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Originally Posted by crockett
Germany could have mass produced it. However Hitler was more worried about a jet powered bomber, by the time they refocused on the fighter it was too little too late. Had they focused on the fighter, the allied bombing raids might not have been so effective.
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
he screwed it up by demanding to turn it into a bomber instead.
payload too small, engines not powerful enough to carry the load and an otherwise excellent plane wasted on the wrong purpose
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i'm going totally by memory here but didn't adolph put the kabash on the me262 for years?
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Yeah, Hilter didn't see the value in having a jet fighter... If I remember correctly, he started and stopped the program many times, and made so many changes to the program that it never really got off...