I do dislike having Sweden around in ww2 era sim tbf on Allied side.
Junkers bombers. You see one from afar, you fly in to intercept and ready to pull the trigger since you’ve learned how to ID a german bomber and… it’s swedish. It’s a friend.
So now you gotta be careful approaching all junkers aircraft you see which means you’ll have a increasingly delayed reaction compared to the tail gunners in IFF and get shot at before you can safely open fire without fear of teamkill.
Then you have the inverse where sweden is flying for axis and there’s mustangs shooting at your own mustang leaving you very confused.
If you get to rank VIII now with one rank VII aircraft purchased, while the requirement is only one rank VII aircraft (either the F-4EJ or the F-4EJ ADTW is enough) and they add another rank VII in the update and increase the unlock requirement to 2 purchased rank VIIs, it will be locked again.
I get the issue with Copy Paste Aircraft being undesirable for the game, but this is in all honesty not the place for that right now, Japan has a SERIOUS defficiency of aircraft at higher tiers and this is pretty much only fixable by a sub-tree, as the only 2 aircraft yet to be added for japan are the F-2 (Their LAST indigenous fighter if you can call it that) and the F-35.
The F-2 is surely being held a little longer and the 35 is a ways off
As For unique Aircraft From Thailand (Seeing as your ignoring their modifications of previously existing aircraft), there are a couple of Very early props that could be added, but Japan isnt exactly in short supply of Low tier props
We need more experimental planes. That actually were considered to put into service or got rejected at the final moment.
USA has alot of them , same goes to Russia. Even EU .
For an example : Russian SU-47 Berkut .
But copy paste is boring already .
Japan before this announcement was was also heavily cas deficient after 8.0 bracket and your only real capacity was unguided bombs and rockets till the F-16AJ came along and gave AGM-65B mavericks to ease the pain, having these options now means Japan can take on a more varied role outside of its ground dominant role, helping the Su-34 CAS problem, and further allowing for suppression of enemy air defense capacity
You research the F-4EJ and unlocked rank VIII with that, then you research the F-4EJ Kai as your first rank VIII.
Now they add another rank VII and increase the requirements for rank VIII.
You can now still use your already researched F-4EJ Kai, but you can’t research the F-15s or F-16 until you fulfill the rank VIII requirements again.
This happened to me with the Italian tree when they added the Hungarian aircraft. I already had the Sagittario 2 and the F-84F unlocked on rank VI, when they added Hungary and suddenly I didn’t have enough rank V aircraft to research rank VI anymore.
Which was never even considered for service, and as far as we know no armament was every proposed, although there was room made for some undefined “conformal” fitment.
So, by that logic all the people who got F-4EJ which is currently the only VII (minus the premium and squadron) and unlocked VIII, they would still be affected as well if even if they managed have only one or two VIII jets, they won’t be able to access grinding other stuff in VIII anymore due to them adding stuff in VII?
It’s actually so over… here I was grinding to finally unlock the Rank VIII, I only grinded the 2 first lines on the left, I guess I can still get the normal F-4EJ and then the F16AJ before they add the Thai jets and lock everything again in Rank VIII.