It’s the other way around, almost all soviet vehicles were designed in Ukraine by Ukrainian engineers. The BT-series, T-34, T-44, T-54, T-55 and T-64 are all Ukrainian designs. Even the T-72 and T-80 have a strong connection to Ukraine as whilst they were designed by Uralvagonzavod, they were an off-shoot branch of the Ukrainian KMDB and used the T-64 as a basis to later design the T-72 and T-80.
It’s the opposite…
1.BT-…On April 28, 1930, an agreement was signed on the purchase of M.1940 tanks between the U.S. Wheel Track Layer Corporation and Amtorg Trading Corporation, representing the interests of the USSR in the United States. The USSR paid $60,000 for “two military tanks”, $4,000 for “spare parts for purchased tanks” and $100,000 personally to designer Christie for the sale of production rights, transfer of patents and technical assistance services…
2.T-34-At the end of December 1936, the People’s Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR G. K. Ordzhonikidze, concerned about the tense situation in the Tank Department of the Kharkov Locomotive Plant named after Komintern (KhPZ), which had developed against the background of problems of modernization of the serial high-speed light tank BT-7, personally found M. I. Koshkin and after an interview decided to send him with Leningrad Experimental Plant to the Kharkov plant. The decision to transfer designer Koshkin to Kharkov was made taking into account his business qualities and personal desire to create a high-speed medium tank suitable for large-scale production.
On December 28, 1936, the People’s Commissar of Heavy Industry G. K. Ordzhonikidze signed an order to send M. I. Koshkin to Kharkov at the Komintern KHPZ (later Plant No. 183) as the head of the tank KB-190.
3.T-34/T-44 /T-54-In the second half of 1941, 12 enterprises from different cities were evacuated to Nizhny Tagil and merged with UVZ into the Ural Tank Plant No. 183 named after the Comintern. In two months, UVZ is shutting down all production and rebuilding for the construction of T-34 tanks.
The plant received 3,500 units of evacuated equipment and 70 thousand new employees. Already on December 18, 1941, the first T-34-76 tank was assembled, and by the end of December of the same year, the first 25 combat vehicles were sent to the front, and then the Nizhny Tagil plant remains the main supplier of T-34 for the army.
5. If you do not know, the serial T-72/T-80, unlike the T-64, have other turrets/ chassis and engines, also have never been produced on the territory of Ukraine (tank guns/tank machine guns/shells/sighting equipment/ tank stabilizers)…
It was, but post-Soviet Ukraine made a lot of AFVs. They also made a lot of the USSR’s AFVs while being a part of it.
From political point of view it is the best decision. Ukraine before 2014 waas highly neutral, and before that point even joining NATO was not considered. So it would be good to see it as an independent tech tree like israel since we have literally “best of both”
Incase you don’t follow the leaks
The leak is very unlikely, especially with Gaijin now adding more Romanian vehicles into the Italian tech tree.
people said the exact same thing because swedish centurion in the british tree and now we’re here where sweden has an air tree, tank tree, and heli tree. Just because gaijin adds one-off vehicles from certain nations does not mean that the nation will not come.
Also, this comes from the server with relatively accurate leaks.
This is a different situation though, not only has the romanian OSA been added, but the Romanian IAR-91, (one of Romanias most iconic aircraft) has also been added into ITALY as well, besides the tech tree in general is a really bad idea, there are too much vehicles from each nation meaning the whole thing will be limited, or you can look at it from a different perspective, you can have some sort of Visegrad union (Poland, slovakia and the Czech Republic, not sure about Hungary), and then you can have Yugoslavia, what will happen to Ukraine? No idea.(Basically splitting the leak into half)
Was that edited one or the original one? The leak was updated several times, and various things were changed or removed. I sort of recall Romania might have been one of the things changed. But yeah, either way if true, it definitely could be a neat addition
Isn’t this one original? I don’t remember seeing Japan in the leak list.
UPD: Nevermind it has (edited) on the message.
BM Oplot-P
An Oplot variant specific to Pakistani requirement. (not adopted, VT-4 Haider was inducted instead)
Essentially weight was reduced in comparison to standard BM Oplot config.
The thick Duplet ERA sideskirts that cover the whole length was replaced with a lightweight sideskirts that cover only the frontal half of the hull. (likely Nizh, since thinner).
The varta soft-kill APS was also removed.
It for Pakistan sub-tree. I hope.
Dont think Pak sub tree will get implemented proper, instead some of the Pak unique vehicles might get introduced as premiums/event/BP. Like the Pak’s uniqueT-80UD with welded turret.
And since this is a vehicle just trialed by Pakistan, has lower chance (not zero) of getting added to China.
But since, it’s just another Oplot variant, it naturally can get added to Ukrainian TT/subtree. Similar to British Challenger 2E.
But, as we can see at T-80 U or Mi-28A… It can be added in Pakistan Subtree. In two variants.
T80 U was an exception as stated by Gaijin, not the norm … And Sweden also trialed Abrams, Leclercs … those won’t be added
Similarly, UK trialed Leopards & Abrams ~ wont be added
And Pakistan also trialed M1A1 Abrams in the late 80s
Well, the developers of the game showed their current position by adding the FAB-3000 UMPK to dev server and other types of those bombs into files, so we can probably not expect the addition of Ukrainian equipment, and even more so a whole branch of equipment in the game
I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. The addition of this weapon is 100% motivated by the russian part of the community (like this wonder weapon will crush all Western equipment due to ongoing events) but the practical significance of this bomb in game situations is… doubtful (in GRB it is a purely bomb for funnies, maybe in ARB it will be good for destroying bases but for that you still need to get there).
However, to say that they are affirming their negative attitude to the Ukrainian equipment with this - I think not (again, the weapon was added not so much for practical purposes as because of hype from the russian segment).
Therefore, I would not count this thing as something that will obliterate the concept of Ukrainian TT – and equipment as a whole – in the game