Aircraft

• The following new nuclear weaponry carriers have been added to Ground Battles with a session Battle Rating of 13.0 and higher. They carry not only the nuclear bomb itself, but a set of air-to-air missiles, 2 IR guided and 2 ARH guided. The following aircraft have been added: ☢F-16A ADF (USA, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Sweden), ☢F-16A MLU (China), ☢F-16D Barak II (Israel), ☢F-2A (Japan), ☢MiG-29SMT (9-19) (USSR).
• Now when launching the last ARM, if the aircraft has no integrated ESM sensors, the radar indicator will automatically switch from the ESM mode to radar mode.
• The guidance logic of all guided munitions has been revised so that when firing at ships the crew compartments can be selected as the target, thus the munition on average will hit more vital parts of the ships.
• Fw 189 C — a bug that caused the open canopy to insufficiently slow down the aircraft and to not get torn off at high enough speed has been fixed.
• He 111 H-6, He 111 H-16 — a bug that caused the 250 kg bombs to get stuck in the bomb bay when released has been fixed.
• Me 163 B, Me163 B-0 — a bug that caused the fuel tanks not in the cockpit to remain self-sealing despite the updated information in the X-ray hint has been fixed. Source: CGD-256 ME 163, Volume II - Me 163 B Airplane Manual.
• F5W torpedo — torpedo parameters have been corrected to match the original Italian W 170/450/5.46 torpedo.
• A bug that caused the Yak-38M attack aircraft to spawn in the Ground Arcade Battles with 2 additional AAMs which made it impossible to safely leave the plane without using them has been fixed. (Report).

Naval Vessels

• RIM-24 — flight model has been updated, the missile has been updated to a fully physical control model.

Controls

• A bug that made it impossible to bind actions on the keyboard arrow keys has been fixed. (Report).

Other

• The age rating of the game on consoles has changed in some regions. With parental controls enabled, the game may be blocked on PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles until parental controls settings are changed.

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 implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.