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I've read some modestly favorable reviews for the Volksjaeger. It's an interesting idea. Of course, it takes a lot more than on-paper promise to get a combat worthy weapon into action. Still, if used as an interceptor, the Volksjaeger had potential. With a high top speed and a good offensive punch, the Volksjaeger might have been able to get around its other limitations. Short range doesn't matter so much for an interceptor. Radical maneuvers might not have been necessary if the fighter operated in a hit-and-run mode against Allied bombers. If the Volksjaeger had an average sortie length of 1 hour (just to pick a round figure) and killed an Allied bomber every other sortie, then a 5-10 hour combat life would yield 2.5 to 5 kills. Obviously, it's nothing like this simple. Still, it would have been interesting to see what might have come of getting the new plane into service in mid-1944.