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To be fair ACE, at that stage in the war the Nazis were desperately grasping for anything that might give them an advantage against the Allied bombing campaign and to delay their defeat, so why wouldn't they be developing newer and better designs as fast as they could, regardless of the state of Allied jet development? Surpassing Allied jet development was no doubt considered important, but only in the sense that it was a prerequisite in order that Luftwaffe pilots could shoot as many bombers out of the sky as possible without losing too many aircraft.

No I understand

And I agree

But oddball can not have his cake an eat it too

There is only two choices here

1) Their current jet designs were more advanced than the allied and did NOT need replacing
2) Their current jet designs were NOT more advanced than the allied and did need replacing

But it can not be both