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Originally Posted by Sven

It wasn't dumb at all, it was needed on the West-front in case on an invasion, the fast jet fighters could evade flak and fighters to strike down on the ships.
That was the plan. The me-262 appeared too late in action to achieve that, by the time they appeared in larger numbers a lot of me-262s were already in the fighter role.

Thanks for posting that video!

I think there could have been enough 262's for both roles, if the Germans had stopped building other aircraft, such as the ME-109, HE-111, ME-163, HE-162, FW-190D (although it is my favorite) and stop working on all of those wild "1946" paper airplanes. They also needed to concentrate on getting the jet engines more reliable.

The just had too many irons in the fire.

Even then, with the P-51 escorting the bombers to Berlin and back, they couldn't have stopped the massive bombing raids.

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