Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

Aside from the ongoing Lilac and Steel event, we’ve prepared a very special offer for the celebrations of the end of the Second World War anniversary. This offer includes:

• Anniversary bundle with IT-1, Object 287 and Object 279 Banner Bearer
• WW2 bundle with three epic WW2-themed skins
• Motherland bundle with the T-90A Motherland skin
• Object 490 Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank
• BMPT Mod.2000 Tier 8 Premium Tank Destroyer (Sapphire, Reaper and a Military bundle)
• Iron Crate (this time with the Panzer 87-140 Tier 10 Premium MBT)

Between May 6 and May 13, 2021, the following items will be available:


[h2]Anniversary Bundle[/h2]


This special bundle contains some of the most powerful Soviet vehicles in the game, including the rare Object 287 Tier 6 Premium Tank Destroyer. The Object 287 TD is one of the best armed vehicles of its Tier and has been only available once before. If you missed it in 2019, now’s your chance to get your hands on it again. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



The Anniversary Bundle contains the following items:

• Object 287 Tier 6 Premium Tank Destroyer
• IT-1 Tier 5 Premium Tank Destroyer
• Object 279 Banner Bearer Tier 5 Premium Main Battle Tank
• 14 days of Premium Time

This bundle is available via the MY.GAMES Market. If you own any of the vehicles and purchase the bundle, you will receive their price in Gold.






[h2]Second World War Bundle[/h2]


This bundle contains three historically-themed skins for high-Tier vehicles. The Boyevaya Podruga skin is modeled after a famous Soviet WW2 tank, commanded by Mariya Oktyabrskaya. The Desert Rat skin is modeled after the famous British 7th Armoured Division and the Bastogne skin is modeled after a famous American Sherman tank, “First in Bastogne.” You can read about the history of these skins in our dedicated article.



The Second World War Bundle contains the following items:

• Desert Rat skin for the Challenger 2 ATDU Tier 10 MBT
• Boyevaya Podruga skin for the T-14 Armata Tier 10 MBT
• Bastogne skin for the M1A2 Abrams Tier 8 MBT
• 7 days of Premium Time

This bundle is available via the MY.GAMES Market. Please note that in order to use the skins, you need to own the respective progression MBTs.






[h2]Motherland Bundle[/h2]


This is a special World War Two-themed skin for the T-90A Tier 8 progression MBT. Featuring a considerable amount of covering foliage, this skin will make your tank blend nicely into any environment lush with bushes and trees. The T-90A MBT itself is an excellent short to medium range combat vehicle, capable of disposing of all the enemies it encounters with relative ease. You can learn more about it in our dedicated article.



The Motherland Bundle contains the following items:

• Motherland skin for the T-90A Tier 8 MBT
• 3 days of Premium Time
• 1.000 Gold

This bundle is available via the MY.GAMES Market. If you own any of the vehicles and purchase the bundle, you will receive their price in Gold. Please note that in order to use the skin, you need to own the T-90A progression MBT.






[h2]Object 490[/h2]


The Object 490 Main Battle Tank was an advanced concept from the waning days of the Soviet Union. Designed in the 1980s, it represented a radical departure from the MBT paradigm. Its distinct wedge-like shape, along with the fact that the crew was located in the back, offered unparalleled levels of protection. But the most interesting part of the design was its double suspension paired with two engines, allowing the vehicle to stay mobile even after suffering significant damage. However, the conclusion of the Cold War put an end to this design, along with many other advanced Soviet projects. You can learn more about this vehicle in our dedicated article.

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In Armored Warfare, the Object 490 Tier 10 Premium MBT is perhaps the best armored vehicle in the game. It’s a true behemoth that is almost impossible to slow down, let alone knock out, and concentrated effort is required to stop one of these things when encountering them on the battlefield. The combination of extremely thick armor and a powerful 152mm gun makes this tank incredibly deadly, even though these advantages are balanced by its mediocre agility and the fact that its gun is only forward facing. This MBT is ideal for you if you prefer slow, methodical advances while dealing massive amounts of damage with each shot. If you keep your flanks secure, you’ll be all but impossible to stop.

The Object 490 MBT is available in our Web Shop via Loot Crates. Collect 100 blueprint pieces from these crates to obtain the vehicle.






[h2]BMPT Mod.2000[/h2]


The BMPT Mod.2000 is, as its name suggests, one of the earliest models of the famous Russian BMPT series, also known under the name “Terminator.” The word BMPT stands for “tank support combat vehicle,” which is exactly what the machine was designed for – to accompany tanks to battle and support them (predominantly in urban environments) against enemy infantry. It consists of a MBT-class hull (a modified T-90 one) and an unmanned turret, armed with a single 30mm automatic cannon and a single four-tube launcher for Kornet-E ATGMs. This particular model was shown to general public in 2000, but didn’t get much attention. It was overhauled almost immediately to the iconic twin-autocannon configuration that’s being used to this day.

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In Armored Warfare, the BMPT Mod.2000 is a Tier 8 Premium Tank Destroyer. It’s a heavy duty vehicle with its hull offering excellent protection for its class. The turret, albeit lightly armored, only takes reduced damage. Even though this vehicle only features a single 30mm autocannon (unlike all the other BMPT series vehicles in the game), this is compensated by the presence of powerful ATGMs that make the BMPT Mod.2000 an extremely potent tank killer.



This vehicle is now available on MY.GAMES Market directly in three different variants:

• BMPT Mod.2000 without any camouflage
• BMPT Mod.2000 Reaper with a scary black grim-reaper-themed camouflage
• BMPT Mod.2000 Sapphire with its hull covered in blue flames

Please note that the latter two camouflages are permanent and cannot be removed from the vehicle if you purchase them.



The BMPT Mod.2000 Military Bundle includes (apart from the vehicle itself), the Uralvagonzavod real-life camouflage. This camouflage has been used by the company during various events and expos to promote its prototypes and futuristic projects. It therefore fits the UVZ BMPT prototype from the year 2000, even if it appeared years after the vehicle itself. It also fits the rest of the BMPT series available in the game, including the progression Ramka-99 variant. Additionally, the bundle contains a free decal that can be typically seen on various military parade vehicles of the Russian army.






[h2]Iron Crate[/h2]


We’ve prepared for you an additional offer this week. Between May 6 and May 13, 2021, the Iron Crate will be available on MY.GAMES Market with 50% discount!



The mechanics are very simple. This crate allows you to win one of the vehicles listed in its description (or its value in Gold if you have it already). The crate contains some very rare vehicles (with some new ones!), including the Panzer 87-140 Tier 10 Premium MBT.

For a full list, please visit the MY.GAMES Market Iron Crate page.





We hope that you will enjoy the offer and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

With the anniversary of the end of the Second World War nearly upon us, we’d like to offer you one more opportunity to earn more valuable prizes.



To that end, we’ve prepared a set of bonus missions for you. For each day, win at least 3 matches to receive a valuable prize:

• May 6: Platinum Loot Crate
• May 7: 3 days of Premium Time
• May 8: Platinum Loot Crate
• May 9: 3 days of Premium Time
• May 10: Platinum Loot Crate
• May 11: 400 Gold
• May 12: 3 Platinum Loot Crates

Please note that to be eligible for a prize, you need to have completed the previous day’s prize as well. In other words, to receive the May 7 prize, you must have received the May 6 prize as well, and so on.

Please note:

• Each day starts at 00:01 MSK (23:01 CEST) and ends at 23:59 MSK (22:59 CEST)
• The prizes will be awarded after the end of each day or after the end of the event
• The event is tracked automatically, you do not have to submit the results anywhere

We hope that you will enjoy this event and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

On the 6th of May 2021, starting from 8:00 CEST (5th of May, 11 PM PDT), the server will not be available for 3 hours due to the application of Update 0.35.8069



[h2]List of Update 0.35.8069 Changes[/h2]
 

• Fixed the Raid Elite mission descriptions in all languages (DE, FR, PL)

Commanders,

Today, we’d like to tell you more about an upcoming Russian vehicle called Kornet-D1.



You are, of course, already familiar with the name Kornet, which belongs to a fairly modern family of anti-tank guided missiles. In Armored Warfare, we already have one Kornet-based vehicle, the Kornet-EM AFV, which is one of the deadliest Tier 10 machines available in PvP – and for a good reason; its quad missile launchers can wreak havoc upon unsuspecting enemies. However, its popularity is more or less hamstrung by the fact it is a wheeled vehicle and it is therefore more difficult to control.

This led us to an idea – why not put the ATGM platform on a tracked chassis? This, in turn, led us to the Kornet-D1-BMGSh project.

Here’s where things get complicated, so let’s start with a little history behind the vehicle. In June 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a set of requirements for a Tank Destroyer, which would be built on the BMD-4M chassis (Izdelie 960M). This Tank Destroyer was intended for the Russian Airborne forces (VDV) and would be armed with two Kornet quad-tube launchers in roughly the same configuration as used on the Tigr platform. In other words, these launchers were supposed to be able to traverse and were to be retractable into the hull.

In December 2013, a contract was awarded to Kurganmash (the producer of the BMD-4M) to develop this platform. Kurganmash started working on the project in August 2014 and, at that point, the vehicle received the designation Kornet-D1-BMGSh (BMGSh stands for “Armored Vehicle, Tracked Chassis”). And this is where the story pretty much ends. The project was obviously canceled somewhere along the way, likely in 2018. In 2018, an article came out about the future of the vehicle, stating that a prototype would take part in state trials in 2019, but this never happened and no prototype was ever built (or at least shown to public). No drawings of the project were published either, so nobody really knows what the machine would have looked like, although speculative fan-made renders do exist on the internet.



As such, the vehicle you see on the screens in this article is our interpretation of what the project could have looked like. With the aid of a military expert working in the arms industry, we created our vision of what the Kornet-D1-BMGSh was. Right off the bat, upon reviewing the dimensions of the BMD-4 platform, we decided that it simply was not large enough to house the dual-launcher Kornet system the way it was defined by the Russian Ministry of Defense. As an alternative solution, we used another vehicle from the BMD-4 family, the BTR-MDM Rakushka.

The Rakushka is an APC based on the BMD-4M chassis, developed for the Russian Airborne forces in 2015 or so. Some 50 vehicles of this type are currently in service, which allowed us to model the hull properly. Simply put, we replaced the troop compartment with the twin launcher system – that way, we are sure that the Kornet launchers would actually fit. Nonetheless, for all intents and purposes, this is a hypothetical vehicle and we hope that you’ll enjoy it despite the fact. We also dropped the BGMSh factory designation and will be simply referring to the vehicle as Kornet-D1.



In Armored Warfare, the Kornet-D1 will be a Tier 10 Premium Tank Destroyer.

But before we get into any details, the usual disclaimer:

The numbers below are very preliminary as the vehicle has not been properly tested. They are sure to change and should only be discussed as an indicator of how we’d like to set the vehicle up.

With that being said:

As the description above suggests, the vehicle will basically the Kornet-EM missile carrier, only with tracks. However, while that’s really the core of it, there will be more than one difference between the two.



Where the Kornet-EM can act as an extremely fast pseudo-scout of sorts thanks to its blazing speed, the Kornet-D1 will be the ultimate stealthy missile launcher with perhaps the best camouflage factor in the game, surpassing even that of the Shadow. The weapon system will be identical to Kornet-EM, including its limited traverse and the double tap feature, where two missiles can be launched at once (although this feature needs to be unlocked along with an optional module). However, when activating it:

• It will take 4 seconds between launches instead of 2.7 seconds
• It will take 40 seconds to fully reload instead of 27 seconds

The missiles will be identical in their performance to Kornet-EM. Overall, we are looking at roughly 11500 points of damage per minute without the double launch feature and 10000 with it. The vehicle will carry 48 missiles.



There will, of course, be downsides to compensate having so much firepower. For one, as you have probably expected, the vehicle will have almost no armor to speak of, or any active protective measures for that matter, save for the usual smoke grenades. Secondly, its speed will be considerably inferior to that of the Kornet-EM, even though it will be adequately fast and agile for it class. And, finally, unlike the Kornet-EM, the Kornet-D1 will be practically blind with its viewrange of only 370m. There’s a caveat though – the Kornet-D1 can deploy a Sniper to do its spotting for it.



When you put all this together with the excellent camouflage factor, you’ll have an extremely stealthy and hard-hitting vehicle, which, on the other hand, has to rely on other players or your sniper for spotting and perishes quickly when discovered. Fast dashes won’t generally be possible with this vehicle (unless you use an Active Ability). Instead, you’ll have to stay hidden, strike fast and then carefully make your way to the next hiding spot, like a ninja in the night.



The vehicle will offer some limited performance customization too. Module-wise, you’ll get to choose between the double tap feature and some extra camouflage, and also between lower camouflage penalties for launching your missile (ideal for staying hidden on one spot) and removing your camouflage penalty for moving (for switching positions stealthily). And, last but not least, you’ll have three Active Abilities to choose from: Sniper Mechanized Infantry, Override and Retreat.



We hope that you will enjoy this vehicle as much as we enjoyed making it for you and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

This month, we’re launching another series of special Loot Crates in MY.GAMES Market that offer you a chance to win some of the most coveted vehicles in the game.



These crates are:

• Asian-themed (with Type 10)
• Russian-themed (with Armata 152)
• NATO-themed (with CATTB)

The mechanics are very simple. Each crate allows you to win one of the listed items (or its value in Gold if you have it already). To learn more about what's in a chest simply click on it, this will launch a small pop up window to show you what’s inside. You will find everything from in-game currency packs to consumables and exclusive skins that can only be found in these chests!

Please note:

After opening the crate, you will immediately roll on one of the items that are inside this Loot Crate and will see what you receive before you have to actually pay anything. No more random chances – you immediately see what you get and what you don’t. You can then opt to purchase the item you rolled on for the Loot Crate’s price. Until you do so, you will be unable to buy any other Loot Crate of the same type.

You may only purchase 30 crates of each kind per day.



We hope that you will enjoy the offer and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!