Late in World Struggle 2, within the European theater, the Germans hit the Allied air forces with one thing new: Jet fighters. Chief amongst them was the Messerschmitt Me-262, an enormous, brutal twin-engine beast packing 4 30-mm cannons. It was significantly sooner than the American P-51 Mustang, usually thought-about the very best piston-engine fighter within the air on the time. It was near-impossible to defeat within the air, but it surely was sluggish and cumbersome on taxi, susceptible throughout takeoff and touchdown, and required an extended runway.
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