Oh, I just saw the reply later. Anyway, gaijin should add subtrees for Japan, China, and Israel this year🥺
Japan just got Thailand and is likely to get their ground forces some time this year.
China doesn’t really need one.
Israel needs one, I agree.
Ah, I’m pretty sure all the trees that don’t have five full lines will eventually be filled, otherwise Gaijin’s add speed for the top tier will be too fast. To be honest, I think many of their vehicles were add too quickly and early this year。For example, rafale, they should aad some early models at first
F-15DJ maybe?
Na, most likely the end tire 4.5s will run the same missiles…R77M, AIM-120D, Meteor ext on things like Su-35, F15. Think the longest range missiles we will see will be SM6 and R37M. BUT BUT BUT I actually don’t want these missiles if the map sizes stay this small! 😬 I think Gaijin needs an engine upgrade to add them.
Wdym? If you are talking about the seeker, that was literally the US designed part that let us block export of it
There is a single Spanish used vehicle of Italian origin in the Italian tree. By this logic, Bangladesh, Iran, and Zimbabwe are in the same boat for China, USA, and UK respectively.
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Israel doesn’t need one, Gaijin just doesn’t want to add the vehicles that would fill the massive gaps in the Israeli ground tree.
I think they’re holding off till AIM-260 is export cleared
Not that long probably since we already have GBU-53 and a bunch of other stuff in. Late development for F-35 a2g so won’t matter
Amusingly not really, as part of the original ASRAAM programme the UK had transferred the seeker design and rights to Hughes as part of the work share agreement (as under the original agreement BAE had too much of the work).
So they just had Hughes design it?
Build it, with some minor design changes for Production
Do you have proof it wasn’t Hughes though?
I’ve found proof that ALR-94 wasnt designed by BAE (ik it’s very different but similar timeframe)
Sounds the like the US thing to do. keep putting off foreign weapon intergration so they can force sales of domestic weapons. They did the same with ASRAAM for a while. Denied its export due to the few US parts and is only just become available for export with the Block 6 which replaced all US parts
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To be fair western weapons falling into wrong hands through export has happened before. So I get why they did it (on top of helping the economy)
No, this is just the US wanting block other nations sales to promote Aim-9X exports.
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That’s why I added economy bit to end of post.
But stuff falling into wrong hands is why F-35 is so restricted.
Imo, we should have kept it between US and UK and not sold it until later. Maybe Canada before the rest but still after issues are worked out. I don’t doubt that a fair bit of money has gone to other nations F-35 in some form
french homegrown stuff doesn’t sound like a bad bet after all, especially in this timeline
UK wouldn’t be able to export a F35. + Meteor combo to anyone without approval of the US
it’s just a move to sell more 260s, by removing the possibility of its main competitor on a plane sold in large number. Being too restrictive can bite back though, so i’d be careful if i were lockheed or raytheon
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