Twin-engine fighters and energy tactics

Would a heavy twin-engine carrier aircraft be too poor a fighter to protect a strike against single-engine opposition?

No. The Beaufighter, Mosquito, and P-38 Lightning were capable fighters whose speed supported repeated firing passes without relying on a turning dogfight.

A viewer argues that heavier twin-engine aircraft would be poor fighters against single-engine opposition. The Beaufighter, Mosquito, and P-38 Lightning provide capable wartime counterexamples. Their strength lay in making fast firing passes and extending away before returning, a tactic described here as zoom and boom, rather than entering a tight turning contest. The claim is that they were good enough for their assigned tactics, without assuming universal superiority.