🚀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

➡️LEARN MORE

🦡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

🚚🚀EldE 98: Missile Trolley

Today we’ll be taking a look at the EldE 98, an advanced SAM system with all-aspect IRIS-T missiles for the top of the Swedish ground forces line!

🇸🇪EldE 98: An SPAA (SAM) for Sweden at Rank VIII

At a glance:
▪️IRIS-T missiles, but just four of them
▪️Long range detection
▪️Unique layout, as the missiles are located on a trailer

👋Introducing the EldE 98!
Sweden’s new end of the line anti-aircraft missile system featuring the long-awaited IRIS-T missile is coming to the game in the next major update! This vehicle has excellent maneuverable missiles and is rather unusual in its unconventional layout. Specifics, here we come!

🛍Kick-start your Swedish vehicles research with this starter pack: Swedish Starter Pack
🛍You can greatly speed up the research of the EldE 98 with this pack: Strv 121B Christian II Pack

🇬🇧🇮🇱Weizman’s Spitfire Returns on the Anniversary of the last Empire Air Day!

From 1934 to 1939, the United Kingdom hosted annual air shows and open days at air bases. This event was called “Empire Air Day” and its intention was to show the general public the work of the Royal Air Force. The last air show in this event took place on May 20th 1939, where many aircraft took part, including the Supermarine Spitfire, which amazed the audience with its speed.

Weizman’s Spitfire LF Mk.IXe is now available for Golden Eagles and is here to stay!

This Spitfire is back for good and is available for 4,880 Golden Eagles.
When: From May 20th (11:00 GMT).
Where: Israel > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

About the Spitfire
▪️Spitfires were widely used both in the Second World War and after it. In 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence, they were used by both sides of the conflict. This Spitfire LF Mk.IXe was flown by Ezer Weizman, the future commander of the Air Force and later the President of Israel. Featuring an excellent rate of climb, this Spitfire is very maneuverable and is great at low altitudes. It’s armed with two 20 mm Hispano Mk.II cannons and two 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine guns. For use against ground targets, it can carry two 250 lb bombs and 16 8-cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon rockets. Just make sure to hit the target!

‼️ Fair Play: May 2025

The fight against cheaters continues tirelessly, and today we’re ready to provide you with a list of rule breakers who have been banned over the past month. Thank you very much for your active participation in identifying rule breakers and submitting reports! You can use the battle replay function on our website to report players who you suspect have violated the game’s Terms of Service and the License Agreement. Instructions on how to do this can be found here.

🤕Banned accounts

Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 4781 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software. For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

557 more accounts have been banned for a week or more for intentional teamkills.

📜For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

⭐️Recommendations
We recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass/Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.

We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.

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🐸It is wednesday, my dudes