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War Thunder Attacker FB 1 The Attacker (tier V fighter in War Thunder) developed from a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter jet project, under Air Ministry Specification E.10 of 1944 (the E for experimental). The design of the Attacker used the laminar flow straight-wings of the Supermarine Spiteful, a piston-engined fighter intended to replace the…
War Thunder Sea Fury FB 11 The Hawker Sea Fury (in WT tier 4) was a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, and also one of the fastest production single piston-engined aircraft ever built. Developed during the Second World War, the…
Mittlerer Panzer 58 Source – http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4484665.html For a variety of reasons (mainly economic) Switzerland for a long time bought armored vehicles from other countries. The situation changed in the 50s. It is no secret that Swiss companies (especially Oerlikon and Solothurn) cooperated actively with the Germans before the Second World War. After the war, Switzerland…
Beutepanzer 7,5cm Pak 97/98(f) auf Pz. 740 (r) The Beutepanzer 7,5cm Pak 97/98(f) auf Pz. 740 (r) is not well known german conversion of many captured soviet T-26. A French gun 7,5cm PaK 97/98 was installed on modified T-26 chassis. The turrets of these tanks were removed and replaced by a 75mm captured french antitank gun…
From Matilda to Oswald The history of Infanterie Pz Kpw MK II mit 5cm KwK 38 L42 is barely unknown. A captured Matilda II with turret number 111 was sent to Terneuzen, Holland, at the and of 1942. Here, this tank was used for exercises near the harbour of Terneuzen on a landing craft. Otherwise,…
It’s time to talk about another “beutepanzer”. This time it’s possible to talk about the only very well known conversion of a URSS T-34 tank by German soldiers: the Flakpanzer T-34. This AA tank came from an heavy conversion that changed the hull of a T-34 captured by Pz Jag Abt 653 in July 1944. The…
Here you are an interesting video about a real Medium Tank MKII in Bovington Museum, starring David Fletcher…
Yesterday, Yuri Pasholok published an interesting article about the tanks in Antarctica. “… From time to time on the internet and press discussing about these photos. It is not strange, it’s owned by Richard Byrd. These photos are taken on Stonington island in Marguerite Bay. In 1939-41 the third Byrd’s expedition founded the East Base. In addition to…
World of Tanks Renault ZM prototype Source – wikipedia and http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4352782.html#cutid1 The ancestor (prototype) of the Renault R 35 In 2 August 1933, the French army advanced requirements for the development of a new light tank, which needed to replace the obsolete Renault FT. According to the specifications, the tank had tohave the following characteristics: – Weight: 6 tons;…
The Lost successor of B1 – The Char B1 ter The fact that the Char B1 (1929) was outdated, it was clear as early as the mid-30s. In 1935, Char B1 with serial number 101 was the first of a series of tests for an updated version of the tank. It was decided to increase the…