It’s just like buying a rocket launcher for killing moskito, it’s just lot of money lost when something else could do what they want (just air patrolling).
Airforce are not happy with that choice, and some public too when they saw the price it’s gonna cost.
As much as I’d love every one of these (Though maybe the F-5 could be a more unique Thai F-5T, but that’s not the point), I doubt it. It really seems like Swiss aircraft are to be expected.
We have info that another nation besides Argentina is planned for Germany, and the Eurofighter is likely not being added this update. This leaves whatever subtree Gaijin has planned to jump in for this update.
I honestly just don’t like the idea of Gaijin caving in that quickly after the F-4F KWS LV backlash while certain other nations always seem to get pushed down on the priority list
Like, how often did I have to read stuff like “well, maybe nation x should have bought something better at that time” when talking about minor nations lacking something at top tier
Daily reminder please this is the rumor roundup topic and not a place where you need to defend your nations equipment because you believe it’s the best.
Modern arms sales are all about politics anyway. Its honestly funny to see people going over why this and why that as well as comparing vehicles and weapon systems together, while in the end its not even the important factor for choosing weapon suppliers for your military.
Take Turkey F-35 deal for example or Saudi Arabia with Rafale.
To be fair that is what Gaijin seem to want to fix with subtrees, holes a nation couldn’t fill alone. See the South African Gripen for example, jumping in between the Phantoms and the Eurofighter for Britain.
Sure, things were done wrong in the past, but for the present I hope Gaijin acts in the best interest for the balance of all nations.
Though I do personally feel subtrees could use a rework so they can be properly represented in game rather than just being a magic additional vehicle pool for another nation.
But suddently when you’r against somebody saying “it’s the best of the best in da world”, it’s because you’r nationalist for some reason, even if i said advanced F-18s would have been better choices in that case than F-35s xD
And your precious F22 got defeated by a Malaysian(?) Rafale in a training dogfight. (Please ignore the fact that the 22 had 2 wingtanks and started in a defending position)