Squadron events - is a special mode, where only squadrons are permitted to fight. They take place in 8 vs 8 battle format in three different game modes. This article will introduce this mode to you, as well as give you an insight into its future development.

We would like to convey our best wishes to you all and hope you enjoy a peaceful and happy time over the weekend. Happy Easter!

We are pleased to announce that the War Thunder client for the Mac OS X is now officially supported. There are tens of millions Mac users in the world and we are very excited to welcome them on our War Thunder game servers.

We are happy to announce our LIVE.WARTHUNDER.COM launch! Using this portal you can exchange pics, videos, quotes as well as camouflages, cockpits, missions, locations and aircraft created with the War Thunder CDK.

Today we are launching the War Thunder Wiki - the basic platform for players’ and developers’ common effort to create articles about basic game systems, instructions to create user generated content and of course detailed descriptions of air and ground vehicles.

The War Thunder CDK (Content Development Kit) is a set of tools that allow you to create content of your own! It is the same program our War Thunder developers use, and now it’s available for all the players! It’s a perfect opportunity to display your creativity!

War Thunder Update 1.39 has arrived! So what are you waiting for? Update the game and rush into battle!

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.

Yuri Gagarin was a childhood hero for many, he represented the excitement and the adventure for many people around the world at the leading edge of the race into space, the stuff of dreams, he represented all that was good in the human makeup, the need for knowledge, excitement, exploration, he made the spirit of “Where no man has gone before” so relevant and so true before the phrase was used by Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek in 1966.

War Thunder Dev blog is officially open! Read it to learn what features we are working on right now and what you should expect to appear in the future. We are also moving the “Dev diaries” and “Tank diaries” to the blog.

War Thunder has been featured in the next episode of Geek & Sundry‘s recently launched web series “Unplugged” on April 10th at 10:00 AM PDT. The show is about celebrity contestants going head-to-head in a video game and then experiencing the real thing. Watch it now!

Gaijin Entertainment starts a long-term collaboration with the Russian Kubinka Tank Museum. A video report about the Sturmhaubitze 42 self-propelled howitzer restоration is just the first result of this new partnership. Watch it now!

Although it would be some time until rockets could be used effectively from the air, the weapon itself had already been used in a military context for centuries. The first notable use of rockets from aircraft was in 1916 when Allied aircraft used the Le Prieur rocket in the air-to-air role against enemy observation balloons. 

At 23.45 on the 8th of April 1940, the Norwegian patrol vessel "Pol III" was on routine patrol in the Oslo fjord, when it spotted unidentified ships on the horizon. A few minutes later it was rammed and shot at by a German “E” boat. The invasion of Norway had begun.