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Did anyone mention that the A-26 had tricycle landing gear?
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Are there recorded instances of Me-262s attacking A-26s? If so I suspect they were few and far between.
A-26 entered combat so late in WWII that flak was probably the primary threat and remained the primary threat during Korea and Vietnam. Hence my question about crew protection against ground fire.
For that matter Soviet AA fire probably killed more Ju-88 dive bombers (i.e. not counting recon, weather aircraft, night fighters etc.) then any other weapon system.
the Ju88 was the LW main threat in 1939/40
The B-26K modification scheme was started, in part, due to wing failures on old airplanes operating in the low level attack profile. A hard job for most aircraft. Some people claim that one hour of high speed low level flight is worth up to 10 hours of high altitude flight in regards to airframe fatigue. Even if was only 2-3 times as bad those B-26s were old airplanes.
A staggering level of losses and they didnt end in the USA. There were more loses training in UK. I believe there were questions asked in Congress about it.