Pilots! We continue our section — Stories of Soviet Warriors by Artyom Drabkin. Today we would like to introduce the story of Lieutenant Vasily Kanishchev, a fighter pilot.

Lieutenant Kanishchev, Vasily Alekseevich, Fighter Pilot. 86th Guards Fighter Regiment

I was shot down on September 7 – my ninth mission. How did it happen? Prior to that, I had flown quite well. And so our squadron commander Zaitsev (if I remember correctly that was his last name) was reading the assignment. I was watching – and I saw that his hands were shaking. What's this, a squadron commander who has the jitters? But evidently this was because he had recently been shot down.

Read More Here!
http://warthunder.com/en/news/300-Stories-of-Soviet-Warriors-Lieutenant-Kanishchev-en

From October 16th 13:00 GMT (06:00 PDT) to October 17th 13:00 GMT (06:00 PDT)

Special:

+50% reward bonus for destroying naval units.

+30% experience for the folowing aircraft: Spitfire Mk.I, Spitfire Mk.II and Ju.88А-4

A pair of wreaths from anonymous Scottish women graced the graves of the German airmen shot down in the first air raid of World War Two. One message read: «To two brave airmen from the mother of an airman», and the other stated simply: «With the deep sympathy of Scottish mothers». In the poignant inscriptions, there was no ally or enemy, just a heartfelt compassion for a mother's loss, regardless of geography. — Daily Record, Scotland


Read More Here!

http://warthunder.com/en/news/299-Special-the-First-Strike-on-Britain-en

Pilots! War Thunder would like to present you the story of the CG-trailer music creation. Exclusive interview with Lorenzo Scagnolari — composer and creative director of the recording studio and authour of the lyrics and production manager — Francesco Libralone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0sfA-NsbzJY

Download and read the Interview Here!

http://warthunder.com/en/news/299-Special-the-First-Strike-on-Britain-en

15th of October is a birthday of soviet fighter ace — Arseny Vorozheikin, and on 16th — Brendan Finucane, famous RAF wing commander and Spitfire ace.

SPECIAL:

From 16th of October 06:00 GMT to 17th of October 06:00 GMT (From 15th of October 23:00 PDT to 16th of October 23:00 PDT) 20% special discount for purchasing qualifications for the following aircraft:

Yak-7B, Yak-1B, Yak-9 Т, Yak-9 К, Yak-3, Yak-3P,Yak-9P

Spitfire Mk.I, Spitfire Mk.II, Spitfire Mk.IIb, Spitfire Mk.Vb, Spitfire Mk.Vc,

Spitfire F.Mk.IX, Spitfire F.Mk.XVI and Spitfire LF.Mk.XVI


Arseny Vorozheikin (1912 – 2001)

Arseny Vorozheikin was born on October 28th 1912 in Prokofievka village, now Gorodetsky district of Nizhny Novgorod region from a peasant family.


Brendan Finucane

Brendan Finucane was born on the 16th October 1920 at Rathmines near Dublin in Ireland. In 1936 the family moved to England and Brendan joined the RAF in 1938. On completing his training he was posted as a Pilot Officer with the Spitfire equipped 65 Squadron at RAF Hornchurch..


Read More Here!

http://warthunder.com/en/news/297-Birthdays-of-two-aces-en

One of the new tracks for War Thunder recorded for ground battles performed by Baltic Symphonic Orchestra. The soundtrack was recorded in June 2013, in St. — Petersburg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UxEeBH7CMVM

Download Here!

http://warthunder.com/en/news/296-War-Thunder---Symphony-Of-Steel-en

The video shows War Thunder sound engineers recording sounds of tanks in the USA and Germany. More than a dozen of tanks were recorded including 40 Stug, Panzer 3 and 4, Sherman M4A3, M4A1, and others. As well as sounds of American 105mm howitzer shooting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oZ8foF7bktQ

From 12th of October 06:00 GMT to 14th of October 06:00 GMT (From 11th of October 23:00 PDT to 13th of October 23:00 PDT)


x5 experience bonus for the first victory


20% Special discount for purchase price of single-engined prop planes of USA and Japan:

P-26A-33, P-26A-34M2, P-26B-35, P-36A, P-36C, P-36G, P-40E-1, P-39N0, P-39Q-5, P-47D-25, P-47D-28, P-63A-5, P-63A-10, P-63C-5, P-51D-5, P-51D-30, F2A-1, F2A-3, F4F3, F4F4, F6F6, F4U-1a, F4U-1d, F4U-1c, F8F-1, F8F-1B

A5M4, A6M2-N, A6M2, A6M3, A6M3 mod.22, A6M5, Ki-43-II, Ki-61-Ia, Ki-61-Ib, Ki-61-Ib, Ki-61-Ic, N1K2-J, N1K2-Ja

Mission:

While flying P40, Ki-43


Destroy 5 and 50 enemy aircraft in Arcade Battles


Destroy 3 and 10 enemy aircraft in Historical Battles


Destroy 5 enemy aircraft in Full Real Battle


and earn over 100 000 Silver Lions


Moreover event: Rices Terraces [Historical Battles] with +20% reward bonus will be added for the duration of the Special! Fight as one of Flying Tigers or Japanese Ace.

Read More Here:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/293/current/

Pilots and tankers!
We would like to show your preliminary research trees for War Thunder ground forces!

Starting from October 12th 16:00 GMT (09:00 PDT) watch eNtaK's Twitch channel where he together with our dedicated players PhlyDaily and BaronVonGamez will announce German ground forces tree!

Soviet research tree will be shown at the same time on War Thunder Twitch channel:
http://www.twitch.tv/warthunder

Entak Channel
http://www.twitch.tv/entak

Discuss it Here
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/70122-tank-research-trees-will-be-shown-on-saturday/?p=1146060

War Thunder players at Igromir had the opportunity to test tank gameplay. We also brought two real tanks to our booth from Kubinka Tank Museum.

And here's the video how these «steel beasts» were delivered to Igromir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PZvkGU7m-Bw


Original:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/291-Tanks-coming-to-Igromir-en

Discuss here

http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/70081-tanks-arriving-at-igromir/

The Ace of the Month feature has now been running since March, and has brought ace biographies, skins, decals and special offers to War Thunder. Now you have the chance to win Golden Eagles by capturing the spirit of these extraordinary aviators with action packed screenshots!

The rules for this competition are slightly different to previous competitions; whilst you still have to try to capture the action and excitement of the game, you now have the additional constraint of keeping things as visually realistic as possible.

Read more about it in the Historical area here.

http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/69916-10000-golden-eagles-up-for-grabs-in-the-first-historical-board-competition/