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If memory serves I./NJG 1 took on a few 410's for night trials but they were deemed unsuitable. II./KG 51 used them for night intruder missions in spring '44 over the UK with some interesting results - but for a night fighter in 1942, excluding jets, you'd be looking at a Ju88 variant - ever popular with the pilots of the Nachtjager.
Fw-190 night fighters should be employed as point defense for heavily bombed areas such as the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin. Perhaps assign a dedicated Fw-190 night fighter staffel to each such high priority area. Unlike longer legged Me-110s and Ju-88s they would remain within about 75 km of their home airfield.
So are faults of P-47s during 1940 to 1941. What does that have to do with production versions from September 1942 onward?
Again I will state that the Me 210 is not going to be available in number and fully operational in 1942.
The P47 has the luxury of time.The Luftwaffe do not.
That's pretty much my understanding also. Bad program management was the only thing which prevented the Me-210C from entering mass production during the fall of 1942. RLM derailed the Me-210 program during April 1942 by over reacting to problems with the 100 or so early production Me-210As.The Me 210 was slated for truly massive production starting in early 1941. In reality it only entered service as a debugged aircraft as the Me 210C in late 1942, effectively Jan 43 for the Me 410.
The disruption was not so much that the Me 210 was late but that whole aircraft plants had been shut down and retooled to produce the Me 210 then had to retool to produce substitutes like the Ju 88. Eg Heinkels facility near Rostok stopped producing He 111 and to produce Me 210 but then had to make Ju 88 instead.
It's said, anecdotally by Rudiger Kosin (Ar 234 designer) that Willy Messerschmitt personally intervened in the design process to remove the slats and shorten the tail. When the test pilot stepped out of the aircraft he was ashen faced from stressed and immediately stated it needed slats and another meter of tail. However Messerschmitt and the Reich Luft Minsterium were fast tracking the project and had already made RM 5 million of jigs and they would all need to be thrown away. Much time was wasted though slats and extended tail were tested it took a while for them to be tested together unconsciously finding a work around. Broth parties were guilty and weren't calling each other on the problems.
Are you referring to daytime air defenses or night air defenses?
Britain had no effective night air defenses during 1940 to 1941. German night bomber losses averaged less then 1% per mission during that time period.
Then use the 300 Me-210As for parts.fix (fuselage extension,slats etc),carried out on all the Me210 airframes already in production or produced took 3,400 man hours per aircraft,not an easy undertaking.
Then use the 300 Me-210As for parts.