With the Iranian F-14A being added to the USA tree for the upcoming event cycle, imagine Iranian Sub-tree for US lmao. In all serious, glad its coming to the game. It’s an awesome variant of the F-14A however, it should be introduced with a tree of some sorts for the Iranians because now it’s locked in the USA tree like how the Slovakian T-72M2 Moderna is locked to the USSR tree. It is pretty awesome to be seeing this added to the game nonetheless.
Anyways, kudos to @OsO73 for his suggestion post from the old forum:
For other vehicles of the Iranian Air Force, hope to see the HESA Kowsar, or Saeqeh.
Iranian Ground Forces, I hope to see the Karrar and Zulfiqar 3 main battle tanks:
There’s not to many photos of it, but new T-72B3M obr. 2024 model.
Pretty similar to the T-80BVM obr. 2023 in regards to changes. Large fabric screens are seen over the back of the turret to cover weak areas and the engine when the turret is forward.
not sure, but should be. it’s designed as a reuse of retired 59 to act like 96a, to reduce the training cost(said by the company of course, and nothing have being sold).
it was the same with the Israeli Merkavas, they initially appeared in the form of tanks of events in the US branch, and then 3 years later the Israeli branch appeared
MiG-29 9.12 and 9.13 variants getting their ER and ET removed in favor of the R-73.
we’re at a point in the game where the MiG-29 (already a horrible airframe) has to fight F-16As with 70s missiles. I think it’s overdue.
the MiG-29G gets to keep its uniqueness, too, because it will still get the ER and ET and therefore will be a significant upgrade over the german 9.12
another topic is the Yak-141 getting its R-73s and R-77s and maybe moving up in BR if needed.
it gets only 4 missiles anyway, and it was designed with those missiles in mind.
The issue is, for example, the Merkava IIID which is the last iteration of the Merkava III in the USA tree will very likely not be added to the Israeli tree since it’s a marketed event vehicle. The same will likely occur with any future Iranian tree/sub-tree since the Iranian F-14A is now locked in the USA tree. Other example is the T-72M2 Moderna which is Slovakian which could’ve come to a future Czechoslovakian or Visegrad tree but likely won’t.
yea … but thats more likely the case for higher tier vehicles
lower tier vehicles have transitioned to their respective original nation’s trees like Pz.IIIN, LVTA4-Zis2, Type-62 to name a few
as for Merkava Mk.3D for Israel … gaijin did a " best we can do is a ‘premium’ Ra’am Sagol "
so now I see even a lower chance of 3D for Israel
I also have a suspicion that a Turkish tree might be coming in some form … Turkish T129 marketing, still no Sabras for Israel, etc … (and Iran might get added there as a future subtree-ish?)
dont think B3 will stop getting minor updates like these … maybe obr.2025/26 might be the final “next” variant
There was rumor that Gaijin might add a slightly “newer” T-80BVM variant in Rus top tier … Although other nations have top tier MBT variants with pretty minor differences … I still say its a poor idea for Russia…
Since they’ve got many other interesting top tier prototypes and variants, much more than other nations
And adding an ongoing upgrading variant ain’t a good idea for now. Wait few years till the Ru MoD stop officially modifying it.
I really wanted to use the Merkava Mk. 3D as its one of the primary MBT’s along with the Merkava IV/M of the IDF. It’s a shame to not see it, literally the last primary production variant of the Merkava III-series.
Agreed, it would be in poor taste. Maybe after many of those prototypes are added it could be an option.
