Category:Updates

Updates are major content patches and changes that are applied to War Thunder regularly throughout the year. These include new Aircraft, Ground Vehicles, Maps, Game mods, Features, Graphical enhancements, Flight and Damage model upgrades, Decal and Skin additions and of course bug fixes.

Here you will find a history of War Thunders major content patches.

Major Updates
Open Beta
Update	Date Released	Date Superseded	Key Additions / Information
Update 1.27	30 January 2013	19 March 2013 Active for 48 days (1 month, 19 days)	First Update of the Open Beta Test (OBT) Added ability to control critically damaged aircraft [Ground Strike] Fjords and [Domination] Asia maps
Update 1.29	19 March 2013	11 June 2013 Active for 84 days (2 months, 23 days)	Added 15 new vehicles: 15 Regular Aircraft Improved the damage model of all aircraft Redesigned hangar interface Added ability to select ammo belts for fighters Re-balanced game economy
Update 1.31	11 June 2013	7 August 2013 Active for 57 days (1 month, 27 days)	Added 20 new vehicles: 13 Regular Aircraft 7 Premium Aircraft Added award of a Rank 1 premium after your first battle Added Squadrons Added Tutorials Added invite friends feature Added Facebook and Twitch Support
Update 1.33	7 August 2013	26 September 2013 Active for 50 days (1 month, 19 days)	Added 11 new vehicles: 10 Regular Aircraft 1 Premium Aircraft Added vehicle Modules and Modifications Added crew lock Added a number of new armament options for aircraft
Update 1.35	26 September 2013	18 December 2013 Active for 83 days (2 months, 22 days)	Added 16 new vehicles: 13 Regular Aircraft 3 Premium Aircraft Added events mode Reworked a large number of aircraft and cockpit models Added first "bomber" cockpits (Pe-2 and Pe-3)
Update 1.37	18 December 2013	15 April 2014 Active for 118 days (3 months, 28 days)	Added 22 new vehicles: 20 Regular Aircraft 2 Premium Aircraft Completely reworked progression system (old 20 tier system replaced with 5 ranks) Added Custom Battles Reworked over 70 flight models
Update 1.39	15 April 2014	15 May 2014 Active for 30 days (1 month)	Added 20 new vehicles: 17 Regular Aircraft 2 Premium Aircraft 1 Special Aircraft (La-174) Added support for Custom skins Added War Thunder CDK Significantly improved AI behaviour
Update 1.41	15 May 2014	9 October 2014 Active for 147 days (4 months, 24 days)	Added 86 new vehicles: 6 Regular Aircraft 4 Premium Aircraft 68 Regular Tanks 4 Premium Tanks 4 Gift / Bundle Tanks Ground forces units released into Open Beta Test (OBT) for all players
Update 1.43	9 October 2014	16 December 2014 Active for 68 days (2 months, 7 days)	Added 43 new vehicles: 18 Regular Aircraft 7 Premium Aircraft 1 Gift / Bundle Aircraft 11 Regular Tanks 5 Premium Tanks 1 Gift / Bundle Tank Added first urban tank map (Poland) and multi-turreted tank (T-35)