[Storebror]

You have missed my point.

You can bet your bottom dollar that I didn't attempt to hit it :wink:

Germany could have better jets.....on paper, because poor materials, fuel and pilots. No quality control if you have lost a hugue lot of specialist workers.
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On the other hand, more time is better to the allies to develop P-80, Meteor, P-84, etc. They had time, resources, quality workers, quality fuel, more experienced pilots (how many alive aces had Germany at this time? How many novices?).
At this time, Germany could have their super-weapons (plagued with bugs) against the allied no-so-super-weapons with much lesser bugs

I'd like to stress that.
One thing which falls short a little during this discussion in my opinion is the ideology which was driving the german inventions.
Compared to the allies, germany always developed a lot more trailblazing technologies and devices, not just aircrafts but also other stuff, during WW2.
Why didn't this turn out successfully?
As a matter of fact, it's not just technological superiority that rules the outcome of the war, it's also the production management and your resources.
The allied were clever enough not to diversify their technological resources like the germans did.
Looking at WW2's aerial warfare, the US usually had 2 types of aircraft for each task, sometimes more, pretty seldom less.
The british were pretty close on the same track.
Compared to that, germany had dozens of different aircrafts for a set of tasks, while some others were left with only one aircraft type to fulfill that task or even none at all (e.g. long range bombing).
Development plans weren't any better.
Looking at the jet fighter developments, the germans might have been ahead a little technology-wise, but the poor production management (besides the resources problem, but that's not part of this "what if" thinking as I learned through reading this thread) wouldn't ever allow them to successfully establishing a mass-production of an effective set of jet fighters for use by the Luftwaffe.
The allies again did bundle their resources and pushed forward only a set of projects which could have held the edge against possible german jets.
The US were ready with their plans to deploy P-80/84 jets if neccessary, the british pipeline did hold both Meteor and Vampire.
None of these four would have outclassed the latest german developments, but that's not neccessary if there are always 10 allied fighters for each german one.

To cut the long story short: The allies might not have had or planned the best fighters of the world, but they did concentrate on the neccessary stuff.
The germans might have had the top-of-the-crop fighters, but they weren't able to get them into service in any reasonable numbers since they simply dissipated their energy on too many "promising" projects at the same time.

Best regards - Mike