why not both? it was a lend lease vehicle and we have a hell of a lot of domestic stuff to keep the British tree unique. britain isn’t losing anything by having the vehicles it gifted out going where they were gifted
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Neither of these were ever captured in functional condition. Only fake headlines claiming we did.
The USAF-captured MiG-21, MiG-23, and other Soviet aircraft were used by the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. These aircraft were never deployed in any combat operations outside of the United States.
I cannot speak for the T-90M and Pantsir, but it seems they were only evaluated to gather information and were never used in active service.
I fail to see how these vehicles are relevant to this discussion, especially since the Soviet-operated Matilda did see combat, unlike the aforementioned vehicles.
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Indian pantsir soon tho
they didnt see combat so not really
That’d be funny, seeing if the deal actually holds up is another question.
neither did the russian F5E
I can understand his feeling, but his claim also sounds a bit disappointing because
We already gave Spitfire, Firefly or some Crusaders to the other TT before
And we exported harriers to the US too.
But we didn’t lose our Uniqueness at all.
(Of course these can be annoying for some of us. right?)
the F5 is at least a cool plane that wasn’t a pile of scrap like soviet vehicles are
we also sent centurions to every continent and its not taken away from our uniqueness as we are still the home nation for those vehicles. the spam of commieslop from the indian subtree does hurt uniqueness tho
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yep a cool American plane
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Still irrelevant. We’re talking about the foreign vehicles that served in the Red Army with actual combat records, which makes this suggestion more valid than others. The debate about the Soviet F-5E should stay in its own topic since it required different opinion there, not here.
Looks good! Though I have one quibble. The Matilda doesn’t have a hull MG, and the coaxial is a 7.92mm BESA, not an M1919. Other than that, great post, and since we already have the Russian Valentine and 76mm Matilda, why not the original? +1
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+1
I’d love more lend-lease in the game, exptly to the two nations who seem to have the least of them despite being major recipients of it.
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My first no vote.
My reasoning is that the Matilda is a painful vehicle to grind out due to the poor mobility and stock 2-pdr cannon accuracy and ammo effectiveness, so giving the USSR tree an identical one isn’t fun. It’s also a missed opportunity.
If you’re going to give the USSR tree a British tank because it got them via Lend-Lease, then you should do something interesting and unique with it - give them a version of the Valentine which was experimentally re-armed with the domestic 45mm cannon, so it at least has a good gun. Not sure if they did the same thing with the Matilda, but if so, then I’d vote for that.
Well, the Soviets have Matilda in this game.
[MK-II “Matilda”]
The one which has 76mm F-96 for gun instead.
which was released at 2017 as some kind of event reward premium.
It is unobtainable unless
- you pay to someone who has tickets in Gaijin market
- or spend a fortune amount of SL on [blah-ba blah box] and wish you win one.
So… Matila lovers from east wants regular version instead
maybe?
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The matilda is a pretty good infantry tank tho. two shots and most things are dead and most people cant pen you
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no. ussr already has the mathilda f32. The only acceptable alternative would be a 45mm mathilda.
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45mm Matilda may not exist, but there is another:
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that i would support, and not another souless CP.
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