War Thunder Forums Leak Military Documents For The Third Time In A Month

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War Thunder fans will know that the game's official forums are a bit of a chaotic minefield. It seems like every month, someone comes along with a whole bunch of classified military documents and posts them to settle some kind of ridiculous argument, so you'll be unsurprised to find out that it's happened yet again.

This time it was the technical manual for the AH-64D Longbow Apache, a fairly common US attack helicopter. It seems as though the person that posted these documents didn't actually know that they were classified, which sparked a bit of a debate in the forums themselves. Unfortunately for the poster, this particular document is actually restricted to the US Department of Defense members and contractors, and was quickly pulled from the forums. Quite how you overlook something like that is anyone's best guess.

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All you War Thunder fans out there won't be too surprised at this news. A leaked military document on the forums is pretty common nowadays, but things seem to be getting a little bit out of hand over there as this is the third time a classified document has been posted on the site in a month. Just two weeks ago, a flight manual for the F-117 Nighthawk was posted which detailed things like the aircraft's firing angles, engine specifications, sensor locations, and more.

Before that, a 730-page manual for the Eurofighter Typhoon DA7 leaked in late August, detailing different "systems, weaponry, flight data" and more as someone attempted to help the devs add the aircraft to the game. Obviously, it's next to impossible for the team behind the forums to preemptively stop these documents from getting uploaded without shutting them down completely, but