1y ago

It's happening again: War Thunder players continue to leak classified military documents

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I will never understand why war thunder of all things attracts all the leaks.
A DCS or even that indie HEAT game is high fidelity realism. This shit is balance numbers.
- I assume it has a lot more players because it heavily invests in marketing and has broader appeal (not everyone wants to spend hours reading a plane's manual and watching tutorials just to be able to get through the pre flight checklist). So more chances of a random player having access to (low level) classified docs, and then uploading them.
- I think it's kind of an extreme version of that thing where if you want an answer on reddit you don't ask for help, you confidently post a wrong answer and someone will immediately correct you.
  The need to pedantically correct strangers online knows no bounds, not even the government can prevent it.
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.