Originally posted by: iroast
glad the war ended when it did heh. there were several new techs that weren't put to use. one of them was a new jet fighter (discovery channel)?
There were three major fighter-class jets the German's had produced/plans for
The Me-262 is the most well known, primarily because it entered service in 1944 and there were large numbers of them attacking allied bomber formations, as well as some ground attack.
The He-162 was the other fighter-class jet that actually entered service. It was late late war, built to be a cheap Me-262, had a single engine, very small, less than an hour of endurance, less well armed. Sad story, actually, they were training Hitler youth on the basics of flight with the idea to put them in these and throw them at the allied bomber formations. It would have been a mad slaughter for no gain. The He-162 was a finnicky plan, hard to fly, harder to land, a kid with glider training would probably never see a bomber, and if he did he wouldn't be able to hit it before he'd be taken down by the mass of 50 caliber defensive fire. Thankfully the war ended before this could actually happen.
There were a couple other prototypes kicking aorund. Maybe the most famous would be the Go-229, the Gotha flying wing. Not the first flying wing, but it was very stable, very fast, and well armed. again war ended before it coule be mass produced. Too late to have accomplished anything other than a few dozen more dead if it had been produced anyway. There is at least one of these still surviving today at one museum or another.
there was another fighter, a Ta designation, apparently the russian built on it for their famous Mig-15.
Thats it for jet-powered german fighters. They had some bombers, too, though. Largest numbers would probably be the Arado, came in 2 and 4 engine varieties, all glass nose. Pretty quick. didin't accomplish much, though.
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