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This battle was during the 2016 "Japanese Threat" event, featuring Allies versus Axis. Not to be confused with the Me 209 prototype of 1943. The Me 209 V1 was developed in 1937 with the primary goal of breaking the speed record for a single engine aircraft. It was not originally intended for a combat role. Early in 1939, the speed record was broken by the Heinkel He 100. Flown by Hans Dieterle, the He 100 achieved a top speed of 463.9 mph (746.6 kph). Less than a month later, in April 1939 the Me 209 took the title away from Heinkel when pilot Fritz Wendel took his aircraft up to 469 mph (756 kph). After the Battle of Britain, there was consideration for adapting the Me 209 for combat. One attempt for this conversion was to install a pair of 7.92mm machine guns within the engine cowling. This modification, however, caused a great reduction in speed and the project was abandoned. The V4 variant was mainly a fake re-dressing of the racing aircraft to make it appear to be combat capable. Military markings were applied and it visually appeared to be armed. In this capacity it was photographed and used for propaganda as the next evolutionary step of the Bf 109 Fighter. In 1943, an unrelated project also called Me 209 was prototyped as a potential replacement for the Bf 109, but had no correlation with the racer aircraft of 1937.

This battle was during the 2016 "Japanese Threat" event, featuring Allies versus Axis. From 1938 until 1943, the Messerschmitt Me 210 was under development. It was intended to replace the Bf 110 Zerstörer (Heavy Fighter). The flaws were so notorious that in the same year it was pressed into service, it was replaced by the Me 410. The Me 410 was basically a modified, drastically improved version of the Me 210. The airframe was lengthened and reshaped to improve stability and the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engines were replaced with the more powerful DB 603, which could produce greater horse power. They were used by the Luftwaffe as heavy fighters, night fighters, fast bombers and reconnaissance. Initially they were also used to intercept unescorted bombers. However they proved to be unsuccessful attacking bombers under escort by British Spitfire or American P-51 fighters. By 1944 Germany was on the defensive and focused most of it's aviation industry on single engine fighter aircraft. This, combined with heavy losses in combat, the production of the Me 410 was discontinued. The remaining aircraft stayed in service only acting as reconnaissance aircraft.

This battle was during the 2016 "Japanese Threat" event, featuring Allies versus Axis. The Ju 87 Sturzkampfflugzeug, or Stuka for short, was a dive bomber used by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and throughout World War II. In an example of psychological warfare, the landing gear legs had loud siren devices mounted on them, called Jericho Trumpets, which gave the aircraft it's iconic diving sound. The G models were a response to a need for anti-tank aircraft on the Eastern Front. Removed from their dive bombing role, they were given increased armor protection and wing mounted gun pods, fitted with the 37mm Bordkanone BK 3,7 autocannons. With the improvements in Soviet tank armor, these aircraft were intended as tank busters. In addition to the G model, some D models were equipped with the BK 3,7 guns as well. About 22 D-1 variants were converted into G-2 models. During the Second World War, the Slovak Republic's Air Force operated several German aircraft, including the Junkers Ju 87 D-3 and D-5. Around 1942 the RLM (German Air Ministry) considered building a manufacturing plant in Slovakia for Ju 87 Stuka production. But due to shortages of machine tools and technical engineers, the plan was abandoned.

This battle was during the 2016 "Japanese Threat" event, featuring Allies versus Axis. During the later period of World War II, German industry was suffering due to allied strategic bombing. Messerschmitt developed the Me 163 Komet as a fast interceptor designed to attack bomber aircraft. It was a rocket powered aircraft with short flight time and limited range, but was primarily designed to take off and climb to extreme altitudes very quickly. Meanwhile in Japan, after the United States introduced the high altitude bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, it was clear that a counter measure was needed. Japan soon acquired a license to manufacture the Me 163 Komet interceptor. Originally the transaction included the blueprints for the aircraft as well as the HWK 509A rocket engine, one fully assembled aircraft, three fully assembled engines, technical manuals, tooling and some component parts. Also Japanese engineers were allowed to observe the manufacturing of the Me 163 and was given flight training and operation procedures. However, not all the parts reached Japan. The disassembled aircraft and one engine was lost when the submarine RO-501 was sunk by the squadron attacked to the USS Bogue aircraft carrier. Later the plans and engines were destroyed when the USS Sawfish sunk the I-29. Despite this setback, Japanese engineers continued plans by using the technical manuals received from Germany. The project was a joint venture between the Japanese Army and Navy. The navy version was called the "J8M1 Shusui" while the army version was called "Ki-200". The primary differences between the two was the armament. Several prototypes were build and test flights were conducted. For training several gliders based on the airframe were built, called the "Yokosuka MXY8 Akigusa" (navy) or "Yokoi Ku-13" (army). By August 1945 the design was finalized and ready for production, but in the same month the war had ended and all development was stopped.

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.