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We present to you the experimental IL-8 which is an improved variant of the famous IL-2 attack aircraft. What’s the difference? It has an increased bomb load and signature survivability that’s common to the IL series of aircraft. This new aircraft is available in the new season of the upcoming Battle Pass!

IL-8: A Premium Soviet Attack Aircraft at Rank III
Features:

• Bomb loads up to 1000 kg.
  
• Good survivability.
  
• No rockets.
  
• Low speed.

Meet the IL-8!
Welcome to the main aircraft prize of the upcoming Battle Pass season — the Soviet IL-8 attack aircraft! This is a modernized version of the earlier versions of the IL-2 that features a n... Read more

Hey everyone, thanks for your patience while waiting for this post. Today we’d like to discuss bug reports relating to the Challenger 2 series of tanks, what we’ve already fixed thanks to your reports, and what we’re planning to do in the near future. Let’s dive in and take a look at these reports.

First and foremost, we want to take the time to thank you for creating bug reports for the Challenger 2. Thanks to these reports, the following have been actioned and have already been implemented, or will be implemented into production either in the near future or the next major update:

Mobility

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

Today we’re going to be talking about the main naval prize of the upcoming Battle Pass season: the French premium Destroyer Le Triomphant, coming in as one of the fastest Bluewater Fleet ships in the entire game!

Le Triomphant: A Premium French Destroyer at Rank III
Features:

• Fantastic max top speed.
  
• 4 main caliber turrets.
  
• Decent anti-aircraft guns.
  
• Premium status!

Meet the Le Triomphant!
Welcome to the main naval prize of the upcoming Battle Pass season: the French Le Triomphant destroyer of the Le Fantasque-class. Primarily designed to hunt other destroyers, ships from this class rely more on raw firepower and speed over using torpedoes.... Read more

Today we’ll be talking about the bug fixes and improvements that we’ve been working on in the past 2 weeks. Thanks for your reports!

If you’ve found a bug that you’d like to report, you can do so on our community bug reporting platform[community.gaijin.net].

Destroyed spall liners have been removed from the damage model panel


The damage model panel for your vehicles can be very handy while in battle: it allows you to understand w... Read more

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

Welcome to the 102nd War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition!
Spots on vehicles seem to go in and out of fashion just like they do on clothes! Good thing that it’s so easy to change the camouflages in game to whatever matches your surroundings. The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!

Let’s begin the 102nd edition of our competition!
Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen102. You have time until the 19th of January 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 300GE.

Terms:

• Your screenshot must feature a vehicle with a weig...

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

On January 14th 1521, Gustav Vasa formed his personal guard. Two and a half years later, he achieved independence of Sweden and became its first king, with his guard becoming part of the victorious army. Sweden, a century later thanks to its army, became one of the most powerful empires in Europe.

The SAV 20.12.48 is available for Golden Eagles!

When: From January 12th (11:00 GMT) until January 15th (11:00 GMT).
Where: Sweden > Army > Premium vehicles.

About this tank

• The ...

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

• A bug that caused duplicate smoke effects after using smoke grenades has been fixed.
  
• A destroyed module no longer covers other functioning modules in the damage module indicator while in battle.
  
• Absence of the “rate of fire” parameter for non-automatic guns and the “reload time” parameter for automatic guns when viewing ships in X-ray view in the hangar has been fixed. (Report[community.gaijin.net])

Sound

• Challenger and Leopard 1 — the sounds of the engine...

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

Welcome to the 101st War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition!
The screenshots that you shared with us last week were terrific! It is amazing to look back at so many competitions- time really does fly! The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!

Let’s begin the 101st edition of our competition!
Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen101. You have time until the 12th of January 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 300GE.

Terms:

• Your screenshot must feature a vehicle with a camouflage containing spots.
  
• You...

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

Dear players, on January 2nd at 11:30 UTC, our authentication servers were targeted by malicious attackers. As a result, some of you experienced difficulties logging into the game or using our services. Our technical specialists have stabilized server operations and are taking measures to ensure that such attacks in the future will not be successful.

Compensation:

• Active premium accounts have been extended by 3 hours.
  
• The duration of the ongoing "Winter Extreme" event for earning "Achievement Marks" has been extended by 3 hours. From 11:00 UTC on January 3rd until 14:30 UTC on January 3rd, you will be able to earn mission points for the 7th and 8th achievement marks for tankers/pilots/sailors simultaneously.

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

Dear players.

The game may not be available at the moment as we are experiencing some technical issues on our servers. We are endeavouring to fix these issues as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.

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

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

Happy New Year!

2023 is now nearly wrapped up. Everyone from Gaijin would like to wish you all a prosperous new year — we wish you fantastic celebrations and a happy and healthy 2024 with your friends and family. Here’s to another year!

See you all in War Thunder!