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Im not sure what you are referring too here. The Mk 101 is not an artificial nerf. Its an engine the aircraft had. As I mentioned before, if any part of its performance is not correct with that engine, then it can be reported.

Please see my previous post for the dev response. That's as they have planned it for now.

Generally the TAF designation was considered satisfactory in identifying what the variant was.

We will pass feedback about the name of the IDS on for consideration

The comments I have posted today regarding the 101 / 103 decision in response to Gunjob and Flame. That was the comments I received from the developers, which I then pass on to you guys where possible.

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The rank requirements on the dev server at the moment are not final. At the moment I don't have details on the final values.

The MK 103 report was closed with the developers comments which I have provided today.

If you believe its still wrong, please report it. I am only quoting what I have been told my the developers. We can pass on any reports to be reviewed.

The only news we have had so far is that the TAF version is receiving them. If we receive a further update, we will also share that information.

I haven't made any such claim that they are not based on the same variant. The British variant had its own unique name and changes between the German / Italian IDS. Its absolutely correct that they are named differently and how they are called in game (and how I spoke of them) is correct.

The Tornado GR.1 was never called the Tornado IDS (Mk 1) so we have no reason to use such a name. All British documentation, sources and any material refers to the aircraft as the Tornado GR.1. Which is correct.

That's not what was said at all.

Its an equivalent version yes. Again I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

There are still numerous external and internal differences between them that are well documented.

Those F-104 models, like the F-16s and Tornados had months of development time put into them. We made it clear that Italy's fighter is being worked on and as soon as its ready it will come in the update that it is. The Tornado however is ready and will be added.

If we have something to show / share we will do so. There may also be updates to the devs server whenever there is new content to show.

Multiple nations are also planned to receive new top fighters in the next update. Italy is not by itself here.

The IDS is coming now regardless, there is absolutely no reason to delay it whatsoever. Not adding it now is not going to mean the other one is ready to add. Thtas not the reason at all. We have explicitly said that a fighter is being worked on and will come when it can.

Each nation received its own variants. We didn't just paste the F-104A everywhere.

The community don't have to badger the devs for flares for the Tornado? We explained explicitly as soon as it was first shown that the countermeasures were coming, just not ready to show yet.

There's almost no real difference between the engines. Simply a development choice to have the 101 for the GR.1 and 103 for the IDS.

Im not sure what point you are trying to make here. This generalised statement is entirely meaningless. There are numerous 3D visual changes and internal changes between the GR.1 and IDS. Initial Tornado deliveries had the Mk 101 engines and later ones had the Mk 103s. The devs have chosen to give the IDS variants the 103s and the GR.1 the 101. There are other variants possible for the British tree to receive with later engines.

Not at the moment, but the feedback on it and peoples opinions was passed to the devs

If it were so easy and something we did, we would have done that back in update 1.91 and just pasted the F-4C everywhere and called it quits. Its not how we do things at all. Months of time and development resources go into every model and the devs and artists take pride in the work that they do. Every nation will have at least 1 Rank VIII this patch and more will follow in the next updates.

Italy is getting their Rank 8 this patch and as we have made, another one is already directly in the works to come afterwards. We cannot delay the whole update and even then it would not come "a week or two" because we are an international company and as you may expect, staff have family's celebrations and holidays over that period. Our major updates and content is planned around the development schedule and resources we have.

I have answered that persons question directly. Its being added now because we do not add fighter aircraft all in the same update and just strike aircraft all in the same update. The two don't correlate. War Thunder has always had bombers, fighters, attackers, naval and all sorts of aircraft. Fighters are directly planned to come too. But because the MiG-29 and F-16 are coming does not mean any other type of aircraft is out of the question.