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Old 11th July 2007, 13:44
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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?

Any quality may have a combat plane, it cannot be effective unless it is available in number.
A handful of high-technology Ar 234s and Me 262s were definitely less effective than thousands of Il-2s.
That's for the same reason that the US kept on building Shermans which were outclassed by German Tigers but outnumbered them.