damn, yea Soviet LL M26/T26E3 can be a future possibility but it also opens up another big can of worms then,
what about US LL KV-1 & T-34?
Iranian M60, Chieftain, M109 or captured Magach transferred to USSR? It’s still war booty coz it happened during Cold War.
And with Kunstiger, what about other captured WW2 equipment like British Tiger I, French Tiger II …
And am not even delving into subtree Nations and what they captured in their involved conflicts.
No. Germany had first the Pz II Ausf.C and III E. Then Pz II Ausf.C was made non reserve.
Pz III Ausf.B was added, also made reserve, at that time also with only max 6.0°/Sec traverse, because of that the Pz III Ausf.E (also with just 5,5°/sec) and Pz.35(t) were made reserve.
Tho even now that they have 20 and 14°/sec (and possibly even 20-25 and 15-20 in the future, when the report is accepted and maybe implemented, they have manual free traverse option, which is also why they dont have turret baskets/floors).
I still think they wont remove the 3rd Reserve. Because the E is the only “good” of them, the Pz III B is just relatively slow (35km/h) weak armor (14,5mm), relatively weak AP performance (shure Pzgr.40, but barely anyone uses that), the Pz.35(t) (also maybe 20-25°/sec in the future, also free traverse) is just a little bit better than Pz III B, with 1 crew less, 10mm more armor, slower top speed of 33 km/h, a little bit more AP performance on lower velocity and longer reload (3.3 Sec top, instead of 2.8/2.9 of other 37mm guns).
Tbf as lend lease was willingly given to the Soviets as allies in the war, it makes sense that US an UK equipment be a part of the Soviet tree, though aside from the P-63 I believe it should stay premium for the most part not TT
I mean you’re not see Hornet meltdown (out side of US mains) is because the F-18 is western tech so most people feel it fits better in a western tree like the UK then eastern/soviet stuff, which has the larger meltdown.