I think Gaijin has a personal beef with the Swedes for joining NATO
Gaijin either needs to raise the ceiling heavily (prob to 15.0/16.0) and decompress top tier, the fact the F-18C is only considered to be .3 BRs better than the F-16C or JAS-39C is diabolical, and the fact the JAS-39A (mind you, a handicap only the Swedes have) gets to see Eurofighters and Hornets every match is atrocious.
Even worse when you realize everyone got the Gripen C before Sweden, Britain and Italy got it while Sweden was stuck with the A, technically Japan got it after, but in the Japanese TT it serves as a direct sidegrade to the F-16 OCU, in Sweden it’s 400k, then you have to get an aircraft 1 BR above you for 410k, just to get the same plane but with AMRAAMs for another 420k, whereas other TTs only have to go 400k to get ARHs WITHOUT the pain period of using a 13.0
Gaijin is also just spitting in Sweden’s face with the Swiss Hornets.
The only thing Gaijin has really given Sweden has been the Strv 122s. And just you wait, Gaijin is gonna find a way to bully Sweden when they get around to the Strv 123A, I can already see the devblog “due to the nature of the Strv 123 being a proposition, we are not giving it Thermals or rounds higher than DM33, however, we will be adding the Strv 123A at a later date with a much better FCS”
There are no TT heavies, with the only two being the KV-1E and Kungstiger, both of which are premium and only one can be purchased rn. Gaijin still refuses to give Sweden stuff like the Kranvagn. At least they get the ELDE-E, which’ll be outclassed by every other MCSPAA because you only get 8 missiles. Fun!
PLUS, we’re literally getting the SL-AMRAAM humvee, I presume the NASAMS-HML, but they aren’t giving it to Sweden, despite the system being mostly Finnish (the HML, that is)
Thankfully, this update is putting me back on my Japan grind, so I don’t have to worry about Sweden until I’m done over there
Can’t wait for Gaijin to give us the Gripen E just so Sweden can have the Meteor and IRIS-T, but just add it to the Eurofighters verbatim
The Svenska Aeroplen Aktiebolegat confirms that the Gripen C can carry the IRIS-T and Meteors, btw
(It’s under the “Packing Iron” document, btw)