▶️Climbing the Ranks: French Navy

The French Naval tree is one of the most recent tech trees in War Thunder. It features lightning-quick boats, highly versatile destroyers and cruisers, and battleships with an unusual layout that gives them distinct advantages while also imposing serious limitations. Every ship has its own flavour, and its own approach to combat. Today, we'll take a careful look at the French Naval tree and show you ships that are most deserving of your attention.

❗️Hi everyone, some of our game services are currently experiencing instability. You may run into issues signing in to your account and accessing and getting inventory items, including the Military Survival Kit. Our team is already working on resolving the problem.
Thanks for your patience, we apologize for any inconvenience!

❗️Hello friends! Maintenance is complete — thank you for your patience!

‼️Hey everyone! We’re aware of a crash happening to players with AMD Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs on DirectX 12 with the latest drivers (26.10.41.01) and are working on a fix. In the meantime we recommend either temporarily switching to DirectX 11 via the launcher or rolling back to a previous driver version. Thank you for your patience.

😄Thunder Show: SELF-PROPELLED REAL ESTATE

Welcome to Thunder Show and the most powerful moments of the past week!

▶️Hs 129 B-3: The Legendary Duck

War Thunder has plenty of strike aircraft that rely on forward-firing guns to attack ground targets. But one of them is truly special. It is, perhaps, the most legendary aircraft ever built around a large-caliber cannon. We are talking, of course, about the German Duck, the Hs 129 B-3.

💅Hello, camo creators!

While our jury is busy finalizing the results of the big Summer Camo Contest and the team is preparing a massive Autumn Contest, we don't want to leave you without a creative challenge. Today we are launching an intermediate "Express Contest," and the theme for this competition will be the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia!

❓Rules and Conditions:

▪️Theme: Only historical and semi-historical camouflages of the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia are allowed.
▪️Deadline: Submissions are open from August 26th to September 17th inclusive.
▪️Hashtag: To participate, you must add the tag #CamoComp2 to your post on WT Live.
▪️References: Each submission must include historical reference photographs and/or a text description pointing to a real camouflage scheme (or the source of your inspiration). Note: Submissions without references will not be considered by the judges!
▪️Community Rules: The camouflage and its description must not violate the WT Live Community Guidelines. Entries that violate these rules will be disqualified.

❗️Requirements for New and Reworked Submissions (Please read carefully!):

▪️We accept only new camouflages created after the start of this competition, as well as older works if they have been significantly reworked and improved.
▪️If you are updating one of your older camouflages, you must include a link to the original publication so that the jury can evaluate the amount of work done.
▪️Simply re-uploading an old camouflage is strictly prohibited (this includes deliberately downgrading the quality of an old work just to re-publish it).

🎁We have prepared rewards for the top 8 creators:

▪️1st Place: Premium vehicle of your choice (up to Rank IV) + 3000 Golden Eagles
▪️2nd Place: Premium vehicle of your choice (up to Rank III) + 2000 Golden Eagles
▪️3rd Place: Premium vehicle of your choice (up to Rank III) + 1000 Golden Eagles
▪️4th Place: Premium vehicle of your choice (up to Rank II) + 1500 Golden Eagles
▪️5th Place: Premium vehicle of your choice (Rank I) + 1500 Golden Eagles
▪️6th–8th Places: 1500 Golden Eagles each

Judging Criteria:
The jury will evaluate texture quality, historical accuracy, and attention to detail. Beautiful, high-quality screenshots in your post will be a nice bonus during the evaluation! The results will be announced by September 24th.
Get your brushes, airbrushes, and references ready. Good luck in the contest!

‼️Grab yourself a piece of War Thunder history! As previously mentioned, both Ho-Ri tank destroyers will be removed from research and purchase tomorrow, with no plan to bring them back.

For the researchable variant (Ho-Ri Production), if you own the vehicle or have put at least 1 research point into it, you’ll keep it.

▶️Reload Rate Buffs: Who Got Them?

A recent update gave a number of tanks and tank destroyers a noticeable boost to their rate of fire. That matters both for the players using these vehicles and for anyone fighting them. So, to make sure no return shot catches you earlier than expected, let’s take a look at some of the most interesting vehicles that can now reload faster.