Only reason tiger wasnt used was because it sunk. It was property of the Japanese army and it was intended to be used and copied. Japan also has the smallest of the main nations in tank options.
M47 It was used tested and evaluated and 8ncluded in the Japanese tree because the tree hads huge gaps.
As for only nation not allowed haha Britain has no captured vehicles. First nation to capture tiger and still has the only operating tiger. Panther tanks captured by Britain, zeros, bf109s, fw190’s etc, name it and Britain captured the so don’t try and use the were so hard done by argument.
America does not lack content and putting a German built turret on a german made hull doesn’t make it American.
I don’t care if it sunk. I don’t care if they have gaps. The US has massive gaps for SPAA, yet they aren’t adding any foreign vehicles.
The Panther II was canceled with no turret. There were no planned turrets. There is no reason for the Ausf G turret on the Panther II hull to be in the German tree. It’s a US war trophy and test vehicle. Either it goes in the US tree or doesn’t get added.
Sounds interesting to me. Do you have a picture?
But just to be shure, you dont mean the Bergepanther Prototype which had a 2 cm KwK 38 L/65 mounted on the front do you?
Keep in mind War Thunder is still a game. Obviously we could just play our Tiger IIs or Jagdtigers, but, it gets old pretty fast. The KT105 and Panther II ( Coelian too) gave a lot of flavour to the german TT, they were really fun to play vehicles that changed the endless gameplay of just brawling in your Tiger II or Jagdtiger. I Don’t think not adding back those vehicles just because “you don’t need them” can be accepted. Yeah we could just play the same vehicles that are already there because they’re enough to keep us afloat, but we’re not machines, obviously we want to have a bit more diversity and flavour that we previously had in our favorite tech tree. Especially considering the Panther II was the only medium tank at that BR.
They aren’t coming back because they are physically impossible and not real tanks. You can’t fit those guns in those turrets, let alone crew and room for ammo and reload. As said when the model was to scale the crew use to be inside the breach. The recoil of the 105 would blow out the back of the turret.
