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The Road to Forgotten Hope 2.66 Red Christmas - Part 514.06.2025 18:00 GMT 
Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update. Yesterday we introduced some pre-war trucks from the USSR, today we will have a lend-lease plane and an ersatz truck, depicting the dire situation for the Soviet Army in the first year following the German invasion.
From 1941 to 1944, the Soviet Union imported through the Lend-Lease agreement approximately 2,425 American-made Curtiss P-40's, from the B, C, E, K, L and N variants, making it the fourth numerous foreign aircraft in the Soviet inventory after the P-39, the Hurricane and the P-63. The first deliveries of P-40B and C's alongside few Hurricane aircrafts arrived at Arkhangelsk on August 31st 1941, onboard the British freighter S.S. New Westminster City, part of the "Dervish" Convoy that opened the Artic route to the USSR. Those aircrafts were test flown by the 27th Reserve Regiment at the Kadnikov airfield to later be delivered to the different VVS KA (Red Army Air Force), PVO (National Air Defense) Aviation Regiments and the VVS VMF (Navy Aviation). The Aviation Regiments started the war equipped with I-15, I-16 or MiG-3 but after losing these aircrafts during Operation Barbarossa, by early 1942, they started to replace them with P-40C's. Gradually and as a result of subsequent losses, they were replaced by the later P-40 variants such as the E or K. The Soviet P-40's were deployed on all fronts and fought from the air in all the crucial battles like Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kuban, Crimea, Kursk or Karelia until 1944, when the shipment of this type of aircraft ended and new modern domestic versions replaced the older P-40 models. Our Curtiss P-40E was made by Rad, Lobo, Stubbfan, Herc and textured in soviet colours by Matt Baker.
At the end of 1941, due the proximity of the German Army to Moscow, the ZIS No. 2 factory was closed and production was relocated to Ulyanovsk, on the Volga and to Miass, in the Urals. It's in this context with an important shortage of raw materials that from February 1942, the ZIS production was forced to be simplified : round fenders were changed with angled ones, cabin was made in wood and the front bumper and right headlight were removed. From 1942 to 1948, a total of 207,260 trucks of this simplified version, called ZIS-5V, were produced.
At last for today, we also wanted to write something about an existing content ingame that we never mentionned here, the Zwillingssockel 36.
This early anti-aircraft system consisted in a single pedestal with a 360 deegres traverse and equipped with two 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34s. The operator sat in a chair at the rear and took aim using a height-adjustable ring sight installed between the two MGs. Entering service in 1936, it was used on static light anti-aircraft positions, for instance on WN 64 at Omaha Beach, or used on board on towed wagons, light cars, halftracks and of course trucks like the Opel Blitz 3.6-36S.
Although the production stopped in 1941 given the limitation of the system, leaving room for more capable guns like the 2 cm FlaK, it remained in service practically the entire conflict. Our Zwillingssockel 36 was made by ctz. It is mounted on the Opel Blitz from Mange and jimbob, with the panzergrau texture by Toddel. Last but not least, we would like to share with you the FH2 2.65 Panzerfaust compilation from our dear Slayer1976: If you have missed any previous updates this week, you can find links to them here: That's all for today, but be sure to come back next time for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our Discord, our public forums, our subreddit, and/or Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news. The Road to Forgotten Hope 2.66 Red Christmas - Part 413.06.2025 18:00 GMT
Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update. While the Soviet Army was introduced in Forgotten Hope 2.5, it has been equipped since then with lend-lease trucks. Today we introduce what would be ingame the main soviet trucks in the early stage of the war, the ZIS trucks.
The ZIS-5 was one of the central pillars and workhorse of Soviet logistics and transportation alongside the GAZ AA and MM truck series during World War Two and beyond. In 1933, at the Moscow Automobile Plant (AMO), the production of the two-axle, three-ton AMO-5 truck started, for commercial and military purposes. Although it was a license-built copy of early 1930s American commercial trucks, it was manufactured like its predecessor, the 2.5-ton AMO-3, with Russian components and not with American truck kits. After the factory was renamed to Factory No. 2 Zavod Imeni Stalina (ZIS), the truck's designation was also changed accordingly to ZIS-5. In parallel, a three-axle version was also produced, designated ZIS-6. This version, like the previous one, served as a base for a lot of specialized versions for different purposes like halftracks, ambulances, and fuel or water tankers among others, the most famous one being the multiple rocket platform "BM-13 Katyusha". Some of them where also equipped with the 7.62 mm anti-aircraft "ZPU M-4" mount. From 1933 to 1941, the total production of the ZIS-5 truck were produced 325,051 units, while 21,239 units of ZIS-6 were made.
The ZIS trucks had a crucial role during the "Road of Life", the transport routes that supplied with food, ammunition and other equipment the Leningrad pocket through the ice roads of the lake Ladoga during the winters of 1941-1942 and 1942-1943. Although by July 1944, the majority of new vehicles in the Red Army service came from the Lend-Lease deliveries, like the Studebaker US6, the Red Army was still heavily dependant of the ZIS and GAZ trucks variants. Ours were made by Tedwin-Knockman666 and Matt Baker. If you have missed any previous updates this week, you can find links to them here: That's all for today, but be sure to come back next time for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our Discord, our public forums, our subreddit, and/or Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news. 
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