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40 free War Thunder trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
War Thunder has been running since 2012, and it has grown from a game about propeller fighters into a sprawling combined-arms battlefield where aircraft, armour and warships from more than a century of military history share the same match. Few games reward real-world vehicle knowledge so directly. This quiz covers the whole of it: the nations and famous machines added in major updates, the currencies and matchmaking rules every player learns the hard way, the studio's yearly joke events, and the strange moments when the game made headlines, from soldiers training with it to restricted documents turning up on its forum. It is written for anyone who has spent time in the hangar, whether you fly, drive or sail. Newer players should find the opening questions fair, and veterans will meet a few that test how closely they have followed the game's history.
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Q 01Which British tank's classified papers did a self-described commander post on the War Thunder forum?
Challenger 2
Challenger 2 papers went up in 2021 in the hope that Gaijin would correct the in-game tank. The studio refused to touch them, since using still-classified data could have meant prosecution.
Q 02A 2013 April Fools' event in War Thunder added a sixth playable faction from which cartoon franchise?
My Little Pony
My Little Pony supplied 'The Pony Nation', which made the cartoon land of Equestria a joke faction. Gaijin uses its yearly April gags to try out mechanics before a wider release.
Q 03Which animal from a haiku about slowly climbing Mount Fuji appears on War Thunder maker Gaijin's logo?
Snail
Snail imagery on the logo comes from a Kobayashi Issa haiku urging the creature up the mountain. The studio leaned into it with 'Gaijilla', a 2014 joke event starring a giant one.
Q 04War Thunder studio Gaijin Entertainment takes its name from the Japanese word for what kind of person?
Foreigner
Foreigner is what 'gaijin' means: founder Anton Yudintsev hoped to enter Japan's market while accepting an outsider's place there. The studio got its wish in 2009 with an anime-style action game.
Q 05Which German super-heavy tank, the heaviest armoured vehicle ever built, joined War Thunder in 'Big Guns'?
Maus
Maus is German for 'mouse', an ironic name for a colossus. Only two hulls and one turret were finished before Soviet troops overran the testing grounds.
Q 06War Thunder's 2022 'Danger Zone' update introduced which US Navy fighter, the star jet of Top Gun?
F-14 Tomcat
F-14 Tomcat fans had a long wait: Gaijin billed it as the most anticipated aircraft in years. The update shares its title with the Kenny Loggins hit from the Top Gun soundtrack.
Q 07War Thunder was first announced in 2011 under which name, later dropped for resembling a Wargaming rival?
World of Planes
World of Planes sat too close to Wargaming's World of Warplanes, so the title changed in January 2012. Gaijin had at first claimed the 2011 reveal was only an April Fools' joke.
Q 08War Thunder players protesting 2023 economy changes buried the game in negative reviews on which PC store?
Steam
Steam took more than 65,000 negative reviews within days of the changes going live. Gaijin reverted them, apologised and promised a revised economy that summer.
Q 09Which class of aircraft first flew in War Thunder with the 2018 update named 'The Valkyries'?
Helicopters
Helicopters arrived first for the USA and USSR, weeks after being revealed at Gamescom 2018. German machines followed a month later in the 'Masters of the Sea' update.
Q 10Which premium currency, bought with real money, sits beside earnable Silver Lions in War Thunder's economy?
Golden Eagles
Golden Eagles are sold in bundles on the Gaijin Store and pay for premium vehicles, premium account time or faster research. They can also be exchanged for Silver Lions.
Q 11In War Thunder, what does BR stand for, the number that decides which vehicles can meet in a match?
Battle Rating
Battle Rating follows a vehicle's in-game performance, not its real-life introduction date. Lineups are normally matched against others within 1.0 of their own figure.
Q 12Which War Thunder mode, beside Arcade and Realistic, gives a crew's-eye view with no enemy markers?
Simulator
Simulator battles also switch off the virtual instructor, so piloting errors go uncorrected. Its air matches are hours-long 'Enduring Confrontation' missions that players can join at any stage.
Q 13War Thunder splits its navy into the big-ship Bluewater fleet and which second fleet of smaller boats?
Coastal
Q 21A 2023 War Thunder crossover added vehicles from which shooter set in an alternate-history Soviet Union?
Atomic Heart
Atomic Heart lent its machines to a July 2023 event that Gaijin called 'Atomic Thunder'. The shooter imagines a 1950s research city collapsing after its robots rise up.
Q 22A 2020 War Thunder event had players race tanks past obstacles and targets, modelled on which real contest?
Tank biathlon
Tank biathlon is a Russian army sport of timed laps, obstacles and live gunnery. The in-game version was made with Russia's defence ministry, and the game's logo was painted on real competing vehicles.
Q 23Which post-apocalyptic vehicle combat game from Targem Games shares War Thunder's publisher, Gaijin?
Crossout
Coastal fleets cover motor torpedo boats, gunboats, submarine chasers and frigates. Bluewater begins at destroyers and runs up to battlecruisers and battleships.
Q 14Gaijin, the War Thunder studio founded in Russia in 2002, is now based in which European capital?
Budapest
Budapest became home after Gaijin moved its distribution business out of Moscow around 2015, with development following soon after. Its other offices include Karlsruhe, Larnaca, Riga, Dubai and Yerevan.
Q 15Which in-house Gaijin game engine, made open source in 2023, runs War Thunder?
Dagor
Dagor began inside Gaijin in the 2000s and reached version 6.0 with War Thunder's 'New Power' update in 2020. In 2023 the studio published its code under a permissive BSD licence.
Q 16Which tech giant behind WeChat published War Thunder's Chinese version until it closed in 2022?
Tencent
Tencent ran a separate regional edition of the game and announced that it would be discontinued on 17 October 2022.
Q 17US Army tankers training under 2020 quarantine reportedly chose War Thunder over which rival tank game?
World of Tanks
World of Tanks was among several games the 1st Cavalry Division's crews tried before finding that War Thunder best met their needs. The Republic of Korea's 3rd Armored Brigade later trained with it too.
Q 18Which US defense contractor denied in 2023 that its background checks ask applicants about War Thunder?
Raytheon
Raytheon spoke up after media reports claimed its security-clearance vetting screened for the game. The story followed a string of restricted military documents posted on the game's forum.
Q 19In War Thunder's higher-tier ground battles, dropping which weapon from the air wins the round instantly?
A nuclear bomb
A nuclear bomb costs a player 2,500 spawn points and is offered only in upper-tier matches. Landing it ends the round on the spot and earns the pilot a 'Doomsday' award.
Q 20Which French tank's documents were leaked on the War Thunder forum to settle a row over turret speed?
Leclerc
Leclerc documents appeared in October 2021, three months after a similar British leak. Moderators pulled them within hours and repeated the forum's strict ban on restricted material.
Crossout has players assemble armed vehicles from cabins, wheels, weapons and armour before driving them into combat. Visitors could try it in a closed area of Gaijin's Gamescom booth in 2015.
Q 24Which World War II squad shooter from Darkflow Software is published by War Thunder studio Gaijin?
Enlisted
Enlisted puts each player in charge of a squad of AI soldiers, or the crew of a vehicle, rather than a lone trooper. It is built on the same in-house technology as War Thunder.
Q 25Which 2009 console flight game by Gaijin gave the studio experience it later used to build War Thunder?
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey was one of three earlier Gaijin air combat titles the team leaned on, with Apache: Air Assault and Birds of Steel. Work on the new game began the year it came out.
Q 26War Thunder's 2020 'Viking Fury' update launched a full ground forces tree for which Nordic nation?
Sweden
Sweden arrived with more than thirty tanks and other ground vehicles, three months after its aircraft debuted in the 'Northern wind' update.
Q 27Which country became a new playable nation in War Thunder with the 2021 update 'Winged Lions'?
Israel
Israel debuted with an air force tree of twenty aircraft in closed testing. Its ground forces followed in the 'Wind of Change' update of March 2022.
Q 28Which US ground-attack jet nicknamed the Warthog reached War Thunder in the 2022 update 'Wind of Change'?
A-10 Thunderbolt II
A-10 Thunderbolt II is the official name, a tribute to the P-47 of World War II, though it is commonly known by the nickname. The type entered US Air Force service in 1977.
Q 29Which battleship, carrying the largest guns ever put on a warship, joined War Thunder in 'Leviathans'?
Yamato
Yamato carried nine 46 cm guns and, with her sister Musashi, was the heaviest battleship ever built. She entered the game in the same update as two other famous battleships, Bismarck and Iowa.
Q 30Which Soviet heavy tank with five turrets became War Thunder's first multi-turreted vehicle in 2014?
T-35
T-35 crews manned a so-called 'land battleship', the only five-turreted heavy tank ever to reach production. In real service it proved slow and mechanically unreliable.