SunDeep
Banned
A WWII ground attack aircraft, arguably possessing better armor and better armament than its Soviet equivalent the IL-2, and one of the main inspirations for the American A-10, the Henschel Hs 129 was effectively crippled in the development stage IOTL by the insistence that it be powered by 'unimportant', underpowered and obsolete engines, and was never really mass produced. However, WI in an ATL Hitler decides to prioritize the big, bad Hs 129 in the same way as his opposite number Stalin did with the Soviet Union's IL-2, powering it with higher performance Argus As 411 instead of As 410 engines, up-arming it early (maybe even fitting it with Nebelwerfer rocket launchers, as well as a BK-37 autocannon, which would be developed earlier ITTL specifically for this aircraft) and ramping up its production to carry out a heavy ground attack, close support tank-busting role across the Eastern Front from the start of Operation Barbarossa? How much of an impact could it have had if it had been given a chance?
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