Russians use Panzer III to clear out snow

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Thanks to leshakartoshkin for this one :)

Source: http://war-tundra.livejournal.com/2086064.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, the Russians have a lot of snow problems this year. It went so far that on the road M23 between Rostov and Tarangor, they use a WW2 German Panzer III to pull out vehicles from snow.

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According to the post, the situation with the snow is so bad that the employees of Don Military History Museum decided to help the authorities with the issue and to help pull cars stuck deep in snow out with the captured German Panzer III. They even managed to pull out a heavy Gazprom truck. Before that, it was a truck with a trailer and the director of the Museum, Ivan Strelyaev, said they would go and pull out a stuck snow plough next. The Panzer III is used only for the worst cases.

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1.2.2014

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- all shell types of the same gun do the same module damage (SS: I checked at gamemodels3d, HE shells do NOT do more module damage than AP shells)
- engine can be set on fire by ANY damage (SS: even that, which doesn’t turn it yellow), while fuel tanks start burning only when their HP reaches 0
- the non-penetration HE damage formula is still DAM = damage/2-armorthickness*1,3*1,X (1,X is the spall liner coefficient)
- there will be three German HD models in 9.0 (Tiger I, Panther I and – strangely enough – Maus)
- there is some internal talk at WG about re-opening the European supertest…

Regarding the recent discussion on WG EU forums about WG tracking down bots, Decept1on on Reddit forums:

AFKs and Bots are being actively tracked down and if you see one, be sure to report it as it helps us finding them even faster.

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Wargaming Producer talks about WoT Blitz

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Source: 2p.com website

Hello everyone,

in the article linked above, WoT Blitz producer Roman Bui talks about the game.

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Main features:

- 7 vs 7 battle mode
- battles are faster than WoT’s 7 minutes
- release will include 8 maps and over 100 tanks

And as for release time:

The iOS version of World of Tanks Blitz Mobilize is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2014 with the Android version coming soon in the next few months, but the Windows Phone version is not in the plan yet.

This is how the interface will look:

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Stream with Russian Community Managers

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3003146.html

Hello everyone,

just like last year, Maiorboltach from Russian LJ community makes yet another transcription of Russian stream with community managers (never heard the nicknames before, so I’ll just take his word on that – their names are Alexei “Inaki” Ilyin, Alexei “Orc” Protnikov and Alexander “Twitch79″ Safronov). Here’s how he summarized it:

- apparently, the Wargaming signed contract  with Twitch and it will be possible in the future to stream directly from the game
- in 9.0, there will be 12 HD models and a part of Havok engine
- in 9.0, there will be some unannounced features for garage and crew
- there is a high probability HESH shells mechanism will not be reworked (SS: *sigh*)
- 9.0 will bring ammo rack explosions and turrets flying off, but Maus turret will not fly off, it will just fall on the side of the tank, it’s possible other components (hatches, handles etc.) will fly off too during the explosion

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31.1.2014

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Not much today

- quality of armor is not taken into account in World of Tanks
- recently, one of the “lesser” developers posted on RU forums that “higher caliber guns have bigger chance of damaging modules” – Yurko2F explains how this really works: it has nothing to do with the chance to avoid module saving throw, but ever shell has a separate stat for module damage, that depends on the caliber of the gun and thus bigger guns have bigger chance of causing enough damage for a module to become yellow (or red)
- Storm confirms that the 8.11 version of T-54 is final, after that it will be the HD version
- Storm states that it’s not true that the later a tank came out (SS: in WoT), the later it will be remodelled to HD

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Vulcan Wheeled Carrier

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Source: http://shushpanzer-ru.livejournal.com/ LJ page

Hello everyone,

I usually try not to copy stuff one to one, but this is just freaking badass. Check this out:

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This is the Vulcan Wheeled Carrier from like mid 80′s (the picture is dated 1985) by Standard Manufacturing. According to tank-net forums, this vehicle is described in the “Modern U.S. Military Vehicles” publication as follows:

The Standard Manufacturing Company of Dallas, Texas, used their practical little 8×8 Trailing Arm Drive chassis as the mount for the Gatling Gun, using hydrostatic drive and braking and a GVW of 16,000 pounds. Ground clearance varied from 10 to 22 inches, and the top speed was 45 miles per hour using a Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter V-8 135 horsepower.

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