Re: Should the Me262 been used exclusively as a jabo ....
Richard
It is a simple issue of what is the target for a fighter bomber. It is obvious you would not bomb a city with them, as you need big bombers or at least a number of V1s to have an effect (apart of psychological perhaps). Fighter bombers attack small targets of tactical importance and therefore high accuracy is needed. Me 262 was way too fast to make an accurate target approach, and technology of the time not allowed for precision bombing from level flight. Well, even today, with laser guided bombs it is still a hard task. Thus there was nothing wrong with the concept, but the platform was wrong.
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