I mean Smin did say aircraft can go to whom ever if needs be, given the Indian connection if India produces a prototype then that’s a valid addition to Britain
At this point Gaijin has made it clear there is no placement rules for homeless nations. They’ll put tech wherever they like.
Things like “tech rules” don’t exist anymore.
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they never have existed
they were just a phantom in our minds here on the forum
India wouldn’t make the prototype, LM would.
They’d have to win the contract for UK to get F-16
read what Ryder wrote and notice: no this rule doesn’t exist
the snail does as it pleases
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Fly it like testing or fly it operational, because iirc USAF doesnt use F-16V in combat coded squadrons
There is no grounds for addition if no Indian F-16 exists yet
Well i guess there is AJ
since december both nations are getting shafted i really hope for F-2 to come with all his toys and F-16I Sufa with all his toys too (spice 1000/2000/250, Rampage, Python-4, I-Derby, 120B)
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If India make more advances with the F-21 and it goes into use then it would be a great addition. Same with the F-16V being added with whatever nations it can be added too, such as the US that does use the 70/72 (or C’s upgraded to the 70/72 standard), or Taiwan/Turkey/South Korea that upgraded their existing F-16’s to the V standard.
Just checked, USAF itself doesn’t use F-16V but instead F-16C upgraded past 70 standard (better ECM and maybe cockpit display then regular 70)
As for plain BLK 70, USA paid 14 billion to buy them for Slovakia, Taiwan, Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, and Bulgaria, so it would make sense to get one from one of those operators
that’s for next major probably
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I don’t see Slovakia, Taiwan nor Bulgaria ones being added to the US, Taiwan has a home. Slovakia and Bulgaria make sense for when Polands comes
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Bahrain seems pretty uncontested
Depends if it’s in the Arab league
I think the main problem here is that there is neither space nor priority or reason to add another F-16 to the US tree
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Yeah they are, but I don’t really see how it matters
atm yes but when rank 9 comes than maybe
Foreign block 70 will likely be an event vehicle like F-14 IRIAF anyways
Well it matters if we are starting to get Region nations later in the future, the Arab league is be massive
Since it’s that big I doubt it’ll be full Arab league tree. And also Arab league is not even in leak lists afaik
Why not focus on adding vehicles to the many existing nations instead of adding more and more tech trees