Hello everyone,

two move vehicles from supertest. Stats are not known yet, but these are NOT usual vehicles for sale, they will be a part of some event.

IS-2

Description:

“Heavy tank IS-2 (IS-122) was the result of the IS-1 modernization and from 1944 onwards recieved a more simple vast frontal armor. As a part of the Independent guard heavy tank regiments, IS-2 was used actively to assault fortified enemy cities such as Budapest, Breslau and Berlin. In order to recognize themselves, these vehicles were carrying special recognition signs – white stripes. This model represents a tank of the 7th Guard Tank Brigade, the photography of it under the Brandenburg Gate became widely known.”

Tier: 7 HT
Hitpoints: 1280
Engine: 600 hp
Weight: 46,265 tons
Power-to-weight: 12,97 hp/t
Maximum speed: 34/14 km/h
Hull traverse: 38 deg/s
Turret traverse: 29,2 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 0,959/1,055/2,11
Viewrange: 350
Radio range: 440

Hull armor: 120/90/?
Turret armor: 100/90

Elite gun: 122mm D-25T
Damage: 390
Penetration: 175
ROF: 5,087
DPM: 1984
Reload: 11,795
Accuracy: 0,441
Aimtime: 3,26s
Depression: -6/+25

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OMG! TOTALLY EXCLUSIEV LEAKS FFS!!!111ONELEVEN

Not really.

Every community contributor got the physics video. This one is from Dom1n – thank you very much, mate! Additional thanks go to MrOmen.

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Hello everyone,

Karelia seems to be a popular topic for rework. This post is a followup of the previous change – the changes, applied in that older post are still valid, but on top of that, the red zone 1 says “additional cover for light tanks” and red zone 2 indicates that the area was made higher from the swamp side (possibly to access the mountain better)

Source: wot-news.com

Jagdpanzer E-100

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…this time from WoT-News and in a new post, because I hate backediting the old ones.

Regarding the armor changes: the upper frontal plate became a solid 102mm plate and the “bonus armor” was replaced by a second plate of spaced armor, like this:

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Hello everyone,

so, here’s the Super Pershing in HD. Buff? Nerf? See for yourselves. Armor first:

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Hello everyone,

a couple of pictures of HD models from the supertest. Let’s hope there are more where these came from, because like 5 HD tanks per patch… that sucks. Also, most of these models are fucked, they’ll prolly fix that before 9.7 comes to public test.

E-100 (notice the lowres mantlet)

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Hello everyone,

a few days ago, I posted that Gaijin Entertainment (War Thunder developers) and experts from Kubinka managed to restore a broken old T-44 to its former glory. Well, here’s a video of the said machine in motion. It’s in Russian, but it has multiple subtitles, including (pay attention now, Wargaming) English, French, German and Czech (you don’t have to dub the video to English to release it for western audience as well, we can actually read, shockingly enough).

As I said before, I am not a huge fan of War Thunder, but this is something I can get behind. It’s always good to see more vehicles restored to their former glory.

Thanks to Xardas060 for this one.

Hello everyone,

every modern main battle tank has its gun stabilized, but one of the best stabilization mechanisms is built into the Leopard 2 main battle tank. In this video, we can see the Leopard 2A5 from 11th “Lubuska” Armoured Cavalry Division of the Polish army. With the camera attached to the barrel of the gun, you can well see how the stabilizer compensates well for the rough terrain and keeps the gun levelled, allowing the vehicle to aim accurately and fire on the move.

Hello everyone,

remember the Bastogne Barracks Museum post here on FTR? To give you a quick rundown: it’s a well-estabilished museum, unfortunately the Belgian army that runs it decided to possibly shut it down. A petition was made to prevent that from happening and I asked for your signatures, because there aren’t that many important armor museums around Europe.

Well, there’s an update and it is not good. The decision might be taken around Easter. By the words of the petition organizer:

“At this time not 6, but 15 bases are at stake. Handing over the base to civilians is not an option, the costs to keep the place open are too high, and the city of Bastogne itself might not be interested because of their focus on their own Mardasson museum which has just been renovated.”

Since I believe every bit of tank history is worth preserving (too much was lost already or went to private owners, never to be seen again), I am bringing this to your attention yet again: please sign the petition, it doesn’t cost you anything and it might help one museum escape from the clutches of bean counters.