Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

My guess is that we either

A. Get the Greif devblog tomorrow and a teaser for the next update,

B. Get the Greif devblog tomorrow and that’s it, no teaser, devblogs continue one per day until the weekend, and we get the teaser next Thursday (this would indicate a very late, very big update)

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Im guessing maybe another devblog today, actually for the update. But more likely 2 devblogs tomorrow including the teaser or teaser friday,

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I see one of 2 possibilities.

Teaser tomorrow because this is a small update and therefor has less blogs to pump out or Teaser next week

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BuNo 5341 and 5760 on the Milwaukee were the only Kingfishers in Soviet service

From red stars volume 4

VOUGHT-SIKORSKY OS2U-3 KINGFISHER
Two Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-3 Kingfishers were delivered to USSR on board USS Milwaukee, which was transferred to the Soviet fleet on 24 August 1944as compensation in connection with the division of the Italian Navy among the Allied powers. The American cruiser was given the name MURMANSK, and was returned ( including the two Kingfishers) to the USA after the war, in 1947.
I.A.Platonov (118 ORAP VVS SF) made a number of training flights with Kingfishers, but no operational missions are known.The Kingfishers were coded “1” and “2”.

On page 224 is a coloured profile of Kingfisher “2”, wearing red stars and the number 2 on the rudder. Colours of the aircraft seems to show two shades of light grey, dark (upper) light Underside of fuselage.
Other photos of the ship and Kingfishers can be seen on pages 156, showing US Star and bar and 157 aircraft “1” wearing the Soviet red star outlined white.

Of course you’ll find images of them in American markings immediately after they transferred the ship over when they have better things to do that repaint a float plane.
The devs seriously cannot believe Murmansk spent 5 years sailing with US floatplanes covered in US markings when they had very frosty relations with the US.

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No no no no

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We are so cooked

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Lmfao they really are going on with it

I can’t believe this madness.

The leaker must be trolling us by listing these as for China and not Japan.

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Please get that thing out of Chinese tree.

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sure love that the plane changes when lauched

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Cooked, so cooked, so unbelievably cooked.

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Gaijin really just hands them out like candy
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Disclaimer: I have no problem with China growing larger, I just want them to do so with their own vehicles (of which they have plenty)

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WTF this is ridiculous.
Why even bother grinding specific nations? Just grind one and get access to everything…
With the addition of ASEAN countries to CHI, the arcadification of WT is henceforth complete.

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After the M4 that is available in all 10 series, the next one is Leopard 2

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What a sick joke. Honestly, this is the most disappointed I’ve been in the seven years of me playing

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Excuse me. I’m not talk politics

Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) sub tree for china ? Why ?

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Hmmm…

A subtree rumored and very clearly intended for Japan very suddenly shifted and added to China, that raises some suspicions…

Spoiler

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@Smin1080p_WT seriously just why?
Nobody wants ASEAN stuff in china.
It should be added to japan, the japanese tree needs it way more and it would still make more sense

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