It’ll either be a bomber rework, Submarines, Greek/Cypriot sub-tree for Israel or Unified Korean Major tree.
My theory for when they add the Unified Korean tree is that they use it as a replacement for Israel as the ‘You wanna skip to Jets/Cold-war MBTs’ tree with atleast a rank 3 added to Israel.
Unlike Israel that has atleast a small amount of vehicles to warrant a ground rank 1-3 (At best we could only get a very small rank 3 for air), Korean stuff for both the north and south would be pretty much exclusively rank 3 onwards which they could very well skip in favour of exactly this, becoming the new ‘skip the low ranks’ tree.
I feel like Israel being unpopular might have delayed Korea quite a bit just from Gaijin trying to figure out how to make it a proper techtree.
So instead of making the rather easy to do Israel-style Korea tree they probably want to plan out a techtree that already has the fixes people wish Israel had.
Main issue would be the lower tiers where there is some (mainly North Korean) options, but really not enough to fill the tree well enough. I think they’ll work with subtrees (Philippines and maybe Vietnam if I had to guess) where it would be easy again to fill the first few ranks, but also probably don’t want to need them on release so they’d try to make sure there’s at least functional Korean low tier without that for a few updates.
But that’s really just a guess, who knows what’s really going on there.
Israel being done dirty has harmed a lot of nations, as seen with Gaijins’ love of making nations that could have been TTs into sub-trees for nations that did not need them(or want). (along with other issues of giving certain nations a home)
As they took the wrong conclusion about Israel’s issues, which can be seen as clear as day.
As next update is one of the bigger updates of the year my guess is:
Either the Greek subtree proper or a soft-launch of the tree by adding something for Israel to have Rank 9 and an AESA fighter in the TT like either the F-16V or Rafale.
ARM + SEAD/DEAD.
Su-35 + F-15EX.
Potentially could get the addition of subs but unsure about it.
Maybe, like adding some ECM capabilities to some attackers to start with and then later a wider introduction across the board. Could be something to come in the September update I think.
I’m curious what planes they’ll give those ARM missiles to. It would be cool to give them to the more struggling top tier platforms that currently have less of a place/identity in game instead of just giving them to the best of the best.
Some day, I want gajin add italian jet trainer/attack aircraft around 6.3 ~ 7.0 to researchable tree, the domestic american & british attack aircraft turbojet engine in the late rank IV and early rank V (6.3 ~ 6.7)
And F11F-1 & F4D Skyray for researchable tech tree (slightly worse event vehicle)
It is not that players rejected Israel. Well, people did but that is because Merkavas have underperforming times underperforming armor and you can interest only a bunch of M60 fans.
Gaijin just discovered with Finland that people would celebrate their trees becoming a Gripen and Leopard 2 dumping ground
Tbh I don’t support a Korean tree as mainly due for most of their tech can be rewards for either the US or China and Russia, having another half nation after Israel would be a bummer.