Radar warning receiver

The War Thunder standard RWR display showing a "ping" on 7 o'clock.

A Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) is a system that informs the pilot about incoming radar radiation. In game the RWR is a clock display that shows the type of threat (detected by radar or tracked by radar) and its direction.

If a radar is sending a single "ping" at you (a search radar is detecting you), the RWR will sound a short warning and show the direction it is coming from. RWR can show multiple pings at once from different directions and sources. If you hear a constant alarm and see a striped line coming from the ping towards the center of the RWR, a tracking radar has locked you and is constantly tracking your position (which usually precedes a missile launch).

Some helicopter RWR sets in-game have what's known as MAW (Missile Approach Warning), which warns the user about a missile launch that's heading directly to the user's vehicle. A few of these helicopters have the ability to automatically drop countermeasures when a MAW warning is active.

In Update "La Royale", soviet aircraft got a slightly different RWR with non-precise sectors which indicate the approximate location of the ping or lock.

RWR indicating a radar lock at 2 o'clock.

List of planes with a Radar Warning Receiver in game

	Researchable vehicles	Premium vehicles
VI Rank	A-4E Early F-104C F-105D F-100D F-4C Phantom II F8U-2 AV-8C A-10A F-5C F-5A	◌Hunter F.58 ◄MiG-21 SPS-K	Su-7B Su-7BKL Su-25 Su-25K MiG-21S (R-13-300)	Buccaneer S.2		A-5C
VII Rank	F-5E F-4E Phantom II F-8E A-10A Late A-6E TRAM F-4J Phantom II A-7D F-4S Phantom II A-7E	◄F-4F Early ◊MiG-23MF ◊MiG-21 "Lazur-M"	MiG-21SMT Su-17M2 Su-22M3 Su-25T Su-39 MiG-23ML	F-4J(UK) Phantom II Sea Harrier FRS.1	F-4EJ ADTW F-4EJ Phantom II	J-7D	▄F-104S TAF	Mirage F1C-200	Saab J35XS	Kfir C.2 Kfir Canard
VIII Rank	F-14A Early F-14B F-16A F-16A ADF	◄Tornado IDS MFG	MiG-23MLD MiG-27K MiG-29 Yak-141	Harrier GR.7 Tornado F.3 Tornado GR.1	F-4EJ Kai Phantom II F-16AJ	␗F-16A MLU	▄F-16A ADF ▄Tornado IDS (1995)	Mirage 2000C-S5 Mirage 2000D-R1	JA37D	Kurnass 2000 Netz

External Links

[Devblog] Updated RWR — More realism and features!