Carl, you speak of a HUGE what if !!

From chatting with several jet pilots I can assure you the Allied bomber offensive would of been at a standstill come 1943, IF the Jets would have been employed. As to 1946 there were at least 12 different designs going through mulitiple testings, just for the day fighter version only and these were to replace the Schwalbe in JG 7 and JG 44 and EJG 2. The Meteor was not advanced enough to take on the Me 262 even in 1945 and the US air force had not fully developed any type of jet systems so we can rule both these forces out. The Soviet air forces would have been totally destroyed and there might possibly have continued the war through to 1950 at least.
The largest problem at hand in the year of 45 was that the Allied air force, and I don't mean the Soviets had an overwhelming air superiority and any living Luftwaffe a/c was pounced on while taking off or landing from their airfields. German fighter pilots had to take on odds somewhere about 20/25 to 1 or greater and had no chance really of survival except by almost pure luck. There were plenty of pilots but the shortage of fuels was of prime concern. The 262 fuels and especially the odd mix for the Me 163...... was that the jet/rocket units were wasting 1/2 of their efforts in air field moves to draw closer to their fuel reserves which were always running short. When I interviewed former Me 163 pilot Rudi Opitz, he told me that most of his mission was to aquire fuels, driving all over eastern Germany, Poland and elsewhere and still trying to stay out of range of Soviet guns......

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