Canadian Air Forces Tech-Tree

Suggestions Aircraft
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I personally think a full tree/subtree is far too much copy-paste.

Canadian planes would be best used to supplement the UK tree.

The armament of the CF-100 Mk.5, CF-101, and CF-104 are potentially inadequate to justify addition to WT without some ahistorical tweaks. For example, FFAR-only gameplay is limited now, especially with the low # of rockets the CF-100 would carry. If the cannon-armed variants, or the missile-equipped Mk.5M or Mk.6 version were included, that would make sense. IIRC, the CF-104 never carried missiles and may not have had a gun?

I think CF-100 Mk.4/B, CF-5A, and CF-118 (late, with AESA) could provide useful variety to the UK tree. The other Canadian planes would probably be best represented by historical/semi-historical skins for other planes (e.g., USAF F-101C, UK Spitfires, etc.)

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Just add it as a British sub tree and get it over with. 80% of this is British vehicles with the rest being vehicles America has already. CF-116 would be good in the UK tree as the light fighter along with the BAE Hawk 200.

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If you read the suggestion, you would have seen that the tree was done in a blanket style, ex. it shows off everything Canada could get both unquie & C&P.

In addition, most of it is “licensed built,” so Canada built it themselves(making them unique variants) rather than just buying it.

That hasn’t stopped others like them from coming to War Thunder already.

The CF-100Mk 5 would join the other rocket-only jets, like the F-89D.

The CF-101 would join other “missile onlys” from the Sea Vixen F.A.W. Mk.2 that just dosn’t have any guns to the F-104S ASA that loses its gun if you take missiles.

The CF-104 didn’t have missiles, in RCAF service, but others who used it did and as far as I could find, no modification needed, hence the split, a semi-historical one with this possible as a “late” and a more historic one.

As for a gun:

Here are two photos showing it with a gun.

Did you look at the tree? I have all armed variants 3A/B, 4A/B and 5(& M) in the tree; and the Mk 6 is paper.

Kinda hard, when they already have two sub-tree with less than 1% of their aircraft, and no room for domestically operated UK stuff.
The Canadian tech has to fight 3 other nations for a spot, it’s more than likely nothing would come instead, due to the 5 line limt, mixed with the only 3 vehclies in a line per rank( at most 9, with 3 in a folder, more more like 6, and then unlees your making nonsense folders, it wouldn’t work)

And the reason why this suggestion exists is because we want treatment like that to stop, having our tech ripped across nations unable to be used in a line-up together. What you said is the worst case for Canadian vehicles, not the best, unless you have something against Canada.

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On other news, this tree is missing Canadian-built Lancasters(yes, there’s more).

The ASW/naval patrol should be split into 3, from what I learned.

being, MR, MP, and MP(late). With each one having a different turret/radar layout(likely ordnance as well), at least one has a RWR from what I’ve been told(the MP(Late) iirc).

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Update #4

CL-81 name has been changed to CL-84-1
Removed some trolling in the specs area for the CP-107s.

Added links:

CP-107 MK 1/2
CL-84-1
Hurricane MK X and XIIA

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Still waiting for the tree

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made this post in the ground tree, putting it here as well.

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I want to play the Avro °~°

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I want to play a Canuck with both the rockets and 50cal.

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156

I just hope that they don’t make everything Canadian a premium Like they have been doing lately

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Indeed, the pain I felt when Australia got two F-18s(and more for their jets) in the tree, and the only CF-188 was locked behind $100.

Would be nice to see more of the Canadian aircraft added, but in a way that isn’t unobtainium.

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For real. cf118, leo 2A4M, Ram. all premiums. theres only a few Canadian TT vehicles when smaller nations have several

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tbf most unique Australian vehicles are all either premiums or rare BP event vehicles so they are suffering from that issue as well

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Yeah, but we still faired a little better than the poor old Canadians so far.

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+1

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Good points here.

Nothing against Canada… mostly just against copy-paste.

I understand the desire to have Canadian vehicles (not just skin)… but on the other hand it is hella annoying to play against an entire team of (for example) functionally identical MiG-15bis from 3 trees at 7.7-8.7.

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I can honestly live with the fact we will probably never see a Canadian tech tree; but there are feasible things that could be done as a half way point.

The main thing is to pull away from them only being premiums, fomo event vehicles; and most importantly not scattered across multiple nations. More decals and skins would help too to a lesser extent.

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It’s not the only solution, but I also think it would also be cool to expand the metadata associated with skins to effectively convert a vehicle in real time into one of a different nation.

For example, if you slap a Canadian skin on the NF-5A, it acquires a Canadian flag, Canadian/English voice lines, credit towards tasks requiring Canadian vehicles, etc.

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Well, unlikely to get weapons that are WT possable the first RCAF PC-21 is on the way.

https://x.com/PilatusAircraft/status/2028847943071998417?s=20

Other major news, for something that will be WT possible one day,

The P-8 Poseidon fleet Canada had ordered had a major milestone in February, with the main body of the airframe being put together.

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I do like that but I also don’t at the same time.

The reason is because it would affect a couple things:
A: The price of those skins would go up on market because of demand and people willing to pay more due to it providing more active benefits.
B: You would then have something that can help tasks or potentially other benefits that are now paywalled essentially.

So I like it but the features would have to be very carefully picked.