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Dear players!

We would like to offer you a selection of some of our most interesting Developer Diaries from our Devblog about new ground vehicles that you can expect in Update 1.43!

Soviet Vehicles:

ZSU-37

ZSU-37 was based on the chassis of the SU-76M tank destroyer. It had open top turret and was armed with one 37 mm 61-K mod. 1939 anti-aircraft cannon. 

 

Multi-turreted T-35 with working secondary turrets

The T-35 – Was a Soviet heavy tank developed between 1931-1932. It was the first USSR heavy tank to be mass produced. The T-35 – was a five-turret tank with a cannon and machine gun armament and anti small arms armour.

T-54 mod.1947

This was the first production mass release Soviet tank in the postwar years. It was developed between 1945 and 1946 on the principles of the hull, power train and a number of other technical solutions directly taken from the T-44 medium tank.

 

ZSU-57-2

The SU-57-2 was a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle based on the T-54 tank chasis. It was armed with two (57mm S-60) twin anti-aircraft autocannons.


German Vehicles:

Flakpanzer V “Coelian”

German SPAA prototype based on PzKpfw V «Panther» constructed bt Rheinmetall group. The vehicle was armed with  3,7 cm FlaK 43 L/89 that were mounted on a turret.

Sd.Kfz.139 für 7,62cm PaK 36 (r), Marder III

Marder III, Sd.Kfz. 139 actively used on all fronts of the Second World War. Most of them on the Eastern Front. It was built as a makeshift tank destroyer.

Pz III Ausf. J

The tank has 50 mm of frontal armor and is armed with a 50 mm Kw.K. 39 L/60. Battle rating of this tank will approximately be equal to the BR of the Soviet T-50, which will allow more accurate and balanced fights with T-34 and comparable German vehicles.

Flakpanzer IV “Wirbelwind”

Well known Flakpanzer IV ‘Wirbelwind’ based on the tank PzKpfw IV will be added in the next update.

Captured KV-1 with Kw.K. 40

A Soviet KV-1 captured by the German forces. Amongst the modifications made by Germany was a newly installed commander’s cupola as well as replacing the L-11 cannon with a German long-barreled 75 mm Kw.K. 40, which had significantly superior characteristics to the standard cannon of the Kliment Voroshilov tank.

 

Find more articles about new vehicles and features coming with Update 1.43 at https://devblog.warthunder.com/

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