War Thunder Patch Notes

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Update 2.55.1.157 Ground Vehicles Fixed unnatural shaking of tanks when driving on sandy surfaces. Sound Fixed an issue where the voices of El...	09 Jun 2026
Ground Locations Reworks & Arresting Gear in the Heavy Cavalry Update! Today we’re talking about the graphical rework of the Ash River, 38th Parallel, and Ardennes (Winter) locations and arresting gear at gr...	04 Jun 2026
"Heavy Cavalry" Update Trailer! Introducing the next major update trailer for War Thunder: Heavy Cavalry!	04 Jun 2026
Update 2.55.1.142 Sound The ability to use sound mods has been temporarily disabled in the WIP client. Thank you to everyone who tested sound mods on ...	03 Jun 2026
The New Update in Progress: Detailed X-Ray and New MFD Screens Today we’d like to cover the improved aircraft damage models and new multifunctional display screens (MFD) that we’re preparing for the ...	01 Jun 2026
Update 2.55.1.137 Aircraft B-52H — a bug that made it impossible to switch to the gunner if the “Camera from aircraft gunner sight” setting was disable...	29 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.126 Aircraft A target filtering mechanic has been added to radio fuzes of some ARH and SARH air-to-air missiles — the fuze now ignores sm...	22 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.119 Aircraft A bug that caused a camera jerk at the end of a zoom animation when using zoom on a locked target has been fixed. Grou...	20 May 2026
Community Update No.11: Nuclear Escalation, Sound Mods & More Hey everyone! Today we’re back with another Community Update, we’ll be giving you some details on Nuclear Escalation, Sound Mods, the up...	15 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.110 Aircraft F-6C — the mass has been corrected (reduced), becoming closer to the basic version of the MiG-19S without radar. A bug ...	14 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.106 Aircraft Tu-95M — the rate of fire of the turret gun AM-23 has been increased from 600 to 1250 RPM. (Report[community.gaijin.net]). S...	13 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.92 Aircraft J-11A, J-11B, AH Mk.1 Apache — a bug that caused the chaff to be normal caliber instead of large caliber has been fixed. ...	04 May 2026
Update 2.55.1.84 Battle Ratings The Planned Battle Rating changes[docs.google.com] have come into effect. Ground Vehicles A bug where switchi...	28 Apr 2026
Server Update 23.04.2026 Aircraft PL-12, PL-12A, SD-10A — missile autopilot parameters have been adjusted, the missiles are now more stable on the trajectory...	23 Apr 2026
Update 2.55.1.72 Aircraft A bug that prevented threat names from being displayed on RWR indicators that identify radars while playing on the minimal ...	21 Apr 2026
Server Update 16.04.2026 Locations and Missions \[Frontline] Kuban — a bug that caused the airfield of the eastern team to be outside of the playable area ha...	16 Apr 2026
Update 2.55.1.56 Naval Vessels A bug that caused the ship’s rudder to retain its last position when launching a scout plane has been fixed. The rudder...	14 Apr 2026
Update 2.55.1.49 Nuclear Thunder The rewards for destroying, critically damaging, and assisting in the destruction of ground vehicles have been incre...	10 Apr 2026
Update 2.55.1.47 Nuclear Thunder SPAAs in convoys and at strongpoints now have limited ammunition and reload. Aircraft B-52H, Tu-95M — the a...	09 Apr 2026
Update 2.55.1.42 Nuclear Thunder The matchmaking algorithm has been adjusted to lower the queue times. The priority of long-queuing players has been ...	08 Apr 2026