While its an interesting project - mentioned, btw, in Robert Forsyth Eddie J Creek's book on the Me 264 Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerikabomber: The Luftwaffe's Lost Transatlantic Bomber: Robert Forsyth, Eddie J. Creek: 9781903223659: - all of the figures have to be estimates of its performance, with no evidence that the projected figures would have been achieved once the aircraft was in operational service. For a start, with DB 601s, the projected range would have been drastically reduced, while the airframe would have to be beefed up to take the longer, heavier engines. There's no mention as to whether armour was fitted for the crew, nor what the "considerable armament" was supposed to be. By the time all of the necessary operational equipment was fitted, along with the new, more powerful engines, it would not have been able to cover both seaboards of the Atlantic. While there was supposedly huge growth potential is there any concrete evidence of that?
Nor is there any mention of where the raw materials for its production were meant to come from, or the large numbers of extra engines it would have needed - while the He 111 might have been sacrificed, there were not even enough DB 601s available to power more than a small sub-series of the He 111, meaning that the Jumo 211 would have had to be used, meaning that (probably) the Ju 88 would have been either delayed or sacrificed. Chances are it would have only been slightly faster than the He 111, while it's operating height of 6,500 metres would have still left it vulnerable to the RAF's fighters.
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