I don't think a dedicated tank buster with big guns, like the Ju-87 G, is THAT important. An attack plane with bomb or air to ground rockets (but Germans were really far behind Russians in this last domain) is just fine.

Anyways, the Stukas with anti tank guns were only a small part of the overall stuka production during WWII, and, like the IL-2, was a very efficient attack plane, but a death trap to operate when the LW had no total aerial superiority (cf. Battle of Britain).

That's the reason why it was planed that the stukas were to be replaced by dedicated ground attack FW 190.

@ Ta :

to sum it up, the LW uses, as attack planes : Bf-110, Hs-123 and the Stuka, until the Stuka is replaced by the FW-190 in the ground atack configuration.

but what plane replaces both the He-111 and Ju-88 in the medium/tactical bomber role ? The Do-217 ?

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