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You do not get it. No offense, but I trust the information of professional authors over a ¿wikipedia? enthusiast with an ax to grind against 'secret/wonder weapons', which this aircraft is not. The fact is that authors of these publications claim that some Ju 288 were armed with a BK 5. I do not believe that they were all suffering from mass delusions when they published their respective books. They have sources that the average layman has no access to. If they state that the aircraft exists, then the aircraft exists. Whether it was one, two, or several million produced is not the issue. All that this topic was intended to do was to ask for more information on this particular aircraft(s), if anyone here has some additional information, sources, or pictures & is willing to share, not to debate the existence of 'secret weapons'. If you have a personal issue with the authors of these books, perhaps in a rarer publication, such as this book or buried deep in the archives, someone proficient in German will find primary documentation that will be more to your likingI get it, you're hoping to discover a secret weapon the Germans unleashed on the Allies...The planned modification of the Ju288 to use a BK.5 in any quantity was a last ditch effort
It will happen alright; perhaps not for a long time, but someone will eventually uncover information on this aircraft. Maybe the archives will finally digitize all relevant Ju 288 documentation...A similar example is that of the Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz. For years, some people were angrily denying its very existence, labeling it a 'paper project' or a 'last ditch secret weapon that failed to attain production', let alone see combat service. And then someone found an actual one in the woods in Spichrabut it's not going to happen
I think that you clearly have the wrong aircraft. The aircraft that was 'B-17 big' was the He 177 A-series. Coincidentally, even so, some He 177 A were modified & equipped with the BK 5:The Ju288 was big, like B-17 big. That is not going to be an effective ground attack platform in any sense of the word
The Ju 288 C was more like the size of an He 111 H-series. And even then, the He 111 H itself was also employed in the ground attack role as well:
It was probably used in tandem with whatever fighter support they had at that moment or perhaps employed in a similar fashion to the Hs 129 B-3:chances of survival not only from ground fire, but from enemy fighters swarming all over it
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