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I've made a thread like this, but it focused on 1943 aircraft and ended up devolving into people throwing out "the 262 protype flew 1943 hahahahaha" so I'm wary of resurrecting it.

My personal favorite design would use either a late-model Napier Sabre or a R-R Griffon and have four 20mm cannon in a fighter role. I'd go down to three cannon if a motorkanonne was possible with a really good inline engine. Maybe a ShVAK or MG151/20 firing Minengeschoß? For the gun I'd like maybe I'd give it a very long range and medium-thickness and size wing, or a thick wing and embed the cannon within the wing. With embedded cannons, I'd maybe use a MG/FF cause it's smaller. fairly heavy ground-attack payload would be great too.

Rules:
-No totally new engines, cannons, or other major components that are not normally unique to a particular aircraft.

-Completely new airframes are fine

-No turboprops

-Components may be modified to fit with other components, but only within reason. Minengeschoß Hispano 20mm cannon ammunition is fine, but not 57mm Minengeschoß. You can mix-and-match turbochargers etc.

-No jets.

-Rocket assist (in the vein of the Su-7) is fine, so long as it isn't the main propulsion method. Be sensible.

-Prototype engines are fine, but consider the fact that they probably won't be very reliable.
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