An early MiG-29K with R-27ER and R-73E would be perfect for 12.7, being better than the overtiered G and SMT and IMO would have been a much better addition than the JAS-39C and its entirely fictional armament.
The Rafale and Su-30MKI are quite a bit more capable than anything in-game largely due to their armaments, but would be worthwhile additions eventually once the game gets up to that point.
An Indian sub-tree for the UK makes sense, but I don’t think the UK should get vehicles they didn’t actually use. Same thing goes for American vehicles in the Taiwanese sub-tree and “Argentinian vehicles” in the German tree. Keep it domestic, or make it substantially unique, but no copy-paste.
Then remove the British planes in the American tree
lets remove Israel while we are at it
and all of Japan top tier along with Italy
Get rid of the East German stuff as well
Yes. I agree. Also we should remove a lot of the vehicles in the Chinese and Swedish trees.
Alternatively, we could just give everyone sub-trees and make every nation the same. I think that the U.S. could use a Pantsir and R3-T20.
What they should have done is made nations like italy, sweden, israel, and china subtrees or stand-alone vehicles in pre-existing nations, (e.g. Italy and sweden as German sub-trees, china as russian subtrees, and israel as a U.S. sub-tree).
I get some nations need copy paste to survive, but Britain is not one of them. Indian stuff can go to GB when and only when it is British in origin or Unique to India. Any other case, it should go to the country of origin. I also think that with Russia, the US, Germany, and even parts of nations like Sweden (why does it need a 2A6 if it has the STRV 122s? It’s not like Germany got a second 2A6) or China.
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