Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

For the overall health, i think its better to put ASEAN in Japan and South-America in Israël.
But keep the C&P out of Japan, its one of the only - almost totally unique - techtrees left.

Also, they might add the Bronco with Thailand, because Thailand operated multiple variants of it.

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I would say Thailand comfortably fills some the post 8.0 air holes (Most notably CAS in the form of the Alphajet, incoming harrier, and Gripen Cs), with some fun ground additions (Super upgraded FV101s which still retain the base 76mm gun and Stingrays + offers a pretty good place for the Ukrainian T-84 & BTR-3E)
I would say Indonesia would fix the SPAA issues though (With a Starstreak based system amusingly enough) however does lead to the same problems as India for the UK where then it’s free game to pretty much everyone’s tech (As the Indonesian operate aircraft from pretty much everyone, e.g. Hawks from the UK, F-16s, SU-27 & SU-30, and Rafale)
Both operate the KAI T-50, but iirc only Indonesia’s is armed.

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I’d be fine with that.

I still think the TAM series should be added to Israel too. Honestly you could make a whole line out of stuff Israel has developed for (or sold to) LATAM nations.

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I think israel is only involved in the newest version of the tam that isnt in the game yet

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I believe Israel (Elbit) was involved with TAM2IP, TAM2C and TAM2CA2.

(I don’t believe they had anything to do with the OG TAM ‘1’ though)

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No reason for China to get Singapore SPYDER as they have a lot of modern anti air.

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Yeah, China is spoilt for choice with Anti air going forward.

My reason is admittedly a little more selfish. ISR / CN are often on the opposite team, and it would irk me after suffering for so long with Chaparral to immediately see the ‘other side’ get access to what we’ve been painfully waiting for.

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I have a book on Chinese tanks and IFV’s from 1950 to present and the Type 77 would be funny

I used to hate the chaparral but got used to it - I wish the E version of the missile had its smokeless motor back though. The G version of the missile in the Israeli tree is excellent (I’m pretty sure should be smokeless as well) but it is at BR 10.0 which Israel has no tanks to match which sucks.

China is pumping out crazy amounts of IFV / SPAA / SPG’s in recent years.

Feels like every couple months there’s a new prototype being put through its paces on the driving / firing range.

They’re going to have a very strong top tier in the next few years if even a fraction of this stuff gets added.

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We are also missing the whole BMP series of tanks for the Chinese such as the Type 86, 86A,B,G’s ect

It’s alright at 10.0.

Absolute turbo-junk at 12.0 though sadly.

I mean… (Thai Starstreak)

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What an absolute mememobile

Unfortunately it seems like Gaijin is almost allergic to adding new domestic light vehicles for China. Type 15, VT-5, and some of the new vehicles that are shown in the Zhuhai air show. And none of it is in the game right now.

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Copy and paste is much less effort.

It’s understandable with the brand new stuff just debut’ing at recent shows, I imagine little is actually known about them.

I’m sure many will show up in game in the coming years if enough info comes to light.

Even when information surfaces, whether these vehicles will be accurately represented is also a big question mark.

Gaijin needs to reevaluate how they review issue reports.

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This makes me wonder when the F-2 comes if that’s going to be the thumbnail for the update as that’s a pretty iconic aircraft. I guess it depends on what other aircraft come with it.

Maybe I'm biased but the "blue F-16" is pretty photogenic

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Pthahaha maybe for low tier but not top tier and that where japan needs the most help

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