Didn’t Israel also capture some Soviet vehicles from the Arab nations?
Israel seized some T-34-85s and SU-100s during the Suez Crisis from Egypt and in the Six-Day War of 1967 some IS-3’s were captured by Israel and briefly used.
I found an article which talks about IS-3’s being captured by Israel.
Over six days, the Israelis captured 820 tanks, 73 of which were heavy IS-3M tanks. Part of the tanks received V-54 engines from knocked out or captured T-54A tanks and a new engine compartment roof, and served with the IDF until the early 1970s, frequently participating in military parades.
Furthermore, some T-34s and SU-100s are on display in museums around Israel after having been used, with some in rather good states of condition.
IS-3s will likely become a playable vehicle for Israel, as they were used my the nation upon being captured. I have a feeling it’ll be a premium however.
Thankfully, Israel could get two IS-3Ms. The original configuration and the domestically modified configuration with the T-54 engine. Which one goes where is up in the air though.
Completely agree with this reply. The game is already suffering from terrible arcade 2.0 issues regarding the gameplay features and maps. modern stuff in the past, vice versa. Allies vs axis match making non-existent. Much more but I’m derailing. I’m surprised so many are supportive of smearing historical tank battles even more in ways like this. No thanks.
Lets not forget that the copius amounts of “COPY PASTE STUFF GAIJIN” is already prevelant with the actual equipment nations in game use. Imagine the exact same if they go and pretend Israel was a thing in the 30’s forward by just grabbing every other nations stuff and throw it in to make a full tree for giggles.
And? We found an L3/33 in Iraq… should we put it as an 8.0 premium for a future middle eastern tree? They were used out of neccessity because it was all they had. Israel didnt exist in the time those vehicles were actual mainline use (many of which werent even mainline use to begin with). Atrificially making some tech tree to make it “fit” with other nations would be beyond pointless, let alone completely not historical.
The people that would become Israel used em. Not to mention, there’s already subtrees. Israeli people using a vehicle makes alot more sense than, for example, france using Benelux vehicles
Israel indeed captured a good amount of T-34-85 and SD-100 (Czech version of SU), even though there is not much coverage about them they did serve in the test units for about a year after the Suez crisis. According to Michael Mass there was even a department in Makhshar (Technology and Maintenance Corps) that specialized in Soviet tanks like T-34, SU-100, IS-3 and later T-series tanks.
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T-34-85 and SD-100 in preparation for 1957 Independence Day parade
Same about IS-3, some were used in test unit for a brief period of time, some were paraded. But unlike aforementioned tanks they were used in combat at War of Attrition in 1969-1970, but in untraditional way as artillery bunkers in the Tempo (Okral) position on the Bar Lev Line, the engines and transmissions were removed and more ammunition was carried in the back of a tank for the purpose of being indirect artillery.
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IS-3 in preparation for 1968 Independence Day parade
So much copy paste will reduce the number of new Israeli players, remember that you still have to research rank 3 EEUU/Brit/France to unlock this nation, so I dont see it important. In my opinion ofc.
