A combination of Asia Pacific nations has been confirmed as Japans subtree. We do know Thailand is a part of that with the existing F-5E FCU already being in game, bit we don’t know the exact nations.
But it’s pretty clear that it can really only be ASEAN nations, and in my opinion most likely not all, but only some like Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, with them having a lot of unique vehicles and modifications.
It’s speculation still obviously, but I’m more than willing to bet that we’ll see more than just speculation sometime soon in the future.
Swiss on the other hand have been heavily implied as a possible German subtree as well, and considering there is a gap right now and India was also added in a similarly sudden way as a confirmed subtree I can see it being added now.
Again, the SAAF Gripen shouldnt have gotten the Mavericks either.
However, if South Africa could afford to put Sidewinders, Mavericks, AMRAAMs, etc on their Gripens, they definitely would.
Switzerland deliberately decided against getting A2G ordnances for their Hornets. A large portion of Swiss people were against the purchase of the Hornet, their government deliberately decided against getting A2G ordnances for their planes.
The Swiss Hornet shouldn’t have access to A2G ordnances ingame.
With the Napalm buff (2x napalm bombs destroying a base), I noticed China doesn’t really have much incendiary bombs.
Is this accurate, or simply hasn’t been added yet?
I mean, sure, it can do CAS if there are no SPAA’s and CAP jets to immediately shoot it down from the sky.
However that’s a tough request to fulfill when most nations get both CAS & CAP as a bundle (Gripen C [3 nations], F-16C [1 nation], and maybeee Mirage 2K?).
There’s also CAS jets that cannot be touched by any SPAA due to the excessive range of their weapons, so all they have to worry about are CAP capable jets (Su-25SM3).
Unironically the F-4F KWS is currently the most capable CAS jet Germany has at its disposal, which in itself is pretty pathetic as it gets only 2x65Gs and no TPOD so good luck distinguishing a destroyed AFV from an alive one at any range beyond 6km.
The Swiss Hornet shouldn’t have access to A2G ordnances ingame.
Gaijin will decide that, but they’ve given out ordnance(s) before that nations didn’t use/couldn’t use (or never even had) for the sake of preserving the game’s already shaky inter-nation balance.
That aside, the Swiss did purchase TPODs for their F-18Cs during the Upgrade 25 program, and Germany has had AGM-65D/Gs in their inventory; put the two together and viola :)
Main problem is, Gaijin doesn’t do balance either.
I mean, look at the 2A7s and Strv 122 being busted for 8-9 months now and the former even getting a buff next update. They have yet to do anything to bring the other nations up to par.
Strv 122s have been busted ever since they were added man. Even with the spall liner nerfs, all that had changed was reverse the 122s to their “pre-buff” status when they were still busted (nearly unpenetrable frontally, M/95 that hits like a literal nuke…).
I’d also go as far as to say 2A7V isn’t nearly as busted as 122s because it can actually be perforated along most of its frontal arc (upper plate, weaker turret & hull etc), and with spall liners being no more than an aesthetic atm, you have to be extremely lucky to survive more than two hits.
