War Thunder players take their tanks seriously. But one player perhaps took things a bit too far.
The player in question, known as Pyrophoric, took to the War Thunder forum on Wednesday night to post an image from a Challenger 2 battle tank Army Equipment Support Publication (AESP) – like a user manual – to try to convince developer Gaijin Entertainment the in-game version isn’t authentic to the real-life version.
According to a post by the UK Defence Journal, the image had its “UK Restricted” label crossed out, with an “UNCLASSIFIED” stamp added. Various parts were reportedly fully blacked out.
Here’s what the player posted alongside the document and two screenshots of the tank in War Thunder:
“Linking those screenshots with the following edited image from the AESP’s which is meant to show the relationship of the various components. The image isn’t exactly to scale as its only meant to show the position of components relative to each other but it works for the point I’m trying to make here. The trunnion’s sit centrally of the rotor. The trunnions support the rotor in the turret structure and the GCE sub components as previously stated are all mounted to the rotor.”