Dragons Coming To War Thunder, Take To The Skies In The Chinese J-10 Or JF-17 This September [Video]

I’m not going to lie here. Because I am not a huge military person nor am I a combat aircraft person, I initially read the press release dropped by the War Thunder team and went, “wait, they’re adding dragons?” For the next few minutes, my brain stopped reading the press release and started imagining how the strategy game would look if you could hop into a modern day military aircraft OR take to the sky with a dragon and combat ensued.

Kind of sounds awesome to me!

No, War Thunder isn’t adding literal dragons, maybe sadly. Instead they’re adding the Chinese-made “dragons”, the J-10 and JF-17 fighters in September. The update is fittingly called the “Dance of Dragons.” The JF-17 was developed by China for use in the Pakistani Air Force, and we’ll see the addition of the also Chinese-made and Pakistani-used Al-Khalid-I tank. The J-10 is still used in China to this day, is capable of speeds near Mach …