An export version of the Freedom Fighter in service with the United States Air Force will become one of the main prizes of the “Export Order” crafting event!

The F-5A in service with the US Air Force will become the top event jet fighter in the American aviation research tree as the main prize for the participants of the upcoming crafting event “Export Order”. Since the introduction of the F-5A into the ranks of Chinese aviation, the Freedom Fighter has established itself as difficult to learn, but very interesting to play. Both Chinese and American F-5A’s will be equipped with countermeasures - a flares/chaff mounting and a radar warning receiver.





Do you consider yourself a skilled pilot? Prove it in battle in the American F-5A! You can pick it up by taking part in the large assembly event “Export Order”, which we will announce in detail in the coming days.

Check out the full Dev Blog article here!

The Pansarbil m/40 is a Swedish armored car, originally developed by the AB Landsverk company for the Danish Army. Soon, tankers in War Thunder will have the chance to add this unique vehicle to their Swedish ground forces collection by taking part in the upcoming crafting event!

The Pansarbil m/40 is one of the prizes awaiting participants of the upcoming crafting event, starting soon in War Thunder. Compact, extremely nimble and packing a rapid-firing 20mm autocannon, the Pansarbil m/40 is sure to quickly find itself new commanders among fans of lightly armored vehicles!





Be sure to add the unique Pansarbil m/40 to your in-game collection by taking part in the upcoming crafting event. Good hunting tankers!

Check out the full Dev Blog article here!

In 1909, the United States Military purchased its first aircraft. Through WWI and WWII, the importance of controlling airspace on the battlefield had grown significantly being used in every aspect of war and peacetime use. In 1947, the need for a formalized branch of service to be established to further the development and deployment of America’s Air Forces was seen as vital to modernization and organization efforts. Today we salute the USAF on their 74th Birthday! The USAF today continues to meet the highest standards possible, producing many of the finest pilots the world has ever seen.


Terms

• You can follow your progress by clicking on your Nickname → Achievements → US Air Force Day.
  
• Prize decal can be found in “Customization” → USA.

For the period of the event, the premium Bostwick's P-47M-1-RE Thunderbolt and Wetmore's P-51D-10 Mustang are available for purchase for Golden Eagles in the USA research tree.

• A bug with the armour analyzation mode, where armour plates of the same thickness would display with different colours, has been fixed.
  
• A bug which would allow aircraft to land successfully in shallow water without breaking their landing gear has been fixed.
  
• A bug that caused the AIM-9J missile to not lock onto targets in SB mode without activation of the AGM-65’s missile camera has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Improvements

• A warning message when the BR of the squad player’s vehicles differs from the BR of the squad leader’s vehicles has been added when queuing.
  
• Display of the actual BR of a player’s vehicles or squad’s vehicles in the queue window has been improved. The numbers are now more visible.
  
• Display of an aircraft’s contacts has been improved and the distance of their appearance has been increased. This simplifies visual search and detection of the aircraft at medium and long range as well as against the surface background.

Fixes

• Incorrect fuel load when entering a battle in an aircraft has been fixed for some cases where the change of the fuel amount and the appearance of the aircraft didn’t match the selection in the respawn window.
  
• A bug that caused the selected rocket detonation distance settings not to be applied, but to use presets of another aircraft in the setup, has been fixed.
  
• A bug where the visual display of aircraft contacts in the sky depended on turning on or off the radar has been fixed.
  
• A bug has been fixed with a hydroplane or flying boat with an aerial spawn point may be spawned on the ground far from the airfield in EC missions.
  
• Kh-25 missile — a bug has been fixed with the missing laser guiding indicator.
  
• AGM-65 missile — missing target lock indicator has been fixed .
  
• A bug has been fixed with heat sources that could not be rendered in the TVD with the very high resolution effects option enabled.
  
• A bug has been fixed with the hit camera, when the torpedoed ship might be displayed incorrectly or with missing modules.
  
• F-8E FN now has authentic radar without IRST.
  
• Notch sector for AIM-7 and R-23R has been increased.
  
• The maximum range of non-tracking target illumination with a fighter radar (due to radar sidelobes) has been decreased.
  
• Head-on target detection has been increased, low altitude tail-on target detection has been decreased for the Pulse-Doppler mode of the F-4K and F-4M FGR2 radars. Detection range has been slightly decreased for impulse mode.
  
• Pulse-Doppler mode is chosen by default for Saab 37 Viggen and F-4EJ KAI radars.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

HMS Mohawk, a Tribal-class destroyer, comes as one of the prizes of the “Export order” craft event!

In our game, the destroyer Mohawk will become a premium British ship at rank II in the bluewater fleet tech tree, and you will be able to get her by participating in the upcoming Export Order game event. War Thunder fleet commanders are already familiar with the Tribal-class destroyers from the very able destroyer Eskimo. The main advantage of the entire class is the multiple main calibre, which on the Mohawk is represented by eight 120mm guns in four gun mounts. Tribal destroyers feature a fairly large ammunition capacity for the main guns, consisting of semi-armour-piercing and several types of high-explosive fragmentation shells, including those with a remote fuse. At the same time, the main guns have a good traverse speed, which allows you to fire while actively maneuvering.

Unlike the Eskimo, which has only three main battery mounts and a reinforced air defense battery, the Mohawk has slightly more modest anti-aircraft artillery - one quad 40mm Pom-Pom mount and two .50 machine gun quad mounts. From secondary weapons, a commander can take into battle either torpedoes in a four-tube launcher, or depth charges with two bomb launchers on the sides and one bomb release device.





In battle, Mohawk is always at the forefront of the attack - she is excellent for capturing points and passing from the flanks, effectively destroying other destroyers and bursting the boats of the enemy's vanguard. The ship has no striking flaws, but there are two striking advantages at once: powerful and fast-turning guns, as well as premium status, which allows you to comfortably and interestingly earn Silver Lions and upgrade British bluewater ships from ranks I to III. Get ready for the "Export Order" craft event and take some time to get a wonderful premium destroyer for your collection!

Check out the full Dev Blog article here!

On the 15th of September, 1940, over one and a half thousand experienced pilots from Great Britain with some of its friends and Germany entered battle in the skies over Southern England! This battle became a turning point in the attempts of the German command to completely destroy the Royal Air Force.

Great Britain withstood this battle, and to this day, every 15th September, the Allied nations and the whole world remember this heroic feat and commemorate "Battle of Britain day".

Until 07:00 GMT on the 17th of September. Participate in 3 battles using British aircraft of rank II or higher (with an in-game activity of at least 70%) and get the “Battle of Britain Memorial Flight” badge.


“Battle of Britain Memorial Flight” badge

• To follow your progress click on your nickname → Achievements → Battle of Britain.
  
• The prize decal can be located by clicking Customization → Britain.

Temporarily in the game for Golden Eagles: Spitfire FR Mk.XIVe and Spitfire LF Mk.IXc



For the period of the event, the premium Prendergast's Spitfire FR Mk XIVe and Plagis' Spitfire LF Mk IXc are available for purchase for Golden Eagles in the Britain research tree.

In this digest we would like to tell you about our continuing work on improvements and fixes in the game. You can find information about all updates that have been released in War Thunder on the website special section.


They could indeed disappear if a volumetric shell pierced the intersection of three or four armour parts. The problem occurred rather rarely but has nevertheless been fixed. Good luck hitting your targets!




Improved FPS since the “Direct Hit” update, improved game stability and we continue to do so! A fatal client crash after a long game on PlayStation 4 has been fixed. But we wanted to remind you of one more important detail - an updated GPU driver on your PC is key to a stable FPS and client stability and every War Thunder player can do it.

• You can find the latest driver for Nvidia here.
  
• You can find the latest driver for AMD here.

There's no other way to explain why when you switched from the commander's sight to the good old binoculars, their gaze was always directed to the East. This bug was very recent, but you reported it to us in a timely manner. Fixed!




...you can turn it off. This is regarding Naval Battles, where target capture could still happen if the target was very close to the aiming marker. Now if you disable this feature, it will indeed be completely disabled. Thanks for your bug reports.

We have also fixed incorrect (inverted) mouse wheel movement when adjusting the distance when the target was very close.




Remember our devblog about rockets and missile ballistic changes? Multiple Launch Rocket Systems have been updated and adjusted crosshairs. It’s time for you to become a rocket sniper!




Hey, hey, easy... for Linux only. Some time ago, grass disappeared from all graphic presets on the Linux platform, and players had to turn it on manually. Rejoice, Linux people! The weed is back!


For this digest we have prepared a large set of useful fixes and game improvements. Be sure to read the full list which we have prepared in the separate changelog - there are many interesting things.

Once again, many thanks for all your bug reports that you submitted in our bug report section on the War Thunder forums.




Improvements and fixes

• A bug has been fixed when, if a voluminous shell hits a cross section area of 3 or 4 armoured elements, a shell didn’t form fragments after penetrating the armour.
  
• A bug has been fixed where, when switching from commander’s sight to binoculars with “Save direction while switching current trigger” option enabled, the view in binoculars was directed to the east.
  
• A bug has been fixed that resulted in locking on enemies nearby the selected one with the “Automatic target lock” option enabled in Naval battles.
  
• A bug has been fixed that resulted in incorrect range correction at nearer distances in Naval battles: rotating down in some cases increased correction, rotating up decreased it.
  
• A bug has been fixed with missing grass on any graphic presets available on the Linux version.

Ground vehicle model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:

• Chieftain Mk.10, Striker - “Late two tone” camo is now available for completing tasks, similar to other later British ground vehicles.
  
• ZSU-37-2 - NVD has been added for driver and commander.
  
• Type 87 - “Adjustment of fire”module has been added.
  
• M41A1 (SDF) - aiming speed of the anti-aircraft machine gun has been increased and brought in line with that of the M41A1 in the US branch (report)
  
• Type 60 ATM - crew number has been corrected in the info card. (report)
  
• Leopard 2K - rubber-fabric mudguards have been added to the damage model.
  
• Сromwell V (RP-3) - incorrect rocket depletion order in xray mode has been fixed.
  
• Merkava Mk.3D - description of the bulkhead between engine and combat compartments has been corrected.
  
• Vickers Mk.3 - gun depression angles over the engine compartment have been reduced.
  
• MLRS sight crosshairs have been specified after changes to the ballistic characteristics of rockets (devblog)
  
• 25mm M791 - initial velocity for the the M242 gun has been specified.

Aircraft model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes

• Pe-8 - icons in the secondary weaponry menu have been corrected for 100 kg bombs.
  
• Wfr.Gr.21 - explosives type display has been fixed in the info card.
  
• Hunter F.6 - the display of the protection caps on the empty rocket launchers for the twin SRAAM weapon preset have been fixed.
  
• AH-64DJP - the display of the launchers of the AIM-92 missiles have been fixed.
  
• Yak-30 - armoured backseat has been added.

• LÉ Orla - traverse speed of the main calibre turret has been fixed.
  
• Clemson type destroyers - AI shooting at aerial targets has been fixed. Parameters of the remote fuse for the 76mm HE remote fuse rounds have been corrected.
  
• HMS Armada, HMAS Tobruk - a bug has been fixed where 40mm mountings remained at maximum elevation.

Flight model changes

• AH-1z - improved throttle response and revs recovery with increasing propeller pitch.
  
• Scout AH.Mk.1, Wasp HAS.Mk.1 - the roll has been fixed when increasing speed in arcade battles
  
• Do 217 (all series) - a bug has been fixed with incorrect position of wheels on the front landing gear.
  
• Tu-1 - a bug with incorrect fuel loading has been fixed.
  
• MiG-23, MiG-27 - a dead zone in the yaw channel has been reduced when the automatic controls system is operating in the stabilization or damping mode

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

The terms for the “Invite a friend” program have been changed. Now, to achieve a first stage reward (70,000 SL), an invited friend has to achieve rank III in air/ground forces. Stage II reward (300,000 SL, 100 GE) is granted for rank V; Stage III (2,500 GE) for rank VII. Requirements for naval forces' progress remains unchanged.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

• A bug has been fixed where the LMB was unable to interact with the interface in the hangar after leaving a battle or watching a replay in full screen mode with a hidden interface.
  
• F-104S, Ju 288 C, B18B — a bug has been fixed where wingtip vortices and aerobatic smoke was displayed from the aircraft’s centre.

VR

• Incorrect zooming has been fixed for the PIMAX headsets PIMAX (report).

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.