In this record of 1977 hearing, Ministry of Defence official said they couldn’t fly F-16 themselve because there was only 1 prototype available (Probably YF-16). All Japanese pilot did in USA was following F-16’s test filght behind, in F-4 Phantom.
And get scolded like ‘If JASDF pilot didn’t fly F-16 themselves, how could you say investigation on F-16 is complete?’
yea political tensions between ukraine and russia have been too high for that to be a good idea for as long as the USSR has been dead. If ukraine as a nation is going to be in WT it would have to be as a subtree in a new Poland tree or put in a tree it doesn’t belong in like France or Britain to avoid contraversies
This is never a reason to not be adding vehicles. Shouldn’t matter if the addition of aircraft lock half the tree for you. Call it personal sacrifice for the betterment for the whole tree.
Nitpick->Replacements for the R2Y’s-> just the F-84G.
The others do not count cause their 8.7 not 8.0. Gonna guess this will change in the future and hopefully, those 3 will return similarly to the mouse as I know that’s what Gaijin has been recently doing.
Hopefully. It was the closest to be possibly conceived and all of the documentation shows us what the design would have looked like. Unsure about the guns but considering Japan was struggling I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to work with 30mm’s seeing their 20’s not being effective enough against bombers of the time.
Naval is a whole different story, some nations simply can’t have new contents to fill the gaps without using the unfinished ships, the Italians for example has three unfinished ships (that I could remember), with the newest being Francesco Caracciolo. Without it, the only battleships that Italy could get are the Roma class
There are few ships which are pretty close to dreadnoughts though, like Regina Elena, Regina Margherita, Pisa and San Giorgio classes. I hope we will get them some day.
Also so far Italian projects don’t perform that good from my experience, Etna is absolutely out of meta, Comandante is a subpar destroyer. Would be much better if modellers spent their time on something more fitting to the game, like postwar Italian destroyers. Haven’t touched Caracciolo yet, but from what I’ve heard it isn’t something good, because of only SAP shells. Still Caracciolo is probably the only project in the Italian TT which was worth to add.
I find the complaints of copypaste mostly unwarranted considering that the bulk of Thailand’s Air Force are vehicles already in the game. I do want stuff like the Alpha Jet Phase 2, but this is still a nice addition.
Overall, my main complaints are with the direct copy and paste planes, like the F-84G, F-5A, and the first Alpha jet. None of those offer anything new, unlike the Alpha Jet TH or F-5T. As for the top tier additions, I don’t have an opinion on them. I don’t have anything against the aircraft, and with mixed MM at top tier it doesn’t matter a ton.
I personally dislike the F-84G, Av-8, and F-5A, and I’m not too happy about there being even more aircraft that I wish I never had to face.