🏆Watch the WTCS Armored Apex Play-Off and Get Yourself Awesome Twitch Drops!

The War Thunder Championship Series continues! After an intense first Major, it’s now time for the Armored Apex play-offs! The action returns with 8 fierce teams ready to fight for glory in a double elimination bracket and BO5 matches. Their goal? Earn as many points as possible to climb the global leaderboard and get closer to the Grand Final in November 2025!

🛍War Thunder - Thunder Tactiks Pack

🔹Unique decal: "Thunder Tactiks"
🔹Unique camouflage: Bf 109 F-4 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹Unique camouflage: Sd.Kfz.234/2 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹300 Golden Eagles

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💅40 New User-Created Camouflages in the Leviathans Trophy!

Today we’re presenting the Leviathans trophy! It features 40 awesome camouflages created by 36 talented authors from War Thunder Live. You’ll find 24 camouflages for the new vehicles from the Leviathans major update, including 5 specifically for those massive new battleships that inspired the update’s name. Plus, there are 35 camouflages for tanks, planes, and helicopters. As a bonus, you can also get a unique decal and even some rare vehicles as coupons!

🎁Contents of the Leviathans trophy:

▪️Coupons for rare vehicles
▪️17 camouflage coupons for ground vehicles
▪️16 camouflage coupons for aircraft
▪️5 camouflage coupon for naval vessels
▪️2 camouflage coupons for helicopters
▪️Coupon for the Leviathans decal

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🇬🇧A Themed Decal for British Armed Forces Day!

On the last Saturday in June, Great Britain celebrates its military — both current soldiers and veterans, with the reservists celebrating their day three days earlier. There are 170 events across the country, from parades and performances to family and charity events. The aim of the day is to show public support for the country’s armed forces.

⭐️Get the “British Armed Forces Day 2025” decal!

We’ve created this British-themed decal for this day.
When: From June 27th (12:00 GMT) until June 30th (12:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using British vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “British Armed Forces 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 → British Armed Forces Day.
▪️You can find the decal in the “Britain → Tanks” tab in the Customization menu.

🛠Update 2.47.0.25

Aircraft
❗️Fixed a bug where air targets were not correctly damaged by air-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft missiles when flying close enough.
▪️F-2A ADTW — a bug where the elements on the HUD in the cockpit were unreadable has been fixed.

Interface
❗️A bug where the messages about Capture Points would stack up on the screen and not disappear until the player’s vehicle was destroyed has been fixed.

Locations
▪️For correct operation and resource synchronization, the Finland and Golden Quarry locations have been temporarily removed from the rotation. They will be returned to the rotation early next week.

🇯🇵A Decal and Discounts on Japanese Vehicles for Japan Self-Defense Forces Day!

On July 1st, 1954, the modern Japan Self-Defense Forces were founded. Today, they are ready to defend the homeland from any threats, participate in international missions and help civilians in emergency situations, which happen often in Japan. More than 250,000 people serve in the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and the country continues to develop modern military equipment.

🏪The IJN Kiyoshimo, J2M4 Kai and Type 74 (G) are temporarily available for Golden Eagles with a 30% discount!

The following are available at a 30% discount:
🔹IJN Kiyoshimo (rank III) can be picked up for 3416 Golden Eagles
🔹J2M4 Kai (rank IV) for 2695 Golden Eagles
🔹Type 74 (G) (rank VI) for 6111 Golden Eagles

▪️IJN Kiyoshimo is well sitted to protect allies from air attacks and destroy more fragile targets. Her air armament is represented by a huge number of autocannons, although her main caliber guns only have access to high-explosive shells. IJN Kiyoshimo also features sixteen 610 mm torpedoes.

▪️The J2M4 Kai features a 1854 HP engine, allowing it to outperform its predecessors in speed and rate of climb and perform well at high altitudes. Its four 20 mm cannons are excellent against enemy aircraft.

▪️The Type 74 (G) is the most advanced modification of the Type 74 MBT of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Its main weapon is the 105 L7A3 gun with a two-plane stabilzer. It’s also equipped with a thermal imager for the gunner, a laser rangefinder and a laser warning system!

⭐️Get the “Armor Battalion Flag” decal!

When: From July 1st (09:00 GMT) until July 4th (09:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using Japanese vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “Armor Battalion Flag” decal.

🇸🇪A Decal and Discounts on the J29D and J35A for Swedish Air Force Day!

Swedish company Bofors, with a history dating back to 1646, is one of the oldest arms manufacturers in the world. In 1937, it founded its Saab division to build aircraft for the Swedish Air Force, which became a separate branch of the armed forces on July 1st, 1926. Saab has produced thousands of aircraft, including some of Sweden’s most famous ones.

🛍The J29D and J35A are temporarily available for Golden Eagles with a 30% discount!

When: From July 1st (11:00 GMT) until July 4th (11:00 GMT).
Where: Sweden > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

❗️The J29D (rank V) is available for 6237 Golden Eagles, and the J35A (rank VI) for 6363!

▪️The J29D Tunnan is an experimental modification of the first Swedish jet fighter. It features excellent speed, four powerful cannons and a wide range of rockets for attacking ground targets. Choose for yourself what role to play in battle!

▪️The J35A Draken is a plane for real aces. It has no countermeasures, so you’re going to have to dodge enemy missiles the old fashioned way. The J35A has excellent speed and maneuverability, and is a master of turning combat. In addition to four cannons, it can carry up to four guided air-to-air missiles.

⭐️Get the “Helicopter wing patch” decal!

When: From July 1st (09:00 GMT) until July 4th (09:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using Swedish aircraft at rank III or higher to receive the “Helicopter wing patch” decal.

‼️Fair Play: July 2025

We are continuing to take action against cheaters and rule breakers in War Thunder. Our tools, plus your valuable reports, help us detect these accounts, so please keep reporting any suspects. Thank you to those have reported so far! You can use the battle replay function on our website to report players who you suspect have violated the game’s Terms of Service and the License Agreement. Instructions on how to do this can be found here.

🤕Banned accounts

Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 4679 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software.

Additionally, 469 accounts have been banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling, ramming and griefing.

📜For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

⭐️Recommendations
We recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass/Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.

We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.

🇫🇷A New Decal for French Air Force Day!

France has been actively using combat aircraft since the First World War. In the 1920s, France’s combat aircraft fleet was the largest in Europe, with more than a thousand aircraft. At that time, the Air Force was still part of the army, until they separated on July 2nd 1934. Currently, the French Air Force has more than 40,000 people serving, and is armed with 200 modern multi-purpose Mirage 2000 and Rafale aircraft.

⭐️Get the “French Air Force Day 2025” decal!

Get this French decal on this anniversary!

When: From July 3rd (11:00 GMT) until July 7th (11:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using French aircraft at rank III or higher to receive the “French Air Force 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 → French Air Force Day.
▪️You can find the decal in the “France -> Aircraft” tab in the customization menu.

🛠Update 2.47.0.40

Aircraft
❗️A bug where air targets could in some cases still not be correctly damaged by air-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft missiles when exploding close enough has been fixed.
❗️A bug that in some cases caused HE shells to still deal little to no damage to aircraft has been fixed.
❗️A bug that sometimes caused air-to-air missiles and SAMs to fly right through a target without causing damage has been fixed.
❗️A bug where air-to-air missiles and SAMs with IR, ARH and SARH seekers might lose targets for no reason has been fixed.
❗️A bug that caused some aircraft to not be able to move on some airfields has been fixed.
▪️AN/AAQ-33 SNIPER ATP — maximum zoom has been increased by 2 times.
▪️F-2A, F-2A ADTW — have been added to the RWR data banks. SARH missile launches by both F-2As can now be seen by the RWRs.
▪️EF-2000, Typhoon FGR.4, F-2000A — for ease of maneuvering, the camera in 3rd person view has been moved slightly away.
▪️Mirage 3S C.70 (Germany) — the built-in rocket booster no longer requires the rocket fuel tank, the booster is fed from the internal fuel tanks. The capacity of the drop tank has been reduced to 730 l.
▪️MiG-29 Sniper, F-5E (Germany), NF-5A, F-2A, F-2A ADTW, F/A-18C (Germany), F/A-18C Late (Germany), F/A-18C MLU 2 (Sweden), Mirage 3S C.70 (Germany), Saab F-35 — these aircraft are now correctly recognized by radars with target recognition by radar signature (Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR)).

Ground Vehicles
▪️A bug where the blast wave from an ammunition explosion that hit a ground vehicle while it was moving towards a shell ignored the vehicle’s armor has been fixed.
▪️A bug where allied and enemy ground vehicles could move jerkily has been fixed.
▪️A bug that caused Multi-Vehicle SAM launchers to appear on the roof of an arch or tunnel when attempting to place a launcher inside an arch or tunnel has been fixed.
▪️CS/SA5 — now, the detection and tracking radars are correctly identified by all RWRs capable of doing so.
▪️Tan-SAM Kai — the launchers now point slightly above the line of sight to the target to prevent missiles fired at low flying targets from crashing into the ground.

Naval Vessels
▪️Yamato — a bug where an explosion of the 155 mm cannon ammunition always resulted in the destruction of the ship has been fixed.

Locations and Missions
▪️Ash River (all missions) has been returned to the rotation.
▪️Finland (all missions) has been temporarily removed from the rotation until bugs on this location are fixed.
▪️Sweden — a bug that caused some wooden market stalls to become indestructible has been fixed.

Interface
▪️The icons of identified targets on the Plan Position Indicator on the Radar Control Screen now rotate along the target’s velocity vector.

Graphics
▪️CLAWS — a bug where only the radar vehicle was displayed in the hit window when shooting at the trailer has been fixed.
▪️A bug where the game would crash when attempting to launch the game on a display with a resolution lower than the previously set one has been fixed. The game now waits 30 seconds for the player to interact with the dialog box.
▪️A bug where enabling PTGI without enabling RTSM and RTR resulted in artifacts appearing in shadows has been fixed.

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🦅Decals and Discounts on Rare Vehicles for US Independence Day!

🇺🇸Happy 4th July! On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence of the United States was officially adopted by the Second Continental Congress. The anniversary of this event is the United States’ national holiday, celebrated with fireworks, parades and speeches throughout the country.

🏪The P-38K, F-86F-35 and M26E1 are temporarily available at a 30% discount for Golden Eagles!

The following are available at a 30% discount:

🔹M26E1 (rank IV) for 5236 Golden Eagles
🔹F-86F-35 (rank V) for 6489 Golden Eagles
🔹P-38K (rank IV) for 3416 Golden Eagles!

When: From July 4th (11:00 GMT) until July 7th (11:00 GMT).
Where: USA > Aviation / Army > Premium vehicles.

▪️The M26E1 retains the medium profile of the M26 Pershing, but instead features the T54 90 mm gun, giving it Super Pershing firepower!

▪️The F-86F-35 Sabre features the Skyblazers aerobatic team camouflage. It can quickly gain speed and maintains excellent maneuverability. For air combat, it is armed with six 12.7 mm machine guns, and for attacking ground targets, it can take up to two 1000 bombs or 16 HVAR rockets.

▪️The P-38K is essentially a P-38G with more powerful V-1710-75/77 engines producing over 1600 HP. Thanks to these engines along with improved propellers, the P-38K surpasses all other aircraft in its family in terms of flight performance. For firepower, the P-38K features a 20 mm cannon and four 12.7 mm machine guns concentrated in the nose, with an ammunition count of 2,000 rounds!

⭐️Get the “US Independence Day 2025” decal!

This decal is available for this special day!

When: From July 4th (11:00 GMT) until July 7th (11:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using US vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “US Independence 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 → US Independence Day.
▪️You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the customization menu.

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⭐️Monthly Decals for July!

Hey everyone! We’re happy to be back with a new set of historical decals for this month, five new and five from previous events. We hope you’re enjoying these decal events, sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of a side quest while you play. Aside from its historical positioning, we’re certain you can come up with some creative applications with the danger face, and we hope you like the German Anglerfish marking, perhaps it inspired something, hmm..

🏪The following decals will be available from July 8th (11:00 GMT) until August 7th (09:00 GMT).

❗️All tasks can be completed using vehicles that are rank III or higher.

All of the emblems will come with a detailed description. This will generally consist of the history of the marking, its design, which vehicles used it, and where it was often placed on vehicles historically if applicable (some emblems are taken from badges, which weren’t always applied). This way you can more easily recreate the original positioning if you’d like.

Thanks for having a look at the decals for this month, we hope you enjoy adding the ones you like to your collection, and we’ll see you soon in August for more!

🔼Graphics Improvements in the Leviathans Update!

With the Leviathans major update, we have some good news for those who like playing with the latest graphics technologies on display. Ray tracing has improved a lot since the last update and today we wanted to share with you what to expect!

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🛠It’s fixed! №106

Today, we’ve rounded up and will be going over some of the bug fixes and improvements that we’ve made to the game today and over the past few weeks. If you’d like to catch up on every fixed bug, then be sure to check out the changelog section on our website.

✅Issues after the major

The release of the major update unfortunately came with some unforeseen and complicated problems, with the team working effectively around the clock to get them resolved as soon as possible. We always try to identify as many issues during internal testing and the dev server with the help of the community, but as War Thunder is a very technical and complex game with lots of interconnecting parts, it isn’t always possible to catch everything.

We’re starting this edition of It’s Fixed with key issues that we corrected after the launch of the major update. For aircraft, certain planes sometimes would be unable to move on runways, damage from air-to-air missiles and SAMs, as well as HE shells fired at aircraft were calculated incorrectly, and missiles could lose their target for no apparent reason. On the ground, allied and enemy vehicles sometimes moved jerkily, and some maps had collision issues.

All these bugs have already been fixed, and we want to elaborate on one of them in more detail and explain a little bit what happened. One of the main problems that many players faced at top ranks, unstable damage with missiles, is a manifestation of a bug related to the incorrect position of explosions when calculating hits on aircraft. This extrapolation error has occurred only in online battles and not consistently, so despite the fact that the erroneous code appeared on the open dev server and stayed there for about a week, we were unable to detect the bug due to its unstable reproduction. And although the first significant fix in the damage model, which was able to compensate for many manifestations of this bug, was uploaded to the main server after 24 hours, we were able to find the root of the problem and fix it only after 6 days. We apologize for any inconvenience experienced in the parts of the game that were affected, and thank you for your understanding.

✅Pinned weapons selector

Now onto new additions. We’ve introduced the ability to pin the weapons selector in air battles. This gives players the ability to interact with the selector directly, similar to the action panel elements. The aircraft can still be controlled by mouse movements, and by holding down the corresponding key (on PC, this key is Alt), you display the cursor. With the cursor you can press on the missiles, bombs or countermeasures that you want. This is more convenient and faster than constantly turning the selector on and off and shows the remaining countermeasure amount clearly. In the future, we plan to add an indication of which hardpoint the next launch or drop will be from. This menu expands and collapses with one click, so be sure to try it!

✅Radar Control Screen Target Filter

The Leviathans major update introduced a new Radar Control Screen interface for anti-aircraft vehicles. In today’s update, we’ve added the ability to set a filter in the target list. You can now see all air targets, or only enemies, or only allies. This makes things more convenient when the sky is teeming with contacts! We plan to add a few more filter options by target type soon.

❗️This new feature will come to Xbox a bit later.

✅TV Seeker Improvements

A couple of pleasant changes were made to missiles with a TV homing head. The picture when viewed from these types of missiles now has more contrast. It is similar to how missiles see their targets in reality, and allows players to distinguish targets more clearly. When capturing a target in third-person view, the icon now differs depending on the captured target (in this case a crosshair is displayed in the square), or if it’s just a point on the ground (in this case the icon looks like an empty square).

That’s not all

Check out the full list of fixes and improvements in the update notes below!

🏆Meet the Winner of Armored Apex 2025: Team AVReS!

Last Sunday marked the end of the Armored Apex 4x4 Tournament, the second major event of the WTCS season. After advancing from the qualifiers, AVReS delivered an outstanding performance in the play-offs, remaining undefeated and securing a 3-0 victory against LEET in a thrilling Sinai final. With this win, AVReS now tops the WTCS leaderboard with 256 points!

🔝Congratulations to the AVReS team on their victory in the Armored Apex 2025 event.

🥇Who is the Most Valuable Player (MVP)?

Big congratulations to Volkodav from team LEET for being named MVP of Armored Apex 2025!

His ground dominance, flawless coordination, and sharp strategic plays truly impressed the jury. This well-earned title for the season’s second Major sets the tone strong — and we’re already excited to see who’ll claim the MVP title for Air Superiority!

Shoutout as well to Darthmoll and САНЯ КАМЕНЬ for securing 2nd and 3rd place in the jury votes.

❗️Information on the league’s third major event

In the weeks ahead, you’ll have the chance to train every weekend and gear up for WTCS Major III — Air Superiority, a high-flying 4v4 air tournament

📆Here are the key dates for this tournament
▪️Open Qualifier I: 13th–14th September
▪️Open Qualifier II: 20th–21st September
▪️Playoffs: 27th–28th September
▪️Final: 4th–5th October

All of the first matches kick off at 15:00 GMT, with the Twitch stream going live at 14:40 GMT.

Time to sharpen those skills — good luck, pilots!

➡️TOURNAMENT PLATFORM

🛍 Don’t miss the Thunder Tactiks Pack

The Kit Includes:
🔹Unique decal: "Thunder Tactiks"
🔹Unique camouflage: Bf 109 F-4 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹Unique camouflage: Sd.Kfz.234/2 "Thunder Tactics"
🔹300 Golden Eagles

✈️The Israeli A-4E Returns to Mark its First Flight Anniversary!

On July 12th 1961, the A-4E attack aircraft took to the skies for the first time. This aircraft was a more modern version of the A-4 Skyhawk, featuring improved avionics, a more powerful engine, and as many as six hardpoints for secondary weapons. A total of five hundred of this version were built. On September 29th 1967, the first batch of Skyhawks arrived at the port of Haifa. These aircraft served Israel for as many as 48 years until 2015.

🏪The A-4E returns for Golden Eagles and is here to stay!

The A-4E attack aircraft returns to the game and will not go away! And until July 14th (11:00 GMT), it can be purchased with a 30% discount for 6,237 Golden Eagles.

When: From July 11th (11:00 GMT).
Where: Israel > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

About this aircraft
▪️The A-4E (rank VI) has the speed and armament to take on enemy fighters, and its 60 countermeasures ensure it can counter air-to-air missiles. Its real strength is attacking bases and ground targets, as it can carry up to 8,500 lb and has access to a varied array of bombs, rockets and gun pods.

🇫🇷Moments of Valor: France

The Great French Revolution shook the entire world, and one of the first and most important events of that time was the storming of the Bastille prison-fortress on July 14th, 1789. This date was not celebrated for almost a hundred years until 1880, when July 14th became a National Holiday. For this day, a large military parade on the Champs Elysees was established one hundred years later in 1980.

In honor of Bastille Day, we’ve created a Moments of Valor video dedicated to France, and there are discounts on rare vehicles and packs in the store, and a themed decal!

🛍Unique bundles in the Gaijin Store!

When: From July 14th (11:00 GMT) until July 21st (11:00 GMT)

Unique bundles that include premium vehicles and unique camouflages are available in the Gaijin Store!

➡️Bastille Day: Ground Vehicles Bundle -50%

▪️AMX-13-M24 + “Lamarck”, Algérie, 60s unique camouflage
▪️AMX-13 SS.11 Pack + “DOUAUMONT” of the French “Armée de Terre” unique camouflage
▪️AMX-30 Pack + “MOSKOWA”, Deuxieme Régiment de Chasseurs, Dixieme Division Blindée, Thierville-sur-Meuse, France, mid-70s unique camouflage

➡️Bastille Day: Air Bundle -50%

▪️SO.8000 Narval Pack
▪️Mirage F1C-200 Pack + Escadron de Chasse EC 1/5 Vendee Mirage F1C 50000 flight hours celebration livery, Orange, 1987 unique camouflage

❗️Please note! If you already own any of the vehicles from the packs, you can purchase the camouflages separately in the game for 200 Golden Eagles each. They will remain available for purchase after the end of this special promotion.

🏪The Milan and S.O.4050 Vautour IIN are temporarily available at a 30% discount for Golden Eagles!

Both of these jets are available at a 30% discount: The Milan (rank VI) for 6,363 Golden Eagles and S.O.4050 Vautour IIN (rank VI) for 5,992 Golden Eagles!

When: From July 14th (11:00 GMT) until July 17th (11:00 GMT).
Where: France > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

▪️The Milan is a solid multi-role fighter. Thanks to its large payload and impressive performance characteristics, it’s usually best used for ground attack. It’s no slouch against air targets either, thanks to its good performance and ability to use AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles.

▪️The S.O.4050 Vautour IIN features AA-20 Nord air-to-air missiles, which can be tricky to hit air targets with. Therefore, it’s best to use this aircraft to destroy enemy bases and ground vehicles, since it can carry up to 4,400 kg of ordnance.

⭐️Get the “Bastille Day 2025” decal!

When: From July 14th (11:00 GMT) now until July 17th (11:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using French vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “Bastille 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 → Bastille Day.
▪️You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the customization menu.

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