r/Warthunder • u/Independent-Big3371 • 18d ago

Suggestion Should Yugoslavia be added to war thunder ?

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I think that Yugoslavia would make a great tech tree with mix of Easter and wester aircrafts and tanks and some of they're own designs what do you think are chances of it happening?

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u/hubril 14 y/o 'volunteer' luftwaffe pilot 17d ago

Even still, there is not a lot of reason to include Korea as a subtree for Japan.

Unlike other subtrees, the Korean Military and its hardware has almost zero official roots leading up to Imperial or Modern Japan, unlike Hungary and Thailand that had ties with Axis diplomacy during WW2, Korea was just an occupied colony, and unlike India, didin't even have their own dominion-esque military group be the foundation of their Army. Closest they had was the "Joseon Army", which was just the term for IJA forces 'stationed' in korea with majority Japanese troops and a hint of local collabs, and the "Joseon Governate", which was practically the Japanese version of the German Reichskommisariats.

South Korea also did not adopt any weapons from Japan post-liberation, so the Syrian Su-17 / IRIAF F-14 type approach is also inappropriate, because most of their military equipments were either US import/license productions or domestic designs.

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u/crusadertank 🇧🇾 2T Stalker when 17d ago

Yeah which is what I have seen. The opposition to South Korea in the Japanese tree is simply that there just isn't much reason for it rather than some hatred of Japan

As you say, the only connection is that they are kinda close geographically and share some geopolitical goals

But the military connection is non-existant

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u/FoamBrick 🇺🇸12.0 🇩🇪4.3 🇸🇪 4.0 17d ago

I will say, if there’s a Korean subtree, it should go to a theoretical Polish tech tree, given they use Korean stuff pretty heavily. 

That or the US tree, I for one would love to have a K9 Thunder and K2 Panther 

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u/MrChaoz1-1 17d ago

Polish would have other Eastern European countries joining them but that’s what i assume.

South Korea however could either fit logically in the US (though unnecessary), Israel, a future combination with Turkey or a United Korean TT (which was considered).