Hello can you help

I am locked in argument with friends regards the above two aircraft

I believe and am quite sure that I read somewhere that the ME+62 was
faster and more manoeuvrable than both the Sabre and the MIG at the time
of the Korean war

Do you have sites that would shew this, have tried Google but no luck

Thanks in advance ...............Leslie


Hum hum, very doubtfull....
The couple Mig/Sabre were a génération ahead from the Me262 coupling the
technologycal progress from the 5 years gap between WW2 and Korean war and
"peace" manufacturing. It would be strange that these two new planes would
be inferior to their "common" ancestor.
I have not the exact performances in mind now but i can say :
- The raw 262 get an operationnal speed, a service ceiling, a Mach limit (
remember with no airbrakes ), a roll rate and an opérationnal readinness
inferior to the Mig/Sabre.
Maybe the turn rates could be comparable, but with an advantage for the
Mig/Sabre.
The 262 get only an clear advantage with his 4x30mm over the Sabre ( but dnt
forget that the 6x12,7mm of the Sabre have better balistic performances than
the MK103 of the 262 and were lethal over a fighter at normal combat range )
who was designed rather for dogfights than bombers destruction...
The 262 and the Mig designed for bombers interceptions ( the B29 and B36
were American planes... ) were closer in armement capabilities with maybe an
advantage for the german plane.

Regards

JP