It really doesn’t. The Tomcats are American and not Japanese
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China, israel and sweden:
Am I a joke to you?
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true
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It’ll never happen but sure, it would be hilarious +1
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Make the impossible happen!
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how did F/A-18Es go on british carriers tho?
They weren’t on British carriers, as for most of the time they didn’t have any lmao
It was simply RAF and FAA pilots sent to USAF and USN Squadrons to fly various aircraft to avoid the loss of skilled pilots
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i see, since you seem you might know, why did we get rid of CATOBAR and why didn’t it return with HMS QE or PoW?
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can you be more specific please? or cba at quarter past ten
it was way too expensive
Budget cuts
Ark Royal and Eagle were over 30 years old by the end of the 70s, and it was seen as cheaper to buy smaller carriers that could focus more on ASW than being a full carrier group, especially when the Americans had A LOT of carriers at the time.
If you do any sort of in-depth research into the British military, you’ll find most of the good stuff (CVA-01, Superswift, P.1216, Harrier 3, etc, etc) is all due to budget cuts where the government decides that it’s better to spend said money elsewhere (or simply nowhere at all) and just cuts capability.
CATOBAR on the QE’s is a big thing on its own, as during design and construction, they switched between having and not having them several times, mostly because of the cost of EMALS being ridiculously expensive and not having the space for a traditional steam catapult without sacrificing a lot of capability.
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Kinda odd suggestion to see, I’m sincerly surprised, however, as much as I want more Tomcats in-game, Japan as tech tree is more likely to get indigenous designs or out from some of the existing sub-tech trees.
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Still an American jet
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So if the iranian F-14 Tomcat still american, what would an japanese make it “less american”?
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It isn’t any less American, the thing they are trying to suggest is literally a USN Tomcat
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What are you even trying to say… The Iranian F-14 is American, which is why it’s in the American TT… The literal USN F-14 the Japanese had is even more American, so adding it to the Japanese tree is nonsense.
They didn’t really have it, it was a foreign trial. So rather that giving Japan an F-14 to use for trials, they had to come to the US to evaluate a US aircraft, specifically one without any Japan-specific modification or paint.
So by all means it’s just a US aircraft, while the Iranian F-14 is only American by origin.
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these were the aircraft on trial to compete for Japanese next replacement, in the end the F-15 won over the F-14 and F-16.
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