – without any preparation or moviemaking gear – a quick lecture on the Landsverk L-60 light tank. The impressive part is that Yuri Pasholok is doing this just so from the top of his head, no pre-written script reading there. Whatever you think of him, you gotta respect that.
If you speak Russian, it’s actually very interesting. The thing is, he speaks fast and not very loud, so it’s really hard to catch some of the words and some parts I didn’t understand at all (could try making subtitles though). Still, even if you don’t speak Russian, it’s an iteresting look inside the L-60.
