War Thunder is a free to play vehicle combat game by Gaijin Entertainment, first released in 2012, featuring aircraft, tanks and naval forces. Crews and announcers speak in the language of their nation, so Soviet and Russian vehicles use Russian voice lines for events like spotting, reloading and destroying a target. Players record and share these short confirmations outside the game because the formal military delivery sounds funny out of context, turning a routine kill notification into a reusable meme for victories and fails in other videos.