Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?

[Juha]

Hello Graham
Il-2s could make life miserable for minesweepers and smaller warships and for transports but usually could not sink them. On the other hand destroyers and bigger warships were able to give artillery support to Heer at Baltic right to end of war. Swordfish, which could use rockets, torpedos, bombs or mines and had room and carrying capacity for ASW radar and operator, could attack day or night or at least mine the harbour entrances or usually used searoutes would IMHO have been more effective countermeasure against Kriegsmarine. Il-2 with its, was that 700 kg, armour simply didn't have enough carrying capacity for an effective anti-shipping operation, at least against real warships.