War Thunder 2.57.1.38 Patch Notes (22nd July 2026)

Aircraft

• F/A-18E, F/A-18F (Britain) — the maximum number of AGM-154A1 JSOW bombs that can be carried simultaneously has been increased to 10. (Report).
• F/A-18C Late, F/A-18C MLU 2 (Sweden), AF/A-18A Late (Britain) — the maximum number of AGM-154A1 JSOW bombs that can be carried simultaneously has been increased to 8. (Report).
• ☢F-16A ADF (USA, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Sweden), ☢F-16A MLU (China), ☢F-16D Barak II (Israel), ☢F-2A (Japan) — a bug that caused the bomb to be counted as the one in the bomb bay has been fixed.
• ☢F-16A ADF (USA, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Sweden), ☢F-16A MLU (China) — a bug that caused the ballistic computer to not function has been fixed.

Naval Vessels

• A bug that caused the “Crew” category to be missing from the X-ray filters in the hangar has been fixed. (Report).

Nuclear Escalation

• The anti-air logic has been refined.
• The SAMs in the convoys now slow down when firing and guiding the missile.
• Short-range SAMs now turn on search radars before launching a missile: when the player is in the radar’s spotting distance (roughly 1.5 times more than the missile’s launch range) and when trying to defend from incoming attacking munitions.
• Logic for defending against ARMs has been added. When an ARM is launched from a sufficiently long range, the AA can turn off the radar as a defensive measure.
• Gunned SPAAs now choose targets based on threat priority, instead of just selecting the closest target.
• A bug that caused the AA to ignore guided bombs with a mass higher than 1500 kg has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the HQ11 and SPYDER AIO to ignore small-caliber munitions like GBU-39 and GBU-53. Long-range AA still ignore such munitions.
• Radar detectability and the size of a munition now affect the range at which SAMs attack them. Currently the only “stealth” munition is the AGM-154 JSOW, and the small ones are GBU-39, GBU-53, SPICE 250, 9M127 Vikhr and Brimstone.
• The minimal altitude of the targets which the long-range SAMs attack on the distances more than 20 km has been increased from 100 meters to 300 meters.
• The priority of the targets flying away from long-range SAMs is now significantly lower, so that the site can better defeat more dangerous threats.
• Two aircraft “eras” are simultaneously present in the event, each of them having two Battle Rating brackets. The battles of the early era have aircraft with the following Battle Ratings: 10.3-12.0 and 11.7-12.7; and the late era has aircraft with the following BRs: 13.0-14.0 and 13.7-14.7.
• New nuke carrying aircraft are available in late era battles: ☢F-16A ADF (USA, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Sweden), ☢F-16A MLU (China), ☢F-16D Barak II (Israel), ☢F-2A (Japan), ☢MiG-29SMT (9-19) (USSR).
• Only 2 nation presets have been retained: USSR vs all, and USSR + China vs all.
• The costs of some vehicles in tickets which are deducted from a team’s total when a vehicle is lost have been corrected:
• aircraft carrier: 100 → 500;
• destroyer: 30 → 60;
• SAM site search radar: 5 → 100;
• SAM site launcher: 5 → 30;
• AA on the airfield, in the convoy or near the factory or strongpoint: 5 → 20;
• HQ11 and SPYDER AIO SAMs: 5 → 30;
• player’s aircraft: 30 → 20.