Trainers are nice especially with there ability to be a light strike fighter hopefully we also see some of there COIN aircraft so infantry mode will have some useful air support
Some of Japans domestic trainers prototypes could be armed some of there trainers have been known to use practice bombs which are just a normal bomb with concrete fill (in theory could be a normal bomb also concrete practice bombs have been used in anger against buildings with snipers)
For Japan currently there is a competition to replace T-4s below are the candidates unkown if any would be armed (likely not) but worth mentioning still.
T-X (MHI)-Japan
T-7-Japan
M-346-Japan
You forgot to mention the TAI Hurjet as a potential replacement.
me reading the entire mess that the TAI Hurjet is causing among the spanish(politically wise):
Havent seen this being mentioned yet, Malaysia will apparently test the Arma 6x6 with the MIZRAK-25 turret, the vehicle was spotted in PUSASDA (I think that’s what its called, the article calls it: Malaysian Army’s test campus)
I just realized this bit a moment ago from my discord server, damn even the 52ID won’t survive.
I thought with the Turkish craze happen lately they could’ve offer OZGUR upgrades to those Block 25-but-with-Block 52-internals. And, platform wise would it be a slightly downgrade as M346 is a subsonic even with advanced sensors and weaponry (if MICA does integrate to it)?
well, there was plans to upgrade it to the ozgur 2 standard, but IIRC lockheed blocked the program so we cant really do anything about it (i think i wrote it in the ID air suggestion) but I dont think itll be replaced anytime soon
originally it was speculated that the t-50 is going to get the boot, but based on the article the m346 is planned to replace the hawks alongside the inbound rafale
Malaysia might be locally manufacturing this from China: Dongfeng MENGSHI
Is there any information of any weapons like ATGMS or stuff that can be bolted on to this?
ATGM carrier:
30mm cannon turret:
There’s also more variants featuring what I’m assuming are medium range AA missiles, rapid firing mortars and loitering ammunitions
I haven’t used Thai Albatros yet, but aren’t 76x Hydras / 16x Zunis with CCIP at 7.3 kinda busted? It set the newest minimum for the CCIP (the lowest was SAAB-105G at 8.3, now 8.7)
Is probably going to go up soon so take advantage of it right now! Too bad I’m at work
Yuuuup.
It’s solid even at 8.3, (and stupid cheap, at 8.3 its literally a single kill to get in it).
Hopefully it doesn’t go up too high before the next maus epidemic, the Zuni’s bully the hell out of mauses
Tbh it should have started at 8.0-8.3, because I can see how people will blame the plane and make it move to 8.7-9.0 – to the Alpha Jet, where it has no point of being
Nothing in game can be truly balanced too many moving parts. Sometimes it just better to have a few broken vehicles just so you get that boss battle feeling and have to go get the big guns or be punished.
Hawk 208 Passed to the devs!
and technically this aswell (but it wouldnt be a part of ID)
Was made for Indonesia (it even has the name RI), but never purchased, so make sense its going to Italy/Germany
I wouldn’t mind seeing this added to Germany/Italy as well since it wasn’t bought, but it just seems redundant when there is a non-Indonesian version of it, the Marder Medium MBT. This was a general export vehicle that received no orders and wasn’t tested by another nation, so only the manufacturer (joint Rheinmetall / OTO Melara) would be the place to add it.
The Medium Tank RI is a variant of the Marder Medium MBT made in response to Indonesian interest (not said to what extent though), so it would make sense to be added here.
There is also one claim that the final Marder Medium Tank RI was meant to have a different turret. Doesn’t really add anything, but it’s interesting if true. Maybe someone who knows Hitfact turrets can check?
A Malaysian helicopter also got passed to devs
I think its fine, we didnt show interest in it and we didnt test it, by the rules it should go to the company’s nation, which is italy/germany
I completely missed this as well
Yeah, won’t be a problem where it goes either way, but I still think the rules here are ambiguous.
There’s no information on what happened to it past Indo Defence 2016, so it’s reasonable to say it didn’t go anywhere, but even before that the tank wasn’t just some off-the-shelf product to be sold to Indonesia. It’s still a variant made specifically for Indonesia because of an interest in the Marder Medium MBT.
I’d compare it to the Oplot-P, which was also made for Pakistan based on interest in the Oplot-M, but rejected before it was ever trialed by Pakistan. We don’t have that tank yet either though, even if they tried to add it it’s likely they confused it with the trialed Oplot-M (that it was later renamed to).
I don’t know any other in game precedent, so all we can do is wait and see.
a suggestion regarding the unique engine sound of the AMX-13 has been passed to the devs too. This maybe a message from Gaijin concerning the incoming Indonesian-modified version of the AMX-13 105.