Bf110 Defensive Circle

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by csThor

I always thought that the Bf 110 was grossly misused in the BoB. With its relatively high speed and devastating armament it would have been more sensible to sent it on far-ranging fighter sweeps pretty much like the P-51 was used a few years later. It could have disrupted the stream of RAF squadrons forming up over their airfields, it could have made low-level strafing runs against airfields and it could have picked off stragglers and damaged aircraft trying to get back to their bases. It had the range, the speed and firepower to do so ... It was just used in the most pointless way one can think of.

Agreed. IMHO yet another example of what an idiot Hitler and his helpers were in using modern weapons right and to see the importance of weapons-development.
Hitler looked at WW2 from his little WW1 infantry experience and shaped all branches to support tanks and infantry. He didn't realize most of the potential of the technology at his hand or possibilities offered. Not to mention his poor ego ruining most crucial operations.