Four holidays in Japan are celebrated within the same week. Showa Day, Constitution Day, Greenery Day and Children’s Day are celebrated from April 29th to May 5th. This is a long vacation and a reason to relax and have fun. We’re joining the celebrations with a new decal in War Thunder!

Play some Japanese vehicles to get yourself this new decal!


“Tokyo Tower” decal

When: From April 29th (10:00 GMT) until May 2nd (10:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using Japanese vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “Tokyo Tower” decal!

Additional details:

• Your activity must not be below 70%.
  
• You can 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 → Golden Week.
  
• You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the customization menu.

• The planned Battle Rating changes have come into effect.

• UH-1D (Germany), UH-1B, UH-1C, Mi-8TB (Germany), Mi-8TV, Mi-24A, SA.342L Gazelle, Mi-24D (Italy) — modification to unlock ATGMs has been moved to Tier I in the modification research.
  
• UH-1B (Japan) — the number of rocket pods with 19 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets has been increased from 2 to 4.
  
• XP-50 — air spawn ability has been removed.

• Vextra 105 — OFL 105 G2 shell and the modification to unlock it has been added.
  
• E.B.R. (1954) — PCOT-51P shell has been added.

• A bug that caused the “Camera Shake” option to not affect camera shake intensity on ships has been fixed. (Report).
  
• A bug that caused turrets to sometimes still not adjust fire to the crosshair in Naval Arcade Battles and instead fire at the wrong location has been fixed. (Report).

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.

Kick-start your research with War Thunder’s Starter Packs, now at a 50% discount during Steam Wargames Fest 2025!

US Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1108450/War_Thunder__US_Starter_Pack/

German Beginner’s Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2054413/War_Thunder__German_Beginners_Pack/

USSR Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233370/War_Thunder__USSR_Starter_Pack/

British Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368801/War_Thunder__British_Starter_Pack/

Japanese Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368800/War_Thunder__Japanese_Starter_Pack/

Chinese Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937490/War_Thunder__Chinese_Starter_Pack/

Italian Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368110/War_Thunder__Italian_Starter_Pack/

French Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1423760/War_Thunder__French_Starter_Pack/

Swedish Starter Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582830/War_Thunder__Swedish_Starter_Pack/

Don't forget to claim free Steam Point Shop items for your Steam profile here!

We really enjoyed seeing all of your awesome screenshots last week! This week, snap a screenshot from the jungles! 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 #WTscreen169. You have time until the 2nd of May 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.

• Your screenshot must include a player vehicle in a jungle environment.
  
• You must add the #WTscreen169 tag (title cannot have any other text in it).
  
• Artists may only win by popular vote once per four screenshot competitions.

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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 14 working days.

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466732472
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466960734
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466916870

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466818017
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3467249700
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3467289170

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

• MiG-23 (all variants) — a bug that caused the radar to constantly cycle modes when faced horizontally whilst in horizontal flight with gyro stabilization switched off has been fixed. (Rеport).

• Mozdok, Flanders — a bug that caused some of the buildings to not have any collision has been fixed. The missions on these locations are available again in random battles. (Report).

• A bug that caused the Secondary Weapons menu to not scroll when controlling the cursor using the d-pad on the gamepad has been fixed.

• A bug that sometimes caused the game to freeze when switching to a vehicle with a Marketplace camouflage has been fixed. (Report).

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.

The Italian Partisan Liberation Committee declared the beginning of an uprising against German troops occupying northern Italy and the remnants of Mussolini’s fascist regime on April 25th, 1945. Four days later the Germans agreed to capitulate, causing the unrecognized Italian Social Republic to cease to exist. The date of the beginning of the uprising was chosen as Italy’s Liberation Day — and today is the 80th anniversary.

You’re able to earn this themed decal in honor of this day.

When: From April 25th (12:00 GMT) until April 28th (12:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using Italian vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “Italy Liberation Day 2025” decal!

Additional details:

• Your activity must not be below 70%.
  
• You can 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 → Italian Liberation Day.
  
• You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the customization menu.

“Italy Liberation Day 2025” decal

The Swiss FFA P-16 prototype attack aircraft first took to the skies on April 25th, 1955. A year later, the second prototype broke the sound barrier. Due to one of the test aircraft crashing, the Swiss government canceled the order for the P-16 and today only one example exists, located at the museum in Dübendorf.

This jet is available for 9,090 Golden Eagles.

• The FFA P-16 features two powerful 30 mm Hispano HS 825 cannons and hardpoints that can carry 200 to 1000 kg bombs, incendiary bombs, Type R80 rockets and Flz Lwf 63 air-to-air missiles (AIM-9B).

• A bug that caused “Reset Radar/IRST direction to boresight” to not center the radar scan zone in TWS mode when the radar was tracking a target has been fixed.
  
• A bug that caused the auto tracker target track in the targeting optics to sometimes “fly” away from the target has been fixed.
  
• A bug where it was not possible to select another missile type through the visual weapons menu if the aircraft had two different missile types on the BOL countermeasure pylons has been fixed.

• A bug that sometimes caused the assistance notification to appear when destroying an enemy vessel has been fixed.

• XeSS has been updated to version 2.0.1.
  
• A bug on Intel Arc GPUs that caused polygon mesh to be visible on the cockpit glass in rainy weather has been fixed.

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.

• The maximum number of players on the defending team has been reduced from 16 to 12. We’ve seen your feedback and looked at the statistics of the SEAD event and have seen that it is often too difficult for the attacking team to achieve victory. Unlike World War mode (the mode that these test missions are developed for), where the starting conditions are dictated at the operational level, in this event the starting conditions are predetermined and can be adjusted.
  We hope to make gameplay more balanced and interesting for both sides, giving the attacking team more opportunities to successfully complete their objective and expect that the above change will allow both teams to enjoy this event more. Thanks for playing so far and leaving your feedback!

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.

Happy St. George’s Day!

On April 23rd, England observes St George’s Day. On this day, parades, festivals and dances occur in the country. Today we’re temporarily bringing back the English flag, the St. George’s cross.

This flag is available for 500 Golden Eagles over the next three days.

When: From April 23rd (10:00 GMT) until April 26th (07:00 GMT).
Where: You can find this decal by going to Nickname → Decals → Common → World Flags.

“England” flag decal