[TheGrunch]

So you want to stick with fictional choices?

Not fictional

Just you can not have your cake and eat it too

You and yours can not claim the German's JETS WERE FAR MORE ADVANCED that the rest of the world in one breath

Than in the nex breath say the German's NEEDED TO DESIGN NEW JETS

It is an either or case

Not an and

Not it's not! My previous post was directed at you, not Thee_oddball - you're presenting a false dilemma, ACE. There is no reason that Axis jet technology could not be far more advanced than Allied and still not require further development. Let's make a simple analogy - if I'm the man who decides to harness the potential of explosives for destruction rather than fireworks first (the Germans and their jets) and I want to destroy an army of my opponents with it (the US bomber formations), assuming I develop some form of hand-grenade (the Me 262) and I can only build a few of them, it doesn't matter what you say, I DO have more advanced explosive technology than anyone else - unless you want to see a fireworks display that is...The problem is, a hand-grenade will just kill a few men. So I would still want to try and make a better bomb. In simple terms that is the situation the Germans found themselves in. They needed a miracle weapon to defeat the numerical odds they faced. The 262 was more advanced and performed better than its opposition (including the disappointing Meteor and P-80), but it was still not good enough to decimate the US bomber formations in the limited numbers it could be produced in.