the first jets were used in war in 1944.
when were the first jets used in war?
1944
the first jets were developed during world war ii and saw combat in the last two years of the war. messerschmitt developed the first operational jet fighter, the me 262a, primarily serving with jg 7, the world's first jet fighter wing. it was considerably faster than contemporary piston-driven aircraft, and in the hands of a competent pilot, was quite difficult for allied pilots to defeat. the design was never deployed in numbers sufficient to stop the allied air campaign, and a combination of fuel shortages, pilot losses, and technical difficulties with the engines kept the number of sorties low. nevertheless, the me 262 indicated the obsolescence of piston-driven aircraft. spurred by reports of the german jets, britain's gloster meteor entered production soon after and the two entered service around the same time in 1944. meteors were commonly used to intercept the v-1 flying bomb, as they were faster than available piston-engined fighters at the low altitudes the flying bombs were flying. nearer the end of world war ii, the first military jet-powered light fighter design, the heinkel he 162a "spatz" (sparrow), was intended to be a simple jet fighter for german home defense, with a few examples seeing squadron service with jg 1 by april 1945. by the end of the war almost all work on piston-powered fighters had ended. a few designs combining piston and jet engines for propulsion – such as the ryan fr fireball – saw brief use, but by the end of the 1940s virtually all new fighters were jet-powered.
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