Hangar: User Interface

Overview

The Hangar/Garage is the main interface of an average War Thunder player where they can manage their vehicles, crew, research, nation tree, and all other functions in War Thunder.

Layout of the Hangar

The Hangar is laid out that most of the main functions of the game is available to the player with a click of a button.

General

1. Vehicle Display - The displayed vehicle is the one the player has selected in the vehicle menu. More details in the "Vehicles" subsection.
2. Stats Card - This infobox displays the details of the currently selected vehicle. Details range from armaments to the speed of the vehicle. The additional buttons on display give access to various menus: vehicle information, crew information, favourite achievements, armour viewer, x-ray viewer, and vehicle modifications.
3. Menu Button - This will give you access to Options and Controls, as well as the Exit button.
4. Battles - This will give you access to Custom battles, User missions, Single missions and Campaigns.
5. Community - This will give you access to Leaderboards, Replays, Squadron list, Tournaments and Streams.
6. Squadron - This here displays the squadron if the player has joined one.
7. Player Card - Here the player can access their profile, including rank, profile icons and titles. They have the possibility to check their service record (in-game statistics), medals, achievements, challenges, skins and decals.
8. To Battle! - This important button will send the player into battle of the game mode of their choice.
9. Game Mode Selection - Players can go here to change their game mode preferences between Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator mode. The player can also choose which server to play on.
10. Silver Lions - This displays how many Silver Lions are available's purse and allows to buy SL with GE.
11. Golden Eagles - This displays how many Golden Eagles are available's purse and allows to buy GE.
12. Accelerated Research - This displays how much RP is available for conversion using Golden Eagles to boost research on a vehicle.
13. Premium Account - This menu allows the player to buy premium time. A silver diamond indicates a normal status whereas a golden diamond indicates a premium status.
14. Battle Pass Shop - This menu allows the player to buy a Battle Pass access, improved or not as well as single BP levels.
15. Shop - This menu links to the Gaijin online store and the Marketplace and gathers economy-related links: Golden Eagles, Silver Lions, Inventory, Item shop, Warbond shop, Collections and the Workshop (only active during crafting events).
16. Help - The question mark menu displays help feature to display the purpose of some of the buttons in the hangar menu, like the present page. It also gives access to the in-game Encyclopedia (not the wiki), Changelogs, Credits and the License Agreement. It also links to the War Thunder Wiki, the FAQ and Gaijin Support.
17. News - This infobox displays any important news happening at the time (major update, events or tournaments).
18. Events, Tournaments - This menu gives access to the game mode Enduring Confrontation and to tournaments or special mini-events happening at the time (Halloween race or Tank Football mini-games).
19. Battle Pass Menu - This menu gives access to the current Battle Pass season. Players can check their progress, and the conditons to fulfill the Battle Pass challenges.
20. Battle Tasks Menu - This menu gives access the daily tasks and special tasks. Players can check the conditions to fulfill to battle tasks.
21. Hangar Shop - This displays the menu Inventory and items as well as the Workshop (only active during a crafting event).
22. Friends - The lower right corner menu provides the majority of the social services available in War Thunder. Going from left to right: Squad creation/management, Invites, Friend/Block list, Chat service, and Messages. Chat service has 2 permanent chat rooms: Official Chat Room and Help Desk. Other chat rooms can be created by players to recruit for a Squadron or allow individual players to organise a local squad with other players.
23. Vehicle Line-Up - The entire bottom menu allows the players to build an organize their vehicle line-ups, access to the research trees as well as other nations. More info in "Vehicles" section.

Vehicles

This sector will cover the Vehicle Line-Up Bar on the Hangar menu.

1. Research Tree: Clicking this button opens the research tree for the nation the player is currently in. In the research tree, the player can view the vehicles available to their disposal, change research allocation, and see what premium/gift vehicles they could obtain.
2. Automatic Repair/Resupply: These two checkboxes are for auto-repair and auto-resupply for vehicles. Having them checked will either automatically repair broken vehicles, resupply used ammunition, or both after a battle.
3. Vehicle Change Menu: The bar underneath the selected crew boxes will allow the player to change the vehicle assignment. It also allows for the training of crew to new vehicles. Going to the very top of the menu can empty the crew box with the “Send to Holiday” option.
4. Crew #1: The first crew in the player’s line-up. The crew boxes, if occupied by a vehicle, will display the vehicle’s name, battle rating, and type, as well as crew skill level on the bottom left and vehicle back-ups on the bottom right. Hovering a mouse over the crew box with a vehicle will also show options for the vehicle.This specific crew box is also highlighted, indicating the player’s selection on this vehicle that would show up in the Vehicle Display on the hangar menu.
5. Crew #2: The second crew in the player’s line-up. Like the first crew box, but it is unhighlighted to show the player has not selected it for the Vehicle Display.
6. Crew #3: The third crew in the player’s line-up. This specific crew box has a vehicle with a spade symbol on the background, this symbol indicates that the vehicle is fully upgraded.
7. Crew #4: The fourth crew in the player’s line-up. This specific crew box has a golden background, indicating the vehicle’s status as a premium/gift vehicle. The symbol on the very top indicates that the vehicle has a talisman enabled.
8. Crew #5: The fifth crew in the player’s line-up. This crew box is unassigned to a vehicle and as such is empty. Crew with vehicles can enter this state by choosing the “Send to Holiday” on the top of Vehicle Change Menu.
9. Recruit Crew: Crew space will allow the player to recruit additional crew for vehicles. After the fifth crew box is unlocked, the rest of the crew that can be unlocked will need Golden Eagles. The player can have a maximum of 10 crew box per nation line-up.
10. Presets: Presets allow for different vehicle line-ups that can be preselected to quickly change the line-up composition.
11. Nation: The selection for nations are done via vertical bars on the left and right side of the line-up bar. These would allow the player to switch between nations.

User Preset

A user preset is a lineup of vehicles, created by the player, that can be "summoned" whenever they so choose. The presets are listed below the vehicles, and (for most nations) come with the default "Ground Forces" and "Aviation" presets. By clicking the presets button to the right, a window will open up. There, you can re-name existing presets, create new ones, and change their order. The number of presets you are limited to is your highest rank (in any nation, both Air and Ground) times two. For example, if your highest rank is 3rd Rank British Aviation, you will be allowed 6 presets for all nations. Preset names are restricted to 15 characters.

You can change out which vehicles are in a preset, as long as the preset is selected. Especially for Tank AB, Tank RB and Air AB, since you can take out multiple vehicles into battle, you should coordinate the Battle Ratings of the vehicles in each preset.

Custom Hangars

With update 1.59, it is possible to create a custom hangar. Further details can be found on the "Custom hangar" page.