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The same reason Finland is with Sweden.

If we were to have Austrian vehicles, their closest tree would be Germany.

Except no it cant because thats a technology demonstrator with basically no public information right now

Thank you, but as Ive said before the devs are aware of the aircraft. S.2 is simply the first variant for now.

Squadron.

France has its own domestic vehicles to look forward too in the future.

We have also not shown the whole contents of the patch yet.

Nope

Simply explaining how its not automatically French property because it uses a French turret.

The Buccaneer in game never carried Martels. It was later models.

I have no idea why my nationality is relevant here.

I am a Community Manager explaining the facts from the developers to you.

The South African tree is being added. So there is no reason at all to remove vehicles from it and take it away from the tree itself.

Eland is South African and thus going into the South African sub tree where it belongs.

SK-105 is Austrian who are closest to Germany. Only the turret is French. The chassis is Austrian.

Germany already has the Canadian Leopard MEXAS

A German origin Leopard 2 developed by Germany and Poland for use by Poland has no place in the US tree.

Stay tuned to the news next week.

Its the test server. Not final. Things like stat cards / flags are always bugged.

The dev stream is to show some of the major things in the patch. Not everything.

Some things are also not ready to show yet.

The devs have already explained there are no plans to do a nation starting from Rank V and linked to 2 nations.

A sub nation comes like South Africa does.

Thundershow is already live?

https://warthunder.com/en/news/7055-video-thunder-show-all-according-to-plan-en

It is. But you will have to wait for that.

Some nations, like South Africa can support a branch from rank 1 upwards without the need for any existing "copy paste" which is the biggest negative people have whenever we introduce a new nation. Others like Israel would be essentially all copy/paste from ranks I - III/IV. Even China could support unique vehicles across those ranks.

The reality is, we simply cant give every nation a whole tree or even a full branch. But its better they are represented in game in some form than not at all.

Nobody said anything about that going in the UK tree.