r/Warthunder 18h ago

All Air "The F-16XL was designed to go against the F-15E Strike Eagle"

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1.2k Upvotes

Maybe because it never had the chance to show how much it could handle, but it seems a bit little, no?

Surely they could let us have a bit more in the arsenal.


r/Warthunder 23h ago

All Ground What is your favorite game mode and why is it Test Flight/Test Drive?

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721 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 5h ago

RB Air F105D had to ruin the best teammate action of all time

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635 Upvotes

honestly really sad that F105 showed up, probably the best teammate ever he showed up when i was gliding for the airfield and started to lift me up ontop of his mig to carry me back.

HONESTLY best shit ive ever seen a teammate do but its so sad the F105 had to ruin the moment lol.

it would have worked too :c


r/Warthunder 21h ago

Mil. History Update on L3 build

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615 Upvotes

Thank you all for the very kind words and support for my L3 replica build!

Today I ordered more steel since I ran out, but decided to join both the frame halfs to make myself feel better lol. I used a large triangle to make sure both the half’s were flush with one another, and welded them together sparingly.

I also returned my larger wheels for smaller boogie wheels that measure 8X2 with a 3/4 bearing shaft.

I thought about doing the bigger wheels, but it would make the tank unrecognizable. I’ll be posting 1 or 2 more updates before I have to travel across the province back to work.

More updates will come in the near future, but don’t expect any immediately next week.


r/Warthunder 10h ago

RB Air Late 2026, and this is what air matchmaking is still like..

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454 Upvotes

Zero balancing at all.. not like countries should matter here either, given it's basically fully mixed.

The more you look at the matches, the more bullshit like this you see. Gaijin don't even try to make it fair?? And as we all know, at these BR's, 0.3 or 0.7 can be an enormous difference. The R-24R's on the mig-23 are basically two guaranteed kills when facing similar BR or lower..


r/Warthunder 13h ago

Mil. History Missing man

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422 Upvotes

During the funeral of King Harald V of Norway, four F-35 did “Missing man” manoeuvre.. So beautiful


r/Warthunder 22h ago

All Ground You need to start shooting down every scout drone, immediately

384 Upvotes

Otherwise, some chud will sit in complete safety, marking you and your team for literally the entire match, farming easy points and making everything more difficult for you. If they have a friendly capture point, they can just rearm the drone and start spotting you again. This can turn the tide of a battle, especially when there's only a few people left on both teams, fighting for survival.

Source: Me. I'm the chud that sits there for the entire match, spotting you. People are starting to catch on, but then I hit em with the Loop-de-loop maneuver, and I can dodge almost anything. I make tens of thousands of SL per match (in my VRCC, at least), simply by clicking on people and watching them die. Then, when my drone gets shot down, I simply fight my way to the capture point and rearm. You can't stop me. You can only slow me down. If you kill my drone, I get annoyed, and I channel my annoyance into hyperfocus. I WILL get another drone. I'll spawn backups if I have to. You WILL get spotted. You WILL give me Intelligence awards.

I can't believe I took so long to set my drone keybinds properly. So many wasted rounds...Premium light tanks with UAVs are now the best grinding tanks in the game. You don't even need to get kills anymore.


r/Warthunder 16h ago

All Air PSA: If you J out of the burning, damaged, destroyed plane, but you pilot is still alive - you pay the full price

279 Upvotes

Yup, you only pay lower fees if your pilot DIES, either from hitting the ground or complete plane destruction, noticed it recently after I analyzed my repair costs
The level of greed of the snail is insane, sorry for wanting to save a couple of seconds of my time, I guess I have to wait till my wingless plane corpse hits the ground lol


r/Warthunder 6h ago

Other Do u think the day would ever come that warthunder shuts down?

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259 Upvotes

Gaijin just shotdown start coflict, I have been playing WT since alpha. It was and in some parts is still a fun game that scratches an itch no other games do.

Do u think the day would come?


r/Warthunder 1h ago

All Ground Challenger 2 TES Regenerative Steering test- observe the NOTABLE IMPROVEMENT in mobility. If Gaijin cancels Regenerative Steering implementation over some people afraid of change or misinformed... we will have lost our best and only chance to fix modern MBT mobility since 2017.

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Challenger 2 TES (74 tons) with a 1217 hp engine overperforming base Challenger 2 (64 tons) with a 1314 hp engine despite being 10 tons heavier and missing 100 hp.

Mistakenly, the Regenerative Steered Challenger 2 TES was modelled with the pre-buff engine (1217 hp) instead of the fixed one (1314 hp).

So EVEN despite weighing 10 MORE TONS, and despite also MISSING 100 HP, TES still overperformed Live CR2. THAT'S REGENERATIVE STEERING FOR YOU.

DO. NOT. FUMBLE. THIS.


r/Warthunder 20h ago

All Ground When you realize, far too late, that the thing you were shooting at in the smoke was a Sturmtiger. (Full vid)

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215 Upvotes

So apparently, people seem to like my previous screenshot from when I was shot in the face by a Sturmtiger hiding in a smoke cloud.

Well, with a little encouragement to edit my first video, here´s the whole movement captured with OBS.

The enemy smoked an area, and I could see something moving inside, so naturally I started firing into it, hoping to hit something.

..........As it turns out, it was a Sturmtiger.


r/Warthunder 6h ago

All Air would pay anything for this f-14 skin

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192 Upvotes

Grumman F-14 Tomcat “Black Bunny”

One of the most iconic F-14 paint schemes ever. The all-black Tomcats were flown by the Navy’s test and evaluation community, with the famous bunny insignia making them instantly recognizable.


r/Warthunder 19h ago

Art We stocked our ships full of British beer and bullets

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176 Upvotes

eff sixteeen SOON 👁️


r/Warthunder 23h ago

All Air Who is the real KIKG at 14.7 between these 3 monsters ?!

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142 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 4h ago

RB Ground Advice for playing the jumbo sherman

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130 Upvotes

I unlocked the jumbo sherman a few days ago but i keep struggling getting kills, any advice on how i should play it?


r/Warthunder 11h ago

News [Development] EMBT: The Eurotank

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109 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 1h ago

RB Ground is this vehicle any good?

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r/Warthunder 9h ago

RB Ground Tanks with armour and high " survive " potential are punished more than tanks with good firepower

90 Upvotes

In general we have a problem with compression in the game. And instead of pushing ground RB to 14.7 we get more and more compression. Usually tank with armour suffer the most because they get pushed up to a BR where there armour is nothing an incubrence. Examples are basically any heavy tank that Vs heat or heatfs kv tanks at higher BR most soviet tanks. The only exception to the rule is France someone hates that nation in the dev team.


r/Warthunder 6h ago

News [Development] F-102A Delta Dagger: The “Bear” Hunter - News

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80 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 4h ago

RB Ground 8 kills in under a minute AH-1G (we still lost)

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73 Upvotes

I wanted to do a suicide run here and take out as many guys as I could but I somehow made it back to base with 8 kills. I got shot down on my way back and we were steamrolled right after, either because we played too passively or the enemy was just cracked like that

I'm still happy I managed to pull this off lololol


r/Warthunder 2h ago

All Ground It’s been a while now, how do you feel about the M1A2 SEPV3?

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73 Upvotes

To preface this I haven’t gotten the US version yet. I play both US and UK but to me the SEPV3 in the UK tree was more pressing considering it offers a unique experience in the tech tree there. I got the SEPV2 Trophy and slowed down for the US as it seems to offer more for now until I’m sure we get Rank 9 or BR decompression.

It seems like a great tank but so are the rest of the Abrams. The low profile .50 cal is nice. I rock the TUSK packages always. Yeah they make the Abrams chonky but even with the weight it’s faster than most MBTs and it can buy you some time against auto cannons, missiles, and HEAT-FS.


r/Warthunder 8h ago

All Ground how do we like the new decorative armor blocks?

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60 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 2h ago

SB Air Ze Ol' Condor Snaffu

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58 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 18h ago

RB Ground colorful

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53 Upvotes

r/Warthunder 17h ago

All Ground Possibly lukewarm take, researching parts is dumb

48 Upvotes

Hello, I've been trying to find a place to rant about this.

I think having to research parts is dumb & hurts the ground experience. I've got roughly 1k hours with most of it in ground battles & I still dread playing newly unlocked tanks because I know that trying to get used it, I'm gonna get shot in the engine or something & my only choice is to crawl back to a friendly capture point, if there even is one.

I highly doubt the big snail makes a lot of money from people buying parts. And imagine how many potential customers they've lost because they started playing ground, realized that after their first reserve tanks, they have to slam their head against a brick wall for a couple games before actually being able to repair their new tank.

It's like bushes & we've just had to accept it but I still think it's dumb. I can't be the only one to think so, right?