St-Chamond, the precursor to SPGs; KV-2, the SU-152, and the ISU-152, the Soviet “Beast Slayers”; Spitfire F Mk.24, the outstanding piston-engine fighter; and the most remarkable aircraft of the Cold War era: the videos posted to our YouTube channel last week will take you on a twentieth century military vehicle history tour.

Best Shells for Soviet “Beast Slayers”

The KV-2, the SU-152, and the ISU-152 are vehicles that sometimes inspire fear in your opponents’ hearts with their looks alone. Today we’d like to go over the shells available to the Soviet “Zveroboy” and its siblings and see which of them can help you achieve maximum combat effectiveness.

Book of Records: Cold War Aircraft

It’s still debatable whether war can really be considered a driver of progress.The desire to outpace the opponent in the arms race often overshadows reason—but at the same time, it fuels the realization of groundbreaking ideas and technologies. This was especially true during the Cold War, when the rivalry between two geopolitical blocs brought hundreds of brilliant engineers and scientists together in pursuit of the perfect weapon. In this video, we’d like to highlight the fruits of their labor: the most remarkable aircraft of that era. The most mass-produced, the fastest, and the most advanced.

Thunder Show: HIDE & SEEK

This episode is all about desperate measures. It’s like when your enemy has cutting edge weaponry and the latest vehicles while all you’ve got is a field manual, some duct tape, and crippling optimism.

Spitfire F Mk.24: the Prop King

What War Thunder aircraft is worthy of the title “the best piston-engine fighter”? The competition is so tight! We have the American Mustang and Bearcat, the German Messerschmitt and Ta, the Soviet Yak and La, the Japanese Shiden and Hayate, the Italian Reggiane and Fiat, and finally, the British Tempest and... Its colleague the Spitfire, which seems to be a tad ahead of all the other contenders for the throne of the Prop King! So why don’t we take a ride in the legendary Griffon Mk.24?

St-Chamond — SPG Precursor

At the height of the First World War, the world witnessed the first ever combat tanks. The armored giants made for breaching enemy fortifications were sowing fear, but at the same time, they were incredibly clumsy. It would take their creators a lot of time to find the perfect shapes and optimal design solutions. In the meantime, creative processes would sometimes give birth to truly peculiar machines, like giants with diamond-shaped tracks, self-propelled armed boxes, and others.