🔫Get the T-72B3 “Arena” in the Paintball Arena Event!

Paintball is a sport for true adrenaline junkies! Put on your helmets, grab your paintball gun, don’t forget your gear and head to the arena. Stay alert, stay behind cover, and don’t forgive your opponents for their mistakes, whether in a competitive match or in our new tank event dedicated to the T-72B3 “Arena”!

From January 22nd (11:00 GMT) until February 9th (11:00 GMT), earn mission points in Ground Battles, unlock stages and receive rewards!

🏆T-72B3 “Arena” — An Event Vehicle MBT for the USSR at Rank VII
One of the areas of further modernization for the T-72B3 tank was equipping it with modern active protection systems. A variant of the tank equipped with an Arena family active protection system was demonstrated at the RAE-2013 exhibition in Nizhny Tagil. This system complements the T-72B3’s already good level of protection. The Arena is capable of engaging incoming guided missiles on approach, destroying them with a fragmentation field several meters from the T-72B3’s armor. This modification is equipped with a ChTZ V-84-1 diesel engine and Kontakt-5 ERA.

▶️F/A-18E Super Hornet: an Airborne Star

If you’re asked which combat aircraft shows up on camera more often than any other, what’s the first one that comes to mind? For many, it’s the legendary American carrier-based fighter, the F/A-18. Today, we’re taking to the skies in this very aircraft — specifically in its most advanced variant, better known as the Super Hornet.

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🛠It’s fixed! №111

Today, we’ve rounded up and will be covering 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.

If you’ve found a bug that you’d like to report, you can do so on our community bug reporting platform.

✅Fixing the accuracy of laser seekers

Some time ago, we discovered that air-to-ground missiles and guided bombs with laser seekers that lacked an uncaging feature were frequently missing their targets. As soon as the projectiles approached the laser seeker’s lock-on range, they began to change direction, losing energy and ultimately landing in a completely different location. We fixed the bug that caused this issue and also added a wind-stabilization mechanism to the aerodynamically stabilized laser seekers. These seekers now are always pointed in the same direction as the projectile’s velocity vector during flight, preventing them from losing their target unnecessarily.

✅Dive bombing fixes

Sometimes, when using navigational bombing (CCRP), the bomb would miss its target. This didn’t happen during nose-up or level flight, only sometimes during a dive, even a very shallow one. Having determined the cause, we’ve fixed this problem.

✅Fixes to lack of damage

Some of the most annoying bugs that have appeared recently resulted in a lack of damage from direct hits from ammunition. One of these bugs meant that spall did not form after the HEAT jet penetrated armor, causing HEAT rounds to inflict little or no damage. Another bug meant that aircraft easily survived direct hits from air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles, which should have destroyed or at least severely damaged them.

✅Sunken enemy ships on radar fix

Imagine you’re flying over, and suddenly your radar detects an enemy ship, and your radar seekers begin to track it. However, you look below and don’t see anything on the surface. Could enemy submarines have secretly snuck into War Thunder?!

Nope, they’re not in the game. This issue caused an already destroyed and sunken enemy ship to be tracked by mistake. Thanks for your reports on this, we’ve fixed it!

✅Helicopter targeting fix

Some helicopters experienced an issue when placing a point of interest from the 3rd person view and switching to targeting optics while simultaneously moving the mouse. The camera should have been focused on the targeted area, but in certain cases it could shift significantly, interfering with the accuracy of missile launch. This has been fixed, too!

❗️That’s not all

Check out the full list of fixes and improvements in the update notes below! Here’s some more: The location minimap no longer becomes translucent and ships no longer spawn outside the playable area in the African Gulf.

➡️Update 2.53.0.58
➡️Update 2.53.0.56
➡️Update 16.01.2026
➡️Update 2.53.0.52

🎯Paintball Arena: T-72B3 “Arena”

Today we’ll be taking a look at the Paintball Arena event’s main reward: a T-72B3 main battle tank with the Arena-E active protection system!

🇷🇺🚩T-72B3 “Arena”: An Event Vehicle Main Battle Tank for the USSR/Russia at Rank VII

At a glance:
▪️Comprehensive protection: steel, composite, ERA, and APS
▪️3BM60 APFSDS and gun launched ATGM
▪️Thermal imager
▪️Bulldozer blade
▪️Low reverse speed

👋Introducing the T-72B3 “Arena”!
The grand reward of the Paintball Arena ground vehicle event is the Russian T-72B3 main battle tank with the “Arena-E” active protection system! With this one, you can expect excellent protection, an automatic loader, good armor-piercing shells, ATGMs, and advanced electronics. Let’s take a closer look!

➡️Click here to find out more details about the Paintball Arena event