The US needs SPAA. The Skink would have filled part of the gap. The Skink should have been added to the US tree, as well as the British tree, like the SK105 was added to the German and French tree.
There is ultimately no difference. If the Skink has no business being added to the US tree to fill the gap in SPAA, there is no business in the F18 being added to fill any gaps in trees that didn’t use it.
you’re comparing 2 completely different cases here that have nothing in common
your messages are driven by anger and National pride instead of useful arguments, you don’t have a reason for the Swiss F-18 to go into the US tree either and you know that very well thus you brought up the Skink
It’s absolutely not any different. The US needed SPAA in the lower BR range. The Skink was a viable option, and has valid connections to the US. It wasn’t added, despite the need for SPAA.
You argue the lack of SPAA is not sufficient to look outside the US to fill the gap.
Foreign trees lack certain aircraft. You argue it is acceptable to look outside that nation for aircraft that have no connection to those trees.
Well, on the other hand. This could mean 1 or 2 things.
NO.1, we get a new nation, thus having the pre-orders and early acces towards that nation.
NO.2, we get more premiums then we get actual TT vehicles.
You realize the US was vastly more involved with the Skink than the British were with the F18 and F16? British mains expect F16s because New Zealand almost bought them. Demanding F16s and F18s that you never used or owned or tested because it fills a gap in your tree, while denying US mains an SPAA developed from a tank based on US designs, using US built components.
What vehicle in the US tree is similar to the British wanting F16s?
The US contributed nothing to the Skink, Idk why people cant understand that concept. I think the US mains don’t want other nations to get their equipment because other nations will get a better variant.
Britain is fully capable of getting the Canadian CF-18, but they’re gonna cry.
The Skink was a program specifically between Canada and Britain, US wasn’t part of that program, and it was built on a Canadian licensed hull, so US mains need to stop crying over this stuff.
instead of malding over the Skink and crying over any possible addition involving US related vehicles why not support some SPAAs that could actually fill gaps in the US tree?
stop wasting time, start helping to close this gap