HE 162 Volksjager

[Lusche]

Top speed is 235mph in a C47.
Top speed is 168mph in a Me 323.

Ok, not twice as fast but fast enough to make a noticable difference.  

So which plane would be more efficient in base resupply?

If both planes were free, introducing the Me 323 with 2 field supps would simply reduce the requirements for base resupply.

[titanic3]

Well then it depends on how much base supplies the field will need to be fully up. If it's only one person, then the 323 is the better choice since it'll be faster. If the field only need 3 or 4 supps, then the C47 will be faster with 3 or 4 guys.

[Lusche]

Well then it depends on how much base supplies the field will need to be fully up. If it's only one person, then the 323 is the better choice since it'll be faster. If the field only need 3 or 4 supps, then the C47 will be faster with 3 or 4 guys.

Or just two guys in case of 323.

In any case, resupplying the field would take less effort, no matter how you turn it around. And that's the whole point.

[Karnak]

323 would need to land to deliver the supplies while the C-47s could just drop them.

[Tank-Ace]

Tank-Ace,

By your logic, the German AA gunners weren't usually in combat with the Lancasters or B-17s because they personally weren't usually in the target area and thus were actually in less danger than the Meteor pilots.

Yeah, I would say AA gunner plugging away from the middle of a field aren't really in combat. You kind of need someone to be fighting back to call it combat, IMO.


But like I said, we're clearly not going to convince eachother, lets just agree to disagree.






Debrody, why no He 162? It meets the requirments and should be added eventually.

[Butcher]

Is there any proof the He 162 was even in combat? I see such spotted records - for example Profiles Publication claims JG 1 never used it guns in anger, although it did have 50 He-162s on the runway, at the time of british capture, there was a lack of aviation fuel to fly them, as there has been no fuel for some time.

I do see one He-162 shooting down a Typhoon but there is only one photo of a JG 1 He-162 flying, I know they were in operational status but without fuel does this allow it to be combat effective?