But which minor nation would get it? I don’t think there are any nations that fit. Maybe the US, but that’s a major TT and wouldn’t make sense given the current political climate. I also don’t like the idea of it being its own TT as we have enough TTs as it is, and there aren’t really any nations left with enough indigenous designs to fill out land, air, and sea.
As it stands, I also wouldn’t like it going to Russia with all the vehicles listed as that would give Russia a bunch of the US’s jets. I feel it would be better for Iran to have a small sub tree of it’s indigenous designs in Russia, maybe have the F-14M as a premium provided the US also gets a premium Russian jet of about the same br.
I’d be ok with it going to Russia if you removed the American aircraft, and vice versa. I do not think it would be ok to give the Russians US stuff and the US Russias stuff because they were in direct competition with each other and it kind of completely obliterates the point of playing other tech trees
I can’t see what Minor nation exactly it would go to- so that is why I say Russia and the US. As another clarification
Overall, however, I would really like to see the truly domestic aircraft (non-completely reverse engineered stuff. Like the HESA Simorgh. Things like the Saeqeh Id be ok with) put into game. I think it is a fair argument to have them around and it makes sense to ask for them as it is new, varying gameplay.
I think it defo has the potential to be it’s own nation, maybe some sort of middle eastern nation which includes countries like turkey iran etc. Iran already has so many ground vehicles and a lot of them are domestically produced, theres even a forum about a hypothetical iranian ground tt. I would be a very interesting nation to be added and definitely an OP and so maybe you would have to get to rank 6-7 or even top tier before unlocking it.
Update: Six new vehicles are added (new version of the TT will be added soon)
EMB-312 Tucano (TT): Tier IV Attacker located after the O-2A
Su-20 (TT): slotted inbetween the MiG-23BN and the Su-25K
MiG-23ML (Premium): Tier VII premium
Su-35 (TT): New top tier fighter at 13.3 First line
Qaher 313 (TT): New top tier fighter at 13.0 Second line
HESA Simorgh (Squadron): Rank VI Squadron Attack Aircraft at 10.3
Other changes
F-4E (2013): Now a TT vehicle but now at 11.7 due to new weapon load of R-73’s
F-4D (2013): Reclassified as a Strike aircraft
Due to the earlier tiers still being quite sparse i may have to add vehicles operated from another country that Iran had close relationships with, which unfortunately there isn’t any i can choose from in the context of the Islamic Republic since they have a preference for drones over aircraft. For Imperial Iran there is one nation that i am on the fence about could fill up the gaps in the earlier gaps [the nation in question is Imperial Ethiopia] however like i said i am on the fence in that regards. Alternatively i may just make it that it starts at Tier V instead
Another update: New iteration of the TT is upload which includes the following changes
One new vehicle
RF-4E (Tier VII Premium)
One new weapon
Qader Medium ranged ASM
Other changes
Mirage F-1EQ: moved from the first line to the second line
Su-35 & Qaher 313: moved to Tier IX
Saeqeh 2: moved to Tier VIII
F-4D (2013): unpaired from the F-4E (1968) and paired with the F-4E (2013)
MiG-29: now specified to be the (9.12B) variant instead of the A (9.12) variant
Some aircraft used different images in the new TT iteration from the old one
I am going to plan on showing off the weapons loadout by using the WT custom loadout options to see what weapons Iranian aircraft could use so you have an idea on what it would look like
here are the rough drafts of the weapons loadout for the following aircraft
Azarakhsh
Simorgh
Saeqeh
Koswar
Note: Due to all the new weapons and guided systems that the Koswar utulizes the Koswar only has 1 20mm and there is a chance that the sole 20mm may be removed for additional weapons systems ontop of that however i cannot confirm this
If i made any mistakes in terms of the weapon loadouts please let me know
Finally I was thinking of a subtrees to add to the Iranian Air TT mainly due to how small it is, however there is not a lot of options, let alone good options to choose from since Iran typically sides with smaller paramilitaries or states that prefer using drones over conventional aircraft leaving only realistically leaves us with 2 options, Ethopia and Libya. Ethopia mostly for their ties to the Imperial Iranian regime and the fact that the current regime does buy weapons and weapon systems from Iran and Libya mainly due to diplomatic and shared geopolitical reasons. Though I’ll let the Iranian playerbase to decide on that
