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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
Hello tcolvin
"the Polish army in 1939 which lacked Flak" is not entirely correct, Polish army had a decent number of 40mm Bofors AA guns and some heavy AA guns.
"There was a need for armoured aircraft with guns to destroy tanks, artillery and ships"
There was a point for armoured a/c like Il-2 in ground attack work but against ships that wasn't a good type of a/c because they lacked load carrying ability and ships were rather difficult to sink. Even fabric covered torpedo bi-plane like Swordfish was clearly more effective against ships than Il-2. Against warships the difference was even clearer. And Il-2 armed with 37mm cannon wasn't liked by pilots, plane was too heavy and unwieldy and the recoil was too heavy for accurate aiming. But Il-2 was effective against infantry, soft vehicles and artillery and moderately successful against armour with 23mm cannon and anti-tank bomblets.
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