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Improved visual effects for fire and tracers

Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters" will feature improved visuals for tracer ammunition, explosions and flames on burning vehicles.

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  • 23 September 2016
Thunder Show: Lone Rider

It's time for your weekly episode of the Thunder Show! Enjoy our selection of epic and humorous Community videos of the week and don't forget: If you want to send in your own video, then check out how below!

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  • 23 September 2016
"Airfield Assault" and "Defense" Stalingrad

This weekend we will have aircraft event "Airfield Assault" and tank event "Defense" Stalingard!

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  • 23 September 2016
Hudson Mk V - A twin-engined rascal!

The twin-engined passenger aircraft which proved its value during the war as a light bomber. Meet the Hudson Mk V!

Sneak Peek for Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters" (Live Stream from Dev Server at Friday!)

We are introducing new vehicles of the Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters". Make sure to read the vehicles devblog for more informations. 

Brigand B.1 - A Bandit without a mask

We are pleased to present to you the Royal Air Force successor of the well-known Bristol Beaufighter. The Bristol Brigand that will arrive in Update 1.63 Desert Hunters in the designated B.1 bomber variant.

Art Contest

After reviewing the entries of our newest Art Challenge competition, we are now happy to announce the winners!

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  • 18 September 2016
New location: Sinai

Charging iron beasts replaced battle chariots, and there, where the stones of slingshots cracked and arrows shot out in a wicked swarm, tank shells now fly to their targets with a sinister whistle. The new Sinai map awaits desert hunters in War Thunder update 1.63!

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  • 16 September 2016
Thunder Show: Team saver

It's time for your weekly episode of the Thunder Show! Enjoy our selection of epic and humorous Community videos of the week and don't forget: If you want to send in your own video, then check out how below!

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  • 16 September 2016
A1E1 Independent - A Land Ironclad

Pardon sire, would you mind looking at this wonderful piece of machinery over here? It is the Vickers A1E1 Independent - an influential multi-turreted interwar tank design built by British engineers.

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  • 16 September 2016
8.8cm Flak 37 (Sf.) auf s. Zgkw. 18t - A Heavyweight Flak

A combination of heavy half-track and 88 mm Flak cannon? Does that sound odd? Not if German engineering has anything to do with it! Let us introduce, the 8.8cm Flak 37 (Sf.) auf s. Zgkw. 18t

The Shooting Range Ep.11

You are watching The Shooting Range - a weekly show for all tankers and airmen of War Thunder.

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  • 15 September 2016
Win a ZOTAC AMP! OMEGA GEFORCE GTX 970!

There's a special treat from our friends over at ZOTAC waiting for a lucky War Thunder player out there! Join our contest on Facebook to win a ZOTAC AMP! OMEGA GEFORCE GTX 970 - and all it needs is a clever comment!

  • 15 September 2016
Special
Battle of Britain

We have prepared a special offer for you this weekend – a special bundle with a 30% discount and special event, dedicated to the Battle of Britain

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BV 238: The Largest aircraft

It's difficult to imagine an aircraft of the Second World War that exceeds the size of the American B-29 Superfortress strategic bomber or the Japanese H6K Crocodile. But now we have a new record-breaker!

FlakPz I Gepard - The second and last of its name

It is time to introduce the first post-war German Self Propelled Anti-aircraft gun in the game. Welcome the Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard - a deadly anti-aircraft defence tool with twinned 35mm autocannons.

ZSU-23-4 Shilka: River of Fire

Yet another legendary anti-aircraft gun is coming to War Thunder – the Soviet four-barrel, self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon system the ZSU-23-4 Shilka.

Location: Greece

We are pleased to present a new air battle map in War Thunder, which we've titled Greece. Close combat amid labyrinths of cliffs in a colorful Mediterranean landscape? Boom and zoom from out of the clouds? This has all that, again and again! Clear prop!