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War Thunder fan leaks classified military documents to win an argument about tanksagain

https://www.pcgamer.com/war-thunder-fan-leaks-classified-military-documents-to-win-an-argument-about-tanksagain/

War Thunder is a free-to-play online war game from Gaijin Entertainment. It is a game committed to accuracy, with a mode that goes all-out on realistic vehicle and weapon physics, and a playerbase that is extremely invested in the minutiae of its vehicle simulations.
The War Thunder forums see many arguments about the accuracy or otherwise of particular hardware, and this weekend saw one about the French Leclerc Main Battle Tank and its variants: which at one stage, got down to the exact speed of rotation of the tank's turret. Player __RED_CROSS__ got rather annoyed with a user saying that the turret's rotation speed was 40 degrees a second, among other things, and so decided to try and win the argument byunder the title 'Sekrit Document'posting portions of the gunner manual for the Leclerc to prove their point (thanks, UK Defence Journal).
This happened on Sunday morning and, doubtless quite pleased with their work, __RED_CROSS__ popped back into the thread several times during the day, saying things like "It took ~11 seconds for the turret to make a complete turn, so 550 mil/s (31) is indeed correct not 40. [Leclerc Serie 2] I was in". They further went on to clarify that they were in the Serie 2.3 model, while other fans in the thread reported the documents and argued over whether they were classified or not.

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Lmao.

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It's absolutely mental that this is now something that has happened more than once.

Just how serious business is this damn game?

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Not an Onion article

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Tom Clark posted...

It's absolutely mental that this is now something that has happened more than once.

Just how serious business is this damn game?

It combines aspects of wartime history, hobby modeling, and gaming minutiae. Those subjects, individually, are already notoriously prone to nerd obsession.

Maybe there's a secret of sociology to be gleaned from this.

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I was gonna say, isn't this an old article, but it fucking happened again lol

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@AssultTank why did you do this?

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Guide posted...

It combines aspects of wartime history, hobby modeling, and gaming minutiae.

Say no more, haha

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