Bf 110 Zerstorer
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- As the world transitioned from biplane to monoplane, many new developments propelled aviation forward, and Hermann Göring himself fantasized with the idea of a fleet of brand new Zerstörers, or destroyers, that could take over the enemies of the Reich.
A revolutionary aircraft concept was then born in the form of a heavy fighter destroyer, a vehicle that was compared to an impenetrable fortress back in the day.
The Messerschmitt Bf 110 came out victorious after a hard-fought competition, primarily because of its long-range and stout airframe capable of penetrating the opponents' air defenses and protecting bombers along the way.
However, its design also showed several shortcomings, and it is rumored that it ultimately won because of a petty fight between aviation leaders and the desire to embarrass Messerschmitt.
Still, this powerful destroyer would eventually become one of the most emblematic aircraft out of Nazi Germany, and it would take the Royal Air Force almost a year to figure out the secret weapon behind an aircraft that was shooting down all of its tail gunners...
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Little known fact. The Bf 110 as a night fighter, one pilot achieved 121 kills!. A record that still stands today!!!.
Dozens of German WWII ace totals will never be approached.
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Known fact: your 2nd sentence is a ridiculous D- construction.
Despite its shortcomings, the BF110 is a lovely looking plane
It is a beauty....
I'm overlooking the Royal Navy slip up at the end!! Glad you mentioned Goering's love of this aircraft, it's one of many baffling decisions that probably contributed to the Nazis downfall. It did find it's niche as a night fighter though, that large cockpit had plenty of room for the radar operator and cannons plus the 110 was basically unopposed at night immediately overcoming it's weakness against single engined fighters. Another great video, many thanks!!
He cant manage one single vid without a gaff somewhere
@@VincentNajger1 - Perhaps you have done better?
@@VincentNajger1 He pumps out an enormous volume of videos on multiple channels. He is definitely cutting time on proofreading, but it's understandable.
@@VincentNajger1 We'll wait right here for your video, Vinny.
It shot down mosquito's but I thought they were to fast?
Often said but true, the greatest asset to the Allies and the war being relatively short, was the incompetence of Goering and his basic misunderstanding of modern air warfare.
Incompetent bad guys
Yeah my boss is always making my job hard too. Should nickname him Goering.
1939-45 is long enough.
@@billpetersen298 More than long enough *. . .*
And yet the P-38 Lightning was an excellent twin engine fighter. And let us not forgot that wonderful wooden wonder the British Mosquito! Two engines and was an excellent air plane. But yeah the BF110 had a very short lived glory days.
Yes, because the P-38 implemented the concept correctly as a single seat heavy fighter. If it had a long greenhouse and a tail gunner it probably would have been a failure as a fighter.
@@gort8203 You're quite correct. At the end of WWI, two place fighters were among the best for their ability to cover rear attacks with a gunner. By WWII, speeds had doubled and G loading was fierce. Adding gunner positions to Axis fighters made them overweight and nearly useless. The 110, 210, 410, Breda 88 and Japanese twin engine fighters all became targets for Allied fighters.
The P-38 was actually the *ONLY* twin-prop heavy fighter (originally designed as a high-altitude bomber interceptor) during WW II that could actually effectively compete against enemy single-engine fighters without being at a *huge* disadvantage during aerial combat (because of their size and weight, all heavy fighters would naturally be at disadvantage against lighter more agile single-engine designs). Its (the P-38) combat record in all theaters of war was nearly 3800 enemy planes in total shot down - well more than half being enemy single-engine fighters.
P38 didn't perform much better than the Bf110. As an interceptor and escort it performed quite poorly. The Luftwaffe considered the P38 to be the easiest allied fighter to shoot down when it was in service in Europe. In it's nickname The Fork Tailed Devil was entirely allied Propaganda. The Germans called it Double Tail.
The P38 thrived in the Pacific however, but it struggled as a fighter in Europe and was entirely phased out by the end of 1944 after really only one year of real service in the Western Theatre. Even the famed Mosquito was only renowned for it's high speed low altitude raids, not because it was an excellent fighter.
So you guys are giving the P38 way too much credit. It's performance when compared to the Bf110 was actually comparable, Bf110 was actually more agile but the P38 was normally faster. The so called superior dog fighting prowess of the P38 is heavily exaggerated.
Heck it's even noticeable in simulation games like IL-2 and War Thunder, Bf110 being far easier to fly. They both perform well if using identical tactics but I prefer the Bf110s without question in War Thunder because they handle better.
No heavy fighter was a match for a single engine fighter if the skill and training if the pilots were equal however. This is why the P38 made a name for itself in the Pacific not Europe. The Pacific in which kill to lose ratios were off the charts in the latter years. So of course the P38 would get a high kill to lose ratio there, the Hellcat blew it out of the water though.... and it was a single engine fighter... Guess what, P38 pilots in the Pacific didn't dog fight, the hit/ran ie energy fought. Same tactic all allied pilots on the Pacific were taught, to deal with their more agile foes. This means the P38 only needed to fly faster and climb higher, didn't need to be a fighter, in this context the Bf110 would of performed relatively well in that same scenario.
Yeah-glaring omissions, P-38 and the Mozzie, especially the one with an anti-tank gun in its nose!
6:45 The British cavity magnetron was an improvement on a German one. WHAT! No, magnetron is a generic term for a tube which employs a magnetic field. The 1940 Randall and Boot magnetron was the first cavity magnetron as such, and was quite different from any predecessor, being able to produce far higher power. The Germans eventually (1945) developed a magnetron radar (FuG 240 Berlin), based on a copy of the British magnetron
Came here to say the same. There was a pre-war German magnetron, but it wasn't a cavity design and it didn't have the power of the Ramdall and Boot invention. It was used in test equipment only, and not seen as significant.
@@proudsnowtiger ...and you are both wrong. True, the first magnetron done by Greinacher did not work properly, but showed the basic design. The first working magnetron was done by Hull in the US , Habann in Germany and Zacel in Prague. The first high-frequency magnetron was created by Okabe in Japan and the first high-power magnetron by Nakajima, also in Japan.
The work of Randall and Boot was a significant improvement of the Hollman (German) magnetron, patented in 1939. It was significant, as it considerably improved Hollmans design and allowed for several orders of magnitude in better output, thus making it practical for high-precision radar applications. So the statement in the video is correct - it was an improvement of the original german design, although a very significant one.
Yes, cavity magnetron was a British development early in WW2 by John Randall and Harry Boot developed before rapid development of the idea by British company GEC produced many orders of magnitude more power (e.g. 25KW) than earlier magnetron designs.
The ability to generate and radiate such high peak power at centimetric wavelengths in a small robust unit was major advancement in RADAR that gave the Allies an advantage until the end of the war.
These videos are short on facts. Its frustrating because the topics are good.
@@virtualinfinity6280 "cavity magnetron" not "magnetron".
The original concept of a heavy escort fighter was a good one, it was radar that doomed it. German fast bombers and the ME110 escorts would enter the target countries air space at altitude, and only be detected visually. Interceptors would then take off to stop them, and the 110s would dive to attack them. They could then zoom climb or dive away, but they have prevented the interceptors from reaching the bombers, who drop their loads on target and speed away. Worked in Poland and France. But in England, they knew they were coming via radar and the interceptors would be at altitude by the time the 110s arrived. Now the advantage is with the single engine fighters, and the 110s couldn't perform their intended role.
Wind forward a few years and the radar equipped Bf 110 night fighters lay in wait for the RAF heavy bomber streams. Even worse, the RAF's then navigation radar acted like a beacon for the night fighters receivers. Enter the Mosquito NF escort, with its own radar (a lot better than German thanks to the cavity magnetron giving millimetric wavelengths) plus its own cannon and mgs. Evened things up more than a bit - allegedly.
@@TheArgieH The advantage of the cavity magnetron was shear power. It was a step from a few watts to kilowatts.
That means the range increases from twenty kilometres to two hundred kilometres with the same quality receiver.
Why weren't these heavy fighters designed with adequate rear gunnery ?Surely they would have known fighters would get on their tails. We know German engineers could develop gun pods ... so why not 2 x 20mm cannons in a upper pod and 2 more in a lower pod, both could be rotated front or rear. I's love to see a spit on the tail of such a fighter, facing a rain of 20mm shells .. :D
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It was faster than the Hawker Hurricane let alone a Gloster Gladiator. It was believed that the Bf110 could simply outrun enemy fighters. Indeed it did just that.
The rear gunner was more an radio operator and observer with a gun than a dedicated gunner.
The Mosquito also didn't have a tail gunner for the same reason.
@@RemusKingOfRome Germany never offered proper defensive armament on its aircraft, why this doctrine was popular who knows. The 110 should have had as a minimum a 13mm heavy mg...still not ideal but much better than the 7.92 used.
The 110 always been a favorite of mine. Looks cool too
Absolute beaut of an aircraft, if somewhat flawed in operation. One of the most aesthetically pleasing planes of WW2
If Captain Eric “Winkle” Brown RN says something about an aircraft, don’t discount it!
One of the 110's biggest weak points was that it was underpowered according to Capt. Brown. I have read his book Wings of the Luftwaffe many times.
I think he meant Royal Air Force at the end there. The Royal Navy had their own problems with Condors and submarines.
I like this channel, but it's lazy mistakes like this that make me dispair.
Early to in the war the Bf110 successfully prevented British bombers to bomb the German Navy. The Bf110 intercepted the incoming Wellingtons over the bay of Germany and shot them down.
Having air superiority and combined with the Stuka precision bombing the Luftwaffe could indeed protect the Kriegsmarine. The royal navy had to stay away from German shores.
@@matthiasmay1977 The Bay of Germany...??... Where is that???
@@tompiper9276
Sorry für the mistranslation. In English it is called Heligoland Bight or German Bight.
Battle of the Heligoland Bight
18 December 1939.
This early air battle made clear that unescorted daylight bombing was not a good idea. Before many thought that the bombers will always come through.
In the early years the Bf110 where very effective against any bomber.
Allied navies and air forces could not stop the Germans from invading Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Especially in case of Norway the deficiencies of the Royal Navy came to light. And is was up to the RAF to save Britain.
@@matthiasmay1977 Got it, just never heard it called that before.
I think he puts in mistakes to see if we are awake.
Of the multi-engine fighters, the Mosquito rules them all. Due to its power to weight ratio. And I'm an American who is biased for the P-38. The big crew area was its strength in utility.
I'd say the mosquito was a great plane but in the history books it went from heavy fighter bomber to reconnaissance and dive bomber that lost all armaments for bombs the p-38 retained it's job of bomber escort, heavy fighter, dive bomber and it took out Yamamoto it was a smaller frame faster and in my opinion looked better. Oh and it wasn't made of wood
This isn't about the Mossie. What's your point?
The P-38 was an incredible fighter,possessing the flight characteristics that Willi Messerschmitt could only dream of,from a Brit who is biased in favour of the mosquito!.
Mosquito is arguably the first truly multi role aircraft. It done everything well if not great. Always loved twin engine prop planes.
in my book, the Mosquito was flying fire wood
Sadly you forgot to add that the RAF sent de Havilland Mosquito radar equipped night fighters in to the Bomber Stream that made life very unpleasant for the Me110 NF’s
Correct. The RAF introduced a concept to Luftwaffe aircrews, known as "Mosquito panic".
Firstly, the cavity magnetron was invented in the UK.
Secondly, the incredulity of the RAF toward the concept of shrage musik was rather strange since the Royal Flying Corps had developed exactly the same concept for downing German bombers in The Great War.
Strange how things get forgotten.
But it wasn't forgotten. Even in 1940 the Defiant was using its gun turret to good effect as a stopgap night fighter... often firing up! Not sure the RAF was incredulous so much as simply lacking a counter.
Good point sir.
Another plus for the maligned Defiant! 👍👍
The best German night fighter was in fact the heinkel he 219. A truly magnificent twin engine aircraft for its role.
I've always loved bf 110 ever since playing the video game their finest hour the Battle of Britain
It's a great daytime attacker too. As long as you have air superiority.
Man, I could watch these Dark Docs/Skies whatever goes after the word Dark, videos all day and not complain once I wasn't productive.
I feel fortunate to have this channel to enjoy. Thanks man!
Great historic video. Always on point.
Another great video! Thanks!
Thanks
Pronunciation 👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥💯 thank you for that detail.
This really competed more with the A20 Havoc. A20 was used in many of the same roles.
Not to mention the A20 was the better plane out of the two
It is, however easy to be generous after having defeated your enemy! Great work!
Eric Brown's autobiography is pretty good read. He was a very brave man.
I’d like one now: durable, aerobatic, long range, plenty of leg room, decent cargo and guest capacity.. what’s not to like?
the price tag and the woke outbrake from the crybabys in the press if you would make a modern comercial version of it.
and i would like to add : good looking to your collection ^^
Outstanding video and presentation.
Italia, Deutschland, Great Britain, Japan, the USA, and the CCCP pursued more or less individual research on RaDAR detection and range finding/position marking throughout the late 1930s and early '40s. Technical advances were continuous, but apprehension varied depending on which nation. According to Drach and Doctor Clarke, it was USA/UK RaDAR range/direction finding and target illumination that revolutionalized naval combat. Both are somewhat disparaging of similar efforts from the Axis.
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The Bf110 was an heavy gun ship and equipe with 'jazz music'45 degree 20 ml atuo cannon.
I always thought the Bf-110 was a beautiful airplane. Amazing how you can change it’s role from a failed day fighter to a successful fighter-bomber, night-fighter and bomber killer.
Great video
The Bf110 is very underrated. It may not have fullfilled Meiers dream, but it was a very versatile and capable plane. Better then many contemporary planes.
Great video 📹
All technology moved fast in war.
sigh, too true, what if the leaders of this world had put that effort towards improving human existance
The old timers would ask the rookies: what makes the Port running lights green, the lens or the bulb. And after the noob would say it was the lens because all bulbs are the same color, the old timer would say: WRONG! The Port running light is RED! Great video, great content, great channel.
In fact there were colored bulbs and colored lenses, it depended on the plane *. . .*
Why is there a chapter called “Absolute Failure” when the entire second half of the video is about how good it was and hard to deal with?
Good one!
History is incredible
Thanks, Willy.
The Me 110 provided great target practice for Mosquito interdictors.
Let's not forget Willie also gave us the Bf-109, the aircraft that shortened the war by 6 months
@@jamesricker3997 Not sure I get that. Please expand it.
@@tompiper9276 Don't worry about these comments , both of them are very foolish !!!!!!!!!
The Bf 110s came over a few times in the summer of 1940. Few returned. The Hurricanes and Spitfires ate the rest. 😎
That's a gross misrepresentation. Certainly, the Bf 110s did have some really bad days, usually when they were flying slow, close bomber escort, but they had some very good days as well, inflicting heavy losses on the RAF on occasion, in particular when it was employed to its strengths such as high advance waves that were able to dive on rising RAF fighters and then get the hell out of Dodge - a common fighter tactic on all sides. It's certainly not true that 'few returned'.
They were withdrawn partly because some were sent to act as night fighters to combat the RAF's raids on Germany itself, and partly because production didn't match losses - as much a reflection of German aircraft production management as in the effectiveness of the Bf 110 as a fighting machine. Used correctly, it was passable; used incorrectly, it was a liability - but it wasn't the only aircraft to suffer that fate.
The 110 was the reason Goering thought he could bomb London in daylight. The 109 barely had enough fuel, but the 110 could reach London with ease. Another crappy decision from Fatso.
The Engineering of the German Luffwaffe attack Bomber design led to the British Aerospace manufacturer De Havilland to design the Mosquito and the American Lockheed P38 Lightning fighter light Bomber.
Can You do a video on the HE 219?
I’m a simple guy, a see a new WW2 video from Dark Skies, I click.
Same here
Right there with you
Lol I’m on my 2 marriage. She’s painting living room I’m smoking and hiding in garage.
A headache for the Royal Navy? Since when?
Another "Dark Skies" flub.;)
Re the name of the plane, see also the Rammstein song 'Ich will ZERSTÖREN", meaning "I want to DESTROY." In their usual non-too -subtle style...
Handsome Brute . Very effective . Got overtaken by Improved technology .
Is there one of these Mini Documentaries about the HENKEL 219 ? Committed Night-fighter . Very fast and Heavily armed .
The heavy twin enegined fighter wasn't a German design, but first made by the Dutch Fokker design, amazing the whole world by it's new concept.
The Bf 110's maiden flight was in May 1936, the Fokker's in March 1937 *...*
Please make a doc about the F-105.
Would like to see a video on b52 lucky lady 3
Damn I really love your content. Incredible stories delivered in a wonderful manner. Top notch content on TH-cam and am very grateful I have access to this caliber of content. Although, just in the interests of constructive criticism, I would really appreciate it if you worked on your pronunciation of foreign (in this case) German words though. It kind of dampens things for me when I have to do a severe double take to recognise what exactly you are trying to say. For example Bayirsche Flugzeugwerke. Anyway, still really enjoy your channel and look forward to your future videos
5 minutes 11 seconds and you have footage was that pilot filming that by hand while trying to shoot the guy down because the camera moved think about that one it's pretty badass I never seen that before
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The BF 110 was a beautiful aircraft as many other questionable aircraft throughout the war were.
Even the name Zerstorer fit him well
Also pretty sure the P47 and P 38 were more than a match for the 110.
I forgot a plane, that proved itself as a Twin Engine fighter bomber, and I'm not talking about the Mosquito. I am talking the Bristol Beaufighter. An Excellent twin engine two seat fighter/bomber/torpedo plane.
Which also had reverse lend-lease feature when the yanks used them in North Africa and Italy.
The real reason that sunk the BF 110 design was rate of climb which is important to any interceptor/fighter design. When you look at Wing loading, low-altitude performance and firepower it handily beat anyting the British or United States could throw at it until late 1943. It wasn't a bad design by any means, it could actually out-turn a hurricane or spitfire in a low speed, low altitude dogfight
2 20m.m. cannons not 4. 4 in total... The 110 is one of my favorite German WWII planes..
"If ever fighter pilots died in vain,it was the Zerstorer(BF 110) pilots of the Battle of Britain."
The ME-110 was like their version of the A-10 warthog.
Ah, my favorite aircraft of all time :D
What's your second favorite? The Me 210? LOL!!!
@@scootergeorge9576 No?
@@noelblack8159 Where?
@@scootergeorge9576 What?
@@carlosandleon Why?
The P 51 was not a fighter bomber. It was purely a fighter.
Yes but like the harricane and spitfire it could b come what was required.
@@roybennett9284 well the P51 did more groundattacking than airfighting in west europe... so would say it startet as "pure fighter" but quickly became a fighter bomber.
The BF-110 influence the A-10 design.
No.
In an admittedly morbid way I'm conflicted in while I don't want wars to happen, I also do want to see the innovations and tactics another world war might cause.
The interesting wars are over, WW2 was the last. Now they are either counterinsurgency/asymmetric, or uncontemplatable. All the peers with modern weapoins have nukes, and who will lose? WW2 was the sweet spot for interesting. Before that, not enough tech, the battle might be lost due to lack of communication ability After that, it become press a button and the computer does it for you. .
Thats why the Cold War was a 'good thing', because it pushed massive tech advances without the major belligerents actually going to war with each other (discounting the small scale colonial proxy wars, which ended up being mainly a 'real world' weapons testing opportunity in many cases)
Why are the comments moved?
imo, the 110 should have been allocated as a CAS fighter/bomber as well as a night fighter.
0:05 I see what you did there.
How do you shoot down a tail gunner?
The BF-110 should have been a ground attack aircraft with the FW-187 as a heavy fighter/interceptor.
I'll say this though: the Luftwaffe should have chosen to develop the Focke-Wulf Fw 187 instead of the Bf 110 for their _Zerstörer_ program. Once fitted with DB 601 and eventually DB 605 engines, the Fw 187 had to potential to cause no end of problems for the RAF with its reasonably long range and potentially near 400 mph speed for its initial versions.
Royal Navy?
I fought that I heard wrong but I did not.
Royal NAVY?
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One has to ask why was Erhard Milch allowed to have so much say in Luftwaffe aircraft procurement. He seems to wanted to fight the war all by himself.
Milch was more useful than the "aces" Udet and Göring together *. . .*
Milch was at least sober and not a junkie.
Also he had a firm grasp of what the operational needs and capabilities of the Luftwaffe actually were - rather than what certain individuals wanted them to be.
@@letoubib21 Udet could've been around longer if Goering hadn't pressured him at his job
Because Milch actually showed up for work. Alcoholism and drug addiction tend to interfere with job attendance
Correction on one of your claims. The cavity magnetron was not based on German original designs. In 1939, Harry Boot and John Randall found a use for the magnetron tube invented by A. W. Hull, of the US, in 1929. They adapted the design, and found that it could generate a signal at 9.8 cm and 400 watts. The Germans were astonished when they discovered a resulting system on a downed British bomber.
The fighter that needed its own fighter escort.
It was no mosquito
I suppose the concept of the heavy fighter could be compared to the naval destroyer that swept away torpedo boats that threatened battleships in the early twentieth century...
During the Battle of Britain, German ME110 pilot screaming at his rear gunner, "Keep those fighters off our tail! And could you please reload our 20mm cannon when you have time?!" 🤦♀️
The royal navy or the royal airforce?
Royal Naval Air Service *. . . ;-)*
The Germans really knew how to make some beautiful planes regardless of how effective they actually were 😂
its zerstÖRER! ÖÖÖÖÖÖ!
Looks like it could have been converted into a tank killer on the eastern front.
"Kampfzerstörer" is bomber destroyer,fighter destroyer would be - "Jagdzerstörer."
Grandpa a 10 Thunderbolt
I used to go Fishing in a big hole made by one of these that was shot down by Anti aircraft fire whist it was attacking Rolls Royce.
Do they even know it's Christmas?
You are our time 5 days ahead *. . .*
It was the predecessor to the very successful RAF mosquito concept, but never refined; it's follow aircraft was flawed as well.
Nazi Germany surprisingly not THAT good at planes apart from it single engined fighters.
Not really, this was a heavy fighter. The Mosquito was a fast bomber. So completely different.
"Mono-COKE"?
One of the best multirole planes in War Thunder :D
The two engined powered concept did not pay off for almost any airforce. The „schräge Musik“ (you could translate it to „odd music“ - but basically „schräg“ means „angled“) was designed for daytime as the upward firing guns were connected to a photo cell to react to the shadow of a plane flying overhead and then would start firing automatically (Zellendusche = Cell shower). Of course this does not work at night…furthermore, a taken down plane would mean two casualties in the worst case…
The mosquito ? Twin engined pain in the backside of the Luftwaffe!
@@the_midnight_mechanic_stua1503 I wrote „almost“…😉 The „wooden wonder“ is ingenious…and I am german…😉
P-38 Lighting was a really deadly twin engined fighter as well. Germans gaves it the nickname, The Forked Tailed Devil.
@@Treasureson78RPM The FW had the nickname „Butcher bird“ 😉
The twin engine heavy fighter concept was fine, but the way it was implemented by the Luftwaffe was not. The added weight and bulk imposed by multiple crewmembers and rear firing armament handicapped the performance of the 110, the 210, and the 410. They finally learned the lesson with the DO-335, but it was too late to make a difference.
In the late 30's Jazz was hugej]ly popular in Germany -many leading artistes cut German language discs -SO -OBLIQUE SOUNDS/ANGULAR MG121 HAHA -The Avro Lancaster had no ball/lower gun turrets-having a massive 14k bomb load-so NJG realised tht this was a weak point -ie attack from below/underneath-me110e njg had 2xmg12120mm rm auto cannons mountec to fire at an oblique angle(jazz!!) upward and forward -thus swher music-crept up underneath raf lancasters and shot them to helllll///
Very good video. One small criticism: when you say "Only two models survive tothis day.", this is incorrect verbage. "Model" has to do with the type aircraft. The BF-109 is a model of aircraft.
As to the surviving airplanes, what you mean to say is: "There are only two examples of the BF-109 surviving to this day." =PC=
Better than the Boulton p d
I believe the Bf 110 would have been a superior fighter aircraft without the rear seat gunner and guns and using 4 to 6 12.7 mm nose guns. The resulting lighter aircraft would have had superior speed and maneuverability.
Germans had 13mm guns, not 12.7. The airframe itself was heavy, areodynamicslly limited, and armoured. It’s a sledgehammer of combat aircraft, not a scalpel like a 109. The differences in weaponry from 2x20mm and 4x7.92 to 6 12.7mm guns wouldn’t change enough to warrant the aircraft for a role change. This is one of my favourite aircraft of all time, and they are fantastically capable aircraft, especially the later G models. They were just misused once the British had radar installations. However, this is in hindsight, and this was still in the early years of the heavy fighter/support aircraft concept in that form. Sorry for the long message 😂
@@booferz4391 - Oops 13 mm. Maybe it was the Japanese that used a 12.7 mm. I just believe a light weight 110, especially powered by the DB 605 would have done better in air to air combat vs single seat fighters. But the was a very good ground attack fighter/bomber and night fighter. But it did have its limitations.
@@scootergeorge9576 I totally get the theory, and yes it would improve it I’m sure, but I’m not confident in its ability to combat a spitfire in combat 1 on 1 I think it wouldn’t make a big enough difference honestly. I would love to see a powerful lightweight bf110 tho, that would be cool.
And where should Germany have gotten those .50 machineguns from?
@@booferz4391 *_". . . I would love to see a powerful lightweight bf110 tho, that would be cool."_*
And then you would call it _Whirlwind_ ?
During the latter stages of the battle of Britain the 110s did some low level nuisance raids that were quite successful but again its a simple fact that if they had been put to work earlier poking out fighter commands eyes (radar) at every available opportunity things would have possibly turned out quite differently, lucky for us all Goring and his boss were a pair of dim wits who shouldn't be left in charge of anything let alone an airforce.
True...the 110 should have been used from the beginning to beat up airfields and attack installations, not escort bombers and do fighter sweeps. While it was no Mosquito or P38, the 110 did have value and it's poor reputation in daylight operations came mostly from misuse, not an unusual theme in Nazi Germany.
Was this airplane built in bayern?
Regensburg and Obertraubling , lateron Vienna, too *. . .*
@@letoubib21 I thought so. Doesn't look like a Bf 110. Me 110 for sure but not Bf
@@bingosunnoon9341 Ouch!
It was a great plane for sure but mostly misused during the early part of the war. It could have caused way more destruction. Probably the top twin engined fighter of the war after the P-38 Lighting and the P-61 Black Widow night fighter.
What about the De Haviland Dh98 Mosquito?
The Mosquito was much faster than the Me110.
Mosquito was the number one twin engined aircraft of WWII
@@MartintheTinman - But it was not specifically a fighter.
@@scootergeorge9576 . There wàs a fighter version