Source: http://tech.onliner.by/2013/10/17/olga-sergeevna-interview

I generally ignore interviews, but this is pretty interesting (with emphasis on pretty :P) – a Belarussian portal tech.onliner.bu made an interview with Olga “Ola” Sergeevna.

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Hello everyone,

today, we are going to have a look at one interesting conversion in detail, the 7,5 cm PaK 97/38 auf T-26(r).

As you might have guessed, it’s the 75mm PaK 97/38 on a T-26 hull. As an improvised tank destroyer, it was moderately successful, but let’s have a look at the gun first.

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Small update: Edrard asked me to remove the WG EU mocking post and I did, since I do respect him. You can find a copy of the original post on the FTR FB wall (just click the FB button on the upper bar).

- SS

PS: will leave comments opened, but out of respect for Edrard, please do NOT copy the post into them.

Warning: this post is very picture heavy

You know what time it is :) It’s another Hall of Shame time, showcasing the worst retards of World of Tanks.

So, there is this clan Exn0m, whose members appear on Hall of Shame regularily – must be a really fun clan to be in, with such retards. But don’t worry, there are other idiots too.

Also, I removed the Hall of Shame from the upper menu. There is no need to keep this shit archived – it’s enough these morons get called out.

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…and where your money goes :)

WG developer visited the largest airsoft event in Alabino and “brought back a lot of impressions”

Hello everyone,

there seems to be a lot of confusion about the Panther and its historical properties. Partially, it’s because it’s such a legendary machine and partially simply because it’s German and – for some reason – over the decades since the WW2, numerous hoaxes, legends or simply confusions sprang up about the possible Panther upgrades.

Panther Ausführung F (Ausf.F or Panther F) was to be the ultimate evolution program for the Panther vehicle. Its prominent feature was supposed to be the Schmalturm (narrow turred) depicted above (however, the picture does NOT show Panther Ausf.F, it’s a regular Ausf.G hull with second version of Schmalturm with S.Z.F.1/1b targetting device).

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Source: Yuri Pasholok

Hello everyone,

something interesting from Yuri Pasholok’s blog. Some of you might have asked where did the changed IS-3 armor scheme come from. Well, it was based on the following drawings – 1945 production series IS-3 armor schematics from Plant No.200

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Send me questions to tankarchives@gmail.com, and I will answer them! Previous set of answers is here.

Q: What Soviet 152 mm gun tank destroyers were there that aren’t in World of Tanks?

A: The SU-D15 (SU-85 with 152 mm D-15 howitzer) and ZIK-20 (KV-1 chassis with a 152 mm howitzer, later the 152 mm Br-2 gun). Of course, there may be many more lurking in the archives.

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Hello everyone,

as the SEA players probably remember, there was a huge affair lately with the SEA competition rigging, gathering enormous amount of rage.

Well, WG responded – the investigation is running and the culprit’s replay was submitted for scrutiny.

Strangely enough, while the culprits have been caught and the whole MP “gang” gets a 7 day ban, they will not (unlike on US server) be banned from further WG events. That’s weird – remember KingAlphyn? He actually was banned from any future events.

Anyway, apparently there is an automated anti-cheat system now in place. Let’s hope it doesn’t repeat itself.

Just a quick update guys, since a few of you wrote me PM’s, why I didn’t reply:

As you can see, BigBadVuk strikes again. Got a 7 day hard ban (not just RO) on EU forums for posting in this thread – you can see what BBV wrote there and my reply was one single picture:

Edited by BigBadVuk, Today, 12:19 PM.
is post has been edited by a member of the Moderation Team, due to inappropriate content. An official notification has also been sent. BigBadVuk

SerB is inappropriate :D There’s a reason we all love BBV :) Nah, not really, I think he’s an idiot. Anyway, I didn’t manage to reply a few PM’s, will do when the ban is over.

Czech: Také to znamená, že 7 dní nebudu na foru nic překládat, protože jsem líný si dělat další alt. Možná budu překládat i tady na FTR česky, uvidíme.