AR 234C

[gpcustom]

 :devilHow about the 4 engine night fighter version of the B model. Some guns would really be nice other than the defensive ones on the B. I do not think any of the C models saw combat but several were in fact built in several variations.

[gpcustom]

I stand corrected. Some of the C models did see combat.
A total of 210 Ar-234Bs and 14 Ar-234Cs were delivered to the Luftwaffe, but with Germany in chaos, only a handful ever got into combat. A final inventory taken on 10 April 1945 listed 38 in service, including 12 bombers, 24 reconnaissance machines, and 2 night fighters. These aircraft continued to fight in a scattered and ineffective fashion until Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Some were shot down in air combat, destroyed by flak (sometimes their own), or bounced by Allied fighters when they came in to land. Others performed their missions and then fled too fast for enemy fighters to follow, to land and then wait for scarce fuel to be found so they could fly more missions.

[gpcustom]

[Anaxogoras]

Sorry, an aircraft has to have seen combat at the unit level to be included in AH.

[USCH]

the Unit only had 2 pilots left.... 

[Cthulhu]

the Unit only had 2 pilots left.... 

He's got a point. At that stage of the war, those 2 guys were probably 15% of the Luftwaffe.

[Spikes]

He's got a point. At that stage of the war, those 2 guys were probably 15% of the Luftwaffe.

[AWwrgwy]

I stand corrected. Some of the C models did see combat.
A total of 210 Ar-234Bs and 14 Ar-234Cs were delivered to the Luftwaffe, but with Germany in chaos, only a handful ever got into combat. A final inventory taken on 10 April 1945 listed 38 in service, including 12 bombers, 24 reconnaissance machines, and 2 night fighters. These aircraft continued to fight in a scattered and ineffective fashion until Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Some were shot down in air combat, destroyed by flak (sometimes their own), or bounced by Allied fighters when they came in to land. Others performed their missions and then fled too fast for enemy fighters to follow, to land and then wait for scarce fuel to be found so they could fly more missions.

I fail to see where it says any of the 14 AR234C's saw combat nor any flights of the two night fighter variants.

Basically the AR234C was a 234 powered by four BMW 003A engines rather than two Jumo 004s.  We will assume the two night fighter variants at the end of the war were 234Cs.  So, out of 14 there were at least two....



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[Ack-Ack]

The Ar 234C never saw operational service or combat.  A test operational squadron was being formed but the war ended before the unit was actually formed.  Of the 14 prototypes, maybe one was the C-3/N night fighter variant as the other prototypes spanded the entire C variant series and not just one C variant.


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