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The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花 [1], Ōka, "cherry blossom"; 桜花 in modern orthography) is a purpose-built, rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft [2] deployed by Japan against Allied ships in the Pacific Ocean theater toward the end of World War II.
A kamikaze aircraft crashes into a US warship in May 1945. Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in ...
The Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi (剣, "sabre") [5] is a one-man kamikaze aircraft that was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force during the closing stages of World War II in 1945. The Imperial Japanese Navy called this aircraft Tōka (藤花, "Wisteria Blossom").
This aircraft was an almost ideal kamikaze model: it had a combination of speed (560 km/h/350 mph), range (2,500 km/1,550 mi) and payload (800 kg/1,760 lb) probably not matched by any other Japanese aircraft. The D4Y5 Model 54 was a planned version designed in 1945.
Kamikaze (神風号, Kamikaze-gō) was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane airplane, (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun. It became famous on April 9, 1937, as the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe .
The Kokusai Ta-Go was a prototype Japanese kamikaze aircraft of World War II.It was developed in 1945 as a small, easy to build aircraft which could be built in large numbers in small workshops, and was largely built of wood to reduce demands on strategic materials.
Yokosuka P1Y "Frances" shot down next to USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) by 0945 on December 15, 1944. [4]The first flight was in August 1943. Nakajima manufactured 1,002 examples, which were operated by five Kōkūtai (Air Groups), and acted as land-based medium and torpedo bombers from airfields in China, Taiwan, the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku, and Kyūshū.
The aircraft performed well during a 20-minute test flight, with the only concern being the length of the takeoff run. For the second test flight, four days later (four days prior to Japan's declaration of surrender), rocket-assisted take-off (RATO) units were fitted to the aircraft. The pilot had been uneasy about the angle at which the rocket ...