The update is called “Sands Of Liberty” — War Thunder veterans have probably already guessed why. One of the new locations will be the familiar “American Desert”!

And now, the details about all changes.

New vehicles

Tanks

Ships

• Submarine SS-563 Tang (Rank III)
• Battleship Iowa (Rank IV)
• Battleship Tirpiz (Rank IV)
• Battlecruiser Stalingrad (Rank IV)
• Battleship HMS King George V (Rank IV)
• Battleship Fuso (Rank IV)
• Submarine Type XXI (Rank IV)
• Submarine  Pr.613 (Rank IV)
• Battleship Sovetskij Soyuz (Rank IV)
• Premium armored cruiser IJN Ikoma (Rank III)

New locations

Fixed visual errors in locations

• Poland
• Japan
• Abandoned factory
• Stalingrad

Other changes

• Submarines of the Balao-class and Tang-class have been renamed to USS Balao and USS Tang respectively.
• USS Tang submarine has been moved from Rank IV to Rank III.
• IJN Yamato and HMS Vanguard have been removed from the lineup until they are announced in the next updates.
• Arrows signalling the ability to scroll through the list of settings and products have been added in the settings and in the store.
• Tooltips signalling the ability to extinguish or repair vehicles have been added.
• The squad invite button has now been moved to the left of the contact button and only appears when invitations are available.

The following bugs have been fixed

• Launch of the depth bombs in the naval battles didn’t consume the entire ammunition load, leaving 1-4 bombs unused.
• Depth bombs didn’t explode on contact with the ground.
• Effects shining through some objects.
• The forward direction arrow on the tank model wasn’t displayed.
• Font size of price tags of various vehicles increased after trying to purchase it without having the required amount of Silver Lions.
• Location circles of the enemy ships that were out of range on the minimap on iPad devices were displayed too large.
• During a call or when locking the screen of iOS devices the game could close connection to the server and prevent you from returning to the battle.
• Lack of displaying the reload of the fire extinguishing button when the fire reoccurs.
• Twitching direction arrow when switching from turn to forward movement.
• Incorrect class icon for ships of "Battleship" type. Added vehicle filter by the class “Battleship”.
• Name of the 305 mm/45 Vickers cannon on IJN Settsu.
• Flickering rails on the map "Abandoned factory".
• Incorrect positioning of tank shell icons in battle.
• Jittering camera movement in the hangar on some devices with framerate over 60 fps.

Meet you on the battlefield, commanders!