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Re: Should the Me262 been used exclusively as a jabo ....
"what is the primary strike aircraft in every air force today? Yep, the jet fighter-bomber."
Actually, no. If the term "primary strike" has any significance at all, then it should be applied to the B-1, B-2, B-52, Tornado (IDS variants), Tu 160, and Su 24. None of these have the slightest pretence at being fighters, hyphenated or otherwise.
Strike does have (or had) a particular meaning in RAF parlance, referring to nuclear missions, but offhand only the Buccaneer ever carried an S designation. And I immediately have to add the Sea Harrier, with its FRS for the naval role - where the RN had no choice of platform. So the Fleet Air Arm did indeed have the jet fighter bomber as its primary strike aircraft.
There are lots of fighter-bombers around, true. But given that modern air forces do not use piston engines, rocket engines, turboprops, or hyper/warp drives - what else would they be but jet fighter bombers?
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