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Re: Did the Luftwaffe ever experiment with JATO?
Has anyone not considered these "lit up airfields" might possibly be bogus ones, to distract from real onesīs? Anternatively searchlights might possibly have been used to illuminate fields for brief moments, perhaps enabling single seather or twin engine fighters to "scramble" in shortest possible time (Alarmstart) or even enabling night flights - training flights - to land quickly, in trying avoiding intruders or enemy night-fighters sweeping along bomber streams. I dopt RATO packs were used much by Bf 110īs or Ju 88īs in night defence of the Reich in winter 1944/1945. At least it whould require a whole lot of rockets to light up a whole field. I do not remember reading about such use. Walter RATO packs were used by the new jets (Me 262 & Ar 234) and heavily laden Torpedo carrying Ju 88 A-4 LT or A-17īs, taking off from short fields. My two pennies.
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