[Chainmail]

I don’t know; the Me-262 was faster and had heavier armament. The engines were dodgy but when they were running, it was fast and nimble.

[oldplayer]

///I don’t know; the Me-262 was faster and had heavier armament. The engines were dodgy but when they were running, it was fast and nimble.///

Yeah, it’s hard to know. Edge to ME-262 for sure. The specs for the vampire show it has a better power to weight ratio and top speed with it’s straight wing is only 15-mph or so slower than the swept-wing 262. But actual operational speeds, as we know from every other WWII fighter, could be very much different. Also, “dog-fighting” was changing with the jet wars, and any maneuverability advantage the Vampire may have had (if any) might have been unimportant.

It’s probably telling, that future jets resembled the 262 rather than the Vampire. (Chance-Vought Cutlass, anyone?)

[Oztrich Boy]

I don’t know; the Me-262 was faster and had heavier armament.

Faster yes, because of the narrow chord wings, but in a knife fight you'd want the manouverabilty of the Meteor's broad chord ones.

And heavier shells, but the 262's 30mm guns were slow firing and low velocity, and tended to jam under hard turns. OK for bomber killing, but one on one the Meteor's 20mm are faster firing and higher velocity.