I agree spliting ASEAN, but Philippine itself is not enough to become a subtree, what I thought is spliting ASEAN with half, the more western half (MY, ID, SG, TH, PH) and the commie block (MM, VN, LA, KH) which giving to Japan and China
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how about Su27SK from Vietnam ?
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May I also you can merge line two behond rank 4 if you want more room for Asean stuff
Better for China m8
Why would it be better for China?
Russia is too big for it, Doesn’t really make sense for Japan and China can have Eastern Asean while Japan can have the west
Wym Russia is too big for it, this aircraft or Vietnam have nothing to do with China. It would serve better as a skin anyway like the MiG-15bis.
premium rank 8 for russia,done
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Something is happening (hopium) 👀
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another premium or even vehicle lol
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this means there’s 2 thai f-5 on japan I guess
also iirc only Philippines and Thailand have F-5A/B among of 5 early ASEAN members while the others were mostly the later E/F
Two ? With the in-game FCU it would be three then.
oh including the A as well (yeah could’ve be Philippines but it is what it is)
They can still give it a Philippines camo.
The full subtree probably takes a bit of “rearranging” to be done and they probably only have Thai stuff prepared at first, so it’s a good idea to at least add camos for the others. Maybe even some for existing vehicles, like Indonesian Ki-27 or Ki-43.
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Also Im pretty sure the Royal Thai Airforce and Philippine Air Force had a swap with their OV-10Cs to the PAF’s F-5A/B’s so technically speaking - it is Philippine Air Force parts that are keeping the RTAF F-5s operational (especially the engines) lol.
Im not too worried anyhow, pretty sure someone is going to make a user model for it if Gaijin doesnt add a PAF camo.
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and for the ww2 stuff it’s not going to be too hard since its usually very rudimentary (usually single color or using existing Japanese camo with Indonesian roundels
Examples
Personally, I just want to see the Elang Biru camo or the Blue Spot as an official skin, (slight bias but) I think those two are one of the prettiest F-16 camouflages ever
Graphics and images are taken and translated from macaskeel (twitter) :
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One interesting thing of note is that Indonesia has the only surviving Ki-51 and it’s in Indonesian Airforce colours
An Indonesian Ki-79 would also be interesting since it’s a combat trainer and strike variant of the Ki-27
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People really don’t realise just how intertwined Southeast Asia is with Japan, be it good or bad reasons. Love it or hate it, accept it or deny it, WW2 is still a part of history that has indeed happened, and given that majority of Southeast Asian countries have long forgiven (but never forgotten of course) what Japan did in the past, it is generally safer and easier to add than say, South Korea.
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we’re also the only one in SEA that has an “intact” A6M5 Zero
photo source = myself :)
the museum’s collection is pretty good, I highly recommend if anyone wanna visit
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It was actually a P-26 Peashooter but that was because the Philippines was not yet totally independent at that time (it was still a commonwealth) but it was starting to create an independent Philippine Army when MacArthur pressured the US to form one which was the Philippine Army Air Corps.
Confusingly, this is not actually the forefathers of the modern Armed Forces of the Philippines but rather is the forefather of the Philippine Constabulary which is a gendarmerie type force that got folded into the Philippine National Police after the ousting of the then dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
So one can argue that Philippines really isnt a subtree for the USA as the vehicle present in their tech tree is not really a vehicle from the modern Philippine forces nor the independent state.
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