Season Update 1.16: “Sky Samurai”

In this update, you can expect to see the following:

• The Japanese research branch in the Aviation Campaign.
• New tank map — Cargo Port!
• New common British platoon at Rank XI.
• Blueprints for top-tier vehicles in the ship and aviation campaign trophies.
• Launch of a new season for a long-running event featuring unique vehicles.
• Start of a new season and Battle Pass levels.

Read more about the changes in the United Front major update in the article below.

New vehicles

Tanks

• Challenger 2 TES Platoon (Rank XI)
  • Challenger 2 TES
  • Challenger 2
  • Desert Warrior
  • Chieftain Marksman
• Premium Platoon FV4030/3 (Rank IX)
  (can be obtained from the Big Trophy container during the Sky Samurai event)
  • FV4030/3
  • VFM5
  • ZT3A2
  • ZA-35
• Premium Platoon Sholef (Rank VI)
  (can be obtained from the Medium Trophy container during the Sky Samurai event)
  • Sholef
  • AMX-13
  • AML-90
  • ZSU-57-2

Ships

• British missile submarine HMS Swiftsure (Rank VI)
  (standard or premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Sky Samurai event)
• Soviet missile submarine Pr.885 (Rank VI)
  (standard or premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Sky Samurai event)

Aviation

• Japanese N1K2-J fighter (Rank VIII)
  (standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Sky Samurai event)
• Japanese J6K1 fighter (Rank VIII)
  (standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Sky Samurai event)

New Aircraft Branch – Japan

The long-awaited Japanese aviation tree is now available to all pilots! Earn research points in battles and order new Japanese aircraft for your Hangar. All vehicles researched during Early Access will remain at your disposal.

Along with the new research branch, new Japanese “golden” aircraft will appear in the game, as well as aircraft at ranks 1-7 for blueprints.

“Golden” aircraft:

• Hagiri's A5M4 (Rank I), A7He1 (Rank II), Ki-44-I 34 (Rank III), Ki-96 (Rank V), B-17E (Rank VI), A7M1 (NK9H) (Rank VII).

Aircraft for blueprints:

• Ki-109 (Rank I), Ki-43-II (Rank II), Ki-61-I ko (Rank III), P1Y1 mod.11 (Rank IV), Ki-108 Kai (Rank V), Ki-61-I tei (Rank VI), J2M2 (Rank VII).

More details about the aircraft can be found in the announcement.

New location

• New tank location – Cargo Port.

Season “Sky Samurai”

Complete the Sky Samurai Season combat missions, earn War Bonds as rewards and unlock trophy containers with valuable prizes for them.

The “Sky Samurai” season will last from June 5th to July 3rd, 2025.

War Bonds and Keys cannot be used in the next season. After the end of the current season, War Bonds and Keys will be automatically used to open the relevant trophies in random campaigns. If you want to get rewards from a certain campaign, you have to use the War Bonds and Keys yourself before the end of the season, until 10:00 (GMT) on July 3rd 2025.

The race for vehicles in the Big Trophy container begins a week from today, on June 12th, 2025.

Leaderboards

To get into the campaign leaderboard, you need to fight at least 5 battles using vehicles from the relevant campaign (tank and ship take-offs don't count for access to the Aviation Campaign).

The rating season ends on June 26th, 2025 at 10:00 (GMT). Rewards will be distributed within a few days after the leaderboards are frozen. It’s important to note that rewards may be given out at different times for different leaderboards.

Battle Pass

Complete special tasks, level up your Battle Pass and receive rewards for your completed steps.

When you purchase the VIP pass, you instantly receive premium camouflages on vehicles from the Medium Trophies of the tank and ship campaigns, for one of the aircraft, as well as automatically completing 10 steps from the Battle Pass lineup. If you have already purchased an upgraded BP, the cost of the VIP pass will be reduced.

The unique camouflages are given when you purchase a VIP pass no matter if you have a vehicle.

Other

• A bug that caused the “Resolution” setting to not work on Android devices and the image to look too blurry on some phones has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the tank to jerk when returning to tank control after taking off in an airplane has been fixed.
• The icons for the Bkan 1C platoon have been fixed – the vehicles now have the correct camouflage.
• Dunkerque – the speed of the ship has been increased from 52 km/h to 54 km/h.
• Some shoot-throughs on the Poland map have been fixed.

We wish you victory and a great experience playing War Thunder Mobile (WTM)!