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The Do335 in standard config was good for 478mphI have designed my fighter-bomber to be about 480 mph max. Therefore this problem will not arise
The Do335 recorded speeds upwards of 470mph with both engines and a reasonable 350mph on a single engine. For one of the scarce Allied claims of encountering a Do335, the French-piloted Hawker Tempest was not even able to achieve an effective engagement range to fire on it.Potentially up to 478 mph. In reality that speed was rarely met with the pre-production planes.
To me, WW" proved the value of numbers. Not until the end of the war, Germany went for quality instead of numbers and suffered accordingly.Of course. The real question is whether it was cost effective. Let us say it cost as much as six 109s to produce. Could it do more than, say, six 109s? Or, say, two Ju 88s?
That's not really what it does. Staying out of range and shooting at the bombers is not an option. First and as you said, because of the escort fighters and second, because of the low probability of a hit at great distances. Some like to call the MK 108 a grenade launcher but its ballistics were really not as bad as often portrayed. They were quite similar to those of the older MG/FF.With the 103 you had the possibility of standing off out of range and killing the bombers.
Sorry for the mixup here. Hooton discussed factory dispersal and said even when factoring
all the dispersal (dispersed factory workers) back in, there were only 4 factories that employed
over 10,000 people.
Hooton (and his book) are pretty well-respected. I don't think he would make an obvious and
silly error like saying, "Germany only had 4 aircraft factories."
The book is pretty dry reading, academic and dense, but Hooton writes VERY well and it
is well worth the difficulty in finding it.
Bronc
To score hits at longer ranges you need gyro stabilized gun sights which were just being introduced late in WWII.
Psteel, the Do 335 was developed from a fast bomber design.
But on the other hand, it lacked the bomb load for a real bomber. The Me 410 and Ar 234 would have been better options though that too was a bit too light. Later Arado versions as well as the He 343 would have become the new medium bomber.
Kris