War Thunder 2.59.0.13 Patches Radar Exploits, Armor, and Cloud Rendering

War Thunder's update 2.59.0.13, published September 18 2026, arrives as a broad corrective patch rather than a content drop — its scope running from helicopter radar exploits to cloud stripe artifacts.

What changed

Aircraft

• A final camera-tracking sequence showing the target being hit has been added to the missile tracking camera.
• A multipath effect miscalculation affecting missiles — most often anti-ship missiles — flying above water has been fixed.
• Ka-52: a bug allowing the radar to guide multiple 9M120-1 Ataka missiles simultaneously has been closed.
• Wildcat HMA2: beam-riding LMM Martlet missiles no longer lack a salvo launch time limit.
• The 9S35M1 Buk-M1 SAM system radar has been added to aircraft RWR databases.

Ground Vehicles

• The fire control system is no longer treated as a signal module for the overpressure mechanic across all ground vehicles, with the possibility of reintroduction on specific vehicles in the future.
• M1 KVT: NERA composite armor durability on the hull front has been adjusted to match the M1 Abrams, and its damage model updated accordingly.

Naval

• Destruction credit now correctly applies to ships that have run aground.

Interface, Graphics & Other

• A preset-preview flicker in the vehicle loadout screen has been fixed.
• Cloud stripe artifacts at high altitudes and bush flickering in legacy GPU support mode have both been resolved.
• Air Realistic Battles score multipliers now correctly apply to Nuclear Escalation and Bullet Hell modes for the Space Program event achievement.
• A radar calculation bug in replays that caused significant performance drops in air combat replays has been fixed.

For players, the Ka-52 radar fix and the overpressure signal-module change carry the most competitive weight, while the replay performance correction should make post-match review appreciably smoother.