Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?

[Graham Boak]

RT: your "real question" has been answered before: No. The introduction of the Me 262 into service was dependent on achieving an acceptable production standard for the Jumo engine. The most that could perhaps have been achieved would be to have a few more fighter pilots in a few more aircraft, a little bit sooner. This would not have been significant.

[George Hopp]

I have a question too: why did the Germans introduce the R4M so late?

I imagine, Nick, that the R4M was simply the result of a slow evolution of air-to-air rocket design, and that evolution just got the R4M into service too slowly. They had the RZ65 in 1942/43, and then seemed to go into larger rockets rather than to stay with massed smaller rockets. Perhaps, to increase the amount of propellent. So, perhaps the propellent burn rate, and thrust were the problem. And that's the problem with these things, there are so many aspects to them.

It's not much, Nick. But, maybe a start.
George