Yeah, F-35 is Lightning II, sharing its name with the P-38 Lightning, and in Britain it’s the Lightning III since we had the EE Lightning II
I really hate how they tease and hype vehicles like the J-10s and F-2A for years, only to not give them proper spotlight… Only J-10A got lucky
Though there is a slight chance they establish China as a main air nation now, which would mean featuring F-2A is back on the menu too. And by slight chance I mean guarantee, I have this and I’m not afraid to use it.
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Why give an Indian version of an American Stryker when you can just have a Canadian LAV instead?
The Stryker is based off of the LAV tbh.
LAV being based off of the Swiss Piranha though is a different bag
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China should eventually become the 2nd largest air tech tree after America, they have a colossal air force and that should be reflected in wt
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Well pretty soon everything back home is going to be legally required to be renamed after our dear leader.
Jokes aside one of the goobers who wants to take over Greenland proposed to rename it Red White And Blue Land because we are all being punished for our sins in past lives.
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Carabine M1 here
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Not even talking about the full names, F-4 always describes the Phantom II, while F4F described the Wildcat, F4U the Corsair and F4D the Skyray.
The correct designations actually differ without having to go another layer deeper, unlike the designations for their tanks, guns, ammo, explosives and whatever else shares the M# designations.
Spoiler
Older plane designations are differentiated by a number affix (F4F-1, F4F-2, etc), while newer plane designations are differentiated by a letter affix (F-4A, F-4B, etc)
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Isn’t said goober trying to pass that law?
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Thats why I like the german designation system. You know immediately what is talked about, even if you dont know the exact thing. P8? Thats a Pistol. MP7? Submachinegun (Maschienenpistole in german). G27? Thats a Rifle (Gewehr). MG4? Machinegun (Maschienengewehr).
And then theres just this:
Aaaaaaand then we have things like MELLS, which stands for mehrrollenfähige leichte Lenkflugkörper-System or MARS II (Mittlere Artillerieraketensystem II)
How did manage to make such a perfect system for small arms and then fuck up everything else? idk
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I prefer LARS over MARS, he’s just a chill guy
Smiles in Flarakrad
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You mean the Flugabwehrraketensystem Roland auf Radkraftfahrzeug?
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Locked thread was the best thing that happened. 1000 comments overnight and 30 of them on the devblog
or some AA’s form this list: https://forum.warthunder.com/t/high-tier-top-tier-spaa-mega-list
i especially would love to see the JRVG-1, the FK-2000, the type 625e, the General Electric’s DIVAD Proposal (GAU-8 on a tank), the 9M337 Sosna-R , the ZA-HVM
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People are always sleeping on the Cactus SAM, but obviously the G6-HVM would be way cooler
And for multi vehicle SPAA’s (link: https://forum.warthunder.com/t/multi-vehicle-spaa-mega-list) i’d like to see those in the game (but not now) : Patriot, 9K37 Buk, 2K12 Kub, S-300P, S-300V, S-400 (i know, mostly russian SPAA’s, but they are just more interesting and powerful)
Still isn’t fully reflected for US in war thunder so I wouldn’t get hopes up too high
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Yes it is, wdym??
America has the highest amount of unique rank 8 aircraft in the game, plus they are getting 2-3 more this next patch
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The navy and air force could be their own tech trees if fully represented
Missing FB-111, B-36, B-52, A-5, B-47, B-1B, A-6 tt, F-101, F-102, F-106, F7U
Not to mention countless major variants of those and existing jets
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For context, America has about 50-60% of their current operational fighters represented in game
China has 10-20%…
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