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Steel Generals: premiere - Ground Forces of the USA

Dear players we are happy to introduce first screenshots of the US Ground forces in War Thunder. Every day from October 29th to November 2nd during Paris Games Week 2014 we present American tanks which will become available in the game with Udate 1.45 known as Steel Generals!

  • 2 November 2014
Steel Generals: M103 Heavy Tank
Early prototypes of M103 heavy tank were created in 1951-1954 to counteract the heavy tanks developed by the USSR.  M103 was put on service in 1956 be...
  • 2 November 2014
Steel Generals: M41 Walker Bulldog
The M41 Walker Bulldog was a U.S. light tank developed to replace the M24 Chaffee. It was named after General Walton Walker who died in a jeep acciden...
  • 1 November 2014
Aircraft present on War Thunder’s birthday!

Dear friends, here in War Thunder we celebrate our 2 years anniversary and we’d like to thank you for your personal input in the development of our favorite game. Just log-in to War Thunder, complete an easy task and get one of the unique planes for free!

  • 31 October 2014
War Thunder 2 years anniversary!

Today we celebrate the 2 year anniversary of our project. To this day, we have introduced a huge amount of changes to the game: new gaming modes and locations have been added to War Thunder, player-controlled ground forces appeared, the progression system was changed and improved significantly, hundreds of new vehicles were added to the hangar.

  • 31 October 2014
Steel Generals: M4A1(76) Sherman tank
M4 Sherman is main medium tank designed and built by the United States for the conduct of World War II. The M4 was employed in North Africa, Sicily, I...
  • 31 October 2014
– Wing Commander Brendan ‘Paddy’ Finucane

Finucane’s flying career had a less than auspicious start. After completing No.6 Elementary Flying Training School at Sywell, he moved onto Hawker Harts at Monstrose with No.8 Service Flying Training School.

  • 31 October 2014
Halloween in War Thunder!

Finish the race with the winning results (1st, 2nd or 3rd place) at least THREE times during the Halloween special event, and win Po-2, legendary collectable byplane of the unique Soviet Women 46th “Taman” Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, also known as “Night Witches”. The Halloween night races are open only for reserve planes of all nations! Gaming mode of the special event - Realistic Battles.

  • 30 October 2014
Poznań Game Arena 2014 Highlights

The weekend is behind us, and we must say goodbye to Poland and PGA 2014 event!

  • 30 October 2014
Nacht Jaeger – The Birth of the Luftwaffe Night Fighter

In the opening months of the Second World War, the might of the German military smashed its way across Western Europe with ground breaking tactics, superior training and state of the art equipment.

  • 30 October 2014
Lt Cdr Eugene Esmonde

On February 11th 1942, the unprecedented sight of a vast German armada of warships ploughed its way directly through the English Channel in a bold act of defiance. In broad daylight, the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and an escort of some fifty smaller warships sailed through rough seas to return to Germany.

  • 30 October 2014
Steel Generals: M16 Halftrack
The M16 MGMC was Used in the Philippines in WW2 and also later in Korea, it was an M3 based Multiple Gun Motor Carriage equipped with the Maxson M45 Q...
  • 29 October 2014
Steel Generals: M2 Medium Tank
Dear players we are happy to introduce first screenshots of the US Ground forces in War Thunder. Every day from October 29th to November 2nd during Pa...
  • 29 October 2014
War Thunder Anniversary Celebration in Moscow

Welcome to the War Thunder Anniversary!

 

On the 1st of November we celebrate the second anniversary of the public launch of our game.

  • 28 October 2014
Event “Breakthrough in Poland”

Pilots and tankers! We present a new event mode “Breakthrough” on location “Poland”. In this mode joint battles of air and ground forces take place on different parts of the location

  • 28 October 2014
Unforgotten: T-44 Restoration Project - Part 2

Award-winning developer and publisher Gaijin Entertainment and the Central Museum of Armoured Vehicles in Kubinka, have announced a dual partnership to fully restore a World War 2 era Soviet T44 tank.

  • 28 October 2014
'Mother' - a War Thunder short by Haechi

Welcome to our new Community Corner feature, where we highlight some of the amazing masterpieces created by our players. For our very first community video feature, we present 'Mother', a War Thunder short by Haechi.

  • 25 October 2014
Special
Pacific Pack Weekend

This weekend, profit from a 30% discount on our Pacific Packs! Get the unique XP-38G as well as the A6M5 Ko and two immersive singleplayer campaigns for the USA and Japan, covering the Pacific War from 1941 to 1943.

  • 24 October 2014