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Developed from the Arado 234 light bomber, the Ar334B is envisioned as a strike aircraft capable of day or night operations. A second crew member is carried to handle night navigation and targeting tasks.

Preliminary Characteristics

Crew: 2
Length: 12.90 metres
Wingspan: 14.60 metres
Height: 4.35 metres
Empty weight: 5,800 kg
Maximum takeoff weight: 10,900 kg

Powerplant: Two Junkers Jumo 004D Orkan axial-flow turbojet engines each rated at 10.3 kN thrust; Two Walter HWK 109-500A-1 jettisonable RATO pods, each rated at 4.90 kN can be fitted for takeoff

Maximum speed: 770 kph at 6,000 metres
Cruising speed: 700 kph at 6,000 metres
Maximum range (clean): 1,600 kilometres
Maximum range (1,000 kg ordnance load): 1,000 kilometres
Range with maximum external load (1,500 kg): 880 kilometres
Service ceiling: 11,000 metres
Climb to 6,000 metres (with 500 kg load): 11.5 minutes
Climb to 8,000 metres (with 1,500 kg load): 20.0 minutes
Climb to 6,000 metres (with 1,500 kg load): 17.0 minutes
Climb to 8,000 metres (with 1,500 kg load): 33.5 minutes
Initial rate of climb: 14 metres/second

Offensive armament: Four 20mm cannon in the nose with 200 rounds of ammunition per gun; Up to 1,500 kg of ordnance stores on external racks

I like it, looks like some of the historical Arado developments of the Ar-234.
As a ground attack type it looks quite potent, less so has a convetional light bomber, but that type is dying off anyway as medium bombers grow and lighter attack aircraft specialise into ground attack.

My initial inspiration was the Ar234P night fighter, but as the circumstances are not desperate, I could project a more streamlined cockpit assemblage and move the armament to the nose rather than a ventral bulge.