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Designed as a fighter but never achieved a single air combat victory.
I'm no fan of the Me-110. Germany should have produced the Fw-187 instead. However I'm not convinced it performed all that poorly during the Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Britain - 1940
It appears to me the Luftwaffe had 90 Me-110 long range bomber escort aircraft committed to the Battle of Britain as of 7 September 1940. (Additional Me-110s were committed for recon and as light bombers. These are not bomber escorts.) Once the very short legged Me-109Es turned for home these 90 Me-110s had to face 10 times their number of RAF fighter aircraft. Do you think the P-51D would have been successful if it had been outnumbered 10 to 1 over Germany?
Was the Boomerang ever pitted against enemy planes?
Wasn't the Boomerang a stop gap fighter until better fighters arrived?[/QUOTE said:I really don't like the term "stop gap" since technological evolution means any aircraft is a stop gap until something better comes along. However, it was still designed as a fighter, whichever way you caveat it.
Depends what you mean by "pitted against". Did it operate in the front line? Yes. Was it a fighter? Yes. Were there enemy aircraft in the vicinity? Yes. Were a number of Boomers shot down by enemy aircraft? Yes. By my thinking, it was "pitted against" enemy aircraft. Does that match your meaning?
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Mark H