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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
Hello Tcolvin
“Typhoon… could not defend itself from the air…”
IIRC Typhoon pilots claimed some 16 fighters during the Normandia campaign.
“It was grossly inaccurate in ground attack with rockets according to contemporary Operational Research. It was therefore good for nothing.”
Now, Typhoon was much less effective against tanks that claimed but so was also Il-2.
The main effect of attack planes against tanks was they effectiveness against soft-skinned vehicles and trains so they hindered badly the supply of POL and ammo and they hindered also movements of armoured formations. Why You think the Ardennes offensive in Dec. 44 was timed for a bad weather period?
And only fraction of Heer was armoured, attack planes ability to hinder artillery was very important because Heer’s defensive plans were based on artillery fire and lesser extent to mg-fire.
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