Gaijin Entertainment wish to announces major update 1.47 "Big Guns" for War Thunder. With this update we will finish Closed Beta Tests for "Steel Generals", which means that all of US ground vehicles are now available for research!

Many players in aircraft “Realistic Battles” are waiting for extended periods to get into a session because of the lack of players for required vehicles in the queue. To significantly reduce the waiting time and improve the balance in these sessions, we are introducing the chance of being put into sessions with mixed nations.

The Battle Ratings (BRs) for several vehicles have been updated.

The Battle Ratings (BRs) for several vehicles have been updated.

Christmas tree removed.

Better UI for the vehicle presets selection; Descriptions for achievements has been fixed; More detailed information about ricochets for APCR shells; One-Second burst mass information has been fixed; Several client crashes were fixed; ​Fixed a crash in replay function...

Respwans on White Rock Fortress have been fixed.

Visuals of the shells in Kill and Hit camera will now appear more realistic; Fixed error in “Hit Camera” which led to all crew members appearing as “unconscious”; Fixed errors with wrongly displayed shell impact visuals  on ground vehicles; Fixed error with wrong ammunition display in ground vehicles...

Maximum accuracy of all tank weapons fixed. Now it corresponds firing tables of the real guns; М469 HEAT shell added to M103’s ammunition load; Piercing effect of 90mm T33 shell fixed. It is now historically accurate; Maximum fire rate of the M103 is increased from 2.94 to 3.96 shots per minute...

Fixed: Frag is now counted upon separation of the tail of an enemy aircraft; Many fixes for different rare client crashes; Fix rain rendering in some cases with AA; Simulator Special event: Markers are now displayed for players in your squad...

HEI-HEI-SAPI-SAPI air targets ammunition belt added for Hispano Mk.II and Hispano Mk.V; User skins templates generation fixed for  R2Y2: User skins templates generation fixed for Ki-43-III: Spawn point for F7F fixed for RB and SB - it starts on the airfield: Spawn point for F84B fixed for RB and SB - it will start at low altitude behind the airfield...

Ability to manually sort vehicle setups has been added; An error that led to wrongly selected crew member when players would select vehicle setup has been fixed; Fixed an error where the fog effect would apply in addition to the haze effect; Self reflections have been fixed (they would not show in many cases)...