Arado Ar 234 interceptor?

Would the Arado Ar 234 have made for a good daylight bomber interceptor?

There were nightfighter and armed recon variants under development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234#Variants

Being faster than most fighter escorts, a likely steady gun platform and much more space (vs. Me262) for ammunition, plus a good carrier for AAMs like the Ruhrstahl X-4, the Blitz seems ideally suited.

 
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to Yes
the Ar 234 was excellent Aircraft and allies were shocked as they encounter the first ones in the sky
there were allot version in planning
like Ar 234 C version with four jet engines and two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons in nose
or Ar 234 P-5 with HeS 011A engines, one 20 mm MG 151/20 and four 30 mm MK 108 cannon.
there were even proposed version with Radardome on back of plane, as Interceptor/destroyer.
those version would have be very good interceptors

To No
Again the Luftwaffe screw thing up
At first they insist that the production Model got NO landing gear and using a landing skid.
what delay the first flight and than they discover it complete unpractical so put landing gear into Ar 234
This delay the program way to 1944

Then Göring hat put top priority into Me 262 and He 162 production, putting the reconnaissance Ar 234 on lower priority
meaning while Bunker factories were build for Me 263 and He 162, Arado had look for them self how to built the Ar 234.
and there were problem in resources, the Ar 234 is far bigger as Me 263 or He 162 (build from wood).
and material were scares, Arado could only build 214 units compare to 232 He 162 and 1430 Me 232

Finally as Americans troop to march in Luftwaffe base they found allot unused He 162, Me 232, Ar 234.
Again fault of Luftwaffe lack of Logistic and maintenance policy, there lack of Pilots and getting petrol for the jet.
 
Likely a steady gun platform with more room for ammunition? All the Arados with forward firing weapons carried these cannons in pods or gondolas below the central fuselage in a location which implies, if anything, a degree of drift. I have not seen any proposal that would have made the a/c a bomber destroyer superior to the Me-262, and in a situation where engines, fuel and trained pilots were in short supply, it wouldn't have made any difference. In a sense, the Volksjaeger was a more logical use of materials, although, with the lack of trained pilots, just another act of despair.
 
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