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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Depends. In it's designed role, as a long-range fighter, against contemporary opposition, it was a failure. Having to escort the Bf-110s with Bf-109s during the Battle of Britain is pretty clear evidence that the -110 wasn't up to the job. As a fighter-bomber, it was OK, and as a night fighter, it was quite successful.
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In some ways, it's worst problem is that because it was chosen for the long-range fighter role, it prevented a superior plane (the Fw-187) from filling that role.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Putting bigger engines on the Fw-187 wasn't a problem, Kurt Tank proposed engines as different from the Jumo-210/DB-600 as the BMW-801 radial for the Falke, couldn't get a nibble
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And I've never found the "we can't close the production lines" argument very convincing: the Bf-110 line wouldn't need to close until the Fw-187 line was up and running, since they were by different companies and in different plants.
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Consider, for a moment, a Fw-187 equipped with Jumo-213Js......
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I'll grant, though, that as built the Fw-187 doesn't really look like a great candidate for a night fighter. German radar aerials, though, were external originally, and the rear gunner/radio operator that was put on the Falke to try to satisfy objections might then have had something to do.
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Weapons load shouldn't be a problem: for more forward-firing weapons, the fuselage would almost certainly have been widened a bit anyway, giving more room, and there's also the wing roots and if necessary a belly pack like the -110 used.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Putting the Jumo-213 MIGHT be a stretch for the Fw-187, or the He-100, but I can't see how a DB-605 would be. The -605 was merely a bored out and slightly modified DB-601, which wasn't that much different from the DB-600.
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The -605 weighed only 65 kg more than the -601, so it's not a large weight difference.
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The RLM was interested in a version of the He-100 with the Jumo-211, but that would have required major changes to the engine mounts and resulted in an inferior plane to boot. So Heinkel didn't bother.
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But in any event, I'll agree that the Fw-187 is probably not the right basis for a nightfighter. As a fighter, it's a better plane than the Bf-110, but as a nightfighter, no.
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
I wondered about your comment regarding the He-100 being designed to be as small and light as possible. I knew this was true for the Bf109 but the He-100 doesn´t seem to follow this politic - dispite being a plane and planes are designed to be as light as possible in general to increase payload...
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