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Re: What do you think about this?
The British airforce and American airforce were by 1943 /44 far to powerfull to have ever seen the Luftwaffe being able to beat them.
US heavies by day with a massive fighter escort that would have continued to have grown in strength month on month could have dealt with the FW190, even had the Luftwaffe had large numbers of the ME262 these would also eventually have been shot down, factories bombed , fighter bases flattend reducing the numbers put into the air. Also if the war had dragged on any longer the Gloster Meteor would have been available to counter the fast flying jets, perhaps not as capable as the 262 but able to meet it at altitude at speed rather than looking for them returning to base. The FW190 was a great plane but the problem lay with the quality of the pilots, hastily trained , not a great deal of flying practice due to the fuel shortages and thrown against an enemy who killed you on take off, climbing to altitude, in combat and landing, and then bombed and shot up your base on the way home !
By night the RAF could and did "simply" wipe out a city, this massive force although hit hard would never have been stopped and with the Mosquito it had a Nightfighter friend capable of shooting down any Luftwaffe nightfighter and again killing them from take off to engine shut down.
As i have said the FW190 was a superb fighter but it was a numbers game and the numbers from the mid war were against Germany...dont forget the massive Russian force on the other front.....70% of German combat (men)losses were against the Russian.
As for transporting engines to Japan how ? by sea they would have been sunk, by air shot down, and by land...a long trip and eventually stopped.
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