🔥🔥🔥The Big May Sale in War Thunder!

It’s time for some sweet deals! Buy vehicles and their modifications, backups, talismans and Premium Account time during the next week with a big discount. In a week, be sure to visit the Gaijin.net store to check out pack discounts as well!

🏪When: From April 30th (11:00 GMT) until May 7th (11:00 GMT)

🛍Discounts on vehicles

▪️30% discount on vehicles from all nations when purchasing with Golden Eagles and Silver lions. The discount is valid on all vehicles throughout the entire sale period.
▪️Discounts don’t apply to the purchase and upgrade of Squadron vehicles and vehicles that were released in the Storm Warning and Hornet's Sting major updates.

⭐️Discounts on upgrades

▪️30% discount on modifications
▪️30% discount on talismans
▪️30% discount on backups

🛍Discounts on Premium Accounts

▪️50% discount on Premium accounts for 90 and 365 days for Golden Eagles in the hangar.
▪️50% discount on Premium accounts for 180 days in the Gaijin.net Store.

🛍Discounts in the Gaijin.net store

🏪When: From May 7th until May 14th

Packs with rare vehicles at good prices await you. We’ll tell you about the contents of these packs, as well as the size of the discounts soon. Keep an eye on the news!

🛠Server Update 30.04.2025

▪️R2Y2 Kai (all variants) — these aircraft have been removed from research today as announced and planned. Players who owned them or who put at least 1 RP into them keep them in their research tree. For more information, please visit the news post from February here.
▪️A bug that caused the AN/ALR-46(V)3 and AN/APR(V)1 RWRs to not recognize the S-75 SAM radar has been fixed.
▪️F-15E — a bug that caused the AGM-65D camera to lack the IR channel has been fixed.

⭐️Legend of Victory: T-34-85 “Partisan”

80 years have passed since May 1945, when the Second World War in Europe ended. It’s time to celebrate Victory Day! In this event, you’ll be able to get a decorated Soviet T-34-85 that was used in ‘45, decals dedicated to the capture of Berlin, and a profile icon of Grigory Brazhnikov.

🏪From May 8th (11:00 GMT) until May 20th (11:00 GMT), earn mission points in Ground Battles, unlock stages and receive rewards!

🚩T-34-85 “Partisan” — A Premium Medium Tank for the USSR at Rank III

The T-34-85 was a symbol of victory for the USSR over Nazi Germany. This medium tank is generally an all-rounder, featuring good mobility, decent protection and good firepower. In honor of Victory Day, a decorated version of the T-34-85 tank with a classic 85 mm ZIS-S-53 gun, decorated with a red banner and special identification marks is available in this event. The T-34-85 “Partisan” has a new, highly detailed model, and in the next War Thunder major update we plan to update the other older T-34-85 models as well.

In 1945, Lieutenant Grigory Brazhnikov took part in street battles in Berlin in a T-34-85. The tank company under his command cleared 32 city blocks, with Brazhnikov himself claiming to have destroyed an enemy medium tank and a Ferdinand. In total, Brazhnikov achieved 16 victories during the war.

🎁Rewards are given when you complete a specific number of stages
▪️For 1 Stage: trophy with a random reward
▪️For 2 Stages: one of the decal rewards
▪️For 3 Stages: trophy with a random reward
▪️For 4 Stages: one of the decal rewards
▪️For 5 Stages: “Grigory Brazhnikov” profile icon
▪️For 6 Stages: non-tradable coupon for the T-34-85 “Partisan”

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🕵️‍♂️Community Update No.6: Updating You On Some Things You Can Expect in the Near Future!

Today we’re back with some updates on what you can expect from the game in the near future. We’ve got some sneak peeks and interesting information to share with you today, so sit back, grab your favorite drink and read on! We’ve also changed the title of this series to better reflect the content.

❗️Disclaimer: While we’re excited to be able to share work-in-progress information before dev blogs, the dev server and the full release, please bear in mind that new features, vehicles and maps mentioned in this news are subject to change, be delayed or be canceled. War Thunder is constantly being developed, and as with all game development, unexpected delays or other unforeseen circumstances may occur. Thank you for your interest!

✅Reflecting on the SEAD event test
✅Next Event Vehicles
✅World War Mode
✅The Upcoming Major Update

▪️Vehicles
▪️Talking about a top-tier French premium tank
▪️Map Visual Upgrades
▪️Falklands Island map for air battles
▪️Tooltip Improvements
▪️VFX Updates
▪️Fuel Dumping

➡️LEARN MORE

There is of course more things in the works coming in the major update, we haven’t mentioned everything in this news. We’d like to thank everyone for their continued comments and interest in War Thunder. See you next time!

🚀Try Out “Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses” Again This Weekend!

Last week, we introduced a short test for a new mode called “Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses” (SEAD). We saw your enthusiasm, and today we’re happy to be bringing it back for the weekend with some changes and additions mainly based on feedback!

🏪When: From May 2nd (14:00 GMT) until May 5th (04:00 GMT)

You can access the event from the hangar through: Events & Tournaments -> Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses

If you missed the first test and would like to catch up on everything regarding this mode, then be sure to check out the original news post below.

🔼Changes from the first test

▪️Players are distributed a bit more randomly at the front when spawning in at a random spawn point
▪️Enemy planes near allied spawn points are highlighted on the map (like in Ground Realistic Battles)
▪️Afghanistan has been removed, and the following maps have been added: Sinai, Spain, Rocky Canyon, and Southeastern City
▪️There are now 12 players on the defending team instead of 16 (this was changed near the end of the first test, where the win percentage for the Attackers then raised to a far more reasonable level)
▪️The reward in Silver Lions and research points for destroying the SNR-75 tracking radar has been doubled
▪️Mission score for destroying the SNR-75 tracking radar has been tripled to 270
▪️Mission score for destroying launchers, Shilkas and detecting radars (P-12) has been unified for the Cobra and Phantom and increased to 135

🏆Watch the WTCS TITAN Major Play-Off and Get Yourself Awesome Twitch Drops!

The War Thunder Championships Series has begun! The last two Qualifying weekends have been intense, with amazing action and great tactical plays. With almost 800 players registered, 8 teams have emerged from the crowd to secure their ticket for the play-off phases. They will now face each other in a double elimination bracket and BO5 matches. Their objective you ask? To finish in the best position to earn maximum points and get a head start on the season!

Everything is all to play for, two majors remain to secure a place in the Grand Final in November 2025!

📱Live streams with Twitch Drops!

During each weekend, you'll have the opportunity to acquire amazing camouflages while watching the matches live.

🏪When: May 3rd-4th and May 10th-11th from 14:40 GMT

Watch WTCS TITAN only on the official English, German, French, Polish and Russian War Thunder Esport channels

1st weekend, May 3rd-4th
🔹50% RP Booster for 10 battles
🔹50% SL Booster for 10 battles
🔹1 Day of premium
🔹Infantry Backpack
🔹“TITAN” decal
🔹2S19M1 “Rapid Response” camouflage

2nd weekend, May 10th-11th
🔹50% RP Booster for 10 battles
🔹50% SL Booster for 10 battles
🔹1 Day of premium
🔹“Titanomachy” title
🔹“Fresh paint” profile icon frame
🔹F-18C late “BlueBird” camouflage

Login to your Twitch account → link your Gaijin account → click “Allow” to be able to receive Twitch Drops!

⭐️31 New Skins Now Available in the ‘WTCS Trophy I’!

The new WTCS Trophy is now complete, with camouflages created by authors on WT.Live! This new wave of additions includes 31 camouflages for different vehicles: 17 aircraft, 12 ground, 1 helicopter and 1 ship. We’re continuing to showcase vehicles with unique creations by our artists.

Like the previous Esports trophy, the new trophy can be obtained by simply playing regular War Thunder battles. In the future, it’ll also be possible to obtain with an increased chance by participating in Esports events in War Thunder tournaments! PlayStation and Xbox players can purchase the trophy in the Item Shop for Golden Eagles.

To open it, you’ll need to purchase a key on the Market (income is shared with the authors of the camouflages). You can either activate the coupon on your account, or trade it on the Market to get Gaijin Coins (GJN). A trophy can be sold as well!

➡️TO THE MARKET

🛍Don’t miss the Thunder Tactiks Pack

The Kit Includes:
🔹Unique decal: "Thunder Tactiks"
🔹Unique camouflage: Bf 109 F-4 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹Unique camouflage: Sd.Kfz.234/2 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹300 Golden Eagles

⭐️Monthly Decals for May!

Hello again! We’re back with a new selection of historical decals and markings for you all to unlock and customize your vehicles with. We hope you liked the selection for April and hope you enjoy the picks for May as well!

Thank you to those of you who have posted your decal suggestions, we’ll be adding a few of them over the next few months, so keep them coming! Also, feel free to let us know what previous decals you’d like to see return for future months — “Scottie” for example was included this month as it was requested. We cycle these decals equally, so for example as America got a new ground decal last month, they have an old air decal this month and so on, so we’ll try and work in suggestions based on the plan.

🏪The following decals will be available from May 7th (11:00 GMT) until June 6th (09:00 GMT).

❗️All tasks can be completed using vehicles that are rank III or higher.

All of the emblems will come with a detailed description. This will generally consist of the history of the marking, its design, which vehicles used it, and where it was often placed on vehicles historically if applicable (some emblems are taken from badges, which weren’t always applied). This way you can more easily recreate the original positioning if you’d like.

We hope you like May’s selection! Thank you for all of your feedback and suggestions, we’ll see you in June!

🐸It is Wednesday, my dudes.

⭐️Celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day!

May 8th is an important anniversary — 80 years ago on this day, the Second World War in Europe ended after 6 years of brutal conflict. Many countries in Europe have this day as a main holiday, and in War Thunder we’re celebrating this anniversary with a decal, decorations, profile background, sales and an event!

🏪When: From May 7th (13:00 GMT) until May 12th (13:00 GMT) play War Thunder and get rewards!

⭐️Trophy with past Victory Day rewards
We’ve prepared trophies with rewards from previous Victory Day events that can be found in the in-game Item Shop. Purchasing a trophy will give you Allied weapon decorations or decals that you don’t have yet.

▪️Decals, dedicated to war memorials: “Rear-Front”, “Motherland”, “Warrior Liberator” and “Victorious countries”
▪️Decorations for ground vehicles: “Bren Mk II”, “ROKS-3”, “M1 Garand”, “SG-43”, “Maxim-Tokarev Machine Gun”, “Tommy gun”
▪️Decorations for Bluewater fleet naval vessels: “Matilda II” and “120-PM-38”

🛍Discounts in the Gaijin.net store

🏪When: From May 7th (11:00 GMT) until May 14th (11:00)

There are discounts on many packs and bundles with vehicles that participated in the Second World War. Celebrate this holiday with the vehicles that helped win the war!

➡️Click here for the full details

🚩Legend of Victory: T-34-85 “Partisan”

🏪When: From May 8th (11:00 GMT) until May 20th (11:00 GMT)

Take part in the Legend of Victory event, featuring a special T-34-85 that has identification marks and a red banner flag on the turret roof. Plus themed decals and decorations are ups for grabs too!

➡️Click here for the full details

Let’s celebrate the 80th anniversary together!

❗️In honor of reaching 500,000 subscribers on the WT's Reddit, we are excited to remind you about a special promotion!

To receive the "500k and beyond!" Ground Vehicle decoration, activate the code "REDDIT500K" on the special page

After that, play three battles using any vehicles of rank 2 or higher by May 13th (7:00 UTC). Don't miss the chance to decorate your tank and be part of this celebration! Good luck in battle!

🐸It is Wednesday, my dudes.

🛠It’s fixed! №105

Today, we’ve rounded up and will be going over some of the bug fixes and improvements that we’ve made to the game today and over the past few weeks. If you’d like to catch up on every fixed bug, then be sure to check out the changelog section on our website.

If you’ve found a bug that you’d like to report, you can do so on our community bug reporting platform.

✅Trams and Wagon Physics Fixed

There was a bug that caused the physical properties of trams and wagons to be out of this world! Instead of moving around on the ground as normal when they were collided with or towed, they began to bounce and fly up and down, almost like a ball in our Tank Football mode. It looked quite funny but this obviously has no place in regular battles. Rejoice, it has now been fixed.

✅The Force... Wasn’t With You

Another bug caused something very strange to happen. When a helicopter was destroyed or even when an already downed helicopter was shot at and hit, the thermal imager or night vision device of the player who took the shot and got the destruction or hit would turn off. This was super annoying and strange to say the least, and has now been fixed.

✅Hydroplane Causing Sight Issues

There was a much more serious bug that affected naval vehicles. After launching a hydroplane, ships lost the ability to zoom in at enemies. The zoom would turn on for a split second, and then the camera would jerk to the furthest position, making it more difficult to aim than usual. Thanks to your quick report on this issue, we managed to fix it.

✅Vegetation Detailing Fixes

It’s known that for optimization purposes, distant objects in games are displayed in less detail, and when approaching them, they’re replaced by full-fledged models. However, we noticed that low-detail vegetation objects begin to appear at much closer distances than they should have. We’ve fixed this now.

That’s not all

Check out the full list of fixes and improvements in the update notes below! Here’s some snippets to pique your interest: the notification about a connected controller is no longer displayed each time you enter the game, an airship icon no longer appears on the bomber action panel, and the RI-65 voice warning system has been added to the Su-25T, Su-39, Su-25BM and the MiG-23 family of aircraft.

➡️Update 2.45.1.91
➡️Update 2.45.1.92

🚫DO NOT TOUCH WINDOW

🇺🇸Celebrate US Armed Forces Day With A New Decal!

The third Sunday in May marks US Armed Forces Day, a day where people pay tribute to all US personnel. The US accounts for a third of global military spending, and in 2026, the US military budget is expected to reach a trillion dollars.

⭐️Get the “US National Armed Forces Day 2025” decal!

You can get this new decal for this day!

When: From May 16th (11:00 GMT) until May 19th (11:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using US vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “US National Armed Forces Day 2025” decal!

Additional details:
▪️Your activity must not be below 70%.
▪️You can complete the task in random battles, except for Enduring Confrontation missions, and [Assault] mode.
▪️Track your progress in the hangar by clicking Nickname → Achievements → Holidays → US Armed Forces Day.
▪️You can find the decal in the Holiday tab in the customization menu.

🌪Get the HF-24 in the Spirit of the Tempest Event!

Today we’re announcing the aircraft event, dedicated to an Indian aviation classic. In this event, you can get themed decals, a player profile icon and the very first domestically produced Indian combat aircraft — the HF-24, which was in service from 1967 until the late 80s.

🏪From May 22nd (11:00 GMT) until June 5th (11:00 GMT), earn mission points in Air Battles, unlock stages and receive rewards!

🇮🇳🇬🇧HF-24 — An Event Vehicle Jet Fighter for Great Britain at Rank V

The HAL HF-24 Marut (Hindu for “Spirit of the Tempest”), designed by German aircraft engineer Kurt Tank, was India’s first domestically produced combat aircraft. This jet fighter can accelerate to almost the speed of sound, is armed with four 30 mm ADEN cannons and can carry up to 4,000 lb of bombs and rockets.

🎁Rewards are given when you complete a specific number of stages
▪️For 1 stage: trophy with random reward
▪️For 2 stages: one of the decal rewards
▪️For 3 stages: trophy with random reward
▪️For 4 stages: one of the decal rewards
▪️For 5 stages: trophy with random reward
▪️For 6 stages: “Indian Pilot” profile icon
▪️For 7 stages: a non-tradable coupon for the HF-24

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🦡Badger IFV: A Beast Yet To Come

Meet the Badger IFV, a South African light tank featuring a 30 mm gun on the Patria chassis, still yet to be delivered to the South African Army.

🇿🇦🇬🇧Badger IFV: A Light Tank for Great Britain at Rank VI

At a glance:
▪️Fast-firing 30 mm automatic cannon with APFSDS rounds
▪️Patria chassis with a top speed of 100 km/h
▪️Stabilized turret with thermals
▪️3 crew and light armor

👋Introducing the Badger IFV!
A brand-new top-tier light tank is arriving for Great Britain in the next major update! Meet the Badger IFV, a South African vehicle intended to replace the Ratel in the real world, however its future is still uncertain. Featuring a 30 mm automatic cannon and the Patria chassis, the Badger IFV will be potent in the light tank role. Let’s take a look at what this furry animal is all about!

🛍 You can greatly speed up the research of the Badger IFV with this pack: Challenger DS Pack
🛍Kick-start your British vehicles research with this starter pack: British Starter Pack