IMO Naval only changes from the normal addition rules by what is added, not when, so the precedent of the R-Class going to Russia first instead of the UK still holds.
Its a pretty bad precedent to set, and just opens a can of worms that will cause more friction between the player base and Gaijin.
The only thing that would have mitigated it is if Rodney had been a good state. But she still isnt 2 months later and we are awaiting an overhaul (expected with the next major). Given how light we have been with top tier stuff in the past 2 years. Its annoying the R-Class didnt come to us sometime mid last year
Guess you forgot player statistics play a role. Thats why only the Mig 15 and Late war F86’s went down but all other nations worse jet fighters stayed at 8.7 lol, yeah the Hawk will be played by die hard Brit players and it will keep a high BR rating. I mean that why the J35D is 10.7 in sim while being flarless and all the premium noobs somehow got the XS to be 10.3, same jet but with countermeasures and 2 extra missles. Player statistics rule all and money
Honestly i fully expect the F-5A(G)-40 to go up in BR even when its countermeasures get nerfed because the only people still playing it are mainly from the nordic nations. The Norwegians will make this their exclusive main jet.
I rock a 2.5 KD in it and fairly consistently kill Thai F-5E players because people continue to try and turn and bleed all their speed to get nose on a mach 1 F-5A
If one of MSTA-S variants is going to be an event vehicle, we most likely won’t see another one in the tech tree next update in my opinion to make event one a bit more unique at least temporarily.