@Cruslan M262 acele gelmiş bir uçak, ayriyetten bi o kadar da sıkıntılı bir uçak.
What were the problems? Well for one, major overhauls were required between 30 to 50 hours of service. Which meant that 262s tended to be grounded after a couple of flights. Obviously this wasn't conducive to the effectiveness of the 262 regardless of fuel shortages. The engines like almost all other jet engines were prone to fodding (stones and debris being ingested therefore requiring turbine blades to be repaired). Furthermore the Jumo 004 required maintenance of combustion chambers every 20 or so hours. With this in mind, it's pretty apparent that the Jumo 004 required a rather high degree of maintenance. Most reports that detailed about the Jumo 004 mention that the average service time ranged from 10-22 hours so physically speaking it would have been impossible to actually keep a fleet of 262s up in the air.
Now your question poses the hypothetical of the Germans being able to field a large number of 262s. Oddly enough, the Germans did actually produce a sizeable amount, approximately 1400 262s. However again the problem comes with logistics. Approximately 200-300 were ever actually in operation despite the 1400 number. Couple it with the constant strafing and bombing operations done on proper and improvised German airfields in 1944-1945, the time consuming maintenance and the fact that only about 20% of the produced jets ever were operational and we see that 262 wouldn't have changed much because the air superiority could not be reached even with double the amount of jets in the air. One has to remember that the P-51s, Spitfires, Typhoons, P-47s, and Tempests combined would have outnumbered the Me-262 26:1 even if there were three times the operational and maintained 262s. And that's just an approximate number of fighters that were fielded by the USA and the British. This isn't including Soviet Bombers, Allied bombers, ground attackers, or any other planes. Numerically speaking the only way for the 262 to have made an enormous contribution to the war would be that the 262 entered the war in 1942, 100% of them were in service and not grounded, and that the pilots were 100% trained. Also the Jumo 004 would have to be at least twice as reliable to make an even decent effort to keep up numerically.
Motor ve bakım problemleri bir yana, zaten sayıcak az olmaları müttefiklerin manevra kabiliyeti yüksek ve hız olarak da güçlü olan (P51 gibi) uçakları bi yerden sonra baş edebiliyordu.
Ama ilk çıktığı zaman M262 müttefiklere şok yaratmıştı tabi 30mm topuyla ve 900KM hızla paramparça ediyordu.
