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Meet two very unusual Premium jets from the upcoming Danger Zone update: The Saudi Lightning F.53 with fancy rocket pods, and the Italian Ariete - a light twin engined jet fighter based on Sagittario 2.

Lightning F.53 One of the fastest jet interceptors in the game reinforcing the land war! The Lightning F.53, resplendant in Royal Saudi Air Force livery, was an export version of the well-known F.6 modification equipped with pylons for bombs and rockets. The fun fact is, that part of the pylons are mounted above the wings! The fighter could carry up to 144 SNEB anti-tank unguided rockets, complemented with up to 48 RN rockets in the rocket bay, and 540 or 1,000 lbs bombs. Similar to the F.6, the Premium Lightning could be equipped with a pair of air-to-air missiles - Red Top, Firestreak, or both. Fuselage-mounted fast firing A... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The long awaited F-14A Tomcat, an Israeli helicopter tech tree, the first Chinese helicopter and a new type of bomb - with napalm! Two brand new locations, updated Sun City map, dozens of new vehicles and few updated models for old legends. Additionally the highly anticipated rewind functionality for replays and a long list of bug fixes and new features awaits you! Join us with a ride into the "Danger Zone" Update!

Aviation There is something for everyone! From the updated 3d model of the I-15bis to the most anticipated aircraft in years: the F-14A!



Ground vehicles Over a dozen new ground vehicles. All available nations ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Dear players!

On June 15th, from 08:00 GMT, the War Thunder game servers may be unavailable due to the release of the “Danger Zone” major update.

Please note: Please do not try to manually update the game client on Steam. Steam will update the game automatically.

We are sorry for inconvenience.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The ‘Danger Zone’ update brings the long-anticipated rewind in replays! Read our DevBlog about the new feature and how it works in War Thunder.

Rewind in replays has been amongst the most requested features for players for a long time. This tool is useful not only for ordinary players who want to see details of a cool moment of the past battle. It is also needed by the content creators of our huge War Thunder community, masters of video and graphic editors.

Previously, we tried to solve the problem of navigation in game replays, but it was impossible to solve the issue quickly and easily due to the peculiarities of the game engine and replay recording algorithms. In one of our Q&A sessions, we even made an official statement that this feature is not planned for the game. But the constant requests from the community forced Gaijin programmers to come up with another solution for navigating through replays. Well, we did it! The replay rewind is coming with the Dan... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to the 19th War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition!
We’ve seen the amazing screenshots of your favourite vehicles from last week, and absolutely love them, there were some very interesting ones! Well done, all! The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!

Let’s begin the 19th edition of our competition!
Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen19. You have time until the 17.06.2022 to submit your screenshot.

After that date, 6 winners will be selected (3 of which will be the highest rated by the community and 3 selected by our judges), each of which receive a reward of 300 GE.

Important addition: Screenshot theme - Pimp my ride!

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The Harbin Z-19E light attack helicopter will be the first Chinese helicopter available for all War Thunder players!

Z-19E, attack helicopter, China, rank VI. Premium, available in a pack.
Features:

• High combat capabilities
  
• Air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles
  
• Thermal imager
  
• Radar/laser warning system and countermeasures
  
• Lacks turret

In the Danger Zone update, China receives its first rotorcraft, the Z-19E attack helicopter, which will become available with the release of the update as part of a special pack in our online store. This is a modern combat helicopter, equipped wit... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

On the 10th of June, 1918 the Italian Navy sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS “Szent István” during its first major voyage. In honor of this, the 10th of June in Italy is celebrated as Navy Day.

From 14:00 GMT on 10th of June until 14:00 GMT on the 13th of June purchase RN Geniere[wiki.warthunder.com] - a premium Rank III Italian destroyer for Golden Eagles.

It has excellent mobility and strong firepower, especially good anti-aircraft weapons. It was withdrawn from sale back in late 2020 and is now temporarily coming back: don’t miss your chance to purchase this rare ship!

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The BTR-ZD is a light Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft unit, developed as a makeshift solution based on the design of the BTR-D airborne APC. Coming soon as part of the next major War Thunder update, Danger Zone, the BTR-ZD will join the battle and provide capable air defense for the mid rank units of the Soviet ground forces tree!

Briefly: A compact Soviet SPAAG, featuring excellent mobility and fast-firing 23mm cannons.

BTR-ZD, SPAAG, USSR, Rank IV
Features:

• Rapid-firing 23mm cannons
  
• Good mobility
  
• Lightweight protection
  
• Exposed crew

In War Thunder, the BTR-ZD will be a new ... Read more

• Aircraft setup in ground Arcade battles has been updated:

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• The following aircraft have been added to the bomber list of BR 7.3 — 9.7:

• A-7D with AGM-65A x4 (instead of 1000 lb x12)
  
• Yak-38M with S-24B x4
  
• A-4N (Israel) with AGM-65A x3 (instead of 1000 lb x5)

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• The following aircraft have been added to the bomber list of BR 10.0+:
• F-5E with AGM-65B x4
  
• F-4E Phantom II with AGM-65B x4
  
• MiG-27K with Kh-29T x2 (instead of FAB-500M-62 x7)
  
• Su-17M2 with S-24B x6 (instead of FAB-500M-62 x8)

• Cha...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

In the upcoming Danger Zone update, Israeli helicopters come to War Thunder! A few words on history, initial line-up and the first look on the new to the game light attack helicopter MD 500 TOW.

In 1975 the Israeli Air Force received its first batch of 6 American Bell AH-1G Cobra strike helicopters, previously used in Vietnam. Israeli pilots enthusiastically began to master a new type of military aircraft and nicknamed the American helicopters Tzefa - “Palestine viper” - after the largest poisonous snake in the region. A little later, the AH-1G was replaced by the AH-1S equipped with anti-tank missiles, and the Hughes MD500 TOW light helicopters, also equipped with ATGMs to destroy armored vehicles. Israeli attack helicopters received a baptism of fire in 1979 where they were widely used in battle in the First Lebanon War, show... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Ground vehicles

• In the marker-less game modes, 1st generation ATGMs do not fall on the ground anymore when switching to binoculars.
  
• Sho't — a bug has been fixed with the minimal gun depression angle over the engine compartment. The minimal angle has been corrected from +5 to 0 degrees (report[community.gaijin.net])

Aircraft

• F-104S.ASA — a bug has been fixed with a missed gun in custom weapon presets in xray mode.
  
• F-4C Phantom II — a bug has been fixed where the belly-mounted gun was displayed in the xray mode instead of installed wing gun pods.
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