(Also, as a minor correction on your post, the latest Iranian F-5 upgrade/rebuild were actually called Kowsar, not Koswar by the way.)
I fixed that error in regards to the Kowsar.
To add a bit of variety of Iranian air tree, you might considered adding captured/interned Iraqi aircrafts that Iran got during the 1990-91 Gulf War, as Iran used and outfitted these aircraft for their own use as a reparations for the Iran-Iraq war.
Some of those aircraft are already added (Both Su-25 variants, Su-22M4, Mirage F1EQ and MiG-23BN) though that is far from a exhaustive list, there is a potential to add both two-seater variants of the Su-22, as well as the two-seater variant of the Mirage F1, finally the Mirage F1EQ can be spilt into 2 separate variants (the F1EQ 5 & F1EQ 6), I am going to see if Iran captured aircraft during the Iran-Iraq war, any aircraft that Iran captured or seized by chance both during other wars that Iran is apart of or during peacetime.
I’ll also look into aircraft that are evaluated by Iran, flown by Iranian volunteers or Iranian Airforce pilots for another airforce and countries that have very close ties to either the Iranian airforce and/or the Iranian State. More specifically Ethiopia due to Ethiopia’s close ties to Shahist era Iran and maybe Libya due to Gaddafi close relations to Revolutionary Iran, post unification Yemen could be a another potential candidate.
As a side note, here’s my updated draft of the Iranian helicopter tree. While I got more info about the attack helicopter (enough to conclude that the Panha 2091 and the Toophan I are actually the same vehicle), I still lack quite a lot of information about their utility helicopers, so any help would be appreciated
If I find any info on Iranian helicopters especially armaments on utility helicopters, i’ll let you know
Here is a close-up of Iran’s F-86F’s in the Congo, you can see that they have wing slats found on the F-86F-40. I also did some searching and i found out that Iran not only used F-86F-40’s but also upgraded their F-86F-25’s with the wings of the F-40. Iran is not the only nation to have F-86F’s in the Congo, Imperial Ethiopian Airforce Cl-13 Mk.4’s are also present in the Congo
Because of that 1 new vehicle will be added being the F-86F-40 (foldered with the Cl-13 Mk.6) and the F-86F-25 ONUC will be changed to F-86F-25/40 and moved to Tier VI
Iran could get stuff from Irak, like Kai T-50, F-16 and Aero L-159 and maybe even Qatar too, that would give us Alpha Jet, Mirage 2000, Rafale and Eurofighter…
HESA Simorgh: Unlicensed Iranian built F-5B, like with other F-5B’s it has no inbuilt cannons but can still use other ordinances that Iranian built F-5’s can use
Here is a funky looking aircraft, the HESA Bavar, a Ground Effect Floatplane. Normally it is unarmed however it may be able to carry some munitions in the form of lmg’s dumb munitions, AGM’s and ASM’s
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
