Usually the December update publishes the first examples of what is going to be added later in the next year.
Therefore we can expect more sub-tree vehicles for Japan (Useful or not), more infantry (not my type) and more 4+ gen aircraft. Also in-development ground vehicles like Ajax and Booker can be expected too.
It’s almost like Australia and Canada have an awful lot of content yet to be added and without a new combined tech tree, or nation folders, there are no good answers within the current trees and system.
I don’t know guys, I think there’s enough time to add the 5th generation of airplanes to the game.:
March - 9th aviation rank, as we already know f-16xl, Su-15tm, most likely SEAD and S-300 along with Patriot.
All summer - Finishing off 4-4.5 generation aircraft (Su-35, j-15,16, f-15ex, f-16 new blocks, etc.)
Birthday - the beginning of the addition of the 5th generation of aircraft (as indicated in the leaked Su-57, J-20, F-22) and new missiles for older aircraft
New Year’s Eve - Finishing off the 5th generation of airplanes and that’s it
And even more so, a bunch of 5th generation aircraft have already been accepted in December, which can only mean their imminent arrival in the game.
And for some reason, many people think that if they add the 5th generation of airplanes, it will be like the game is over or something like that, but this is not the case at all. I remember Smin’s words, where he said that in the future there will be something much more in the war thunder than just the 5th generation of aircraft (perhaps this meant about infantry)
Infantry is the lifeline realistically, you can keep a shooter game going for ages without running out of stuff to add, air RB should die soon as it’s just not compatible with modern air combat, hopefully ‘aerial warfare’ or whatever the new mode is called, revives air a bit because the current mode is not working
SEAD just needs to be moderated, any SPAA player can counter it with irl SAM battery tactics of radar toggling & being mobile.
Gaijin just needs to add missiles that give players time to do that, another made up mach 2 monster missile will make SEAD unbalanced, not the mechanic itself
Russia will always be the upper hand in this case. E.g. LMUR and KH38.
All nations are going to be limited, but they will get the real big deal, as shown over the years.
So all these concerns are invalid. Since we know what is going to happen.
Well, when all that top tier slob is over, they can finally focus more on the WWII, Korean war and Cold war vehicles, since we are missing thousands of them.