reported by Justin LeClair on July 15, 2025

INTRODUCTION

For over 11 years, Arma 3 has been a major platform for mod developers and content creators. We recognize the amazing impact our modding community has had on our series over the years, and we greatly appreciate those who have dedicated thousands of hours of development for helping make the Arma 3 platform what it is today. The mods they have created can provide a completely new, expanded, and customizable Arma 3 experience.

Over 160,000 Arma 3 mods have been uploaded to the Steam Workshop - an impressive amount of free additional content for use in our military simulator sandbox. This could be a daunting amount for our players to search through - so to help, we began a blogpost series in April of 2024 that feature popular mods. Written for both new and veteran players alike, these articles showcase not only mods that you have heard of and have used, but maybe some hidden gems that will give you some new content to try out. We believe the mods we featured they provide a significant amount of content and expanded game mechanics that will enhance your Arma 3 experience and give you countless hours of immersive mil-sim gameplay.

The lists of mods featured in each article are far from exhaustive or comprehensive, and we may very well have missed a favorite mod of yours. Even still, what has been curated here will add an exceptional amount of variety.

The initial article was written primarily for new players looking to step into modded gameplay for the first time, and listed in detail some mods that have become core staples of many community veterans and units.

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WEAPONS

Our second article focused on weapon mods, as this felt like a logical place to begin the more thematic articles in this blog series. Bohemia Interactive itself released an "official" weapon mod with the ADR-97 (which is now part of the base game as of Update 1.86), and weapons are some of the easiest, most immediate, and tangible ways to fundamentally alter your gameplay experience.

After all, the name "Arma" literally translates to "weapon." Lock and load!

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EQUIPMENT

Now that you are armed with a massive arsenal of weapons, you will need to be dressed and equipped with the appropriate combat gear for your missions. Therefore, our third blog entry focuses on equipment mods.

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AIRCRAFT

Do you have the need - the need for speed? Put on your leather pilot jacket and aviators, and get ready to enter the danger zone! We take to the skies in our fourth article, focusing on aircraft mods.

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VEHICLES

We put you directly into the driver's seat with our fifth article, which focuses on vehicle mods.

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BOATS AND SHIPS

That's the air and land covered - but what about the sea? Come aboard some excellent community boat and ship mods with our sixth article.

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FACTIONS

The community has created some absolutely fantastic faction mods featuring both real-world and fictional nations and non-state actors from across different historical eras. Some of the more stand out examples were featured in our seventh article in the series.

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TERRAINS

What is a military simulator without the physical sandbox (or should we say forest, jungle, or tundra) to play in? With our eigth article, we take you around the world and drop you into a myriad of biomes and climates with some standout terrain mods.

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GAMEPLAY

Some modders set out to change, expand, or create entirely new gameplay mechanics for Arma 3. With our ninth and penultimate article in this series, we bring you some impressive gameplay mods.

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TOTAL CONVERSIONS

The Arma 3 modding community never ceases to amaze us with the sheer scope and scale of the total conversion mods available on the Steam Workshop. These mods will completely change your Arma 3 experience, and allow you to easily immerse yourself in operations set in the past, present, or even the far future! The tenth and final article in the series focuses on these total conversion mods.

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CONCLUSION

We feel the mods featured throughout these articles are an excellent way for any player, new or old, wishing to expand their Arma 3 experience. When you can find the time to, we encourage you to look through the thousands of mods on the Steam Workshop yourself - there might well be one you have previously overlooked waiting to become a new favorite of yours.

For more information about Arma 3, please visit www.arma3.com. To keep track of all the latest news, be sure to follow @ArmaPlatform on Facebook, X, YouTube, and Steam.

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