A German Bf-109 Escorted a stricken B-17 over Europe and to Britain. Thid argument doesn’t mean much
Gaijin has never made a true dual tech tree vehicle to my knowledge, unless we want to count the Israeli stuff.
However, as for the IRIAF going dual: it has been far too long since it has been added, add to this that Gaijin finalized the decision when it was released. Alongside this, it was the first Iranian vehicle, and thus fair game. Finally, the Tomcat is a famously American aircraft, there is a reason why America won’t get the HAVE aircraft. I’d also much rather Russia get an Iranian MiG-29 or something similar, as it makes significantly more sense than adding a western aircraft.
Gaijin’s major reason for the addition of it to US besides what I’ve already stated was due to the US/Iran relations of the time of the F-14’s procurement. While the addition of R-27R1s was incredibly shaky, without them it very easily could’ve still gone to the US.
Well, if we go by this anyone can have anything. USA had Kfirs. A US private company , named ATAC has 63 Mirage F.1 and they’ve upgraded them like 4th gens (they get hired as agressors). You know the story of American MiGs .
They even had Su-27 and MiG 29s. So let’s not go there.
one of those ATAC SU27 are now in the USAF museum in Dayton OH
and i went down a little of a rabbit hole and ATAC is owned by Texron which also own the old Cadillac-Gage plant where the jaguar type 59 prototype is just sitting outside
They acquired it at 2011 and was airworthy until 2013 as an agressor. They had an idea of keeping it airworthy , but possibley the cost would be too much.
ATAC , currently has more jets than Argentina…
They belong to Txetron currently.
Also, Draken International…they Also have Mirage F.1 , MiG 21BiS , L-159LE.
Top Aces company , has F-16s and upgraded A-4Ns caling them -the world’s most advanced Skyhawks -.
I’m telling you… you don’t want to go there.
Also , Tactical AIR operates F-5AT , a heavily upgraded F-5E to 4th gen. and they had flown Su-27… that company trains F-35 pilots .
The Iranian F-14 (along with F-16s, F-4s, F-5s, AH-1s , M-47s and M-48s) was a straight up export to Iran will they had a USA “approved” (I wont get into the details here) government, they have all been modified locally since due to being cut off from the USA supply chain so it gets pretty muddy.
The problem is Gaijin is incredibly inconsistent with the standards of where exported vehicles go, like how the Leopards specifically modified for Canada stay in the German tree, but the ones that are modified for anybody else… or not modified at all… go into other nations tech trees.
Maybe Iran should be added as a full sub-tree for either China or Russia as they have quite a few domestic and heavily modified vehicles. but not enough to justify a standalone tree. Unfortunately neither of those nations really needs a sub tree, but there is not really anybody else that it would make sense to pair Iran with.
It’s one of those things where no matter what they do, it’s going to piss off half the player base.
Generally speaking, Gaijin doesn’t do this with modified vehicles.
If a vehicle was modified by a nation that wasn’t the original producer, it still defaults to the initial producer, this is why you don’t see Leopards and Abrams in the British tt for example.
Gaijin isn’t exactly consistent with this rule though and I wish they’d just apply a universal standard one way or the other, since we get exceptions like the Indian jets in the British TT that have nothing to do with British development.
By that logic the US tree should have all the MiGs of the 4477th TES and also the Su-27 & MiG-29 currently sitting in their museum(s), oh and maybe the CN tree should have an F-14 as well cuz it was proposed back in the 1980s.
just because you dont want to play the US tech tree doesn’t mean the game has to adjust to your liking. They are not going to just mix tech trees together because of geo politics.
Sadly Draken’s Mig-21s never ended up flying. I guess they were in rather poor condition after they were purchased.
ATAC also has Mirage F1s and Kfirs, as well as Hawker Hunter Mk.58s.
