I really don’t see how the U.S. has need of a subtree at all, pretty much anything they could ever want has or can be produced domestically, in prototype or production form.
The T-50 may not have a direct equivalent as of the moment, but it may in the future with the T-7 Red Hawk, and it’s not something the tree is in dire need of anyways.
Hence why I said “in the future”
And yes, the F-15K is a possibility for event tender but I would still prefer it doesn’t get added that way until we know that South Korea won’t be getting a tree/subtree of sorts. I would’ve liked an Iranian tree of sorts but with their top fighter now as an event vehicle it basically confirms that they won’t be getting one and thus further Iranian vehicles can also end up as events for other nations. For South Korea I still have hope.
Open spots the US can fill with their own unique stuff.
Yes, they have vehicles based on US stuff but some are looking vastly different from the original design.
However these vehicles were neither intended or used by the US but instead are build based on South Korean requirements. Like when did US shown interest in the FA-50 or K1?
The US is in no need of a sub and if so then Saudi Arabia would be more suitable as they don’t offer much unique vehicles but still own a lot of US stuff.
South Korea can be it’s own thing with North Korea which will provide tons of vehicles then just being limited to 15 vehicles.
Genuinely surprised I’ve seen so little people mention it, its probably the best way the Baltic vehicles to get in game outside of a conglomerate eastern/central European tree.
Outside an independent tree, it would make the most sense, although there’s the issue of slotting a decent size of unique vehicles/mods into a all around strong tree.
Quite an interesting proposal, I’m assuming the subtrees with rank 1 options would be researchable from the get go?
Tbh, I personally would take it a step further and slot all of India with Israel, that way Israel has a less malnourished tree and India has more of it’s unique vehicles added (plus they act as a nice counter balance to eachother with India using more modified eastern equipment vs Israel using more modified western vehicles).
That is a cool idea, but mostly it would be copy pastes of the USSR variants. At most they would be event vehicle/squadron vehicle research (for example the BMP-23).
Same goes for Air, I think the only indigenous designs (off the top of my head) were the Uzounov-1 (copy of the DFW C.V) and the DAR 2 (copy of the Albatros C.III).
Though, I personally don’t know how good of a subtree/event vehicles tree this would be, especially considering that Bulgaria mostly utilized German airplanes and tanks during WW2, then USSR/Soviet designs during the Cold War and now is utilizing legacy Soviet Equipment (though modernized) and Western/NATO equipment (Do we want the USSR to have an F-16V (if that variant ever gets added))
Tl;dr, Bulgaria would only add 1-2 vehicles in the entirety of the USSR TT.
Vehicles from post-Soviet nations (CIS members, plus Ukraine and the Baltic nations) should go to the USSR tech tree if they are based on/modified from Soviet designs.
For Germany, modern Polish vehicles can be a subtree, Germany should also receive Austrian and Swiss vehicles.
For US, Turkey would be a good choice. Some South American nations may also be used.
They already said that India would not move from the United Kingdom, I don’t know why some people continue with the same thing. India will stay in the United Kingdom forever, and will not have its own tree either.
When did UK show interest in the T-90 and MiG-21 and Gripen?
Saudi would be nice for the F-15SA but there are/were USAF F-15SA. There is also the issue of Saudi having Typhoons and Tornadoes which takes away from UK, and Germany