That´s not what I meant in my original comment at all and I don´t blame you thinking that since Hyrikul is able to twist words so nicely.
What I said was that every time Germany players ask for something, vocal minority haters of Germany gets upset and actively fights against it. Then Gaijin listens to this vocal minority (see Smin´s comment) and denies addition of those vehicles to Germany.
From my perspective. Germany got the Mig-23MLA 6 months before the Harrier Gr7 and a year before the Tornado F3.
Germany got the Mig-29 in teh same update we got the Tornado F3 which was so broken i dont even consider it added until the following update.
Before Britian got a single new aircraft, Germany got the Mig-29G which was the meta aircraft until we finally got a counter to the Mig-29 which was the Gripen C. Which they then nerfed quite badly and still held a notable disadvantage vs the Mig-29G as it had Skyflash DFs vs R-27ERs.
I would say Germany has maintained meta status just fine up until June this year. Far more so than Britain has done so at the very least. and even since June, main ARH carrier i’ve played is the FA2 and i do just fine in it. ICE should be easy in comparison.
Spain technically counts under minor Axis, so that’s the justification for Italy getting it.
And would allow for a total Hornet update with any nation that could get one getting it. Although the Spanish Hornet is the one I’d say is least likely to come out of the ones I’m sure could come right away.
I just find it a bit slower than necessary in some aspects. However, I don’t know what Gaijin’s internal plans are and how detailed they plan to go with things.
I feel we just hit the biggest milestone recently with ARH missiles and the next one is stealth. I do not think P/AESA will make any notable change/difference. Gaijin seems to think similarly if they’re putting the Su-34 in with it’s PESA radar.
With the direction Gaijin seems to be going for BRitain these days, I would not be surprised. Only French aircraft Id not mind in our tree though is a SA Mirage III to augment our 11.0 BR with something super-sonic