Bf-109K-14 ?
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I'm still unconvinced. It seems to me the tendency to flame and the sudden leap to catastrophic failure is entirely derived of the substandard steels used in impeller manufacture. Neither of these issues are as pronounced in either the Soviet remanufactured engines, both Jumo and BMW (given by the service records of the Yak-15/17 and MiG-9 which returned both, pre-eminent reliability, these aircraft in particular were famed for it of the early jets, keeping them popular into the Korean War by operators like China and North Korea, alongside the Yak-9P, La-7/9 and Il-10).

This is the kind of reliability and serviceability the German jets should have in a 1946 campaign of even footing.

I like to also consider the most realistic 1946 campaign involves the success of the historical Smolensk Plot early in 1943, in which the Wehrmacht institutes a provisional government based in France. The Waffen-SS were much smaller in number then and there was the only genuine chance of altering the war against the League-allied nations. In this event German industry would never have suffered the tremendous assaults of the 8th Air Force, since firstly the Eastern Front would have necessarily been withdrawn to the Wotan Line before Kursk (providing Manstein the opportunity of his ingenious counterattack that he favoured instead with regular Panzer divisions outfitted with SS gear), whilst up to an entire Luftflotte would have been immediately freed for defence of the Reich a year early.
I think Germany would have been in a much better position to defend Ploesti from the 15th (?) Air Force and the Kursk situation would have been reversed, with the Wehrmacht now dug in at the line Leningrad to Kiev and the Russians would have been approaching headlong into hardened defences.

Point is, totally different state of German industry coming into the crucial year 1944.
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