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Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums – again (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think Gaijin also causes this with how they "artificially balance" vehicles based on vague or basically made-up sources and ignore direct sources when it pleases them. Look at the current fiasco going on with their new $60 tank that can't even get smoke grenades for the launcher that's literally on the model for a perfect example.

Or, that time they refused to buff a WW2 tank and called the Wikipedia article a classified document.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely

But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying "Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK" because... it confirms that that is "close enough" to real that it has revealed classified information.

I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove "something" with the only info being "You know what it is".

Its also why a lot of the "War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!" are usually actually more just export control violations (... which are actually MUCH scarier but...).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Honestly, good on them for fucking with the player base who can't stop doing stupid shit on their forums for more than a handful of months.