2nd generation of Nazi jet fighters

A lot of OTL American aviation post WWII was developed using British and German designs and technology. So German 2nd generation jets in this TL would be similar to machines we are familiar with.
 

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A Focke Wulf Ta 183A-1 escorts a Heinkel 343A-1 in a mission over the English coast.

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Ta 183 was to be armed with 4 x 30mm cannons and a pair of AAMs [R334]. What was the Sabre armed with? From what I recall only 6 HMGs.

The metal needed to build better turbine blades was available but being used to build UBoat hulls. So build less Uboats and more Turbine blades.

Ah, the traditional disdain for the Browning .50 cal.

It is amazing that the clearly inferior 6 x .50 package somehow managed to muddle through against well, anything that was put up against it.:rolleyes:

The short (far from comprehensive) list of cannon armed aircraft that the inferior .50 somehow squeaked past includes:

A6M
J2M
Ki-45
Ki-61
Ki-84
Ki-100
Bf-109
Fw-190
Me-110
Me-262
MiG-15

This does not include the several THOUSAND Japanese and German fighters and medium bomb/interceptors blown out of the sky by bomber defensive gunners who were also saddled with the M2 pop-gun.

It is truly amazing that the sky was not swept of the grossly underarmed P-51 (aka the best piston engines fighter of the war), F6f, F4U (Whispering Death to the JNAF), or Sabre (the best 1st generation jet fighter in the world).

I guess it isn't worth mentioning that pretty much anywhere in the West that a heavy machine gun is needed to this day, it is an air cooled M2.
 
It's always presumed that the Luft46-type aircraft would have been successful. Having four unreliable engines instead of two doubles the chance of catastrophic failure and fiery death. Aerodynamically, they were about to enter the totally unknown trans-sonic region that made Chuck Yeager a hero, and killed many a would-be hero as well.

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A Focke Wulf Ta 183A-1 escorts a Heinkel 343A-1 in a mission over the English coast.

A textbook example of Luft '46 vaporware.

The Ta-183 wasn't controllable as designed. I suggest that you look at the MiG-15 to see what was needed to make the design fly (and even then the Soviets seem to have found the aircraft to be remarkably unstable).

To the OP I will admit that the Luft 46 site does provide an excellent suore for the evolution of Luftwaffe naming conventions.
 
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