We are pleased to announce that War Thunder Update 1.41.27 has been released. Among the most important changes are the new ground vehicle location “Carpathian mountains” and seven new ground and air vehicles!

Horikoshi was born in Fujioka, where he attended high school. He later attended the First Higher School in Tokyo, and in 1927 he would graduate from the Aviation Laboratory of the University of Tokyo with an engineering degree. Almost immediately after, he became employed in Mitsubishi, in the Nagoya Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.

Follow Dmitry Mikhailov in the first episode of our new Barrel Roll series, as he takes off with his plane to share his knowledge about the usage of flaps and throttle in combat maneuvers.

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.

During the Second World War, Nazi-Germany ran a sophisticated research program for the development of flying bombs and rockets. When finally brought into service in 1944, the ‘Wunderwaffen’, as they were called by the German propaganda, were supposed to turn the tide in a war that was already lost.

Due to popular request from our players, we present you the 'Floats!' special event in War Thunder again this weekend! It features American and Japanese floatplanes and flying boats contending for control of special points located on the water surface.

Dutch pilots fought on two fronts in the Second World War. After the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans, the Dutch East Indies Army continued the fight against Japan, and Dutch pilots flew for the RAF when their home bases were occupied.

It was early on a quiet morning on June the 10th, 1944. The sun is rising slowly over an airfield near Fogia in Italy. Forty six P-38 Lightnings of the “82nd Fighter Group” (95th, 96th, and 97th Squadrons) are preparing for for an attack against Oil facilities in Ploesti, Romania, 600 miles away.

If you're at E3, come check out War Thunder on Alienware's new console, Alpha!

We invite you to take part in a most unusual contest -  a contest  for the best user created mission in War Thunder! All that you need is the War Thunder CDK, bright ideas and to implement them into a game mission. You can share it with the other players and also have a chance to get a reward from the developers!

eNTak bringing you War Thunder "Map Overview" videos.

June 8th saw the birth of two Soviet aviation giants, Nikolai Polikarpov and Ivan Kozhedub. The former designed the legendary Soviet fighters of the 1930s and the latter became their most successful fighter ace.

The War Thunder channel has recently surpassed the amazing number of 100.000 players and fans subscribing to our content being published regularly on YouTube. On behalf of the entire War Thunder development team, we want to say a heartfelt Thank you!

Gaijin Entertainmentannounced today that it will be showing off critically acclaimed War Thunderat E3 in majestic cross platform gameplay between the most hardcore players on the planet

The latest PS4 Update receives a warm welcome from Players and Gaming Press alike! - Recently, War Thunder has become one of the first cross platform games to be introduced on the PlayStation®4. This has instigated play between gamers on the PlayStation®4  and the already established PC/Mac  version of the game. It was done in conjunction with the US release of War Thunder on PS®4, which also brought Update 1.41 and Ground Forces along with other major improvements to the console.

The Morning of the 6th of June, 1944:

Thousands of Allied troops began landing on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans. Thousands of paratroops and glider-borne troops were also dropped behind enemy lines and the Allies were already several miles inland.