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Germany cannot cancel a program this size in the middle of WWII. You would need to cancel it during 1937. Which means the Hs-127 likely enters production instead as the standard German light bomber.The Ju 88-program constituted one of the largest German armament projects. The firms
which took part in the original plan of 1938 employed more than half of the workforce
engaged in German airframe production. Even in 1943, when the focal point of air
armament began to shift to fighters, the participants in the Ju 88-program still employed a
third of it (Budraß, 1998, p. 834). Between September 1938, when series production
started at Junkers, and September 1944, when it was cancelled, some 14,000 Ju 88
bombers were built.
Why do you say that?only the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) was stuck in pre-1939 thinking.
Why do you say that?
Hurricane, P-39 and P-40 fighter aircraft were produced into 1944. The Me-109 was superior all of them by a wide margin.
B-25 and B-26 medium bombers served to the end of WWII. The Ju-88 was superior to both.
There are plenty more examples of obsolescent allied equipment remaining in mass production.
Ju-88S1. 379mph max speed. 326mph cruise speed.In what way(s) was/were the Ju-88 superior to them?
Both the B-25 and B-26 were excellent medium bombers that had very good defensive armament and compiled excellent combat records, IIRC. They certainly could defend themselves better than the Ju-88 bomber. In what way(s) was/were the Ju-88 superior to them?
Considering the Ju 88 was used as a heavy fighter and a night figher, I find it hard to believe it could not "defend itself". In the bomber role, I can agree with you though, because it had less defensive armament.
That's flawed logic. A bomber that gets intercepted by a dedicated bomber-destroyer like the Fw-190A8/R1 is likely to die no matter how many defensive machineguns it has. The best defense is to make interception difficult by cruising at high speed over enemy airspace.