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We invite you to take part in the naval forces Enduring Confrontation event, which will allow you to experience naval scenarios.



The event end time may be subject to change. Costs for respawning, and awards, may also be changed over the event period.

In naval Enduring Confrontation, battles will be held around ports which are involved in the key objectives of the mission. Teams will receive points for capturing and holding the ports, and also for completing other mission tasks. The team which reaches 150,000 points first wins.

• Required vehicles in setup: Fleet of BR 3.7 - 4.3
  
• Acceptable vehicles in setup: Fleet and aircraft of BR 1.0 - 5.7

The number of respawns is not limited and you can respawn with the same vehicle multiple times, but every respawn will cost Silver Lions depending on the repair cost of the vehicle. Aircraft fly outs require a fixed amount of available respawn points and depend on the class of the aircraft or the presence of suspended weaponry on a fighter. Respawns in ships with a BR of 4.7 and higher require respawn points depending on the BR.

• Guarding ships appear at ports. You have to destroy the guard to begin to capture the port. Damaged guard ships repair over time, destroyed guard ships restore over time. Captured ports spawn friendly guard ships.
  
• In “English Channel” and “Saipan”, coastal defence vehicles have been added. These vehicles act in a similar way to other background vehicles (active only when players are near, and if there is no overlimit of active vehicles)

Naval convoys
New scenario for Enduring Confrontation: naval convoys. On the map border, naval convoys will appear which will move towards the sea ports of their respective team. Whilst the convoy is active, the allied team has additional respawn points close to it. The enemy team will also have respawn points at a distance from the convoy. The number of ships in the convoy depends on the number of players in the game session and on the port size where the convoy is attempting to reach.

Port attack
New scenario for Enduring Confrontation: port attack. Each team will have 3 ports at the start of the mission. Each port has several AI ships which will defend the base. Each port is immediately available for players to capture and there are no additional tasks for capturing the ports. If the convoy from the “naval convoy” scenario reaches its port it is very likely that the AI ships from this port will attack one of the enemy ports and the players will receive additional points for helping them to capture enemy port.

Naval bombers
In case there is an active naval convoy on the map the enemy team may have a bomber which will attack and destroy the convoy. The entire logic of the scenario is working in the same way as for ordinary bombers attacking ground bases, but now their targets are convoy ships.

The War Thunder Team

The Belfast is a state-of-the-art light cruiser used by the Royal Navy. This is the ship that is permanently moored near London’s Tower Bridge.

In our game, the Belfast became a premium rank IV ship in the Royal Navy tech tree. Technically, she is a town-class cruiser, just like the Southampton, a ship players will already be familiar with. However, the Belfast is slightly different from her – and for the better. For our game, we chose the iteration of the ship after her last significant modernisation during service. In 1959, the primary armament of the cruiser comprised of four triple 152mm cannons (12 in total) and four dual purpose 102mm cannons (8 in total).





In a nutshell, the Belfast truly is a phenomenal light cruiser representative in our game. This ship cannot be recommended enough to players – and not just for the purpose of researching new heavy rank V ships, which made their first appearance in update 1.93, but also simply for the fun factor alone, as the Belfast’s powerful armament, excellent defences against attacks from the air, and great armour make her a real toughie that far from every opponent can handle.

The Belfast is a legendary ship and contemporary London tourist attraction that has come to War Thunder in update 1.93. So keep calm and rule the waves!

Check out the full Dev Blog article here!

On this night, demonic forces will try again to break through into our world! It seems like we have found an excellent “antidote” to this as the roar of racing M18 and Po-2 engines is able to frighten away any demons and as the quickest of us all, will also bring special decals and decorations from the Witch's Cauldron!




Earn 300 rating points in the supercharged M18 “Hellcat” and get a prize - one of the creepy decorations. The rating depends on the position in which you finished the race.


Fly a special "Night Witch" aircraft and earn 300 rating points to get one of the unique decals. The rating depends on the position in which you finished the race.

Check out the full article here!

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We're adding an up-armored Abrams tank, the legendary helicopters Ka-50 and Mi-28N, the first Italian helicopter, the first Swedish aircraft and the first rank V ship! As usual, we also worked on plenty of bug fixes and game improvments too, all to be discovered in the major update 1.93 "Black Shark"!

Check out the full Changelog here!

And other interesting tanks!















A whole heap of bug fixes, and much, much more!

Check out the full Changelog here!