The most popular war idiom from gaming may be Fallout's "War never changes," but if there's one thing we've learned from Gaijin's combined arms online war shooter War Thunder, it's that it's in fact always changing, no matter what Ron Perlman or anyone else says about it. After 13 years of relentless evolution and growing popularity, War Thunder's latest major update has dropped.

The new update, Sky Odyssey, is a potent show of force to hammer home War Thunder's dominance in this theatre of online shooters. It brings to the fray a host of new vehicles—particularly from Greece, but also from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia—as well as several major improvements to the aerial mechanics, a new map set in the Falkland Islands, and finally a solution to players cravenly ducking out of their vehicles to deny opponents a kill.

First, Greek aviation and ground vehicles arrive in the Israeli military, reflecting the nations' history of cooperation while fleshing out the previously narrow Israeli aviation tech tree. Its aviation branch runs from the SB2C-5 Helldiver through the F-84, F-86, A-7, Mirage F1 and F-4E AUP, eventually reaching the Mirage 2000-5EG and Rafale EG—Israel's first Rank IX aircraft, capable of carrying eight radar-guided missiles.

Russia gets a similar upgrade with the MiG-35—which packs eight active-radar missiles. Rounding up the major international additions are China's J-16, the US-Greek F-102A Delta Dagger, and Britain's Hawk T1A. The F-102 is a particularly interesting one, in that it has no cannon , relying mainly on AIM-4 infrared and radar-guided missiles.

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