‼️Fair Play: September 2026

Your reports and our anti-cheat systems continue to help us in the fight against cheaters. As is tradition, we’re sharing information about the bans issued since last Fair Play. If you want to help rid War Thunder of cheaters and unsportsmanlike players, you can learn how to submit a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our wiki.

🤕Banned accounts

Since our last fair play update, we have banned 3,984 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, 661 temporary bans were issued for violating paragraph 3.2.3 of the EULA, specifically for intentionally exploiting a bug that allowed for gaining excessive mission score in Air Simulator Battles during the Space Program Event.

Furthermore, 397 accounts were banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling and griefing, including 13 permanent bans.
For complete transparency, we will publish the full list of permanently banned players. This list will be available for two weeks following the publication of this article.

📜For complete transparency, we will publish the full list of permanently banned players. This list will be available for two weeks following 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).
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.

▶️New Game Modes

With the Sky Odyssey update, several game modes that previously appeared only as limited-time events have become permanently available. These include Nuclear Escalation, Bullet Hell, and Naval Enduring Confrontation. If you never had a chance to try them before, here’s everything you need to know.

▶️Thunder Show: R3 OF THE LAKE

Welcome to Thunder Show and the most unbelievable moments of the past week!

▶️EMBT: Leoclerc or Lecleopard?

We’ve already seen plenty of strange military mashups in War Thunder. You’d think experiments like these would’ve been left somewhere in the distant past. But no! European engineers decided to combine two modern MBTs: the German Leopard 2A7 and the French Leclerc S2. And that’s how the EMBT was born. So what came out of this Franco-German tank-building set? Let’s find out.

▶️B-26 Marauder: From “Widow Maker” to Remarkable Survivability

By the mid-1930s, Europe was once again caught up in an arms race. Before long, it spread to other parts of the world as well. The United States could not remain on the sidelines either. Events in Europe and Asia were making it increasingly clear that geographic isolation alone was no guarantee of security.

▶️Always Useful: Scimitar Light Tank

The British Army has always needed military vehicles capable of operating in remote regions. During World War II, that role fell to AEC armored cars and light tanks, but by the early 1960s the existing fleet was in dire need of replacement. At the same time, the defense budget left designers with very little breathing room.

▶️One Name, Two Eras: King George V

British battleship names typically referenced monarchs and historical figures, various corners of the empire, mythological characters, and naval traditions. In 1911, the lead ship of a new class — an evolution of the Orion — was laid down at Portsmouth. She was named King George V in honor of the recently crowned king.

▶️Thunder Show: LOOK, NO HANDS!

Welcome to Thunder Show and the most explosive moments of the past week!

▶️J-16 — The Heavyweight Solution

China's lineup of domestic planes that were inspired by the aircraft of the Soviet Su-27 series, has gained another fighter. And this time it's not a carrier-based one like the J-15T. What we have here is the land-based multirole J-16 — a big, powerful, heavy, and very well armed multirole strike fighter.