Today we would like to give you an insight into aircraft crew skills and qualifications. This game system is entirely optional, which means that both a novice and experienced player in War Thunder can achieve the best results, even when using inexperienced crews. With the help of skills and qualifications, pilots can adapt the game to their own unique fighting style.
 

The Fourth of July marks a significant date in the history of the United States of America.

Saipan was 72 square miles of jagged volcanic rock, ridges, fissures, mountains and cliffs, but nobody was prepared for the carnage that was the subterranean battlefield in Saipan's caves.

December 1941 was a shock not only for the United states but also a shuddering realisation to the government of Australia. The Royal Australian Air Force at that time had no formations of modern fighter aircraft in the mainland.

The Battle of the Ruhr was begun on the 5th of March 1943 and lasted for 5 months, it was a  campaign of strategic bombing during the Second World War against the German Industrial  Ruhr Area.

General Wainwright, the senior field commander of the allied forces in the Philippines having spent the entire previous day in negotiations with Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma signed the terms of surrender, these were a total unconditional surrender of all forces in the philippines.

While making very little economic impact, the famous Doolittle bombing raid was important as a big morale boost for Americans and a shock to the Japanese. This attack was the catalyst for a Japanese decision to attack Midway which was the point in the war when Japanese lost their initiative.

War Thunder team commemorates the deeds of Soviet ace Vasili Matsievich and announces the introduction of the Spitfire Mk.IX (USSR) premium fighter that will be available for a limited timeafter the Update 1.39 release.

The Focke Wulf Fw 190 first went into battle in the summer of 1941. It was a highly advanced aircraft for it’s time and was given the nickname ‘Würger’ (Butcher Bird) because of its killing ability. The aircraft had speed and durability as its main strengths.
 

Nelson Stepanyan flew 259 combat missions, personally sank 13 enemy ships and several in the group. Destroyed 80 tanks, 600 other vehicles, 27 aircraft on the ground and in dogfights.

The whole story of Gulaev appears to be a sequence of remarkable deeds. For instance, on May 14th 1943 he engaged 3 Ju.87 bombers covered by 4 Bf.109 fighters. After shooting two Stukas down and depleting the ammunition Gulaev rammed and destroyed the third one, managing to land his own aircraft near an allied unit’s position.

Mexican president Manuel Ávila Camacho desperatly wanted to accept the challenge thrown down by the Axis countries; and so he assigned a Mexican Air Force unit to the United States Army Air Force fighting in the Pacific.

A design bureau headed by Artiom Mikoyan (assisted by M. Gurevich and V. Romodin) was founded on December the 8th 1939. It’s name MiG and it was an abbreviation of two names - Mikoyan and Gurevich.

It started quickly. At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first wave of two Japanese aircraft flotillas began their deadly and low flying attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu.

Within a very limited time period and harsh weather conditions the soviet troops had prepared an attack that was meant to push the front line for 100 km.  As a result the Germans were defeated with several divisions being completely destroyed.

The DB-7 / A-20 was a winner for Douglas Aircraft, as it provided everything an army wanted, but it was rapidly becoming obsolete in the face of new fighters, bombers, and demands. On 10 July 1942 the improved A-26 took off for the first time and the test pilots praised its performance right away.

Seventy one years ago, on November the 19th 1942 the Red Army had launched a counter-offensive at Stalingrad, this was known as the Operation Uranus.

US help to overseas allies allowed the Americans to delay their  entry into the war in Europe, adjusting the economy and army for the future major clash with Germany.