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Aircraft · Japan · 1944-1945

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka

rocket-powered kamikaze weapon

The Ohka (Cherry Blossom) was a piloted, rocket-propelled flying bomb carried to within range of Allied ships by a mother bomber and then released to dive at high speed into its target, a nearly 1,200kg warhead packed into its nose. Its pilots could not survive the mission by design, and American sailors gave it the derisive codename Baka, Japanese for fool. It sank or crippled a handful of ships off Okinawa but the slow, vulnerable mother bombers that carried it suffered horrendous losses.

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crew1
top speed926 km/h (dive)
armament1,200kg warhead
produced852

Pacific

Japanese Ohka at the Yasukuni Shrine. Note that I've deleted a guy in the bottom left corner of the photo. This is a replica of the Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka Model 11.
Japanese Ohka at the Yasukuni Shrine. Note that I've deleted a guy in the bottom left corner of the photo. This is a replica of the Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka Model 11.Max Smith · Public domain · source
Near the end of World War II, Vice Admiral Onishi Takijino recommended that the Japanese navy form special groups of men and aircraft to attack American warships in the Philippines. The Japanese used the word Tokko (Spec
Near the end of World War II, Vice Admiral Onishi Takijino recommended that the Japanese navy form special groups of men and aircraft to attack American warships in the Philippines. The Japanese used the word Tokko (SpecSanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
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