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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
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
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
Developers Answers: Update 1.43
Dear players, we have prepared answers for some of the more popular questions about Update 1.43. You will learn things like what the difference betwee...
  • 21 October 2014
War Thunder CDK: The Location Editor
In this next video of the series: "Developers explaining the War Thunder CDK”, the lead artist responsible for in game locations in Gaijin Entertainme...
  • 3 October 2014
The Future of Matchmaking
The team and I often get questions like: “What’s with the Battle Ratings thing”? “Any news about them?” Players see an issue in the current balance of...
  • 2 October 2014
New features in ground forces arcade mode
As you have probably already noticed, we have been busy experimenting on a new mode with respawn points for mixed battles for a while now. But...
  • 28 September 2014
Developers explaining the War Thunder CDK
We are happy to present another video of our “Developers explaining the War Thunder CDK” series. This time our game designer Elizaveta Mahatkova will ...
  • 27 September 2014
New shell icons
In Update 1.43, tank shell icons have been significantly improved. Now they show the penetration value and damage effects, which are taken directly fr...
  • 16 September 2014
Research Trees in 1.43
Dear players! Our research trees for both air and ground vehicles in War Thunder have been significantly improved for the major update 1.43. Today, w...
  • 16 September 2014
Yak-1
The single-engine Yakovlev Yak-1 monoplane was the first aircraft designed by the Soviet Yakovlev design bureau. Aimed at replacing the outdated Polik...
  • 14 September 2014
Panzerbefehlswagen IV
The Panzerbefehlswagen IV, or Pz.Bfw. IV, is a German command tank based on the Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. J series of medium tanks and was put in service in e...
  • 12 September 2014
Boeing B-17E
The Boeing B-17E ‘Flying Fortress’ was a four-engined heavy bomber favoured by the US Air Force. In March 1942, the Japanese Army managed to capture a...
  • 11 September 2014
T-III
T-III (or T-3) was the Soviet designation for any captured German Pz.Kpfw. III to be put in service with the Red Army. This particular vehicle is an e...
  • 10 September 2014
New Sounds 1.43
In patch 1.43 sound content  will change significantly in War Thunder. We will have new sounds for popular aircraft cannons and machine guns, we will ...
  • 10 September 2014
Ki-43-II Late (in USAAF camouflage)
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa was a single-engine fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Air Force. Army designation was "Army Type 1 Fighter" aka "Oscar or ...
  • 9 September 2014
Vehicle Presets
In patch 1.43 we will be adding long-awaited additional functionality for crew slots - it will be the ability to save and load preset aircraft/ground ...
  • 9 September 2014