Yakovlev Yak-130 — Small but deadly

On serious note I agree, not adding stuff anymore is just not a solution.

Of course, USSR is a cool nation that deserves the cool vehicles they operate(d) irl just like others nations, bro probably just had a bad time against soviet tech and never recovered from it
Or he ate too much of that russian bias narrative that is everywhere in the wt community

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Mighty Lavi, as they refer to the Aermacchi M-346 Master, it’s used for fighter jet pilot training, that’s why its ordnances are very reduced.

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I personally think it would fit best as an camouflage dedicated for the Italian M-346 Master in the Italian tech tree when it eventually is added to the game.

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+1 in a Jamaica TT. Does it even have a military? I don’t know but I feel this must also have BoneyM song covers all over it as a camo

Jamaica tech tree is never happening (at best it’d be south america tech tree), but maybe as a cool market camo

No it must be a stand alone tech tree with like 1 vehicle in it.

lol
They don’t even operate a single combat aircraft lol just checked
And never did

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But also the M-346 for Italy !

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Overall having more of these combat-capable trainers would be some very nice diversity, and there’s quite a few others we could get (the Hawk and older ones like the Gnat, for example). We already have some like the Alphajet so there’s no reason we shouldn’t get more

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What Br would it have then? Performance very similar to the Alphajet, but with modern weaponry

No idea. I am not much RB player.

arcade or sim?

Mostly sim.

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+1 would’ve rather the USSR got this over the L-39

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Does this plane not have flares?

Yes it does have flares as well chaff dispensers, which is installed in the wingtip:

However, the Yak-130 also has nine hard points: two wingtip, six under-wing and one beneath the centre fuselage. It can carry a wide range of modern weapons and other stores, including external wing combat fuel tanks, bombs weighing up to 500kg (1,100lb), TV homing/cockpit-displayed guided bombs, rockets, a twin 23mm gun pod, R-73 infrared-homing air-to-air missiles, and electronic countermeasures pods and chaff and flare dispensers, up to a maximum combat load of 3,000kg.

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So trading R-73s (which is linked to hmd)for CMs and RWR?

Trades two extra (pylon 7 and 8) R-73Es for the ECM pods, there are two more R-73Es in the last but one pylons (5 and 6), as in this image below:

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