War Thunder Dev Tracker

Welcome to preliminary update notes for War Thunder "New Power" Update.

Please note all specifications and dev server details are subject to change and NOT FINAL.

Known Bugs:

New vehicles in the "New Power" update may have inaccuracies in characteristics, armour and weaponry settings.


The armour model for new ground vehicles in update "New Power" is “work in progress” on adjustment and improvement.


Some new aircraft lack c*ckpits.


Some ground vehicles lack a visible crew.


Wing roots will not be displayed correctly on some aircraft.


Missing icons for some equipment.


There may be a lack of localization for some equipment.


No sound played in some events.


The game isn’t available in compatibility mode with an old GPU and...

With the release of the War Thunder: ‘New Power’ update, we are adding new types of AI aircraft carriers to the game that serve as naval bases for aircraft.

More good news for War Thunder pilots is that in the upcoming ‘New Power’ update, several new types of AI aircraft carriers will appear in the game that serve as naval aviation bases in missions with sea and ocean. For these aircraft carriers, we have made fully fledged, highly detailed models that are not inferior in quality to the in-game military fleet.

HMS Ark Royal

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, one of the first to use an angled landing deck. The ship was laid down as Irresistible, but was renamed in honour of the famous WW2 aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, from the deck of which Swordfish aircraft took off that inflicted critical da...

To Dev or not to Dev, that is the question.

That's really strange, 42 is good ping. Dunno why you have such problems with sync between what you see, and server.

That means you have a huge lag - most probably your ping is too big.

Try to check on what servers you play and maybe try to limit it to one, where your big is lowest?

If you want other players to judge the situation and give you some advice, it's always best to provide server replay - so there will be no lag/pl involved.

You can find them here https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/

Captured, not the same. Harrier was just a gift for the Beijing museum.

China never operated the Harrier at all. XZ965 is the aircrafts serial number. It was given to China as a museum piece.

Germany never operated Harriers. RAF Harriers operated in Germany.

Never built at all. It was cancelled.

Generally never really armed at all. It was more a testbed and demonstration aircraft for what would become Harrier GR.1. So again, no real reason to shoehorn it in when there are plenty of more viable Harrier variants.

Different periods in the games history under different criteria and also different situations.

We are not going to shoehorn in VTOLs for all nations when some nations quite honestly didn't want them, didn't use them and didn't have them. Germany and France are two of those nations.

Pretty sure Mike has already confirmed its not today, but If I really need to say it too:

How many times have you asked this already and how many times have I said be patient?

Actually Harrier was developed from Hawkers P.1127 / Kestrel which began development in the late 1950s and flew in 1960, preceding all of the German projects.

Kestrel was operated by a special squadron made up of British, German and American pilots whos experience and feedback on Kestrel went on to be implemented in Harrier GR.1.

Not the Naval line thats for sure as they are not the Sea Harrier models. They are the RAF GR.1 and GR.3 models.

Germany, Japan and France dont have armed VTOLs. Just testbeds and experimental aircraft they were not armed.

Dont except to see them.