Kurt_Steiner Alas, no. Main reason are these new-fangled prop-less engines.
Agent Larkin Sh*t happens.
stevep The de-briefing officer made the mistake to ask for an honest assessment. So that's what he got.
The 'Stang (which I really learned to apprechiate after that Airshow I went to. Dear god the sound. The Merlin heritage of the engine was clearly audible.) and various versions of her will see extensive service as an escort fighter in Europe and as a general fighter in the Pacific.
Jets will at first be too short-ranged for escort duty there too, so the Mustang has a place. I can't say too much yet.
Here it will too take until summer 1945 until they can begin assembly of the first Nuke. They started production of the materials earlier (by about nine months) but the lower rate of production cancels this out. Engineering wise they follow the same routes but will concentrate on the Uranium Gun design (better known as Little Boy) because there they can produce it faster and technically wouldn't need to blow one as a test. (I'm still torn on wether to do it or not, mostly because I have trouble seeing anyone using a Nuclear Weapon without knowing if it'll set the atmosphere on fire or something).
Trinity IOTL was a design identical to the Fat Man design dropped on Nagasaki which due to being more complicated was feared might not work.
El Pip He isn't listening to the voices, he is quoting a paper floating around his part of the MoD before it gets to the PM's hands and creates the wrong impression. Dowding knows that the idea is stupid (We
are talking about the British Ministry of Defence here after all
) but he wants the Jets instead too.
The Mustang will mostly replace the Mossie in the Escort Fighter role, Fighter Command's Air Superiority Squadrons (for lack of a better term) will fly the Spitfire until the Meteors and Vampires come.
I can see why those would be a problem. I was actually inspired by a documentary I saw many moons ago about a Soviet bunker in the Moscow Metro that was supposed to shelter the Polit bureau in time of crisis until they bugged out to that mountain retreat. Here it's just an ultra-secret meeting room that the principals of the British Government (and yes that would include the Regent and the Queen, though not on this meeting) can reach without being seen too much.