Shortround6
Major General
What's the point?
By mid/late 1944 the war has been pretty much decided. No "new" airplane is going to change the end by more than week or so.
An A-26B could hit 355mph at 15,000ft with 4,000lb of bombs. The A-26 could have been introduced into service 6-12 months earlier with less arguments/wrangling between Douglas and the USAAC. It was not really delayed by any technical reason.
Trying to use the cowl design of the Republic XF-12 requires introducing that knowledge 3-4 years early (first flight of XF-12 was 4 February 1946 and service use was normally at least a year after prototype first flew and often longer)
By mid/late 1944 the war has been pretty much decided. No "new" airplane is going to change the end by more than week or so.
An A-26B could hit 355mph at 15,000ft with 4,000lb of bombs. The A-26 could have been introduced into service 6-12 months earlier with less arguments/wrangling between Douglas and the USAAC. It was not really delayed by any technical reason.
Trying to use the cowl design of the Republic XF-12 requires introducing that knowledge 3-4 years early (first flight of XF-12 was 4 February 1946 and service use was normally at least a year after prototype first flew and often longer)