In general, when it comes to Italian vehicles — or those actually used by the Italian Army — there really aren’t that many “paper tanks,” aside from the never-ending story of the P.43 or a few incomplete armored car prototypes (like the Fiat AVH6636). Many of the missing vehicles could easily be implemented: in most cases, we’re talking about the same hulls already in the game but with different armament, or later models (such as the Centauro II).
There’s a good variety of vehicles that could be added — just think of all the proposals based on the Centauro chassis, the various series of the vehicle itself, or platforms like the C13. These are just examples, not an exhaustive list.
What I’ve never understood, however, is this sort of ostracism toward foreign vehicles used by Italy — like the Leopard 1, which was only added after years despite around 1,000 being in service, or the M47, of which more than 3,000 were used — or toward foreign postwar aircraft operated by the Italian Air Force, such as the Mustang, Spitfire Mk IX, or P-38. The game is full of similar cases for other nations, but when it comes to Italy, there’s always someone opposing it — usually the same “purists,” or people who don’t even play Italy but just step in to argue.
In my opinion, the issue isn’t really “laziness” per se, but rather a matter of development priorities: smaller nations attract fewer players and therefore receive less attention. Still, it’s frustrating, because many of these vehicles wouldn’t even be “meta” or top-tier — they’d simply add more variety and completeness to the tech tree without creating balance problems. In the end, if someone wants to play them, they can; if not, they can just ignore them. But there’s no reason why historically grounded and technically feasible content should be left out. It’s a shame that over the years we’ve often received little to no content, when a few additions here and there would have made a big difference.
While M55 could be skipped imo too (or better just be hidden in folders as well as most other copypaste, so people could avoid researching it), but Leopard 1A2 was a very important tank for Italy + it still has some differences compared to German one. I was only disappointed by the fact that it didn’t get early APFSDS and form a new 8.3 lineup with vehicles which are not very good to play with alone (Sadam and the guy in the box with rocket launcher).
Btw another fact which makes me sad is the grill of the Italian 1A5 😆 I thought they would fix it with an arrival of 1A2 since Italian 1A5s had 1A2 chassis irl.
Regular 90 mm Italian M47 would be nice as well or maybe Astra modification (although it would be a downgrade in the game with a less powerful engine + information about actual improvements is vague).
Kinda strange that we haven’t got T25 variant of C-13 with Gaijin’s love to autocannons. Not sure about TUA variant, I hope M901 presence as a squadron vehicle won’t make any obstacles for either C-13 or VCC-1 TUA to be in the Italian regular tree.
the rafale in game is from 2018 or 2019 , EFT in game is also from mid 2015s. US is stuck with jets from early 90s/00s. russia is stuck with jets from early 00s. sweden mid 00s.
EFT in game is a Fake version that sais it’s from 2010
the problem with Russian vehicles is they now need 2026 Sus to be competitive
and the US? well gaijin seemingly is scared of the jump to Reduced Radar/IR Signature planes in TT and the alternatives are another F-15/16/18 none of which can compete with a Eurofighter in both Agility and Speed
Whilst strictly speaking the Typhoon didnt equip Brimstones until 2018, They were Brimstone 2s and not the Current Brimstone 1s. If we go by the rest of the loadout, its more like from 2008 at the very latest (may be a little later due to the twin bomb carriers), though there are many aspects not even up to the standard of the 1990s prototypes yet.
just add SU-35 from 2014 they will be good. pretty sure brimstone2/paveways were mid 2010s mod for the EFT.
u dont even know what u are talking about lmao.
Not equivalent. F-4F ICE is already ingame the way they want it to be and IRIS-T is a next gen IR missile, those aren’t coming for some time. 120C-5 on the other hand is already ingame on many aircraft
