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Update 2.17.0.166 (2.17.0.165 - Xbox)

Ground vehicles

  • ZTZ88A — the number of smoke grenades in a salvo has been reduced from 4 to 2.
  • M60, M60A1 (AOS), M60A1 RISE(P), M60A1 “D.C.Ariete”, M60A2, M60A3 TTS, XM-803 - a bug has been fixed with the incomplete first belt of the machine gun in battle.
  • External fuel tanks have been removed from the vital modules list in the protection analysis.
  • A bug has been fixed where the thermal imager remained in third-person view in replays.

Aircraft

  • A bug has been fixed that prevented the disabling of the automatic countermeasures launch while the player's aircraft survived till the end of a battle.
  • P-61A-1, P-61C-1 - ammo capacity of the turret M2 Browning machine guns has been corrected from 2,120 to 2,240 rounds.
  • Sea Hawk FGA.6, Sea Hawk Mk.100 - the amount of ammo has been corrected from 150 to 200 rounds per gun (from 600 to 800 in total). (report)
  • SNEB type 23 - explosive weight has been increased from 0.22 to 0.34 kg.
  • A bug has been fixed where in some cases, aircraft were unable to drop a torpedo.

Naval

  • The issue with camera toggle while deploying a recon aircraft has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.