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Old 10th November 2007, 09:50
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Re: Should the Me262 been used exclusively as a jabo ....

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Indeed! A friend recalled that during such attacks altimeter of his Mustang changed into a prop! It is obvious the faster aircraft needs more altitude to start the attack, more altitude to recover from the dive, there is less time to identify target, make aim, deliver bomb or rocket attack, make a strafing attack, etc. That is why air brakes were introduced.

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The question is who, when and where. I did some experiments and achieved results that were just expected. Otherwise, could you make a summary of the report? Conditions, number of approaches, percentage of hits or near misses, etc.
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Old 11th November 2007, 00:33
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Eventually, as most know, the 2 Lotfe bomber test vehicles were developed to get around the shortcomings of a simply modified fighter. Tests with these proved quite successful. However, by this time in the war, it was really too late to move forward with their deployment. It should further be noted that these were, short of bombs, unarmed, and thus were purely bombers without fighter capability.
These a/c were to be bombing masters, as with the P-38, for level bombing. This a/c would lead the formation and do the bomb-sighting, while the other a/c bombed on this a/c's command.

As to whether or not the Me 262 should be used exclusively for bombing, this was answered by Karl-Otto Saur at the meeting of the Jaegerstab on 25 June 1944. He "emphasised that the (Me 262) should be used as a bomber; only when the Ar 234 became available in sufficient numbers would the aircraft revert to a fighter." ("Me 262 - Volume one" by J.R. Smith and E.J. Creek, page 191). In fact, production of Me 262 fighters never really stopped, and it couldn't be because it was so vital to anti-bomber operations.
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Re: Should the Me262 been used exclusively as a jabo ....

If you go into the Remagen operation, you'll find that the weather was so bad much of the time, so that even seeing the target was a serious problem for the Germans who often bombed secondary objectives other than the bridge.
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