2 The best performing fighter of the USSR in wartime?

Jacques General Il2 good.

...What do you compare jet fighters to piston planes?

And in general, the excellence of a fighter is not necessarily measured only by performance.

And what you said about the fact that there is a generation difference between the two fighters themselves, how to compare?

A fighter jet that was born during the war years has its own specificities and adaptability.

Because in wartime, designers always draw from the experience of real combat and know what is needed in air combat and what is not needed!

Fighter jets in World War II had three counterbalances of performance.

1 Armor 2 Maneuver 3 Firepower.

And the P51 is in its class of fighters.

The indices are very balanced.

The carry** includes 6 machine guns and can be used to hang 900 kg of bombs.

Later, the Merlin engine (V-1650) produced by the American company Packard was equipped with a two-stage two-speed supercharger, which fully improved the power output of more than 15,000 feet.

In fact, the excellence of the P51 is mainly due to the design of the aerodynamic layout, because its initial engine use is not excellent, it is only a first-speed engine.

The P-51's fuselage design was very simple and lean, with a fuselage redundancy of more than 12G, which met the strength standards of the U.S. Army Airlines at the time. The main wing with the standard wing thickness ratio is equipped with a laminar flow wing profile, which obtains good low-drag and high-speed cruising characteristics under the premise of ensuring sufficient strength and in-wing space. The five-section flaps alleviate the problems of insufficient lift and severe stall characteristics at low speeds of laminar flow wings (the first to second stages can be used as combat flaps, reducing the radius of rotation without losing the rotation rate).

。As the battle progressed, the aircraft also improved the control surfaces such as ailerons and elevators, so that there was good and homogeneous handling quality from low speed to high speed.

The North American company's response to all this from front-line users allowed the P-51 series to evolve to the point where it finally had excellent flight performance. The cooler was mounted in the belly of the aircraft, and according to the most advanced aerodynamic design theory at the time, the air intake was changed several times with the replacement of the engine, and the curve of the cooler cover covered by anti-fragmentation skin was extended from the underwing to the tail.

It has to be said that the success of the P-51 is not accidental, but inevitable, the excellent aerodynamic design makes it able to obtain excellent maneuverability, and it is not an exaggeration that its excellent aerodynamic design industry has helped it to improve its performance in two other ways, because the piston fighter has always affected each other, and the P51 is indeed complementary to each other!!

And in World War II, the excellent indicator that determined the fighter plane was the high production of the aircraft, and if the structure of the aircraft was complex, it would not be possible to manufacture it quickly!!

The undeniably ME262 was an extremely successful fighter in the late stages of World War II, and its performance was extremely good.

However, in the end, the technical complexity of the early jet fighters and piston fighters cannot be compared, and the aircraft manufacturing cycles are not comparable.

In terms of performance, there is no doubt that the ME262 is indeed higher than the P51, which is a matter of nature.

And the success of p51 is the phoenix nirvana in adversity!! Of course, it is ambiguous to say this, but it can only be said that the final Allied victory also added a legendary color to the P-51!!

The German ME262 was the world's first jet fighter to actually enter combat, and due to its aerodynamic shape, it was also the best performing jet aircraft of the period.

ME262 is an all-metal semi-monocoque structure of the lower monoplane, the nose is rounded, the streamlined fuselage section is triangular, the shell-shaped cabin canopy protrudes from the middle back of the fuselage, the front three-point landing gear, the swept trapezoidal main wing is equipped with two "Yumo" 004B turbojet engines with a thrust of 900kg, and the maximum speed is 870km h.

Air Marshal Goering and fighter commander Lieutenant General Garland were overjoyed by the high performance of the ME262, but the "Great Führer" came back to disrupt the situation, and he ordered the ME262 to be put into production as a high-speed bomber. Dive bombing was initially carried out to improve the hit rate, and many planes disintegrated in the sky because they could not stand the shock; After the squadron commander ordered horizontal bombing to save the aircraft, the hit rate dropped significantly. Moreover, after loading bombs, they lose their speed advantage and are often shot down.

It was not until June 1944 that the combat version of the ME262A-1 entered the battle, wasting ten months in vain.

It should be ME262, because Germany was the most powerful country in the world during World War II, and the Mustang used a propeller, while the ME262 used a jet engine, so the speed and agility are better than the Mustang, in a paragraph to show you: P 51 is a light fighter, and the function and size are comparable to the British Spitfire, Germany's ME 109, and Japan's Zero fighter at that time, so you can launch the ME262 is completely more advanced than the Mustang.

The performance of the ME262 itself is very good, but because it was only produced at the end of World War II, the number is too small to have the advantage of scale, and it is difficult to beat 10,000 hands with two fists.

262 is also better than Mustang in several items, and the overall evaluation is that Mustang is better to use.

To sum up, the 262 perspective, handling, and range are not as strong as P51, and the 262 strong in fighting is useless, because it is not heads-up, the number of 51 is completely 262, and it is really a mess to kill the master, who makes the 262 performance and 51 There is no decisive gap.

And 262 is not unusual, a few months later the British made a meteor.

In the early stage, I felt that the Zero fighter was more fierce.

Each has its own strengths, Germany's later period is already jet-like, and Japan's early zero war is also fierce.