I know that British readers will be especially happy about this.

Ectar, EU community manager, wrote:

When it comes to a new national tech-tree being added, the British/Royal Navy is currently planned next. It’s not decided yet it if will come with multiple branches. That doesn’t mean however that existing tech trees may have additional branches added first. Again whilst there is player desire, there is also things like accessibility to records and data and people available to work on that information. If things could be done quicker, they would be as it makes no sense to “hold back” on content we have readily available.