Intended use for Ju-287 jet bomber ?

[Graham Boak]

Conventional bombers could not penetrate British defences without heavy losses. Heavy meaning the kind of losses that make an extended campaign unacceptable. The qualification is important.

The evidence that the larger bombbay was to carry an atomic bomb is specious. On the same level of evidence, perhaps the Lancaster's bombbay was big so it could carry an atomic bomb?

Was the development of the Ju 287 particularly slow? By the standards of other large aircraft in Germany at the time? Given the downright peculiar aerodynamics/structure of a swept-forward wing?