There’s no Russian bias, simply the Russian community is big so they make their premiums broken to make a crap load of cash
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The funny part is it’s a self fulfilling prophecy, the more people scream “Russian BIAS” the more new, inexperienced or bad players flock to Russia pushing down vehicles BRs and causing Gaijin to focus more on new stuff and more premiums for Russia as the money is where the players are.
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I believe what we have is Player Bias…we tend to think that whatever we prefer to use is at a disadvantage…as it is easier than assuming we did a mistake or more…
Russian bias appears more in forum because the game developers are mostly russian…but there were topics about German and US bias on several occasions…
Smaller nations and brits have much less bias claims as they have less vehicles and less “regular” players…but happens on occasion on specific vehicles…
I learned my lesson with the Jumbo (US tank)…took me a few weeks to get and during those weeks i felt it was completely overpowered…then i got it myself and saw “other side of the coin”…
Like many good vehicles in the game, it can be very effective or die quickly to a good/lucky opponent (also depends a lot on BR)…and this i true for Russian vehicles as well.
As a personal note…Russia has some good vehicles but i fail to see the “big” bias claimed and the numbers also don’t show it…it would NOT be my favourite nation, at least up to BR8.
I see no “bias” in game…just a few good vehicles that “stand out”…from several nations…and i am pretty sure that if those were “fixed” (meaning an downwards adjustment to BR/effectivness) some other vehicle would take their place…
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It’s really good to play more than one nation for perspective (like 1 NATO style and one Russia/China not USA/ Germany that play pretty much the same) Russian tanks are not bad, but they are far more restricting in their game play than the NATO counterparts, so it’s far easier to adapt to different situations with NATO tanks then Russian. At least that’s my take on it.
Have you heard of the bmpt? https://forum.warthunder.com/t/russian-bias-in-2026/298660please check out my post first so you can see both sides
Simple!
Russian owned game, Russian servers, Russian tanks, Russian players.!!!
GAME OVER = RUSSIAN BIAS"! simples!
I play Air RB mostly. So, I have to ask: what kind of “Russian Bias” do yo mean?
Maybe, you’re talking about P-47D-28?
It climbs about 20% better than any other P-47D (WAY better than “Russian” D-27) and its climb rate in terms of “climbing to 5000m” is comparable to Yak-3 or even almost Bf.109F-4, and that is the strict violation of physics laws. It has MUCH better turn time than any other P-47D (and P-47N) and some Bf.109s have no chances against D-28 in 1 vs 1 duel. I often duel with G-2s and find that real (not-in-specs) turn time of D-28 is almost comparable to Bf. 109G-2.
Plus to these out-of-physics-laws capabilities, it has its natural 840+ kph diving speed, 580 kph in horizontal near the ground and absolute advantage at the altitudes above 5500 meters. Add to all this 8xM2 lasers that make it not-a-difficult-thing to hit almost anyone from 1 km… And all that with BR 4.7 (!). It was an absolute monster @ 5.0 but Gaijins LOWERED its br and it seems they won’t get it back…
My stats with D-28 is better than almost with any Russian prop, except a single machine that is almost as good at its BR as D-28 @ 4.7 is. Аnd this is despite the fact that I have MUCH more experience with Russian planes, than with American.
But maybe you’re talking about P-51C-10? It has fantastic speed, climb rate and turn time, WAY better than any P-51D, including D-30. It’s the ONLY machine @ BR 3.7 that goes 600 kph near the ground in horizontal in the game. Yes, it has only 4xM2 lasers (with fantastic M20 bullets), but considering its speed, turn time, climb rate, and energy saving, it’s just an “easy-peasy kill machine” if you know how to use fast props.
So, maybe you’re about F2A-1? or XP-50? Or F8F-1 that once had BR 5.7 and they lowered it to 4.7?..
Please, don’t fool anyone with “Russian Bias”. It simply doesn’t exist. At least in Air RB.
Pantsir SM-SV, Su-30SM2, BMPT, and I can keep say this many other thing, that Russia got and the NATO didnt got, or an examples when the NATO misslies and tech were completly nerfed and didnt unnerfed, while the USSR tech was overbufed
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The new Pantsir is very questionable…
But aside that i think that the current implementation of volumetric favours russian tanks as they are typically more rounded and “special” shaped.
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The ERA
Western Tanks have the armour inside while russian tanks have it slapped on the outside, so for gaijin its way easier to prove what armour a russian tank has than what armour a chinese/western tank has, its still relatively questionable to give something like the Merkava armour that is worse than aluminium, so i do think there is some kind of bias.
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Russian bias is 100000000% in the favour of those who own and run the company!!! IF I Owned the game - Russian tanks would be the weakest! 1000000% just to spite.!
Its absurd to think otherwise.! The fact most russian tanks bounce soooo many shells because the armor is completely farcical! I mean - look at the number 1 tank in the game!!
OHHHH LOOK !!! RUSSIAN!!! go figure!
I’ve gone through the British, German and USSR tech trees and from experience, Bias towards Russian(USSR) vehicles is real… sorta…?
But a real answer is more complicated as it seems to be more of a money bias, the USA, German and USSR tech trees are the 3 main money making nations in war thunder especially the USSR tech tree, just count the pure amount of premiums in that nation alone, it rivals even the tech trees of some smaller nations.
With that being said, Gaijin is a pretty large company nearly exclusively because of War Thunder which is essentially their “golden egg” and they spend a TON of cash making every new vehicle and game they develop so they naturally add very enticing premiums to all these nations (eg T58, clovis, BMPT, Turm 3 ect) to fund their various projects like the new infantry mode and enlisted.
As for the Actual “Russian Bias” part, it’s more of a joke that has some truth to it so people believe it’s real when it’s really that the USSR gets more of the OP enticing premiums than the other 2 cash cow nations.
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Russian bias is more apparent in ground RB, mainly in higher tiers.
When there are double standards, they often favour russian vehicles, or nerf their counterparts.
I exclusively play ground RB and I find that Russian bias, is more “benefit of the doubt bias” that also effects the 3 main nations but because there’s a meme about it people believe it to be true.
An example is the Tiger 2 having a 700 horse power engine for years when it never did simply because they felt like it needed it.
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With how gaijin handled russian SPAA and CAS, I don’t think there’s any doubt to be had.
A lot of tanks are overperforming in acceleration, regardless of the horsepower “number” which is a meaningless thing when the driving models of ground vehicles are so arcade and basic
The USSR tech tree has the best cas and SPAA at the moment, but they still don’t have the best top tier MBTs, or the best mid tier light vehicles those awards go to the other 2 of the main 3.
And they also didn’t have “the best” cas and spaas a year ago, that again went to the other 2 main nations.
Russian bias is really just conformation Bias based on a meme
Not to be pedantic but they did have the best CAS a year ago… Su-30SM was released in march of '25… Also pretty sure Pantsir-S1 was still top dog back then…
Billions must edit, i kinda stand corrected on the Pantsir-S1 part, the brunt of the TEL/TELAR SPAAs were dropped in september, though to be fair it depends on what you’re looking for with an SPAA I suppose.
To add to this, this BS is way more annoying
Than this, yet some people complain that the T-34 has this bias to it just because it can be annoying to 1 shot sometimes
At close range, sure, but defiantly not at long range all the other shiny new SPAA all the other nations got was far better besides that one Swedish thing
While I can agree, “long range” can only really go so far with how ground maps were and still are… since you could still MP most of the new SAMs besides SLM and the other IR based SAMs.
Pantsir-S1 was still the best general purpose SAM by far imo.
It was for sure the best general purpose one, but the others where far better simply because you can fire 2 or 5 missiles at one target and just move onto the next and do the same until all the planes are exploded which isn’t something the Pantsir-S1 can do.
Then they reigned as the top dogs for a while until the new pantsir is added, that’s just kinda how games progress