War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment has apologized after using the explosion from the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in key art for the World War 2 massively multiplayer online game.

War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment responded over the weekend to an observation from online users that it had used the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion in new key art. The image ...

As spotted by Gamespot, on June 22 some players spotted that a large explosion in the background of a new piece of War Thunder artwork looked identical to the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

The latest War Thunder event titled "Seek & Destroy" comes ... "We have accidentally used the explosion from the Challenger disaster in one of our key art images," says community manager Magazine2.

the picture was part of an aerial explosion reference pack used by our artists and the context was lost,” a community manager called “magazine2” posted on the official War Thunder forum.