In a wonderful example of the importance of epeen, people in heated arguments over there have released classified documents just to prove they’re right.
You have a link here for leaked docs for a British Challenger II tank, but its not the only case.
Based on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary–Russia_relations#Hu…: Hungary has mostly remained neutral-to-favorable to russia while remaining part of NATO. So I suspect they don’t have as strict export control laws as other NATO countries.
But also: What would be the point of open sourcing your engine so that a russian company can work on it or use it? If you are going to be doing back channel exchange of money to outsource improvements then that is a REAL good way to get your assets seized. And the commit history will be a good indication that something hinky is happening. And if you are going to back channel it you just give them a private FTP server or something.
I am not huge on warthunder so I can’t really speak to the technology. It looks like it has some good scale capabilities though. So I could see this as being the first step to try and pull an “Unreal Engine” and branch out that way. Although, odds are this will be closer to a Cryengine.
My understanding is VK group is developing something on their engine.
Gaijin founders are Russian, they have major investors which are Russian, developers which are Russian.
While I'm not going to bet on it one way or another I would not be surprised if it was to avoid sanctions in order to keep contractual obligations / make Russian investors happy.
A more likely, but imo still not realistic, theory I’ve just thought of is that this was done to reduce intl intelligence services trying to snoop on Gaijin devs because they think could be classified stuff in their source code.
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