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Die Feinde unten
単発ながらBf109丸々2機分の翼幅、翼中央に懸下された大型冷却器、異形の主翼と端正なフォルムの胴体部との対比が印象的な、大戦末期独空軍試作機の中でも秀逸なデザインです。高アスペクト翼、排気タービン、与圧操縦室、高空に特化した、来るべき連合軍高高度戦略爆撃を迎え撃つ為の機体でした。この形態での量産はなかったでしょうが、B-29を優に超える実用上昇限度16.000mが発揮されたとしたら、どのような戦い方になったでしょうね。
Die Feinde unten
Although it is a single engine, it has a wingspan equivalent to two Bf109s, with a large radiator suspended beneath the center of the uniquely shaped main wings, and an impressive contrast between the oddly shaped main wing and the neatly shaped fuselage. Among the prototypes of the late war German Luftwaffe, it is an outstanding design.
Featuring high aspect wings, exhaust turbines, pressurized vertical chambers, and specialized high-altitude maneuvering, this aircraft was designed to meet the incoming Allied high-altitude strategic bombing.
While mass production in this configuration did not occur, if the practical ceiling of 16,000 meters, which far surpasses the B-29, were to be demonstrated, I wonder what kind of tactics would have emerged.

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