Author: Doom Pyramid

Australian Armour and Artillery Museum’s Tiger Replica

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The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum recently added a replica of the Tiger. Unfortunately, it does look funny in some areas. Overall, it’s a decent replica of the Tiger considering they were stuck with a low budget. I would advise some changes to the suspension, gun, and mantlet for those who are familiar with the way the Tiger looks.

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New tougher turret for the Caernarvon?

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The Caernarvon’s original final turret (now stock turret) is said to be underwhelming. Due to this, WarGaming gave it the Action X’s turret a few patches ago. However, it may change soon. Aleksander Galevskyi, a lead artist at WarGaming, posted quite a bit of screenshots of a Caernarvon with a peculiar turret which I originally thought was the stock Caernarvon turret without its mantlet. I’ve been told if the new turret is modelled correctly, nothing will be able to penetrate it. If it’s true, it’s possible that this is a historical replacement for the unhistorical Action X turret featured as the final turret on the Caernarvon. We may expect a buffed Caernarvon in 9.18 or in later iterations. Alternatively, it could be another premium.

Update: the mantlet is said to be over a foot thick in real life. However, the surrounding remains the same as the stock Caernarvon.

Here are the screenshots…

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T-45: The Obscure T-60 Variant

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I have a new article, but let me apologize first. I wrongly attributed the ZET-1 to another project. I took the word of some websites who claim the two are connected and I wanted to put something out there on TAP. I was being a bit lazy and my morale was low at the time. No one I can blame except me. Hopefully, I can make it up for it with my T-45 article. The sources were originally in Russian and translated by a friend of mine named Nikita Nikitenko.

Introduction

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The T-45 was a Soviet WWII light tank project, meant as a stop-gap measure until the T-70 could enter production. It was based on the lesser T-60, but with a new gun, turret and engine. While the T-45 didn’t have any glaring deficiencies and was superior to the T-60, it was nevertheless inferior to the T-70 in a number of aspects. However, there was no competition between the two, and the order to switch to T-70 production reduced the T-45 to a footnote in AFV history.

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The Narco’s Mexican Monsters

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Here is another awesome article from Tanks Encyclopedia. Check them out. More of these types of articles are coming soon. This article inspired me to write about Heemeyer’s armored bulldozer. Monstruo = monster in Spanish for those who didn’t know.

Author: Willkers

Illustrator: David Bocquelet

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The most famous, and perhaps one of the most heavily armed Narco Tanks, “Monstruo 2010“. It is believed to be one of the first Narco Tanks ever discovered by authorities. It features a satellite communication device to track police and military communications. It also has smoke-screen, oil-slicking, and nail-dropping devices. It has a heavy steel battering ram on the front, which is also electrified with up to 700 volts! Seized in Jalisco, May, 2011.

The real Mad Max cars

Narco Tanks (known as “Narco tanques” in Spanish) is an umbrella term made by the media for all of the improvised fighting vehicles used by drugs cartels in Mexico. They are seen mostly in the states bordering the USA because these areas have become zones of intense conflict between cartels competing for drugs smuggling routes. These vehicles look like something from the post-apocalyptic film, Mad Max, and were first reported at some point between 2010 and 2011, although the media in Mexico often waits to report on certain cartel-related stories for fear of reprisal attacks. They are based on SUVs and commercial vehicles, and they are tooled up with armor, turrets, mounted weapons, and even James Bond-like gadgets. Created in illicit workshops, these vehicles are well-known for their exotic designs, but for the local Mexicans, they are weapons of an ever-escalating and ever-deadlier inter-cartel war that even the military has been involved in for over ten years.

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