This battle was during the 2016 "Japanese Threat" event, featuring Allies versus Axis. After the successful test flight of the first jet powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, Germany was looking for a next generation fighter. The Messerschmitt Me 262 was intended to fill that role after it's first jet powered test flight in July of 1942. However due to constant delays the Me 262 did not enter service until 1944. Because of this delay, there were some alternatives considered. In early 1943 there was a concept design which fitted the Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engine to the airframe of the Bf 109 fighter. This would act as a stop-gap solution while the Me 262 was still in development. The resulting aircraft would have been called the Me 109 TL, shedding the "Bf" or "Bayerische Flugzeugwerke" naming convention of the 109 series and going with the standard Messerschmitt "Me" designation. However by March of 1943, it was decided that the Bf 109 fuselage would have had to be significantly modified to mount the engines and nose cone. The project was cancelled so that more focus could be put to the Me 262. No prototypes were ever built.
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