109 e3b against spitfire II

[Crumpp]

At first, thx for all the excellent references you are giving on many of your post.

You are most welcome. Thanks for your contributions to the discussion too.

I understand you point on DI vs SPI (single point injection). DI has clearly many advantage and was the panacea at the time.

The technological advantage of DI allowed the German designs to be equal to despite strategic material shortages.

Maintaining equality with inferior materials came at a high cost though.

simpler is.....

Exactly. The main drawback of Direct Injection is the expense and complexity. Germany is just a little smaller than the state of Montana in terms of square miles and had a strategic material shortage even before the war began.

For a resource poor country of that size to take on most of the civilized world in an all out war of attrition, complex and expensive is something to be avoided.