The Arado 234 was beside the Me 262 the second important jet engined aircraft of the Luftwaffe during ww2..
It was a single seated reconaissance and bomber plane, which - after being airborn, was not to intercept by the allied fighters (oldtimers like P51 or Spitfires - just kidding :o)).
The high speed allowed it ,that this aircraft was able to fly it' s missions without any defending weapons.
The only weak points were during take off an landing - a subject the allied pilots found out very quickly, that was why f.e. my father has to fly ' protection missions ' for these jets from his base Plantluenne in those days.
Interesting to me, these aircraft were based also in my home region now - Muenster /Westfalia, the old airfield is closed, but you can still see the rests of it (now the new german army uses it for training).
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