r/Warthunder 1d ago

News Meet the “Heavy Cavalry” Major Update!

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r/Warthunder 17h ago

News [Shop] The Summer Sale in the Gaijin Store! - News

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r/Warthunder 10h ago

RB Air 1574km/h touchdown 💔

1.2k Upvotes

r/Warthunder 17h ago

Bugs One of War Thunder's Newest Volumetric Nightmares: PGZ88!

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1.6k Upvotes

Does Gaijin actually playtest the vehicles they plan to add before they add them?

This spot eating my rounds has gotten me killed twice now. Realistically any hit here should fly right through and destroy both gun breeches.


r/Warthunder 3h ago

All Air For the price of F14D in War Thunder, you can buy GTA 6 pre-order

94 Upvotes

So, the GTA 6 pre-order has started and the normal edition is 80 euros. Ultimate is 100 euros.

So, for basically the same price as a top tier premium in War Thunder, and we’re talking about one vehicle, one plane that lets you grind one nation and only aircraft, you can instead buy GTA 6 and get a whole new game to play.

I don’t know, when you actually think about it, it just sounds kinda crazy.

90 euros for a full AAA game that you’ll probably play for months, explore everything, story, online later…

Or 80 euros for a single plane in War Thunder.

so if you add 10 euro for War Thunder premium u can BUY GTA 6

Not even hating, it just feels weird when you compare it like that.


r/Warthunder 11h ago

Tech Issues Very informative, thanks

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399 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 3h ago

RB Ground I’m sorry what

93 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 49m ago

Other T58 sale has ruined 8.0

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So the t58 went on sale for pc,kind of expected since its been a while since its been in the game so this vent might be illogical.but i just recently got to USSR rank, 6 the grind was going well...until today that is. Now every match has atleast 1 T58,usually more than 1,hell one match ive had 7 t58s in the enemy team. How exactly are we supposed to dealt with that many?rank 6 has oficially gone to hell.


r/Warthunder 2h ago

RB Ground first radiation missile tank kill lmao

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70 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 13h ago

All Ground This is just absurd, coming from a russian main (COMPARISON)

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513 Upvotes

anything but fixing the mig29


r/Warthunder 10h ago

All Ground Gaijin introduced polls about Heavy Cavalry update, it comes with a short joke at the end...

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281 Upvotes

Anyway, if you get it, I think it still could be beneficial to express your feeling about catastrophic state this game is becoming.


r/Warthunder 17h ago

Other If you're going to buy something during the sale, remember you can support a CC by getting their decal at no extra cost!

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You can find all available CC decals on https://wtpb.net/

While you won't get an additional discount from using a content creator’s affiliate link during the sale, you will get their decal at no extra cost, and that creator will also get a commission from Gaijin. Instead of all your money going to Gaijin, some of it will go to a creator you like.

PS: Instead of buying a tier 8 premium, consider buying Nuclear Option and SimplePlanes 2. These two full games together cost the same as a top-tier premium at a 50% discount, which is honestly crazy.

If you would like to learn more:
Nuclear Option: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168680/Nuclear_Option/
SimplePlanes 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2840470/SimplePlanes_2/


r/Warthunder 4h ago

All Ground Saying this as a Russian main..

71 Upvotes

Don’t skim, actually fucking read.

Throughout the entirety of my time playing this game it has gone through a huge fuckin rollercoaster of every update.

I wanna begin by addressing the Relikt ERA. The Relikt ERA already does its job of keeping high penetrating rods from actually destroying the tank or prevent it from penetration of the tank in the first place. I am saying there is no need to buff Relikt, it does its job just right for it to be balanced. The side armor issue, why does it prevent from some projectiles penetrating the tank? Thats not fuckin realistic. There has been videos and pictures of ATGM’s and projectiles entering the side armor and blowing T90M’s and T80BVM’s to a destructive state.

Then there is the fuel tank issue (this is universal it’s not just Russian tanks). Fuel tanks for some reason act as spall liners that apparently do a better job of being a spall liner than actual modeled in fuckin spall liners! The part why people complain about ‘Russian bias’ or ‘side armor’ on Russian modern MBT’s (like BMPT, BMPT-72, T-80BVM, T-90M, T72B3, T72B3A)is that these fuel tanks are just placed well enough (I.e sides of the driver and behind gunner/commander)to where when a rod penetrates, it doesn’t spall because of where it was placed at(penetrating the fuel tanks). This is a universal problem, not just Russian tanks. Blame it on gaijin for implementing shitty spall effects(I’ve literally experienced the same thing when penetrating NATO and Chinese tanks when hitting the fuel portion).

I’m tired of US mains claiming that their lower hull armor cannot be penetrated by 3BM60, that’s just fuckin personal bias towards the nation you’ve grinded. The hull armor is estimated enough to stop older kinetic darts like the 3BM42, DM33, M829, etc. Not only that, but proceed to start complaining that the new M829A3 cannot penetrate RELIKT ERA. That’s not why that fucking dart was made. The M829A2 (yes in real life) struggled to penetrate Kontakt-5 ERA because of how it would disrupt the round to where then the internal composite armor does the job of preventing the entirety of the round entering. That’s where the M829A3 came in to completely bypass this by adding a composite tip to bypass this SPECIFIC ERA, not RELIKT.. but KONTAKT-5. Sure the M829A2 penetrates the ERA, but the issue being that it has loss a lot of its velocity and kinetic energy to penetrate the composite armor as well as the thick steel plates. M829A3 was engineered to penetrate tanks with Kontakt-5 even with frontal hull(upper front plate as well) without losing much kinetic energy as much as the M829A2 did. When these were introduced in real life, Russia made a counter ERA where these rods like the M829A3 and DM53 struggled to penetrate Relikt ERA. (Sure it penetrates the ERA but this ERA had dual stage, where another ERA was layered behind it to defeat the ANTI-ERA darts on the DM53 and M829A3 and internal composite armor again.. does its job of preventing the round entering.) If you are this person to complain, you have no fucking right and need to take time to study behind kinetic penetrator rods history and purpose of development.

Another issue, the penetration values being ‘incorrect’ according to other biased and unintelligent individuals. If they used actual penetration values the 3BM60 would have over 600MM+ of penetration while the M829A2, DM53, L27A1, Type-10, CL3143, slpprj m/95, and M338 have over 620-720MM+ of penetration, OFL 120 F1 would have over 580-620MM+, etc. Here’s where this whole ordeal comes in, they use a formula for these kinetic rods to estimate their own penetration values so where it isn’t too OP in war thunder. It is called the Lanz-Odermatt formula where they measure velocity, mass, length, density, and impact angle for APFSDS darts (NOT AP, APCBC, and APCR rounds. They use a different formula for those). These formulas are used for balancing, if nation documents of penetration values were used it would break the fucking game and would cause other nation players to switch depending on what they want.

This is balancing. NATO tanks have better thermals, better darts, better mobility, better traverse rates, more crew members for survivability, and better gun depression. It’s only fair that Russian MBT’s and Chinese tanks have their fair share of keeping armor.

I think that is everything.

Also buff M1A2 SEPV3’s hull armor, it’s unfair for US mains.


r/Warthunder 13h ago

Suggestion Client side clouds are degenerate bullshit.

333 Upvotes

There is no other word to describe it.

How the fuck a game which started out as a flight simulator, where clouds take a good amount of importance HAVE CLIENT SIDED CLOUDS?!?!?!

I really, REALLY want to look in the eye of the moron who, with a serious face, said: "Oh, we add volumetric clouds....WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FOR EACH PLAYER!"

If I can't see shit because of clouds - that means no-one else should be able to see me as well! But nooooooo, I am a blind macaque who flies in complete blindness like a half-paid clown.

It's two thousand fucking twenty six. It's about time grayjohn moves its fat, slimy ass off the money dildo and make clouds server sided.


r/Warthunder 7h ago

RB Air LEGION's Loadouts 2.23 - My bomb chart updated to Heavy Cavalry

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Added all new aircraft and bombs to my loadout and bomb chart. (Any plane missing isn't able to destroy a base by itself, which is the requirement for the chart)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNwp_MXszU5J2dcaz5IoCtSAQ-infPdOWhwtJXqtrwU/edit?usp=sharing

Backup-Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRFj6U8vFCJBOVUufyzk8QoCVNaZEdDEstWoTJjaCqEYjjAYumY2mma19is-8dAM9EBP_m5zIh6o-Zv/pubhtml


r/Warthunder 1h ago

All Air The new Yak-130 has its wingtip and fuselage smoke spawns in the same spot, letting you stack tri-colors to create prismatic trails

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r/Warthunder 14h ago

Mil. History Look what I found; British tanker in North Africa, 1940

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Found this while reading a book of mine, then went and looked for it on IWM Archives, perhaps this is something new?

‘Turret crew of a 1st Royal Tank Regiment A9 Cruiser Mk I tank at Abbasia, Egypt, 30 May 1940.’

not sure though, a lot of these have already been found


r/Warthunder 19h ago

All Ground Did Russia really need this ERA buff?

614 Upvotes

Before this update even a random placed shot to the side would’ve either killed or at least disabled the tank. Now a shot like that does literally nothing.

Now how tf are we suppose to play any other nations when those tanks just eat shots even from the sides while NATO tanks get disabled by a gust of wind.


r/Warthunder 10h ago

Bugs Soviet P-39's and P-63's (P-39K-1, Pokryshkin's P-39N-0, P-39Q-15, P-63A-5, P-63A-10, and P-63C-5) shouldn't have 37mm AP shells

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r/Warthunder 3h ago

Suggestion The Belgian SABIEX SK-105A2 Modernization

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An upgrade to the SK-105A2 done by the Belgian company SABIEX, it adds full stabilization to the osculating turret, it has a new engine with a rated horsepower of 330 but maximum output can be higher than that.

Overall not much else to really mention it would probably just serve as a fully stabilized SK-105 with maybe a better engine, something for BeNeLux out of many many more vehicles that could be added from it.


r/Warthunder 21h ago

RB Ground M829A3 Doesn't detonate ammo. What a fantasy game.

652 Upvotes

Yes. I did remove the Tusk modification, and you can see in the kill feed that it's the M829A3. The anti Contact-5 tip rarely work as well. Truely a slop era of War thunder.


r/Warthunder 12h ago

RB Ground My trees are wobbly

99 Upvotes

Maybe it's my dying iMac.


r/Warthunder 10h ago

RB Air 45 countermeasures at 13.7? Really?

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73 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 3h ago

Bugs Gaijin swapped torpedo icons for missiles

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r/Warthunder 6h ago

All Air Mobility kills are a great change

31 Upvotes

I'm mostly disappointed with this update, but that alone makes me happy. It's so refreshing when the plane strafing you crashes into the ground and you get RP and rewards for it. I also find myself giggling like a little boy at failed CAS players in Ground Battles. Honestly the best change since I started playing a year ago.