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  1. Yes, it seems to be the DM43 used on the Rh-120-44. Is there a better copy of the full page of this document available ?
  2. "An attempt at straightening out, the all present and popular myth about the Challenger 2 MBT surviving 70 RPG hits, nothing more, nothing less. For some context, Challenger 2 is a British main battle tank developed in the 1990s that earned itself quite a legendary reputation for survivability, as mentioned above. But the reality of it is that while Challenger 2 performed well, it was nowhere near the level presented in the commonly told story. It also is worth to spread around that the operation to recover Challenger 2 from the video wasn't easy, and the guys from REME deserve recognition for what they did, which they sadly do not get in the famous retelling spread around the net, which basically disregards their involvement." - Volke
  3. IMHO, looks like some artillery HE to me.
  4. No, you are totally wrong! It is a stylized Wehrmacht "Balkenkreuz" of the German Wehrmacht's YouTube channel. Evidence (see number 5): I am surprised that you of all people would get this one wrong.
  5. Hyundai Rotem has registered two types of K2 Black Panther main battle tanks with the Korean Intellectual Property Office KIPO. The first type is likely to be a variant of K2PL for Poland. Second type without hard APS could be an export variant for another international customer.
  6. I did not know the K2 was inspired by the German Leopard 2 when it uses a flat turret design with an auto-loader (like the Leclerc), a hull with ISUs, driver on the left (Like the Leclerc), ERA modules on hull and turret,etc..
  7. Why do you think the Leopard 2 is the better choice ?
  8. "...They said they were interested but the US offered a delivery date only after 2030." Why would it take GDLS so long to potentially deliver these vehicles so late ?
  9. Yeah, I saw those! Given what came out in recent years from multiple sources, it should not be too hard to figure out in what range these values could operate.
  10. Yes, totally ! All of it ! So much juicy information ! (Could come in handy in my soon-to-be-started M1 vulnerability study / CAD model.)
  11. I thought of a "performance ban" as well but then again I had kill streaks before over the years and nothing happened. Yes, certain people have said that I cheated over the years but nothing happened. I am a very defensive AB player and I usually like to keep my distance. Also in the weeks leading up to the ban, I was trying to grind my crew with my M-51 and the Merkava 2D , focusing on the M51 primarily. Besides that I played low to mid tier (BR 3.7-6.0) primarily. Yes, I did get 0 to 5+ kills at times regularly but that does says more about the quality of the opponents I faced than me. It has also come to my attention that some people do not seem to use their minimap at all. I almost look at my minimap all the time, especially in close quarter affairs. In the months leading up to the ban I also did not have any arguments with any moderators in the forum. I was too busy finishing up my Leclerc project and RL affairs to invest in destructive talk in the forum. But I did submit a post concerning the protection of the Merkava 2D, 1-2 weeks prior to the ban. That was my last forum activity besides me asking in vain for people to review my replays (of me cheating). I did squad a lot with my clan and eastern European friends but since my ban I have not. Usually I am a team player in my squad. I will not make another account if this mess does not get resolved. I basically consider myself defrauded by Gaijin and that was also the reason I got a lawyer involved in this s**t show. The lawyer just said that these companies focus their resources on the things that bring in the cash. Anti-cheat does not bring in the cash so these companies might be cutting corners and getting sloppy here and there. If they have 10k paying customers and screw over 200 of those, what difference do these wrongful bans make ? They have no incentive or "motivation" to reform their system. As i pointed out before, even some people that got screwed over by Gaijin are flocking back to them (dafuq!?). No lessons to be learned by Gaijin. In my paranoia I also checked if my bank account was somehow in the red and that that might be the reason for the ban but that turned out to be OK. As it stands now I have no idea why I was banned from WT. Besides the copy and paste statement they send to everyone they ban, I have received no definite data that says anything detailed. According to them I just violated section 3.2 of the EULA (i.e. using a modification to gain an unfair advantage). At no point in time in my 8.5 years did ever use an overlay or modification (excluding WT.live sights) to gain an unfair advantage. I do not even know if this "cheating" was a one-time event or if it was ongoing affair according to Gaijin. If I was the cheater why did I just not make a new email and WT account? This should have not taken me longer than an hour to setup. Yet according to Gaijin (and/or EAC) I just happen to cheat after 8.5 years with basically fully trained crews and researched trees (excluding Israel, Sweden and Italy). As a hacking "cheater" I was also dumb enough to just send them my DxDiag file too. On top of that I , the alleged cheater, am stupid enough to get a lawyer involved. I am delusional at times but I doubt I am that delusional to cheat and behave like this. Overall, this and other odd cases tell me that Gaijin does not take a look at who they ban, unless you are a prominent WT youtuber/twitch streamer. On a side note, I do have a VPN. And no, my VPN was not active during the period (February?) of the alleged cheating. My VPN usually degrades my connection even more when I use my local powerlan network. As far as I could gather, IMHO, these "odd" bans pretty much come down to internal failure, sloppiness and carelessness on part of Gaijin and/or EAC.
  12. My ban was on March 13/14th. I checked "recent" online acitivity but thanks to the way the "online login activity" is registered I can not go back far enough. But IMHO, i seriously doubt it was an account (or PC) hijack. I had changed my password last fall/winter so I doubt my account was hijacked by someone. Also if my PC was hijacked then why is only conveniently WT affected ? I also thought about potential trojans or viruses but there again this malware also conveniently only affects WT. So i doubt that that was the reason either. I did have custom WT.live sights installed but I have not touched those since fall, prior to the motherboard implosion. The only user mission I have installed is from WT.live as well and I have not updated since last year. The user skins I got from the Gaijin market place. So these IMHO, can not be the culprits for this ban. I did had to have my motherboard replaced 6 weeks before the ban. I had to have windows "fix" itself. I lost all major desktop shortcuts and certain programs stopped working. I had to create new shortcuts for some (including WT). I did not reinstall WT but i think i did a file check and it worked again. According to some internal sources there was a change in the hash number in my gaijin aces.exe 4 weeks before my ban. Then my source said that this was about 2 weeks before my ban. Frankly I am not sure how accurate these statements are. To calm myself down I did check my download history and I could not find any weird or unrecognizable .exe. file, .dll. or folder in that history log. Around February 28th (2 weeks before my ban) I did install Core Temp to monitor the temperature of my CPU after a burned smell had emanated from my PC. All temps turned out to be OK and I never found out what had caused that smell. I do think I let WT run while I checked the temperatures. According to my insider source the change in the aces.exe was potentially inserted while WT was running. But that is only his opinion. Gaijin is not saying anything besides copy and paste statements. Since I currently work from home and my USB sticks/data carriers have not left my sight. At this point in time , I seriously doubt that this mystery software (or whatever it is) is even on my PC. I was thinking of pulling my ISP traffic data. I doubt I got this "cheat routine" of of Amazon. To add insult to injury , I got myself two no so cheap premium vehicles after I allegedly "cheated". I appreciate your offer Lord_James but I could never accept your offer even if it was not a TOS violation. This move by you and me accepting it would just throw good money after bad. Even if you or someone else paid me to do it , I could not do it. Why would anyone spent time, money and effort in an endeavor for fun, business or otherwise if you just got ripped off after 8,5 years and thousands of dollars spent ? What shocks and disappoints me the most is that a couple of other players that also got screwed over (potentially) said, that they would be willing to return to WT. How in the f***ing world can you go back to a company that screwed you over like that ? I mean I like WT but a move like this crosses too many lines even for a WT crackhead like me. Anyway, since Gaijin refused to be constructive or cooperative I had seek legal counsel in the mean time to potentially "resolve" this matter. My legal counsel said that I (and others) were potentially "shot-gunned" to demonstrate that they, Gaijin, are doing something against cheaters. He went on to say that these companies do not invest much in parts of their companies that do not directly make them money. So yeah, sometimes people get thrown under the bus and this time , after 8.5 years, my number came up. According to him and what I could hear from others, this behavior is not limited to Gaijin. EA , Rockstar and others also seem to have been doing this in the past. They just do not have the resources and willingness to tackle a problem like this individually. With hundreds and thousands of users and a company size of no more than 500, a lot of these processes have to be automated. This came from one WT forum administrator concerning my case that surprised and disappointed me: To be fair, WT forum administrators do not seem to have any inside knowledge of things such as this. A this point in time I am not even sure if I will return to WT even if my ban is lifted. There have been a couple of other odd bans in WT lately (and over the years):
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