How does this happen? Like people on the forum get into some argument about the turn radius of some tank and how they shouldn’t have lost a game, and then it escalates until someone posts the tank specs so they can be right on the internet?
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"This marks one of three leaks that have happened in the past week, though not all of them are directly tied to War Thunder. The first related to the release of documents on the Challenger British main battle tanks on the game’s forum, though that information was confirmed to be publically [sic] available from Britain’s National Archive."
Why would you call "leak" the disclosure of publicly available information?
Asked me to disable my adblocker, but I'm just runnng vanadium lol
Vanadium has had basic adblocking for about 5 months.
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/122.0.6261.43.1
It's also one of those websites that begs you to let it send notifications the moment it loads, and has the ads that follow you and stick to your screen while you scroll.
That said though, I had no issues with Firefox on android + uBlock origin
The leak happened earlier this week during a forum discussion regarding the T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-90S Russian main battle tanks, all of which are currently in service and appear in War Thunder itself. The documents shared are user manuals meant for those operating said vehicles and have, like most other military documents, been declared classified or sensitive even though they contain relatively surface-level information.
tbf, if I ran an intel agency, after all these incidents, Id probably have someone "leak" fake classified docs on the warthunder forums or other similar places once in a blue moon, to spread misleading information to rival agencies as to the capabilities of my nation's equipment. Both to blend in with a place idiots are known to actually post such info, and if its found out my agency was doing this, to cast doubt on the validity of any real docs from my side that were leaked before. Doesnt seem like itd cost much of anything to do, so there would have to be only minimal benefit to be marginally worth it
And who else could fake it better than the people who make them?
There have been two leaks about Chinese tanks and two about Russian jets even before this one, so while it's mostly Western gear it's not only that
Not even the stupidest Take. Gijin is a Hungarian game studio and Hungarian Govt is more or less pro Russian.
it's just morons trying to prove something. people don't join the army because they're too happy with who they are.
Ukrainian farmer: "How do I put this hunk of junk into Neutral so I can load it onto my trailer?" *starts an argument on War Thunder forums*
Honestly these guys are both the smartest and stupidest folks imaginable at the same time - I'm just glad it's the Russians they're screwing over this time haha
If they were smart, they wouldn't be playing Warthunder in 2024, tho
Ah yes, they must be playing that other historically accurate plane combat game whose name I totally forgot because it actually doesn't exist and War Thunder is the only option.
I think their point is that people that play "historically accurate plane combat game" 's are stupid.
There was a Ukrainian Bradley fighting vehicle gunner who took down a Russian main battle tank with the anti-personnel machine gun, and thanked his time playing war thunder for knowing where to hit it when he had no anti-armour and no armour piercing ammo
He took out its optics and turret control
The autism of tank nerds never ceases to astound me.
Seriously now, how many times has this happened?
Must be a day ending in y.
Did someone finally leak the metallurgy of Stalinium?
They just needs to write alien spaceships and then we'd find out about what's really in area 51 within about a week.
How’s that place not just a den of glowies by now? Bet you can see it from fucking space
How WarThunder was funded:
CIA guy: "So y'know how Wikipedia became a trustworthy source of obscure information just by weaponizing pedantry?"
NSA guy: "I'm listening."
Is this even noteworthy anymore?
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