This is my last officially written suggestion. I’m resigning from writing suggestions due to the Gajin policy that has been brought up in this thread. (Yes, I forgot to put this here earlier.)
Gaijin adds 3 unique vehicles to Japan air… and negative speculation?
Also you’re no longer making suggestions because of what reason?
Gaijin’s continuing to develop WW2 vehicles, so that can’t be the reason.
What? The last Japanese plane was the premium B7A2 Battlepass, and the tank was the Ka-Chi event. I don’t recall any pre-1945 Japanese planes or tanks in 2025.
Japanese? Maybe not.
Ships? A lot of.
And 2025 had far more WW2 additions in general to War Thunder not counting ships than 2024, and counting ships probably more.
Gaijin stated they’re going to continue adding WW2 vehicles to the game.
The last statement I know from foreigners about vehicles from the WWII era goes as follows:
(my emphasis)
Yes, which is a statement that they’re going to continue adding new vehicles.
Short term focus of finishing off the air BRs =/= a permanent focus.
2026 is the end of air progression, just as “2022” was the end of ground progression.
Then it’ll be ships that’ll need to find its end, and then it’s nothing but filler in all 3 until the end of time.
You have to remember that Gaijin’s model is to finish a technology THEN add filler.
It’s why 2025 saw more WW2 additions than 2024.
And I guarantee 2027 will see more than 2025.
2026 will see ~15 of its ~200 vehicle additions be top aircraft, but the rest will be naval and filler.
That’s a lot of opportunity for WW2 vehicles.
You don’t need blind optimism, I wouldn’t push that on you.
Take the positive evidence and hold onto that.
Ground is effectively end of line, air is end of line this year, and naval will see naval additions.
I can agree with this- The devs cant exactly push for anything more modern or the new best After they add 5th Generation Aircraft. at that Point all they have to do is go back and look at the tech-trees and start assessing what can be added to fill in the gaps Now that they have more recources to push into that
I counted how many vehicles were added. In 2025, 258 new vehicles were added to War Thunder. Of these, 32 are vehicles from the WWII era (9 of them are from themed packs), 67 are ships, and 7 are WWI vehicles. The rest are more modern vehicles (I don’t know enough to say exactly which vehicles are from the Cold War and which are contemporary).
Meanwhile i dont think Sweden or Japan or china or Italy got any ww2 era vehicles lol- (or well all of swedish ”ww2” vehicles are just 1945-1950~ but still lol)
I know sweden got the Pvkv IV-? Other than that idk? The ush was a Cold war thing
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Let’s see how many vehicles from World War II remained for each country in 2025:
- Update 2.53 “Line of Contact”
- USSR - DB-LK
- USA - Ryan FR Fireball
- China - H-75M
- Update 2.51 “Spearhead”
- France - Fokker D.XXIII
- USA - LVT(A)(1) (M24)
- UK - Mosquito B.Mk.XVI
- USSR - T-34-85 (STP)
- Update 2.49 “Tusk Force”
- Germany - Bf 109 T-2
- UK - Ram I ,Mosquito NF. Mk.II , Mosquito TR.Mk.33
- Italy - Re.2005 (VDM)
- Sweden - Mosquito F.Mk.II, Mosquito FB Mk VI ASH , Mosquito FB Mk VI
- Update 2.47 “Leviathans”
- France - Fokker D.XXI , SB-25J
- Germany - С-3604
- Sweden - M24DK
- UK - Avenger (Overlord) , Crusader AA (Overlord) , Firefly (Overlord)
- USA - Hellcat (Hell) , Sherman (Hell) , Skink (Hell)
- USSR - IS-1 ('45) , Hanomag ('45) , T-34-85 ('45)
- Update 2.45 “Hornet’s Sting”
- France - AMD.35 (PaK)
- Germany - Pz.Sp.Wg.P204(f) KwK 39/1
- UK - Harry Hopkins I
- USA - T86
- USSR - T-34-85 “Partisan”, T-44 (FM)
- There is still the Battle Pass: Season XVIII, The Last Legionnaire
- France - M26
- Japan - SB2C-5
In summary:
- France received 5 vehicles, including 3 TT and 2 Battle Pass vehicles,
- Germany received 3 vehicles, including 2 TT and 1 premium,
- USSR received 7 vehicles, including 1 TT, 1 event vehicle, 1 Battle Pass vehicle, and 4 premium vehicles.
- USA received 6 vehicles, including 5 premium vehicles and 1 event vehicle.
- Japan received 1 vehicle, which is a Battle Pass vehicle
- Sweden received 4 vehicles, all as TT
- China received 1 vehicle, as an event vehicle
- Italy received 1 vehicle , as a Battle Pass vehicle
- Israel got nothing
- UK received 8 vehicles: 4 TT vehicles, 1 squadron vehicle, and 3 premium vehicles.
The most vehicles went to the UK, then the USSR, and finally the USA. The biggest losers were Israel, Italy, Japan, and China.
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M55s are missing from the list.
And the date on the vehicle might be tempting, but the Sturmtiger is more technologically advanced than the M55.
Since when is the M55 a WW2 vehicle? The M55 entered service in 1952, and I was counting WW2 vehicles.
Since it features no technology from 1952 except maybe radios.
You included many vehicles used or tested after the war that feature newer technology than WW2.
The M55 is based on the M47 (entering service in 1951). Perhaps its gun dates back to World War II. By that logic, the M1A2 Sep 3 is a 1920s vehicle because it uses the M2 Browning. The M55 is a post-war vehicle. Other vehicles on my list were built before the end of the war (even if their operator used them after the war ended or a given modification only appeared then). If we assume that post-WWII vehicles should be removed from this list, it will be even smaller and show how much Gajin has invested in vehicles from that period.
The M47 hull is based on the M46 which is based on the M26.
And no, by the rationale I used the M1A2 SEP3 is a 2010s tank because it uses gen 2 actively cooled thermals and APS system integration.
The newest technology on M55 would be the radio, and if I remember correctly it’d be a derivative of the standard WW2 radio at the time, because they didn’t do major upgrades until the 1960s.
Also, Gaijin has treated WW2 vehicles as much as they’ve treated 1960s and 1980s vehicles.
Just cause they’re prioritizing filling holes doesn’t mean those holes permanently exist.
The last of the air holes are “filled” this year.
Ground holes are almost all “filled”.
Gaijin has been on a hole filling onslaught for 5 years, because if you remember… USA and Germany were the only ones with top BR tanks for 2 years: M1A2 and Leopard 2A5.
As the holes fill we see more filler elsewhere, which is why 2025 saw more WW2 era vehicles than the previous year.
And if WW2 wasn’t impacted by the hole filling, they’d get ~72 vehicles across naval, air, and land at current vehicle addition rates.
However, with navy still needing to be finished after 2026, I’m personally expecting 50+ additions after air is fulfilled.
Okay, I guess I’m too stupid to understand that a vehicle from the 50s is magically a vehicle from the 40s. Thanks for making me realize how stupid I am.
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@Grzegames
The WW2 era encompasses 1930 to 1954.
Overlapping with the interwar and exact start of the cold war.
Cold war technology started being seen in the late 1950s and 1960s.
The supersonic era for jets, and the fast big-gunned MBT era.
What? I must be really stupid. Since when can something created, say, nine years after the fall of the USSR be considered a Soviet product? The end of World War II is a new period in history. That’s when the first generation of main battle tanks appeared, missile weapons appeared, and so on. They may have been developed earlier, but they’re not World War II-era things. World War II ends with the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. Otherwise, the Korean War, the creation of Israel, and the beginning of the Vietnam War would all be considered part of World War II.
I thought I was good at history, but I think they lie to kids in Polish history classes and that World War II actually lasted until 1954. Does this mean that the creation of the JSDF and Godzilla’s attack on Tokyo are only the end of World War II?
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Buddy M55, just like M44, is a Cold War vehicle and I don’t know why it’s at 4.0 considering it could get M106(PF) and get yeeted to 5.7
Because it’s not a 15 second reloading 155mm tank with an actual turret.
The same reason Sturmmorser is 5.7.