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Rankings Challenge: Season 1
The first season of Rankings Challenge begins! In its debut you’ll earn unique camouflages and titles, and the best of the best will enter the finals with a prize pool of over $3000! Can you play War Thunder well? Then the prize can be yours!
Pre-order: M1 KVT
A visually modified M1 Abrams MBT to represent a Soviet tank in exercises, with premium status and pre-order bonuses!
Battle Pass vehicles: Centurion Mk 2
The main tank prize of the new season is the British Centurion Mk 2 with a cast turret and gun stabiliser. Meet Her Majesty Hussar!
Battle Pass vehicles: J26 David
J26 David is an interned and purchased American P-51B-7 Mustang fighter aircraft in service with the Swedish air forces. Meet the main aviation prize available for every War Thunder player!
Book of Records: French Armor
France was among the first nations in the world to employ locally produced tanks. During the 20th century, France was home to a lot of incredibly interesting vehicles, from their own cars to heavy and medium tanks. Today we’re going to talk about the most interesting, outstanding, and record-breaking French ground vehicles available in War Thunder.
  • 19 April 2023
Meet the new War Thunder soundtracks for modern vehicles!
Music from your favorite game can be enjoyed from outside it — and we're happy to give you an opportunity to do so. Following the classic War Thunder soundtrack that was dedicated to the vehicles of WWII, we released two new albums. They consist of 20 tracks that were added to the game in the Apex Predators update and are played during the battles of the Cold War era and more modern ground and air vehicles. We hope to please commanders of the navy with new music in the foreseeable future!
Battle Pass vehicles: S-701
Iconic German E-boats of the 701-st series had an additional pair of torpedo tubes to shoot sternwards!
It’s fixed! №73
In this digest we would like to tell you about our continuing work on improvements and fixes in the game. You can find information about all updates that have been released in War Thunder in the website special section.
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Zimbabwe Independence Day
During the dissolution of the British Empire one of its colonies, South Rhodesia, decided to declare its independence unilaterally. This led to it being unrecognized by other countries during its entire existence. In 1979 it returned under British protectorate, and after elections on April 18th, 1980, it became independent again, this time under the name Zimbabwe.
  • 18 April 2023
The Shooting Range #350
You are watching The Shooting Range – a weekly show for all tankers, airmen and Captains in War Thunder.
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  • 16 April 2023
Thunder Show: Hello There
Hi! Welcome to Thunder Show and the most beautiful moments of the past week. Today’s episode features Praga’s baptism by fire, a chopper king’s ascension to the throne, emergency relief for a group of tanks... And a few other things to boot. Let’s get started!
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  • 14 April 2023
Fw 190: Kurt Tank’s Workhorse
There are so many things said and written about the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, a legendary German fighter aircraft, that it’s fair to assume that it’ll take you at least a lifetime to even scratch the surface of the subject. People often say that it was the best, the most influential work by Kurt Tank... But was that actually true?
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  • 13 April 2023
Special
Vasily Matsievich’s Birthday
Soviet fighter pilot Vasily Matsievich was born on April 13th, 1913. As a part of 26th Regiment he defended Leningrad from enemy bombers during the blockade, and by June 1942 had made 196 sorties. In 1943 he was awarded the highest award of the USSR — the Order of Lenin, the Gold Star medal and the title “Hero of the Soviet Union”.
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  • 13 April 2023
Special
Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics
On April 12th, 1961 a new era in humanity’s quest for the skies began: for the first time in history a manned craft orbited the Earth. Yuri Gagarin became a legend, and to commemorate his heroic flight, April 12th was declared the Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. Celebrate it with us in War Thunder!
The Shooting Range #349
You are watching The Shooting Range – a weekly show for all tankers, airmen and Captains in War Thunder.
  • 9 April 2023
Thunder Show: 37 FRAGS
Hi! Welcome to Thunder Show and the most unbelievable moments of the past week. Today we’d like to talk about efficient greed. Or greedy efficiency? To be honest, it’s not always clear how to tell them apart. Shall we find out together? Let’s get to it!
  • 7 April 2023
Twitch Drops for Exowarriors!
Hello, soldiers! Join the War Thunder Exotroops on Twitch and get rewards!
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  • 7 April 2023
Refinement of the aircraft damage models on the example of Su-25 and А-10А
We received feedback from players about possible problems with damage models of the top attackers Su-25 and A-10A. Now we will tell you about what problems we found and how we solved them.