Wouldn’t be too surprised by that if it was true since the South Africans did help them develop some of their weapons such as the Al-Manjoon and Al-Fao SPG’s for example
I believe the Al-Faw kit was a domestic Iraqi modification. And hey you never know, this may be the Iraqi vehicle for the leaked world war mode we saw a week or so ago, there was the Iraqi 1963-1991 flag also leaked. My hopes are the Lion of Babel T-72M1 with EO or the T-55 Enigma.
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The Al-Fao is a Iraqi evolution/Sub-variant of the Al-Manjoon which is pretty much an Iraqi built G6 Rhino with some different specs to meet Iraqi army specifications
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Magach 7A ah lookin upgrade
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Perhaps War thunder can create an entirely new independent tech-tree that focuses on Africa, instead of grouping it under European countries. There are plenty of African countries that can be bundled together signifying African unity. Special commemorative decal to Nelson Mandela can also be created. In this way the traditional concepts off power dynamics can be reshuffled.
year！but the armour techinique come from Olifant Mk.2
One of my genuine questions is, how are you planning to take out South Africa out of the Great Britian?
Other than that I think this would be a pretty good idea. +1
This is the Optimum turret without the addon composite armour
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got it！
I think the tree looks pretty solid enough to stand on its own, even without subtree.
Sadly, based on how adamant Gaijin is on adding India (which on its own has good amount of unique stuff like South Africa) to fill the gap in the British tree, I don’t really think that they would consider having a separate South African tree any time soon.
Still, +1 should Gaijin changed their mind in the future.
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I go through this in the Implementation section of the suggestion, but in my opinion there are two options:
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‘Retire’ the vehicles in the British tree similar to how the Maus/Tiger II 105 etc are hidden in other trees. They remain viewable and playable if you own them, otherwise they are hidden. There is precedent for this, as this is how the Italian Aircraft Sub-Tree* was removed from Germany way back when Italy got its own tech tree. All those planes are still present and playable in the German tree if you owned them back then.
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Alternatively, remove the vehicles from the British tree and transfer full ownership, research, camo progress, talismans, crew level from the British tree to the South African one. This way you don’t lose any vehicles or money spent, and you’d have a very strong headstart on several of the lines of the new tree. This would ideally come alongside the introduction of domestic alternatives to the removed vehicles, like the Simba 90, Saladin 90, Alvis Pirahna, Scorpion 90, etc etc in order to fill the gap left behind.
Neither of these options are perfect, but I believe it is definitely doable.
*I don’t think the term sub-tree had actually been coined back then, but it was in every way except name the games first sub-tree - a dedicated line of vehicles from a different nation implemented to provide a place for a minor nation.
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“Retire” is the perfect word that I have been looking for, me and my team are working on a Visegrád tech tree and we are looking to do a similar thing with taking Hungary out of Italy. Wish you guys luck!
Ratel 20 with mineclearing equipment
Malawian FV721 Fox armoured car
Here’s a good addition to the TT, the We’rewolf, a MRAP of Namibian origin with 2 possible variants, an SPAA variant with an enclosed turret with the ZU-23-2 as it’s main gun and a wheeled IFV Variant with the same turret from a BMP-1, Namibia never used Konkurs or Matlukya ATGM’s however they do use Kornet ATGM’s so they can get that instead as it’s ATGM
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What would the Ratel 20 mineclearing version bring to the game? I doubt it could offer anything worth making the vehicle heavier over.
an easy premium
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That nobody would buy. Besides, the Ratel 20 already lacks APDS so without an auxiliary anti-tank weapon such as the Milan it’s borderline useless in most situations.
It can be added as decoration or as a mild armour pack akin to dozerblade, ERA and/or netting on some of the vehicles
Maybe, I just feel that it’s more of a downgrade for the Ratel 20, not a very useful upgrade nor one that would outweigh what it loses in mobility.