• A bug that led to switching on the automatic abandonment timer in air RB by receiving critical damage although it was possible to reach the airfield and repair the vehicle, has been fixed.
  
• Z-9W, Z-9WA — A bug where the “Compressor” modification decreased climbing speed has been fixed.

• T-80UK — Mistakenly presented tank rack has been removed. The amount of ammunition has been changed from 39 to 30 shells.
  
• HJ9 — Jamming channel for ATGM has been added. Source: «Research and Development of Chinese ATGMs (1958—2000)».

• A rare bug on the icon of an already researched vehicle where the “Research” button was displayed instead of the “Purchase” button has been fixed.

• A bug causing the client to crash with vulkan render (Linux) has been fixed.

The current provided update notes reflect the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates and fixes may be not listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving all the time and certain fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt! That was a lot of cannonfodder! The sparks, muzzle flash and detail were sublime! The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!


Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen33. You have time until 23.09.2022 to submit your screenshot.

After that date, 6 winners will be selected (3 of which will be the highest rated by the community and 3 selected by our judges), each of which receive a reward of 300GE.

Important addition: Screenshot theme - Wooden Wonders!

• In War Thunder, many vehicles are made mostly or entirely out of metals. Hidden in the tech trees, there exist vehicles constructed in part, or even mostly, of wood: The wooden wonders of War Thunder!
  
• Many aircraft were constructed of wood- perhaps most well known, the RAF’s de Havilland Mosquito. Some ground vehicles are constructed in part of wood, such as the Italian Lancia 3Ro. In the naval tech trees, some of the fastest PT boats utilized wooden hulls!
  
• You must add the #WTscreen33 tag (without other text).

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Screenshots need to be compliant with the War Thunder rules.

You need to be the author of the screenshot.

Screenshot needs to be new. You cannot use those which have previously been published or used in other competitions.

We will only accept raw screenshots from the game. You cannot use any editing software nor any other visual enhancements (like Nvidia Ansel filters).

You can use filters and settings built into War Thunder.

You can use the replay functionality built into War Thunder.

Rewards will be delivered to the author's account within 7 working days.

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Each winner will get 300GE! Congratulations and see you next week!

Prototype of a light airborne tank designed for fire support for infantry will be the main ‘tank’ prize of the upcoming crafting event!


Features:

• Good mobility
  
• Light armor
  
• Thermal imagers for gunner and commander
  
• Auto loader
  
• Crew: 3 members

And here is the main "tank" prize of the upcoming crafting event - the CCVL experimental light tank. The vehicle was designed as an airborne one, so it is compact and has low weight, and features only bulletproof armor, while possessing excellent armament and remarkable driving performance. It's a mean little scout!

The CCVL is the direct ancestor of the AGS, VFM 5 and XM8 light tanks already known to War Thunder tankers. The light chassis gains quite a high power-to-weight ratio, allowing the tank to perfectly overcome off-road terrain, climb hills, and quickly get up to maximum speed.





The tank is well-armed. The 105mm cannon, familiar from the AGS and early M1 Abrams tanks, supports ammunition for all combat situations, including smoke and a couple of fin-stabilized AP rounds. Reloading is fast, thanks to the automatic loader; the electric turret drive makes it easy to target the weak spots of opponents in close combat, even while moving. The modern fire control system includes a stabilizer and thermal imagers both for the commander and gunner.





The survivability of the CCVL depends entirely on mobility and skillful use of cover. The fact is that aluminum alloy armor can easily be penetrated by all types of ammunition, except for machine guns and shrapnel. The crew of the tank was only three members. In general, if you get caught in the enemy's sight, there will almost never be any hope of a return shot. CCVL must move to live!



Get yourself a special event tank just by playing the game! The autumn crafting event is happening soon! We will continue to tell you about other event prizes - stay tuned for our news and social networks!

World War II proved air superiority to be crucial, so on September 18th, 1947 US Air Force became a separate branch of the country’s armed forces. Today it’s the largest air force in the world with more than 320 000 troops, 5 000 aircraft and 400 ICBMs.





“Lieutenant America”decal

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 Air Force Birthday.

You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the Customisation menu.





During the event two premium aircraft from the US research tree — George Bostwick's P-47M-1-RE and Raymond Wetmore's P-51D-10 — will be made available for purchase for Golden Eagles.

• Automatic selection of the next suspended weaponry after full consumption of the selected one has been added. Selection of the next weapon will be done with a 1 second delay to avoid accidental firing during volley fire.
  
• Kfir C.2/7, Nesher, Mirage 5F, Mirage F1C/СT, Mirage 2000 — instability of the directional damper has been fixed (with auto control enabled an aircraft might sideslip while the rudder is enabled).

• VRCC — Turret armour scheme has been clarified. The material of the turret armour has been changed from aluminium alloy to high hardness armour. Thickness has been changed from 20mm to 15mm.
  
• M3 GMC — A bug which caused the unit not to apply transmission changes specified in the changelog of the “Drone Age” update has been fixed.
  
• Challenger (all), Vickers Mk.7 — The order of ammo racks consumption has been clarified.

• A bug has been fixed where a target lock might be disabled by objects in the line of sight, or by moving the camera to the side.

• The situation where team B bombers would stop respawning in a number of situations has been fixed.
  
• In helicopter PvE the ground forces of team A now always counterattack if they manage to win ground battle in which team B was the attacker.

• Fixed a number of bugs that caused the game to crash on Linux.

The current provided update notes reflect the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates and fixes may be not listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving all the time and certain fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

40 new camouflages from content creators on the Live.WT portal arrive in the game with the user content support program!

• Coupons for rare vehicles
  
• 23 camouflage coupons for ground vehicles
  
• 13 camouflage coupons for aircraft
  
• 2 camouflage coupons for naval vessels
  
• 2 camouflage coupon for helicopters
  
• Coupon for the “Drone Age” decal

From now on, we’ll be reintroducing the most demanded and expensive camouflages from previous trophies. As such, the “Drone Age” trophy, aside from 35 totally new camouflages, will contain 5 of the most popular camouflages from past trophies.

• The “Drone Age” trophy drops periodically (with a specific probability) in random battles in all modes (except for the cooperative PvE “Assault” mode).
  
• The minimum requirements to earn a trophy will be to participate in a battle, in a vehicle of rank II or higher, while achieving a battle-activity of at least 50%.

Click on Show More to take a look at some of the camouflages!

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The “Drone Age” has begun! You can appreciate this major update in War Thunder right now, and over the weekend you can get rewards just for watching streams on Twitch — watch your favorite streamers play War Thunder and get some Twitch Drops!

• “UAV Snail” decal
  
• “Eagle eye” decal
  
• A special camouflage for HMAS Arrow
  
• A special camouflage for the Type 16 (P)
  
• RP Booster
  
• SL Booster

• “Watcher” decal
  
• “Quadrocopter” decoration
  
• A special camouflage for the Z-10
  
• RP Booster
  
• SL Booster
  
• 1 day of Premium Account

Twitch Drops FAQ

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These are game rewards for stream viewers on Twitch.

Yep! The longer you watch War Thunder streams, the more rewards you’ll get.

You need to link your Gaijin and Twitch accounts:
1. Sign up or enter your Twitch account details on the website.
2. Enter the information from your Gaijin account you are playing War Thunder with on this page and click the “Link” button.


3. Press the “Allow” button!

Watch War Thunder streams marked “Drops enabled!”.

You will receive a reward message on the Twitch broadcast page. Once you see it, you will need to click on the “Get” button. You can also do this in your Drops inventory.

Rewards are available for everyone who plays War Thunder on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.

In short, participate in our Partnership Program, enable Drops in your settings and stream War Thunder:


ATTENTION! We want each active and passionate War Thunder streamer to find a new audience thanks to Twitch Drops. As such, in no way do we encourage streamers who create their streams only for “farming” Drops using third party content, video clips and any other format that doesn’t include their direct participation with the game. Channels with such content will be disconnected from Drops.

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The German Helgoland-class dreadnought wielding heavy armor and 305mm guns comes to the game as one of the prizes in the upcoming autumn crafting event. A true old school battleship!


Features:

• Very well protected
  
• Punchy artillery
  
• Poor AA capabilities

The SMS Ostfriesland is the dreadnought battleship coming to the game as a “naval” prize in the upcoming autumn crafting event. The ship will become an event vehicle at rank V in the German bluewater fleet tech tree.

Ships of this class are already familiar to weathered captains from the sistership SMS Helgoland, the top-tier dreadnought in her research branch. The ship is an excellent example of its type, with a thick armor belt, well-protected barbettes, powerful artillery, but rather slow and completely defenseless against aircraft. Let's talk a little about the new SMS Ostfriesland’s advantages and disadvantages, as well as the differences from the researchable version. All hands on deck!





A dreadnought is all about armor and guns. The Ostfriesland armor belt reaches 300 mm at the waterline and above, the same massive armor protects the front of the main caliber turrets. Only armor-piercing and high-caliber semi-AP shells at medium and short distances can actually pierce a battleship’s hull side. The main caliber of the battleship is 12x305mm cannons in six turrets, located in a rhombus at an equal height from the deck. Such an arrangement of turrets is a disadvantage of early ships, and allows you to use only four of the six turrets in a broadside. The auxiliary caliber is represented by 14x150mm guns in single-barrel case mate mounts. This is a truly formidable weapon that will save the SMS Ostfriesland from smaller ships while the massive main battery guns are being reloaded.





Unlike SMS Helgoland, the new battleship has an air defense battery… well, if we may say so. A couple of 88mm AA guns, of course, will not be able to protect the leviathan ship from enemy air raids, but will somewhat moderate the ardor of the lonely dare-devils. We keep our fingers crossed and hope for hits - nevertheless, 88mm is a very solid anti-aircraft caliber and shells give a good flak. The armament is supplemented by 6 underwater torpedo launchers with 16 torpedoes. Although torpedoes carry less explosives and have a shorter travel distance than later examples, in some cases, they can do a good job.

The mobility of the battleship is as expected, she slowly accelerates up to a maximum speed of 21.2 knots (about 39 km/h), and maneuvers are quite sluggish too.



So, a new armored monster will appear in War Thunder as one of the prizes of the big autumn crafting event. Stay tuned for more prizes coming soon, and a new hint about the event name!

• Mi-24a, MiG-23BN — Automatic engine Fire System (EFS) has been added to the modification menu.
  
• Tiger HAP, Tiger HAD — Missile in the launch containers has been changed from SNEB 26 to SNEB 23.
  
• A-4E Early — A bug that caused the “6х 500 pounds bombs + ZUNI Mk 32 x24” blocks to go through the bombs in the suspended weaponry sets has been fixed.

• IJN Settsu — A bug that caused the ship to move with an offset has been fixed.

• The model of stone on the ULQ graphics setting has been fixed for the location “Tunisia”.

• AAA settings for Convoy templates for aircraft “EC” and helicopter PvE have been separated by game mode (other templates already have this settings been separated).
  
• The anti-aircraft accuracy for aircraft and helicopter game modes has been adjusted based on the feedback received from players.

• For the attack UAV, the required number of respawn points has been changed from 550 to 750.

The current provided update notes reflect the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates and fixes may be not listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving all the time and certain fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

On September 15th, 1940, the Luftwaffe performed its largest air attack on Great Britain, wanting to destroy the Royal Air Force. The Germans sent 620 fighters and 500 bombers to London, hoping to draw out and defeat the RAF. And yet RAF pilots held off and in the end downed twice as many enemy aircraft as the Luftwaffe did. Having failed in the sky, Germany scrapped its plans of invading the UK.





“Vehicles of Victory: Spitfire” decal

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 → Battle for Britain Day.

You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the Customisation menu.





During the event two premium fighter planes from the British research tree — https://wiki.warthunder.com/Spitfire_FR_Mk_XIVe and https://wiki.warthunder.com/Plagis%27_Spitfire_LF_Mk_IXc — will be made available for purchase for Golden Eagles.