🇧🇷The AMX A-1A Returns with a Discount for Brazilian Army Day!

Brazil celebrates Army Day on April 19th, the anniversary of the First Battle of Guararapes, where in 1648 the Portuguese repelled a Dutch force twice their size. The modern Brazilian army has over 200,000 active personnel, with over a million in reserve.

🏪The AMX A-1A is temporarily available to purchase at a 30% discount for 6,615 Golden Eagles, and will remain available after the promotion at the regular price!

When: From April 17th (09:00 GMT) until April 20th (09:00 GMT).

Where: Italy > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

The AMX A-1A will return to being available to purchase at full price for 9,450 Golden Eagles after the promotion ends.

▪️The Brazilian version of the Italian AMX International attack aircraft is armed with two 30 mm cannons and can carry a variety of bombs, including incendiary and guided bombs, Skyfire-70 AC/AP rockets, and MAA-1 Piranha air-to-air missiles. With a payload of up to 3,800 kg, enemy tanks will be in for a rough ride!

✈️The A-6E Intruder is Back with a Discount on its First Flight Anniversary!

The Grumman A-6 Intruder first flew on April 19th 1960, and served in the U.S. Navy for over 35 years. It participated in most conflicts of its time, including the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars. In 1979, the aircraft received a major upgrade — the TRAM Target Recognition/Attack Multi-sensor system, significantly expanding its arsenal and increasing its accuracy.

🏪The A-6E Intruder is temporarily available to purchase at a 30% discount for 6,489 Golden Eagles, and will remain available after the promotion at the regular price!

When: From April 17th (11:00 GMT) until April 20th (11:00 GMT).

Where: USA > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

The A-6E Intruder will return to being available to purchase at full price for 9,270 Golden Eagles after the promotion ends.

▪️The A-6E TRAM Intruder relies solely on its hardpoints, but the variety is astounding! AIM-9G and AIM-9L air-to-air missiles, Zuni Mk32 Mod 0 ATAP and Mighty Mouse FFAR rockets, AGM-123 Skipper anti-ship guided missiles, incendiary tanks, and guided and assault bombs of all types and calibers, making it suitable for any mission. Choose your weaponry and crush your enemies wherever they may be!

💥Planned Battle Rating Changes (April 2026)

Today we have the planned Battle Rating changes for April.
There are changes for Aircraft, Ground Vehicles (including the BMPTs), and Naval Vessels, make sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below.

➡️For all the details, please check out the Battle Rating changes table.
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🤩Battle Pass Season 23: Apollo’s Chariot and Its Warbond Shop!

Season 23 of the Battle Pass celebrates Greece! Get decals featuring Air Force unit emblems, the Royal Hellenic Navy flag, decorations featuring an ancient Greek sword and helmet, and a profile icon of Steve Pisanos, a Greek pilot who flew Spitfires in the Second World War with the American Volunteer Squadron. The main vehicle reward is a premium Spitfire LF Mk IXc with a clipped wing in the Royal Hellenic Air Force livery, along with the Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki. As always, the Battle Pass offers War Bonds, boosters, Silver Lions, Premium account days, wagers, and much more.

The Canadian Ram II tank in the British ground forces tree is now available in the Warbonds shop for the first time. The Warbond shop also offers a trophy with the Occult collection of decals and a new Nekomata decal.

🆕New vehicles this season

🇬🇷🇮🇱Spitfire LF Mk IXc (CW) — A Premium Fighter for Israel at Rank IV

Meet this premium Spitfire Mk 9 from the Royal Hellenic Air Force, flown by Lieutenant Georgios Smyrniotopoulos. This aircraft boasts the inscription “MYSTRAS”, which is the name of Georgios’ birthplace. The Greek Spitfire LF Mk IXc (CW) is a modification of the legendary British Spitfire with a shortened wing (CW stands for Clipped Wing), which significantly increases the roll rate, while a special engine tuning allows it to reach maximum speeds as early as 15,000 ft! This plane is also excellently armed, with two cannons and four machine guns, plus 250 and 500 lb bombs and a 500 lb AP bomb for use against ships.

In the game, the Spitfire LF Mk IXc (CW) comes in as a premium at rank IV in the Israel aircraft research tree. This Spitfire is an easy and enjoyable start to learning Israeli aviation and a wonderful addition to your collection of vehicles for any mode!

🇯🇵IJN Suzutsuki — A Premium Destroyer for Japan at Rank III

IJN Suzutsuki, a destroyer and the third ship in the Akizuki class, was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943 and immediately entered combat. The ship suffered serious battle damage several times and participated in several major military operations, including the final voyage of the Yamato, where she suffered a direct hit to the bow by a bomb. Repairs were deemed hopeless for the ship.

In the game, IJN Suzutsuki is coming as a premium rank III Destroyer. While somewhat less maneuverable than many of her classmates, she is armed with eight 100 mm main guns, carries powerful 610 mm torpedoes, and boasts a large arsenal of anti-aircraft guns and radars to repel air attacks.

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💥How to deal with 9000kg bomb

📜Updated Planned Battle Rating Changes (April 2026)

Hey everyone! Today we have the updated planned Battle Rating changes for April. Apart from changes based on your feedback, we have also put in a lot of new Ground Forces changes. Make sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below.

➡️For all the details, please check out the Battle Rating changes table.
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🎮Participate in Big Games Big Deals on PlayStation!

This is the season for savings on PlayStation! Dive into the War Thunder Sale and unwrap incredible discounts with up to 40% off on premium packs and more.

Grab your deals and don’t miss your chance!

🏪When: From April 22nd (00:00 local time) until May 6th (23:59 local time)

▪️Mustang
▪️King Tiger
▪️Wyvern
▪️T29
▪️Object 120
▪️Leopard
▪️Italian Starter Pack
▪️Japanese Starter Pack
▪️British Starter Pack
▪️French Starter Pack
▪️Swedish Starter Pack
▪️Chinese Starter Pack
▪️German Starter Pack
▪️Su-25K Pack
▪️Greek AH-64A Apache
▪️Mirage F1
▪️Chengdu J-7
▪️M1 KVT Pack
▪️K9 VIDAR Pack
▪️CV 90105 XC-8 Pack
▪️Somua SM
▪️IS-6
▪️T-72AV (TURMS-T)
▪️F-20 Tigershark Pack
▪️MiG-21 Bison
▪️AV-8B Night Attack Pack
▪️SU-22M4 Pack
▪️PzH 2000 Pack
▪️Marder Clovis Pack
▪️F-16A Netz Pack
▪️Type 74 Red Star Pack
▪️US Starter Pack
▪️USSR Starter Pack
▪️KMS Gneisenau Pack
▪️Sevastopol Pack
▪️L-39ZA Albatros Pack
▪️USS Maryland Pack
▪️Senrai Maidens: Kate Pack
▪️Senrai Maidens: Elsa Pack
▪️Senrai Maidens: Maria Pack
▪️Hawk 209 Pack

❗️The War Thunder Leopard pack’s discount is only available in SIEA

‼️Fair Play: April 2026

We keep fighting cheaters using your reports and the BattlEye anti-cheat system, and as usual, today we’re sharing a bit of info on bans that we’ve distributed over the past month. If you’d like to help keep War Thunder free from cheating, you can find out how to file a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our Wiki.

🤕Banned accounts

Since our last fair play update, we have banned 5,320 accounts that were found to have violated the rules, specifically paragraph 3.2.3 of the EULA, namely the automation of gameplay (use of bots) and cheat software.

Additionally, 210 temporary bans (up to four months) and 19 permanent bans were issued for breaching paragraph 3.2.4 of the EULA. These violations involved collusion with the opposing team to facilitate repetitive zone capturing and/or benefiting from mutual damage without the intent to engage in combat. These cases were identified in Tank Simulator Battles (in some instances involving the use of multiple accounts) and among Xbox accounts with cross-platform play disabled.

Furthermore, 287 accounts have been banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling and griefing, including 32 permanent bans.

We have also issued 18 bans (16 permanent) for abuse of the referral system, including creating and progressing multiple referral accounts through automation, staging sessions to gain unfair advantages, and/or sharing accounts with players involved in such activities. In addition, 33,749 accounts involved in referral system fraud have been permanently banned, the majority of which were preemptively identified.

Finally, a total of 1,405,060,000 Silver Lions has been deducted from 950 accounts as a result of fraudulent referral activity.

📜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.

🛠Update 2.55.1.84

Battle Ratings
‼️The Planned Battle Rating changes have come into effect.

Ground Vehicle
▪️A bug where switching from a UAV back to a tank would disable cruise control has been fixed.

Interface
▪️A bug that caused an extra cell element to display in the skill progress bars in the crew training window when on 67% interface scale has been fixed.