What would a "Best of the lot" 1943 fighter aircraft look like?

BlondieBC

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Actually I would argue that WW II started in 1919 when the Entente doubled down on failure in Both Germany and in Revolutionary Russia.

My position is that there is a single World war. Started in August 1914, ended in 1945. In 1919, there is still fighting in Russia. USA and Japan doing joint operations in the Russian Far East. Then the Soviet/Polish war. UK loses to the Ottomans (Turkey) in 1923, and take an unfavorable peace treaty. We then get about a 10 year break of exhaustion. By 1933, we see the war cranking back up in the far east. It would not be soon until we see a war in Spain, and the Italians trying to fix the unrighted issues.

Step back to the scale of decades, and centuries, and the War World marks the end of an era. From 1550 to 1913, the White Man had a dominant run. Sure, a few wars here and there were lost, but the Europeans ended up on top. Most in 1913 would have expected this situation to last for centuries more. Now if we add all the former European masters together, the aggregate is merely the 3rd most important country in the world. In 1913, 6 of 7 most powerful countries would have been European (UK, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, A-H).
 
A small batch made by Standard Motors had problems with the humidity during the Monsoon season. It was found to be a production problem nothing to do with the glue or the wood, Mossies served for years after the war in SEAsia with no problems.

Wasn't the Me-262 first flight in 1942.

This thing???
Heinkel_He_162_Freeman_Field_IN_1945.jpg
Guys, this is silly, consider the OP again, give the me-262 some High temperature alloys and there really is no contest. The op is NOT based upon the producing countries availability of raw materials/fuel.
 

Archibald

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... Somewhat astonished noone came up with the Heinkel He-280 so far, here's also another link.

First flown in September 1940, "sidelined" due to Goering having "troubles" with the personality of Heinkel, outflying a Fw-190 in a mock battle in late 1941.
With just a wee bit more development could have been the No.1 killer in the air in early/middle 1941, founding a whole early jet fighter family already then.

I second that opinion. He-280 and of course the FW 187. Somebody should write a TL where the LW phase out the 109 and 110 circa 1942 in favor of FW187, 190, and He-280.
 

Wimble Toot

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Somebody should write a TL where the LW phase out the 109 and 110 circa 1942 in favor of FW187, 190, and He-280.

Somebody is.

But they can't post it on this site because the author appears to have been banned.

The TL includes ASB intervention to make it possible.
 

Wimble Toot

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The author doesn't want me to post any direct links to it on this forum, but if you google 'vonhitchofen' you'll find it.

It's a work in a progress, so only the Fw187 is in it currently...
 

NoMommsen

Donor
... Somewhat astonished noone came up with the Heinkel He-280 so far, here's also another link.

First flown in September 1940, "sidelined" due to Goering having "troubles" with the personality of Heinkel, outflying a Fw-190 in a mock battle in late 1941.
With just a wee bit more development could have been the No.1 killer in the air in early/middle 1941, founding a whole early jet fighter family already then.
Yeah, but is OP letting us use hypothetically developed technologies or just technology as it already is as of 1943?
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First flight 1940, operational 1941 ... nothing hypothetical but flying and available hardware.
 

Deleted member 1487

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First flight 1940, operational 1941 ... nothing hypothetical but flying and available hardware.
You said it would have to be developed from it's historical level to be a contender. So it wasn't ready off the shelf.
 

NoMommsen

Donor
You said it would have to be developed from it's historical level to be a contender. So it wasn't ready off the shelf.
Well, with that I referred more to the tradition of the german military (if not every military worldwide) to NEVER EVER accept a piece of equipment as offered/presented by industry.
There were with everything, up to boots and gloves and everything some " adjustments" and changes, demanded by some militaries to be fullfilled before final "acceptance", even if it would have been a change of color of some underlining in the manual.
 
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