GregP
Major
While everything you said is true, Tomo, there wasn't much development left in the Fw 190 airframe.
Since it was right near the top of the fastest piston fighters ever made, it wasn't going to get much faster no matter what they did ... unless you think there was some unexplored aerodynamic advantage that nobody else ever thought of lurking on the horizon.
It was a damned good airplane that came at a time when it could do no good as the war was well and truly lost by the time the very first Ta 152 service sortie took place. The only reason it didn't see decent-scale service is that all use of the Ta 152 stopped with the end of the war except for test flights of captured examples. Except for that it might have been a very good service aircraft.
Since it was right near the top of the fastest piston fighters ever made, it wasn't going to get much faster no matter what they did ... unless you think there was some unexplored aerodynamic advantage that nobody else ever thought of lurking on the horizon.
It was a damned good airplane that came at a time when it could do no good as the war was well and truly lost by the time the very first Ta 152 service sortie took place. The only reason it didn't see decent-scale service is that all use of the Ta 152 stopped with the end of the war except for test flights of captured examples. Except for that it might have been a very good service aircraft.