I don’t understad why was the flag removed while I get it that some country looks at it like an oppressor I think now it just looks stupid and it’s not historical since the tanks and ship + planes were created under that flag and the fleet still uses that flag to this day maybe small changes and it’s like the same as if a t-34 was operating under a russian flag and not a soviet and then why is the soviet flag in the game since they were also an oppressor and the sickle and hammer is also a banned symbol in alot of countries I think this update is stupid and I want the rising sun back asp
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It’s because the Rising Sun flag was not the national flag of Japan during WW2, it was a battle flag.
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I’m not very knowledgeable in the subject but i think it’s because the old flag was never the Japanese national flag and was only used for navy (and something else i think?). All flags for the nations in-game are the national flags and not the flags of specific units or army sections.
Here is a thread on it from the dev-server section:
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Its been changed to Japan’s actual flag
The rising sun flag would be roughly equivalent to using the UK’s naval ensign for the whole tree, makes no sense
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I understand that it wasn’t the national flag but since both the army and the navy used/uses it was still the more commonly know flag and why was it only removed 12years later why couldnt it stay
but it was also the army’s but even then why can’t the navy keep it the yamato looks so stupid rn
National flags are the default
Only naval need it back.
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the russian navy of the russian empire uses the naval ensign and doesnt use the actual russian empire flag
this is the only exception to the rule
Imperial Germany and Weimar Republic ships both use their naval ensigns isntead of national flags.
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Third Reich ships also use their naval ensign/war flag
ah i didnt see this, so there are more examples of developer hypocracy going on, thanks for showing this off
Some British ships also use the naval ensign
vs
To my eyes the one currently in game is the darker older one. And the other nations also have their older flags.
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Which makes no sense because they stopped using it in 1999, and the Type-10 I recall was not from 1999.
Also, the IJ flag was the war flag for WW2. The Japanese Hinomaru from 1870->1999 wasn’t used in war directly.
Just give me back the rising Sun flag I really think this is ridiculous that I can’t have my rising sun
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Oh you mean the background flag on the stat cards?
I was talking about the main nation one in hangar as well as the older vehicles.
Making modern vehicles have the modern flag in their stat cards is a valid request (in my personal opinion) and should then be reported. You can bug report it here (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about): (Gaijin.net // Issues)
A guide on how to report bugs can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)
Yeah, I’m not doing that, going by how many requests get denied for being “not a bug,” and there are videos and screenshots since bug reports became a thing, which have been denied for the dumbest of reasons. If someone wants to be my guest. But you play long enough, you know they just deny it anyway.
A better solution would be to make it a purchasable decal. Or being able to change the background flag for the soulless stat sheet pictures.