Wow, that monster would be a sitting duck for a Spitfire or Hurricane.
Goering was a proponent. I should have known.
De Seversky is not only hitting the sauce, he apparently hasn’t talked to anyone who has actually flown in combat in the past five years. The plane he’s talking about sounds a lot like the concept that was tried out with the Me 110. They were supposed to be bomber escorts, but in the Battle of Britain, they were so vulnerable even to the Hurricanes that they required Me 109 escorts themselves. The 110s wound up on the eastern front in the Me 110e version ground attack plane, where it was at least more survivable than the Ju 87 Stuka.
But the airmen around the world must be laughing at this one.
Wow, that monster would be a sitting duck for a Spitfire or Hurricane.
Goering was a proponent. I should have known.