From April 8th 15:00 GMT to April 9th 15:00 GMT

30% discount for purchase of

Hurricanes Mk I and Mk II, Typhoon Mk Ia, Spitfire Mk Vb

"Firmes Volamos" was the motto of the squadron that stands for "Firm we fly".

Almost 800 Argentinian volunteers flew with the Royal Air Force in WWII.

History would suggest that Argentina remained neutral for the duration of the war, but beyond the official stance, around 600 Argentinians, mostly children of British background, decided to leave their neutrality behind and fight against the axis power, either enlisting for the RAF or the Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ). They flew in company with British, Polish, Canadians and many others who also bore the British flag, to defend the homeland of their forefather.

On April 6th, 1942, 164 squadron RAF was established in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire as a fighter squadron, and obtained operational status in early May with assignments of Supermarine Spitfire Mk Va's, using the code of 'FJ' as their squad decal. On May 5th of that year, he was transferred to Skeabrae, Orkney to return to Peterhead on 10th September but this time with the Spitfire Mk Vb.

Read more here!
http://warthunder.com/en/news/524-Argentina-in-The-Second-World-War-en

From April 7th 15:00 GMT to April 8th 15:00 GMT

While flying Hurricane Mk.I and Hurricane Mk.II

Destroy

60 enemy aircraft in Arcade battles
20 enemy aircraft in Realistic battles
10 enemy Aircraft in Simulator battles

Earn 50 000 silver lions!

While flying Bf-109E-1 and Bf-109E-3

Destroy

60 enemy aircraft in Arcade battles
20 enemy aircraft in Realistic battles
10 enemy Aircraft in Simulator battles

Earn 50 000 silver lions!

Complete both missions and earn 100 000 silver lions!

The attack on Yugoslavia and aerial bombing of Belgrade was directly influenced by a military coup d'état that was carried out on March 27th by a group of Royal Yugoslav Air Force and Yugoslav Royal Guard officers led by Brigadier General Borivoje Mirkovic which was opposed to a Tripartite Pact signing which in turn was done by the Yugoslav government once all of it’s neighbours had signed it.

The Coup d'état angered Hitler who took it as personal insult and and was so angered that he was determined, in his words, "to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a nation" (Jugoslawien militärisch und als Staatsgebilde zu zerschlagen), and to do so "without waiting for possible declarations of loyalty of the new government". On the same day he issued Führer Directive 25 which called Yugoslavia a hostile state. That day Hitler decided Belgrade would be bombed in retribution.

Read more here!
http://warthunder.com/en/news/522-Storm-over-Belgrade-en

For the 14th Sunday this year we continue the tradition of holding our Golden Eagle Sunday event on MetagamingTV! We have also now DOUBLED the prizepool of Golden Eagles! Making each winning so much sweeter!

We will do random giveaways to the viewers who are following the channel, host custom battles in which you can win golden eagles as well. And we will continue with our popular "Tweet your paintjob competition" on twitter!

Here is how you enter the Twitter Paint Job competition:

Tweet your best War Thunder paintjob to @WarThunderEN & @MetagamingTV with the following hashtag: #WTPaintJob And we will pick our favorites on the stream which will win 500 Golden Eagles!

We hope to see you there!

Where?
On the MetagamingTV channel over at twitch.
http://twitch.tv/metagamingtv

When?
Every Sunday @ 5pm CET - For more timezones click this link, and watch the table below!
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20140316T18&p1=37&p2=179&p3=137&p4=240

London, Sunday, 4 PM BST
Berlin, Sunday, 5 PM CET
New York, Sunday, 11 AM EST
Los Angeles, Sunday, 8 AM PST
Sydney, Monday, 1 AM AEDT

For the 14th Sunday this year we continue the tradition of holding our Golden Eagle Sunday event on MetagamingTV! We have also now DOUBLED the prizepool of Golden Eagles! Making each winning so much sweeter!

We will do random giveaways to the viewers who are following the channel, host custom battles in which you can win golden eagles as well. And we will continue with our popular "Tweet your paintjob competition" on twitter!

Here is how you enter the Twitter Paint Job competition:

Tweet your best War Thunder paintjob to @WarThunderEN & @MetagamingTV with the following hashtag: #WTPaintJob And we will pick our favorites on the stream which will win 500 Golden Eagles!

We hope to see you there!

Where?
On the MetagamingTV channel over at twitch.
http://twitch.tv/metagamingtv

When?
Every Sunday @ 5pm CET - For more timezones click this link, and watch the table below!
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20140316T18&p1=37&p2=179&p3=137&p4=240

London, Sunday, 4 PM BST
Berlin, Sunday, 5 PM CET
New York, Sunday, 11 AM EST
Los Angeles, Sunday, 8 AM PST
Sydney, Monday, 1 AM AEDT

Pilots!

The Gladiators.WT 4x4 tournament is over but the best players continue their epic clash! Pilots from the USA, Germany, France, Poland, Brazil and Japan will face the best Russian players in a series of friendly matches by the Gladiators duel rules. Witness the exciting competition on this Twitch channel and participate in the Golden Eagles giveaway!

The matches start at 14:00 GMT.

War Thunder team

Matches
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/121408-global-friendly-matches/

Twitch
http://www.twitch.tv/UnderpantsWT

From 6am GMT April 5th to 6am GMT April 7th

x4 RP gain for the first victory for all nations

-30% for purchase of Fw 190 and Ta 152 aircraft (Germany)

Destroy 100/25/13 enemy aircraft in Arcade/Realistic/Simulator battles respectively while flying any Fw 190 or Ta 152 aircraft

Complete this special weekend mission and earn 150.000 silver lions!

The Focke Wulf Fw 190 first went into battle in the summer of 1941. It was a highly advanced aircraft for it’s time and was given the nickname ‘Würger’ (Shrike), it was nicknamed "The Butcher Bird" because of its killing ability. The aircraft had speed and durability as its main strengths.

The Fw 190 was conceived in 1937 , the first prototype flew in June 1939. The aircraft was all metal with a stressed all-duralumin skin. The undercarriage was wide-tracked, which gave the Fw 190 much greater stability compared to the Bf 109 and allowed it to take off and land on runways that other German fighters such as the Bf 109 found difficult.

The first tests of the aircraft were in 1940 and few problems were discovered. The only real criticism that the pilots had was that the plane did not have sufficient firepower. The first combat model had a top speed of 388 mph from its 1600 hp engine. The first record of combat was with Spitfires in June 1941 where the Fw 190 performed well though the pilots complained of a lack of firepower. This criticism led to the Mk II version, which had two wing-mounted synchronised 20mm cannon and two MG 17 guns. The Mk II version had a top speed of 382 mph. This armament and speed made it a match for the Mk V Spitfire that was in service then.

The Fw 190 had many variants that carried torpedoes, bombs, rockets, more powerful gun platforms and it was used as a guide system for the unmanned drone (Ju88) filled with explosives known as the Mistel. The introduction of the Mk IX Spitfire forced the designers of the Fw 190 to increase its speed even more. This resulted in the Fw 190D – 9’s which first saw service in September 1944. This variant had a larger nose that housed a larger, more powerful Junkers Jumo engine that produced 1,770 hp. Another version of the Fw 190D was the Ta 152 – the Ta being in recognition of Kurt Tank who was the guiding light for the whole Fw 190 design programme. The Ta 152H-1 had a maximum speed of 472 mph at 41,000 feet and was armed with one 30-mm and two 20-mm guns. However, the war ended before this variant could really prove itself in battle.

By the end of World War Two, 20,087 Fw 190’s had been built. At its height, 22 Fw 190’s were being produced in a day. Some German aces – Otto Kittel, Walter Nowotny and Hermann Graf among them – made over 100 kills in a Fw 190. When the war in Europe ended, the Luftwaffe had 1,612 Fw 190’s of which 809 were ground attack versions.

War Thunder team

From 7am GMT April 4th to 7am GMT April 5th

30% more RP for destroying naval targets on all planes

20% discount for aircraft qualification from the list below:

USA: TBF-1c, PBY-5 Catalina, PBY-5a Catalina | BTD-1
Germany: SM.79 1941, SM.79bis/L, He.111H-6
USSR: IL-4 | PBY-5a Catalina (USSR)
Great Britain: Beaufort Mk.VIII, Beaufighter Mk.VIc, Beaufighter Mk.X, Beaufighter Mk.21, Swordfish Mk.I, Wellington Mk.Ic, Wellington Mk.Ic/L, Wellington Mk.III, Wellington Mk.X.
Japan: B5N2, B7A2, H6K4, G4M1.

Torpedo bombing had been developed in the very earliest days of military aviation. The idea of converting a torpedo to be air dropped was first conceived in the United States, but it was the Royal Naval Air Service in Britain who dropped the first successful aerial torpedo and in 1915 sunk the first enemy ship by aerial torpedo attack.

Whilst other aspects of maritime aviation had fallen by the wayside in Britain, torpedo delivery tactics and techniques were still very much at the forefront. Standard attacks would, as with the dive bomber, begin at heights of several thousand feet so as to increase the chances of spotting the target.

Read more here!
http://warthunder.com/en/news/519-GroundSea-Attack-Tactics---Part-3-Torpedo-Attacks-en

Dear players!

We continue new video series under the project: “This Is War Thunder - Top 5 Epic Plays of the Week” with PhlyDaily as our host! This is not only your chance to showcase the most amazing moments of your game play with everyone, but it is also a chance to win Golden Eagles in the process! The show will be aired weekly with five videos being showcased and five players being rewarded for their awesome plays:

First place – 3000 golden eagles
Second place – 2000 golden eagles
Third, Fourth and Fifth places – 1000 golden eagles each

You can submit your videos by sending youtube links of your game play (quality must be 720p or higher) or a replay file with description of the moment at the top5@warthunder.com

Here goes episode 8 of top 5 epic plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WQx-7OgfD_U

“This is War Thunder!”

Record your epic Game Play videos, create awesome gifs and glorious screenshots – share them with your friends on facebook and twitter using hash-tag #ThisisWarThunder.
The most epic creations will have the chance to be featured on our web

From 7am GMT April 3rd to 7am GMT April 4th

-30% discount for purchase of Mosquito FB Mk VI, Lancaster Mk III

Born in Chester in the North West of England on September 7th 1917, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire grew up in a relatively affluent family as the son of a successful lawyer and was later accepted at Oxford University to study Law. Remembered as a headstrong but friendly individual whilst at university, he also visited Germany in 1936 and whilst staying with a family in Potsdam he had the opportunity to witness a Nazi Rally where he caused offense by refusing to give the Nazi salute.



Deeply influenced by this visit and concerned that war was a very real prospect, Cheshire joined the Oxford University Air Squadron in 1937. Cheshire learned to fly on the Avro Tutor trainer; after graduating from university his legal career was cut short when he volunteered for service in the RAF following the outbreak of the Second World War.



His first operational tour was flying Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys with No.102 Squadron based out of RAF Driffield in Yorkshire. As a freshly qualified Pilot Officer, Cheshire joined his first crew in June 1940 as second pilot; as the Whitley was not fitted with dual flying controls, Cheshire’s duties included having a working knowledge of every crew position in the aircraft in case he was needed to take over in times of high work loads or following a crew casualty. At this stage of the war targets allocated to Bomber Command were of an industrial, infrastructure or logistical nature; factory complexes, dockyards, key bridges and railway networks.

Read more here!
http://warthunder.com/en/news/517-Ace-of-the-Month--Group-Captain-Leonard-Cheshire-VC-en