Heavy Fighters are like Fighters, but heavier. Within the main groups are several sub-classifications, and as per their historical counterparts many aircraft can fulfil multiple roles. tech trees and your hanger are colour coded: Fighters are yellowy-orange, Bombers are blue and Attackers are green. For quick identification, aircraft names in e.g. If you’re not an aviation geek, here’s a quick overview of aircraft types.Īircraft in War Thunder are in three main groups: Fighters, Bombers and Attackers. War Thunder doesn’t quite aim for the down-to-the-last-rivet level of realism of a really hardcore simulator and some of the battle scenarios are slightly implausible for the sake of gameplay, but a lot of work does go into the accuracy of the models and the way they behave, so real-life knowledge of planes, roles and tactics should broadly transfer into the game.

If you’re a keen history buff you’re probably familiar with many of the planes in War Thunder, the vast majority were produced and used in quantity in World War II there are also a few more unusual variants dotted around, and a couple that only reached prototype stage to keep things interesting.

War thunder us navy plane chart