Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

Today we’ve prepared the following items for you:

• Challenger 2 Streetfighter II Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Berlin Brigade camouflage
• Challenger 1 Falcon Tier 8 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Leopard Revolution Tier 8 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Marder 2 Tier 8 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle
• ASCOD LT-105 Tier 8 Premium Light Tank
• Apocalypse Treasure Trove with 10.000 Gold

Between August 19 and August 26, 2021, the following items will be available:


[h2]Challenger 2 Streetfighter II[/h2]


The Streetfighter II is an upgrade program to overhaul the venerable Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank for the conditions of modern battlefields, especially urban combat. It features a number of improvements and extra components, most notably a dozer blade, a Brimstone ATGM twin launcher and an advanced camera system by Elbit. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Challenger 2 Streetfighter is a Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank. Its main advantages include excellent frontal armor (enhanced by the presence of its dozer blade covering its lower frontal plate), increased ramming damage and long range lethality, courtesy of a powerful ATGM launcher. Whether you desire to bring the fighting up close or support other MBTs at distance, the Streetfighter’s got your back.

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The Challenger 2 Streetfighter II Tier 10 Premium MBT is available in our Web Shop via Loot Crates. Collect 100 blueprint pieces from these crates to obtain the vehicle.






[h2]Berlin Brigade Camouflage[/h2]


The British Berlin Brigade urban camouflage consisted of white, blue and grey rectangles. It was used by the C Squadron of the 14th/20th King’s Hussars regiment that operated eighteen Chieftain MBTs. This unit, along with some three thousand British soldiers, was deployed in West Berlin for most of the Cold War, from 1953 to 1994, when it was officially disbanded following the unification of Germany. Its camouflage is one of the most widely recognized post-war camouflage patterns.



Recently, a variant of this camouflage was seen on the unveiled Streetfighter II prototype and will complement your brand new Challenger 2 Streetfighter II nicely, as well as other Chieftain and Challenger series MBTs. The camouflage can, however, be used on any vehicle in the game that allows for visual customization.






[h2]Challenger 1 Falcon[/h2]


The Falcon is an experimental turret developed in the early 2000s in Jordan as an upgrade to the Jordanian Al-Hussein (Challenger 1) Main Battle Tanks. It's a low profile turret, armed with an automatically loaded Swiss 120mm L/50 RUAG smoothbore gun, capable of firing standard NATO ammunition. The operator controls the turret from inside the vehicle's hull, significantly improving crew protection. A prototype was built and tested, but the design was never mass-produced.



In Armored Warfare, the Challenger 1 Falcon is a Tier 8 Premium Main Battle Tank. The best word to characterize this lumbering behemoth in the game is “tough” – its excellent hull armor shrugs off most shells while the damage its low profile turret takes when it is reduced by 90% thanks to the fact the crew is not located directly in it. Despite being generally very slow and sluggish, the Challenger 1 Falcon can take tremendous punishment and is ideal for the players who prefer the British Main Battle Tank play style.






[h2]Leopard 2 Revolution[/h2]


The Leopard 2 Revolution is a continuation of the older Evolution upgrade, intended to improve the performance of the older variants of the Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank in order to make it excel even on the battlefields of the 21st century. The improvements include a comprehensive armor upgrade, ROSY soft-kill APS and smoke grenade launchers as well as an entire suite of cutting edge electronics. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Leopard 2 Revolution is a Tier 8 Main Battle Tank. It is not only well-armored, it also features an extremely accurate 120mm gun with advanced ammunition, allowing it to destroy its opponents at very long ranges, rivaling those of Tank Destroyers. The German tanks in general perform best at longer ranges and the Revolution is no exception.






[h2]Marder 2[/h2]


The Marder 2 was an experimental German IFV, developed in the late 1980s to replace the aging Marder IFV. It featured more armor, a new turret and a brand-new Rheinmetall dual-caliber autocannon that could fire both 35mm and 50mm rounds. Despite its qualities, the vehicle was never accepted in service due to its high cost and because it was no longer needed because of the fall of the Soviet Union. A single surviving prototype can be found today in the Koblenz military collection. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Marder 2 is a Tier 8 Armored Fighting Vehicle. With its 44 tons, it’s one of the heaviest and toughest AFVs around. Unlike many other AFVs of its Tier, it is not armed with guided missiles, relying instead on its extremely powerful 50mm autocannon. This vehicle can also deploy Mechanized Infantry.






[h2]ASCOD LT-105[/h2]


If there was a word best describing the ASCOD platform, it would be the word “international”. It was developed by the Austrians and the Spanish, adopted by the British and available with a wide range of turrets. The joint project from 1988 eventually led to a number of vehicles using the ASCOD platform, the two best-known results of which are the Austrian Ulan IFV and the Spanish Pizarro IFV. The ASCOD LT-105 was a fire support variant of the platform, offered with pretty much any turret a customer would like, including those from B1 Centauro, M1128 MGS or even a South-African one by Denel. However, after two decades of not having to found any customers, the project was terminated and by 2015-2016, it was removed from all official offers. You can learn more about it in a dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the ASCOD LT-105 is a Tier 8 Premium Light Tank. It is fairly unique in one aspect. It is possible to select one of the two turrets: the manned Denel turret with the GT7 gun or the Low-Profile Turret by General Dynamics with the M68 gun, known from the M1128. The first turret has better kinetic shells but fires in a normal manner, while the latter has a clip-style autoloader, balanced by worse overall characteristics of the gun.






[h2]Apocalypse Treasure Trove[/h2]


Today, we have a special offer for you. A veritable treasure trove of 10.000 Gold awaits you at a discounted price.



Please note that this item can only be purchased once per user. You can find out more about Gold and its uses in our dedicated article.





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

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

We’re happy to introduce the final part of the Guide series, available on our Youtube channel.

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In this series, we’ll focus on all core aspects of Armored Warfare, explaining them one by one in order to make the game easier to understand and to get into.

We hope that the new players will find it useful and the veterans entertaining. Let us know what you think about it on Discord and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

On the 19th of August 2021, starting from 8:00 CEST, the server will not be available for two hours due to a planned server maintenance.



Please note that the maintenance can be extended beyond the abovementioned timeframe. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Commanders!

Our esteemed video creator SEGAHDChannel and a team of South Korean players created an epic cinematic trailer, depicting a hypothetical North Korean attack against South Korean lines. Make sure to turn the English subtitles on, and enjoy the most excellent video featuring the still available Korean skins and camouflages!

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Interested in more such content? SEGAHDChannel created all sorts of amazing and fun videos. Check out his channel even if you aren’t from South Korea.

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

When it comes to warfare, the word Russia is generally associated with brutal city fighting, but also endless snowy and muddy plains, an enemy as dangerous as the Russian military itself. Indeed, few would think of the Russian army as a desert fighting force, but underestimating its ability to fight in any environment would be a mistake.



For one, the southern regions of the former Soviet Union comprised of dry, dusty expanses of the central Asian republics such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which were used as staging grounds during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. It therefore stands to reason that the Soviet army was more than capable of waging war over there, which it did relatively successfully until the mountain tribes of Afghanistan received support from the CIA. To this day, the Russian Army keeps a military base in Tajikistan – the 201st Military Base in Dushanbe, home to the 201st Motor Rifle Division.



This is a unit with a long and glorious service history going back to the beginning of the Second World War, having participated in several major operations, most notably breaking the siege of Leningrad. Decades later, it would participate in the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan (the last Soviet armored vehicles to leave Afghanistan in 1989 were BTR-60 APCs belonging to the 201st Division) and the Tajikistan civil war that erupted after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.



During the conflict, it played a key role in recapturing the capital city of Dushanbe for the government loyalists and in suppressing the Islamist rebels operating in the area. After the end of the war, the government agreed to let the Russian forces stay, granting them a military base in Dushanbe as well as the access to the Lyaur proving grounds at least until 2042. The garrison currently consists of roughly 7 thousand men, 300 APCs, around 100 tanks and thousands of other vehicles and artillery pieces.



The first Russian desert camouflage belongs to exactly this unit. It consists of wide, sharp-edged brown, sand and yellow stripes and will look really cool on your T-72B MBTs. It was seen fairly recently during a July 2021 military exercise.

All that desert environment training does come in handy when Russia decides to send its forces to the Middle East, like it recently did with Syria.



The military deployment in Syria was an interesting one. The active operations took place between 2015 and 2020 with the majority of Russian fire support taking the form of air strikes, special operations troop deployment and Russian-backed PMCs. The operation was undeniably effective as the destruction of ISIS and other Islamist terrorist groups by the Syrian Army was possible practically only thanks to Russia’s intervention and arms shipments. On the other hand, the northern regions are still occupied by Turkey and its allied militias and while the full-scale ground war phase is over, the entire region is all but stable.



Despite not engaging in direct ground combat, the Russian forces deployed some T-90A tanks to protect their military bases. These tanks were using a desert camouflage consisting of brown, sand and dark brown stripes. This is the second Russian desert camouflage that we are introducing.



Both camouflages will become obtainable during a future event in September. We hope that you’ll enjoy them and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!