Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
Japanese rocket suicide-attack aircraft
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花, Ōka; "cherry blossom"; 桜花 in modern orthography) is a purpose-built, rocket-powered, human-guided, kamikaze attack aircraft that was produced by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal and deployed by Japan toward the end of World War II. Allied personnel commonly referred to the aircraft as "baka bombs" (baka being a Japanese pejorative term meaning "fool" or "idiot"). The Ohka was conceived during 1943 by Ensign Mitsuo Ohta, and following design assistance from the Aeronautical Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, received formal approval to proceed from the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) on 16 August 1944. Development was carried out in secret, partially to not impact the Japanese public's perception of the conflict. Effectively a flying bomb, the Ohka was intentionally designed to be as cheap as possible to construct, typically featuring plywood wings and an aluminium fuselage, while only being furnished with rudimentary cockpit instrumentation...
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