There is no certainly at all. It will purely be based off Gaijin’s decisions. If they are feeling generous to the UK tree they may get it. But there is nothing that makes them have to get it.
And yet I see ppl defending CF-18 and Australian F/A-18 to UK, when in the end that might as well be a Su-30. If you don’t like the idea of one nation having access to other creator nation top tier when they never used it, then hornets shouldn’t be in UK
Ah now you see that not the original point you stated since you said “based off and feeling generous” that got nothing to do confirming Canada and Australia are sub-trees or not.
The point that you’ve made was they will add stuff on a whim not confirmation, if that make it clear
If a C&P is innevitable, then might as well make it a reasonable one.
RAF/FAA pilots from the UK actually do have tours with the USN in the F-18. So its not entirely unreasonable.
When looking at the tree as a whole, the CF-18 fits better with the rest of the aircraft.
CF-18 actually fills a bit of a void for a higher BR SARH Slinger. Su-30 would be a 14.0+ thing that adds nothing other than an alteranative to the Typhoon.
Given the UK already has the ADATS and probably will get the LAV III. The addition of 1x CF-18 + maybe 1x Canadian Leopard creates a decent Candian Line-up within our tree. Given the CF-18 adds nothing to the US TT, it seems pointless to add it there.
I dont want a million C&Ps. Especially given just how much is missing or poorly added that britian operated, let alone exported. But there are a small handful that were and are acceptable. F-111C we got in place of the F-111K. CF-18 and a Leopard. Everything else should be native built from Canada or Australia or British in Origin.
That is a far stretch from people wanting Top tier Britain to be Typhoon, Gripen, Rafale and Su-30