War Thunder 2.57.1.48 Patch Notes (24th July 2026)
War Thunder's latest patch addresses visibility bugs, countermeasure issues, and rebalances Nuclear Escalation matchmaking across multiple nations.
War Thunder's 2.57.1.48 update has landed with a focused set of fixes targeting visibility, loadout, and balance issues that were frustrating players across air and ground combat.
The IAR-81C was mysteriously vanishing from the tech tree when test-drive was active. That's sorted now. More significantly, the MiG-29SMT was missing chaff entirely from its countermeasures, a serious oversight for a modern jet. The Scimitar Mk.2 gets the bigger treatment: its Battle Rating climbs from 8.0 to 8.3 across all modes, the gunner optics bug that let you aim in impossible angles is fixed, and the machine gun muzzle flash now appears where it actually should.
Nuclear Escalation gets queue rebalancing with new nation presets. The 10.3-12.7 bracket now lets Britain, Sweden, and France team with USSR and China, while the 11.7-12.7 spread has USA and Germany facing everyone else. This should ease matchmaking strain without reshuffling the entire mode.
The full list, including the Project 956 air-target fix, is below.
Full Patch Notes
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- IAR-81C (DB 605) — a bug that caused the aircraft to be hidden from the tech tree when the test-drive was active has been fixed. (Report).
- ☢MiG-29SMT (9-19) — a bug that caused chaff to be missing from the available countermeasures has been fixed.
Ground Vehicles
- Scimitar Mk.2 — Battle Rating in all game modes has been adjusted from 8.0 to 8.3. A bug that caused the machine gun muzzle flash to appear in the wrong place has been fixed. (Report). A bug that caused the gunner optics to be located inside the turret and have unlimited aiming angles has been fixed. (Report).
Nuclear Escalation
- To balance the queues a few nation presets have been added to an early era battles (Battle Ratings 10.3-12.7), where Great Britain, Sweden and France can now play in the same team with the USSR and China, as well as a preset for 11.7-12.7 BR bracket where USA and Germany play versus all other nations.
- Project 956 — a bug that sometimes caused the ship to ignore air targets has been fixed.
Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.
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