Personally my idea was that since they use a lot of second rate (in modern terms) American equipment they could be used to augment the tree in a way that looked “nice” since France already has some American equipment of their own. I figured M60A1/A3 and M1A1 would look better in a tree that already has M26 and M4A3 in it instead of Leopard jumpscare lol.
But yeah the trees are already a mess so they might as well keep going. Its not possible to have red v blue anymore.
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An early Rafale would only work if they don’t give it MICAs, which would be weird for a Rafale
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I mean tbf Algeria do use the BMPT I think so the way the dev’s are baby handling it atm that would give France such a boost lol.
But then again isn’t Algeria a muslim/arab nation ? So if so then more realistically I want to see them as part of the United Arab League (UAL)
Same thing that happened to other subnations that didn’t get their holiday
A whole bunch of national holidays that were previously celebrated in War Thunder were not celebrated in the last 12 months?
Yeah? Its not new this happens like every year
So they selectively choose some to cancel, and my original question stands.
Idk if its choose to cancel some as much as it is they didn’t bother to make a new decal to try and promote alongside a sale
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They just don’t have events for every national holiday (or anniversary stuff) every year
Last two years didn’t have Canada Day, Polish Constitution Day or Israel Independence Day for example
You can look at this spreadsheet for reference
@THEPolishThunder say the thing
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Poland mentioned 💪💪💪💪
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They also skipped St Andrew’s day 2025 and I’m betting they will also skip St David’s day this year too.
Lmao imagine a Rafale but much lower with just M2s and the gun…
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Maybe our first Dutch F-16? Would be fair
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It carried more then that
Well the first operational Rafale, the Rafale M LF.1, already had MICA EM, so yeah. But a premium Rafale couldn’t be too high because Gaijin hasn’t yet dared adding a straight up top tier jet.
For that reason they’d probably add it with limited loadout.
If they did pick the LF.1, then no OSF, probably no HMD, a PESA radar, and other stuff I’m surely forgetting
I thought even the very first Rafales had an AESA
It had an absolutely terrible PESA that apparently was worse than CAPTOR-M (/CAPTOR-M+PIRATE combo), at least based upon some online bits and peices I read ages ago
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AESA starts at F3-R iirc
Huh, didn’t know that
I guess that would be an option for a premium then. Knowing Gaijin they’d probably place that at 14.0, even though a Rafale with a worse radar is still a beast
Issue is, PESA and AESA are basically identical in-game, it probably wouldn’t be that big of a blow.
It would still have MICAs which are incredibly OP, even in a limited carry count
and its still a Rafale FM. Even nerfed to hell, its probably 14.0+ worthy