Horton

[Sternjaeger II]

guys, guys... don't turn this into a battle of wits..

The development of aviation is a non-stop history of copy/paste, sheer luck and loads of trial and error, a lot of error (it's not a case that they say "aviation rules are written with blood").

The Americans took great inspiration from the Me262 and other German designs, incidentally the Germans nailed a design that inspired a lot of other jets, the Russians partly followed their own development and partly copied from the Americans etc...

Aerodynamics are the same for everybody, and engineering solution will then be similar.