We are happy to announce a new vehicle type – combat helicopters! They play a very important role in modern warfare and they are an important part of the air forces of many countries, that’s why they are coming to War Thunder!
Completely new gameplay will become available in the next major update with these heavily armed war machines! We will talk about helicopters and new armoured vehicles in our devblog series that begins today.
Information about helicopters in War Thunder
Don’t miss live streams with the first helicopter gameplay footage and other details from the upcoming update with Gaijin Entertainment Creative Director Kirill Yudintsev on August 21st and 22nd 13:00 GMT on our official platforms. Your favorite bloggers and letsplayers will also be with us along the way, presenting a hands-on experience in exploring the recent updates to War Thunder!
Stay tuned!

- Helicopter UH-1C XM-30 (Rank 5, USA)
- 2000 Golden Eagles
- 15 days or premium account
- Unique title: “Pathfinder”
- Unique decal: Iroquois
- Helicopters Closed Beta access
The UH-1 “Iroquois” helicopter, also known as “Huey”, is one of the most famous mass production helicopters in the world. Designed by the American company Bell in the mid 60’s, this utility helicopter powered by a single turboshaft engine, with two bladed main and tail rotors, took part in more than 10 wars around the world and currently is in service in 60 countries. The model 1C was developed during the Vietnam War and has an upgraded 1100 hp engine, allowing for 135 mph (220 km/h) maximum speed and 13,390 ft (5900 m) service ceiling. As an alternative to the standard armament, which consists of machine guns, unguided rockets and 6 “TOW” ATGM’s, you can install an experimental XM-30 system – two 30 mm guns with 600 rounds per gun.

- Helicopter Mi-24D with Czechoslovakian Air Force camouflage (Rank 5, USSR)
- 2000 Golden Eagles
- 15 days or premium account
- Unique title: Sharp-toothed
- Unique decal: Czechoslovak army coat of arms
- Helicopters Closed Beta access
The Mi-24 series were developed in late 1960’s and is the most widely used attack helicopter in the world. The model Mi-24D was released in 1972 and has several distinctive features over the original Mi-24A model. This model has a redesigned forward fuselage, with two separate cockpits for the pilot and gunner in a tandem configuration, also new titanium armor was installed, which sustains shots from 20 mm guns, and armored cockpit glass. The armament consists of a 12.7 mm calibre four-barrel rotary cannon, four SACLOS “Phalanga-MV” anti-tank missiles with 600 mm armor penetration, and various additional ordnance options of 23 mm gunpods, unguided rockets and bombs.
Of course the most iconic helicopters will be premiums
Those are reskins of techtree helis, genius.
Do you think Czechoslovakians are the only users of the Mi-24D?
LUL
Why so triggered, \”genius\”?
It clearly says that they are selling the Mi-24D PLUS a Czechoslovak skin for it.
Read that again, “genius”. Mi-24D WITH Czechoslovakian camouflage.
If you arent complete idiot, WT have lot of premiums that are \”just\” reskins of tanks in normal tree….
Of course, start with the personal attacks. I don\’t know why I expected something else form all these toxic WT fans…
omegalul
Also what does my idiocy have to do with what kind of premium vehicles are in WT?
You started that attacks, and yes, there are tons of premiums that are only reskins, so yours \”the most iconic helicopters will be premiums\” doesnt make sence. There will be premium Mi-24 and normal Mi-24. Understood?
Tell me where did I start the attacks please.
Because you jump to conclusions without really knowing how Gaijin does things.
How Gaijin does things? Half-assedly?
Or wargamings full assedly?
WG has nothing to do with Gaijing being lazy assholes.
Lazy how?also Wargaming has to do with Wargaming being lazy asses.
What has that to do with them being lazy?
CBT access premiums are reskins so that the die-hard players can get access immidietly, while not locking the more unique premiums behind timed offer for the rest of the players. No one forces anyone to pay for them.
It\’s always been like that. Push out 2-3 packs of reskins which are available only during, or before CBT, and retire them when it goes live.
This one is a premium since it has an experimental Cannon on it. There is already a Huey in the tech tree and I am sure they will add more variants.
What kind of new cancer is this?
Literal sky cancer I believe.
uninstalled WT after they decided that every tank needed shells in the turret, except the Russians.. and WT proceeded to cover it up and discredit those that pointed it out.. done with them.
Maybe that\’s because russian tanks 90% of the time don\’t have turret racks and turret baskets?
Some tanks that had ammo stored in turrets(such as T-44s and T-54 family), and they have this mechanic implemented.
Out of curiosity, which ones do you think should have ammo in turret, but don\’t in-game?
It\’s to bad , was hoping for something more interesting than these, here\’s hoping the Italians come before Christmas.
There\’s supposedly still more stuff to come.
I imagine Italian tanks is one of them.
I don\’t expect it till end of the year.
Yeah, Italians are probably coming out this December, or November.
It would make sense if you take a lookj when the previous tank techtrees were introduced.
That\’s how WT solve their problem…introduce more stuffs so WT players for some reason will forgot it….
Can I ask what problems bother you?
Vehicle balance…(Yes I know WoT is worse but WT isn\’t good either)
And they seems to forgot the Air Force….whereas modern MBTs are all over Ground force…There\’s no equivalent or at least jets up to the Vietnam War era.
I agree with you on that, would rather have seen newer jets or at least ground attack planes , I understand more modern fighters taking a while.
How WoT is worse? WT has NO balance whatsoever, lmao.
WoT is worse IMO mainly due to 357MM….some tanks are so bad that even in top tier, they couldn\’t carry.
And also I said this so the non-WoT supporters/WT fanbois stay off and don\’t call me bias.
They\’ve driven themselves into a corner with jets.
Even 1930s tanks can destroy an MBT from the side or rear. That\’s why they can push the timeline as far as they want. But the gap between jet fighter generations is ENORMOUS. Not just the engines etc. but the whole tech behind it: afterburners, A2A missiles, radar guidance, chaff, flares.
It goes on and on. F-100 makes the MiG 17 totally obsolete. While the MiG 21 makes the F-100 totally obsolete.
It\’s a nightmare to balance.
Vehicle balance… Does that exist in real life? They try to keep WT as realistic as possible.
Besides like a historical battle where king tigers verses weaker tankers happen more often, there are a few tanks that run amok. Obj 906 was one but it\’s BR was finally changed, another is the RU251, it is extremely over powered at it\’s BR.
I love reading all those whiny comments from die hard wot fans (and wallet warriors – because you can\’t enjoy wot without screwing your wallet these days). So, I heard there are more premium tanks inbound for wot =]]