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With Update 15.9, we are getting two ships that were involved in the famous Attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941. Honolulu and Akagi will enter testing with the next update, and it was revealed today that both will be part of a web event to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the attack. The final reward of the event will be left to your personal choice between the two premium ships. Let's have a look at Honolulu in this article. Historical background USS Honolulu (CL-48) was the 7th member of the U.S. Navy's Brooklyn-class light cruisers.  The ship was laid down in December 1935, launched in August 1937, and commissioned in 1938. Honolulu began her career in the interwar period, taking part in fleet exercises in the Caribbean and off the U.S. West Coast until mid 1940. Afterward, following an overhaul, she was dispatched to Pearl Harbor, where she operated from during the year 1941... and on the 7th of December, she was there to receive the visit of some Japanes...

Update 15.8 will bring to the game a new line of cruisers. These will be the European cruisers with ships from nations such as Sweden, Poland, Greece, Sweden and, you guessed it, Sweden. There is only one ship that was actually built, being the tier VI, and for the rest, it's a lot of what-if or straight-up Wargaming creations. These cruisers will work as torpedo-focused ships with high speed and low detection range, and the same torpedoes as the European destroyers with high speed but low damage. Representing Poland, here is the tier VII, the Hel. Historical background Hel is based on a variant from a series of small light cruisers designed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Just like Ochakov, she represents the MLK-8-152 variant. In contrast, Smolensk represents the MLK-16-130. Similarly to a large number of other Soviet designs from the 1950s, these would never see the light of day, in part due to Stalin's passing. As for Hel, the idea is that if one of the MLK-8-152 had bee...