War Thunder dev under fire for including Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in key art

A serious and shockingly overlooked mistake has placed the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion within the background of key art for War Thunder’s new Seek & Destroy event.

Gaijin Entertainment dropped a new War Thunder event on June 19 called Seek & Destroy, featuring three images in one in the key art. All three images showed fighter jets firing missiles, with the bottom left art containing smoke from the Challenger Space Shuttle catastrophe that took place during a 1986 launch. The shape and curvature of the smoke cloud are highly recognizable, especially for individuals like myself who watched it live from a school classroom on that dreaded day. 

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