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Ground Vehicles

• A bug that caused wagons and trains to be marked as enemies has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net]).
  
• A bug that caused radars on ground vehicles to display target markers from the previous battle has been fixed. (...

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We’re constantly working to improve your experience in War Thunder, this time by removing griefers and exploiters. We rely on our team of Game Masters who look at statistics, as well as on reports from players that they carefully go through. You can use the replay service on our website as well as in-game reports to report players who have violated the Terms of Service and the License Agreement of the game to us.

Banned accounts Since October 22nd, we’ve issued punishments to 25,013 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically, 23,872 were banned for different time frames for breach of paragraph 2 of “Annex #1. Game Rules” in the Gaijin Terms of Service namely for teamkilling (including intentional ramming). 1,190 were banned due to breaching paragraphs 3.2.3 and 3.2.4 of the End User License Agreement (EULA) namely in exploiting ga... Read more

As we celebrate War Thunder’s anniversary, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to every player — both newcomers and long-time veterans. To mark this milestone, we’re thrilled to release a new cinematic trailer showcasing the War Thunder universe. Plus, by clicking on this link[warthunder.com], you can earn a decal and get access to tasks for another three decals featured in the trailer!

Thank you for being part of this incredible journey!

The highly advanced Su-34 is coming to War Thunder as the top ranking strike aircraft for the USSR/Russian tree in the Firebirds major update!

Su-34: A Strike Aircraft for the USSR at Rank VIII At a glance:

• Advanced air-to-surface weaponry.
  
• Decent flight performance.
  
• A wide variety of air-to-air missiles.
  
• Large-caliber countermeasures.

 
Vehicle History
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This 4th generation strike aircraft is a further development of the Su-27 family, with the first prototype taking to the skies in 1990. After several upgrades and the installation of cutting-edge electronics, rigorous flight tests of the pre-production model began in 1993. Following this however, development of the pre-production batch was delayed until 2005. In 2008, The Russian... Read more

Other

• A very spooky hangar has been enabled in time for the holiday season.

Interface

• A bug that sometimes caused the Research Points reward in the “Other awards” category in the battle results message to display a negative value has been fixed. Please note that this bug was purely visual and didn’t affect the actual amount of earned RP.
  
• A bug that caused the measured distance display to move upwards when measuring the distance in a zoomed in scope and then zooming out has been fixed.

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community fro... Read more

Aircraft

• The preset trim position set in test flight is now applied only once when the aircraft is respawned and only if full-real controls are enabled. When switching the control type from “Mouse aim” to “Full-real controls”, the preset trim position is not applied.
  
• A bug in Air Realistic Battles that made it impossible to respawn again after leaving a repaired and refueled aircraft on the airfield has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net]).

Naval Vessels

• A bug that cause...

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Aircraft

• A bug that caused scorch marks to appear on the model of aircraft in the hangar after viewing and switching secondary weapons has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net]).

Ground Vehicles

• A bug where it was possible to activate thermals in third-person view after switching the view from the commander sight to the gunner sight while the vehicle was slightly submerged in water has been fixed. (...

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Battle Ratings

• The planned Battle Rating changes[docs.google.com] have come into effect.

Ground Vehicles

• FlaRakRad — engine and transmission parameters have been changed:
  
  • RPM has been changed from 2100 to 2300. Idle revs have been reduced from 900 to 600.
    
  • Gear ratios and number of gears have been completely changed. Climbing ability has been significantly improved...

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We’re constantly working on removing cheaters from War Thunder. We rely on the Easy Anti-Cheat system to check for prohibited software usage, as well as on reports from players that we carefully go through. You can use the replay service on our website to report players to us who have violated the Terms of Service and the License Agreement of the game.

Banned accounts Since our last fair play, we’ve blocked 7,164 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software.
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Aircraft

• J-10A — a bug that caused dropped LS-6 250 and LS-6 500 guided bombs to not level horizontally but instead always fly in the same position in which they were dropped when the aircraft rolled has been fixed.

Naval Vessels

• A bug where the torpedo aiming marker would disappear after each launch despite the presence of torpedoes in the tube has been fixed.
  
• The circular indicator showing the direction of attack on the player has been disabled for friendly fire.

Other

• An error in the text in the “Guided bomb with thermal imaging seeker” tutorial mission has been fixed. (...

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Welcome to the 8th edition of the War Thunder Steam Community Spotlight!
The War Thunder Steam Community Management Team have seen some of your fantastic screenshots and artwork uploaded to the Steam Community Hub! Once again, we’ve collected our favorites and wanted to share them with all of you. Want more? Also check out the previous 7 editions for more cool content.

We have also picked our favorites from the list below to receive the special “Steam Snail” decal. Check Customization > Special > Snails > “Steam Snail” to see if you have it.

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Interface

• Icons that display on the nation buttons in the hangar (RP bonus, discount and objective), except for the currently selected nation, are now stacked in a group to save space and reduce visual load on the interface if they are wider than the nation button. When you hover over a group, a tooltip is displayed with the contents of all icons in this group.
  
• When selecting a nation in the hangar, the selected nation button may expand slightly to accommodate all currently displayed icons.

Locations

• Spaceport, North Holland, Aral Sea — inability to dig the ground with a dozer blade has been fixed.

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes m... Read more

Ground Vehicles

• A bug that sometimes caused the binoculars to face East on first use regardless of the third person view direction has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net]).
  
• M1128 Wolfpack — the ability to control the hydropneumatic suspension has been added. (...

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Interface

• A bug that made it not possible to toggle the “Show the remaining bonus in headers” in the Research window after bonus battles had been used up has been fixed.

Ground Vehicles

• A bug that caused the first measurement of a certain distance by the rangefinder to only display for a brief moment has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net]).

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is ... Read more

Hello everyone, Smin here!

Welcome to the next edition of covert disclosures where we aim to bring you up to speed with some of the goings on behind the scenes outside of our normal scheduled news.

Vehicle reports
With the release of the Dance of Dragons major update two weeks ago, the devs have been hard at work addressing many of your reports and going through all the feedback raised. We would like to cover a few of those subjects to begin with and give you some news from the development frontlines.

With the mighty J-10A arriving, many of you requested that we consider the PL-8B missile for this aircraft. We didn’t give the aircraft this missile as it may be a bit of a strong combination given the missile’s potential performance in conjunction with the platform, so PL-5E II was a more logical and balanced starti... Read more

Helicopters

• For all helicopters that do not have the new avionic modules in their damage models, the chance of avionic damage after the fuselage has been damaged has been significantly reduced. Avionics will not be damaged by the high-explosive impact from ammunition of calibers less than 23 mm and kinetic impact of calibers less than 25 mm with the exception of shells with radio fuzes and air-to-air missiles. One-time damage to the fuselage by ammunition of calibers less than 30 mm will not lead to the disabling of all helicopter avionics.

Ground Vehicles

• AB 43, Sd.Kfz.234/2, Sd.Kfz.234/2 TD, Sd.Kfz.234/3 — a bug with crew swapping that resulted in these vehicles being left without a driver has been fixed. (...

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We have a small bonus for you today. Follow the link to get the Otter Power Station decal!
https://wtplay.link/guancha



If you’re a new player, you’ll get additional bonuses as well!

Aircraft

• A-10C — the inability to take presets with 500 lb Mk 82 bombs and pods with M247 rockets without researching any modifications has been fixed.

Ground Vehicles

• New reticles and presets for the following tanks have been added to the Sight settings menu: Leclerc, Challenger 2, Merkava, Ariete. We would like to thank authors from WT Live as these sights use reticles made by them.

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implement... Read more

Aircraft

• Su-24M — operator country has been corrected to Russia.
  
• F-16C Block 40 Barak II — GBU-31 JDAM bombs have been added to internal pylons.
  
• JF-17 — a bug that caused incorrect aircraft behavior when the rudders were fully deflected and held in this position (press and hold pitch, yaw and roll) in mouse aim mode has been fixed.

Naval Vehicles

• 7.7 mm Darne machine gun (VTB boats) — reloading time has been decreased to 5.2 seconds.

Locations

• Wind settings for small birch trees that made them look unnatural have been corrected.
  
• The inability to destroy/penetrate through the garages, kiosks, parking posts in various locations such as Seversk-13, Abandoned City, etc. with AP/APHE shells has been fixed.
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Hey everyone. On September 10th from 08:00 GMT, the War Thunder game servers may be unavailable due to the release of the Dance of Dragons major update!

Be sure to catchup on what content is coming in this update by looking at our dev blogs[warthunder.com] while you wait for your game to download. The major update announcement and full major changelog will be published when the update is released and ready to play.

We apologize for any inconvenience experienced.