USS Cassin Young DD-793 - Kamikaze (Special Attack Force)

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka

Rocket powered human-guided anti-shipping Kamikaze attack plane.  Model 11. Essentially a 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) bomb with wooden wings, powered by three Type 4 Model 1 Mark 20 solid rocket fueled motors.

 

United States sailors gave the aircraft the nickname BAKA (Japanese for "fool" or "idiot").

 

General characteristics

  • Crew: One
  • Length: 6.06 m (19 ft 11 in)
  • Wingspan: 5.12 m (16 ft 9½ in)
  • Height: 1.16 m (3 ft 9⅓ in)
  • Wing area: 6 m² (64.583 ft²)
  • Empty weight: 440 kg (970 lb)
  • Laded weight: 2,140 kg (4,718 lb)
  • Powerplant: 3 × Type 4 Mark 1 Model 20 rocket motors Solid propellant, 2.60 kN (587 lbf) each

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 804 km/h in dive (576 mph in dive)
  • Range: 36 km (23 mi)
  • Wing loading: 356.7 kg/m² (73.1 lb/ft²)
  • Thrust/weight: 0.38
  • Dive speed (3× Rocket motors Full-Boost): 1,040 km/h (650 mph)

 

On 12 April the Japanese launched their first Ohka, a piloted, rocket-boosted,
suicide glider capable of diving at speeds of 500 miles per hour. The first Ohka
hit the destroyer Mannert L. Abele (DD-733) with such force that she broke apart
and sank in five minutes. Okha pilot name. Lt JG  Soburo Dodge.

 

Shinyo

The were Japanese suicide boats developed during World War II.

 

 

Kaiten

Was a torpedo modified as a suicide weapon, and used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.