As one of the main users and manufacturers, South Africa produced the MB326K and has over 160 MB326s, which is even more than Italy, but still doesn’t get any kind of MB326. Especially for the MB326K, it is almost produced by South Africa itself, but still given to Italy, which is even worse than the RAM II case. Does Gaijin not want the British and their sub-TT to get a little bit powerful vehicles? Just such a simple C&P vehicle, only the British will suffer this…
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gaijin isnt finished them yet probably idk
You see Britain got the jet provost as a battlepass a while ago so that clearly plugged the gap
Maybe they just don’t do that, they would like to add MB326B as a premium for Italy, instead of just C&P one for the British, maybe they think they won’t get any money from British LMAO.
Next time they can add a advanced Jet Provost so British won’t have any toptier jets XD
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Britain has a host of 7.0 - 8.0 jets so it’s gonna be low-priority.
Especially since Britain already has an equally powerful jet as the MB326K: Sea meteor Mk3.
MB326 may very well come to be filler in the British tech tree in the future.
And my personal take is identical to your’s on this matter.
They can actually make Impala mk.2 some kind of unique, since apart from different engine (Viper 540, same as on RS-24 prototype) it can have more armament options in a form of AGMs and AAMs at higher BR.
I hope we will eventually see more jets of MB-326 family in the future (Impalas, 326G, E, said RS-24 with Aden cannons, maybe some other export variants).
https://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/aircraft/42/impala-mk-ii
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The MB326 model was made by a member of the Italian TT project, so it may not be so simple to transform it into a ZA Impala.
well even if they ‘copy&paste’ they still need to make a new skin for it and do other minor changes that would be there
Strikemaster isn’t a Jet Provost
It was the foundation of it, the Strikemaster was a direct development of the Provost Jet trainer
Developed in the early 1950s as the Jet Provost, the BAC Strikemaster carried out its role as a training and light attack aircraft well into the 1990s. - BAE Heritage
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Yes it is. Its just the combat evolution.
Just like a hawk T1a and hawk 203 are the same core plane
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I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek comment about how Gaijin gose,
“You have vehicle that fills role” and said vehicle is unobtanium in some form, so to 90% of players they don’t have said vehicle type yet.
The reason is people get pissy about copy and paste stuff.
At this point I don’t see why we are trying to pretend the floodgates haven’t already been open.
If a nation used it, give it. Let’s see some East German vehicles being added.
yes indeed it was - and that is precisely why it is not a Jet Provost
And hence it is not the same plane and does not have the same name. You won’t call a Lancaster the Manchester, nor the B-50 a B-29, nor the Me-410 a Me-210, the Ta-152 a Fw-190D, or the Jet Provost a Provost.
The Sea Meteor is not “equally powerful” to the MB326K. Its firepower is awful compared to the MB326, and it is only slightly faster.
Meteor is nowhere near as good as the MB326k in ground attack role though.
Also, it would be nice to have a SAAF jet come that isnt a Gripen, especially nice at 6.7/7.0 jets for working with the ground forces allowing for a full SADF lineup.
Its so damn weird how people forget about the South African subtree being a thing, especially for air (do any of the other sub trees with a ground force lack an air line?)
If gaijin added the minigun and 20mm gunpods from the suggestion/reports I put in it prob wouldnt be as needed but alas, we dont have those for it so having a cannon/minigun jet dedicated CAS with the nice gear would be great to have too.
for those wondering
Miniguns
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/eq1ml5W6sNK1
20mm gunpods
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/o9gNfes1s1UE
Even with those reports fixed, the core issue would remain. Its a BP reward vehicle that is largely inaccessible. We need a version of the Strikemaster added to the TT. Much in the same way we need an A-6 or Sea-Vixen
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