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We continue looking at the newcomers of the December update. Today it’s time for one of the most modern armored vehicles in the game, an American fire support vehicle sometimes referred to as a light tank: the M10 Booker. Its real-world career turned out to be short-lived: deliveries began in 2024, and by 2025, the program was canceled due to numerous issues. Let’s see what the Booker can do in War Thunder.

Constraints and compromise often push naval engineers toward original answers to seemingly simple problems. For the Royal Navy after the First World War, constraints were paramount. In 1922, Britain signed the Washington Naval Treaty: an agreement among five powers to rein in the arms race at sea. The treaty forced the abandonment of promising new capital-ship projects — already growing ever more complex and costly. Yet Britain had no intention of surrendering its great-power navy, so the Admiralty challenged designers to produce a powerful new battleship that outclassed prewar types like the Queen Elizabeth while remaining within treaty limits.

If you’re asked which combat aircraft shows up on camera more often than any other, what’s the first one that comes to mind? For many, it’s the legendary American carrier-based fighter, the F/A-18. Today, we’re taking to the skies in this very aircraft — specifically in its most advanced variant, better known as the Super Hornet.

In the winter of 1950, a new era of military aviation began over Korea. For the very first time, jet fighters entered combat en masse: the Soviet MiG-15, alongside an entire lineup of American aircraft — from the F-80 Shooting Star and F-84 Thunderjet to the iconic F-86 Sabre. Jet aircraft had made their debut at the very end of World War II, but it was the Korean War that became the first major conflict where dozens of jet fighters regularly clashed in the skies.

As early as the beginning of the 1940s, aircraft designers understood that the future belonged to jet propulsion. In practice, though, that potential took time to unlock. Early engines were temperamental and unreliable, and their thrust was barely enough to compete with the best piston powerplants of the day. Even so, leadership kept pushing this new kind of aviation forward.

Meet one of December’s headline additions: the Terminator fire support vehicle. In-game, it comes in two versions: the tech-tree BMPT and the premium BMPT-72.

In 1961, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces adopted the Type 61 tank. Compared with contemporary American or Soviet designs, it looked outdated almost from the moment it appeared. Yet despite its obvious shortcomings, it remained in service for decades, simply because it was exactly what the country needed at the time.

The 21st century brought new rules to military engineering. A growing spectrum of threats forced designers to increase protection across every class of combat vehicle. Weight had to rise, but crew safety became the priority.

Turbojet engines have long been a cornerstone of modern aviation. Today, let’s dive into how these powerplants work.

The British Matilda rarely takes center stage in wartime chronicles. Yet crews across the Commonwealth fought in these slow, peculiar tanks from the early years of World War II to its very end. When Vickers engineers designed it, they drew heavily on lessons from the long-gone First World War. Yet remarkably, they still nailed it. The Matilda turned out to be relevant even as the nature of warfare evolved dramatically.