« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2004, 03:05:29 PM »
Originally posted by ra
"I saw that too, wonder how the airwar would have turned out if Germany would have had time to build that new Focke-Wulfe jet."
I used to have 2 books on the futuristic German designs. One was about fighters, the other about bombers. It was full of neat drawings and artists renderings, but just about all of those designs never got past the basic drawing stage. Most were never seriously considered for development, they were just concept drawings.
The Germans had already developed the weapon they needed to turn the tide over fortress Germany: the Me-262 with R4M's. But they were too little too late. The development of those other radical new aircraft designs was a waste of resources, IMHO.
ra
The Germans had 3 prototypes built of the new Focke-Wulfe jet, the Soviets captured the factory where the prototypes were. This particular jet was going to carry a wire guided missile. The MiG-15 looks very similar in some ways. Designation on the new jet was TA-192 or something like that. First generation Allied jets would have been severely outclassed by this new German jet.
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