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It would have been hard to "make him pay dearly" if the attack was by say four Me 262s that could disengage at will. I also suspect that the LW failure to engage escorts was due to the same problems that confounded attempts to attack the LW with big wings during the BoB.
Nuuuman, there is no easy fix. What are your arguments?Why not?
The Japanese and Italians used to think the same thing.
I'm skeptical of the "airfield combat" proposal. If it was possible to catch Me 262s on final, it was possible to catch any LW piston engine plane.
there was little to be done against the Me 262? The Allies only hope to destroy them was by circling above the jet airfields.
Kris
Slight correction - the USAAF went away in 1947, in Korea it was the USAFThe USAAF had to deal with radar guided MIGS and AAA over N Korea how did they cope. It seems a similar enough situation to use the response of the USAAF in 1950 to 54 to extrapolate the response in 44.
People keep using the argument of bouncing the jets on their take off and landing. However, this would not happen in this 1944 scenario.
Why? The effective patrolling over German jet bases started around February 1945.
Kris
The LW was never able to maintain 100% air superiority around its bases, this was a situation that cannot go away.People keep using the argument of bouncing the jets on their take off and landing. However, this would not happen in this 1944 scenario.
Why?
The effective patrolling over German jet bases started around February 1945. By that time, the Allies were already invading Germany itself. This had two major results, which would be absent in this 1944 scenario.
it's all in perspective in fact the "future" LW jet bases were to made underground with slight upsloping ramps................... the race against the inevitable time machine the LW did not have on it's side. Welters men raced from the east side trying to get behind soviet lines and steal necessary fuels for it's jets to counter BC A/C..................ha ha but what a story it is of insanity.
I am auite aware of Hans Fey interrogation report. It just boggles me how you use that document to prove your point, while his testimony clearly demonstrates the superiority of the Me 262 !
Kris