On April 12, 1945, 70 nautical miles northwest of Okinawa, destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele drifts, immobilized. Smoke billows from her damaged shafts ā the result of a recent kamikaze attack by a Mitsubishi A6M āZero.ā
As the crew fights to contain fires and repair the damage, nine G4M āBettyā bombers appear, descending from 20,000 feet. These aircraft carry something far more heinous than conventional bombs. In their open bays rest Yokosuka MXY-7 āOhkaā
The Ohka is a pilotās coffin and a shipās nightmare rolled into one: a purpose-built, rocket-powered flying bomb designed for a single, devastating kamikaze strike.
As the Bettys approach, Abeleās gunners spring into action. But just as the mothership releases its lethal cargo, it becomes clear the shipās remaining guns are no match. The tiny aircraft is moving too fast.
Within seconds, the pilot ignites three rocket engines, accelerating to over 600 miles per hour in a power dive. The seemingly unstoppable Ohka ā a purpose-built human bomb ā begins its silent glide toward the stricken destroyer.
All the American crew can do is watch in horror as Japanās ultimate weapon brings doom upon them.
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But whatās the plane in the thumbnail?
Annoying clickbait that this article has nothing do with the aircraft pictured.
Pilot ignites rocket engines, The Ohka glides noiselessly. Does anybody edit this stuff?
I like how it is called a baka on the technical documents. Baka means stupid in Japanese.
The Bushido code did deliver the expected psychological impact resulting two Japanese cities being turned to glass. Ironic isn't it? The kamikase influenced the decision to use atomic bombs.
Smart munition.
Picket destroyer duty must have cause many cases of PTSD.
Okas are being used to great affect by Ukraine without losing a human. Drones are what i am writing about
The japs, like most asians, do not place the same value on human life that the West does. That "dying for the emperor" stupidity did nothing but drain down their manpower and materiel.
When you see shit like this, you no longer have any empathy for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bro your channel has gone to dog shit.
Get to the goddamn point
We would never build a weapon with a human being in it, just like we'd never intentionally crash an airplane that takes thousands of hours to build and purposely crash the asset, it's insane, inhuman
Okay to all you people out there complaining about the f**** photo on the thumbnail. Considering the fact that all the audio info is always correct and half the time the thumbnail is not correct and the pictures sometimes don't match up with the audio in the video. So I would assume that AI is doing the video and picture thumbnail that is the reason why it's wrong half the time I'm pretty sure he does or his team does the actual research for the audio that's why the audio is correct all the time I mean yeah it's a little bit off- pudding but maybe we bug him for humans to do the pictures selection instead of telling him we are unsubbing,and calling him all kinds of names, just saying. This channel is nothing like the other AI channels out there which The Voice the video everything is off completely f**** off half of the information is off this Channel at least gets all the info right I just don't think he's realizing that the AI is putting out images that are not correctš¤·āāļø
Love the research and content. Thanks for your hard work,
See othersā comments regarding using appropriate images.
With these vicious attacks and the Pearl Harbor attack, President Truman gave them a big "WHAT FOR" with a couple atomic weapons down their throats. Japan started the war w/America long after they had slaughtered peoples across the Pacific, Asia, Berma, and many islands in between.
it was the first guided cruise missile.
Japan's defeat was looming as soon as the first bomb or torpedo exploded at Pearl Harbor.
No Wonder This Was Once Kept Top Secret!
IF Emperor Didn't Surrender, Japan Military Had Secret Supplies And Equipment Hidden In Caves To Devistate First Invasion Wave.
The A-Bombs And Fire Bombs Were Merciful Compared To a Full Blockade That Would Have Starved Millions Of Civilians, With Soldiers Well Fed.
Wrong picš®. My dad with BCOF occupied the Kamikaze school which trained these pilots. It was not perfect.
Why the thumbnail? Stop doing that. Stop it!
"Smoke billows from her damaged shafts" ?? Not her stacks?
"Within seconds, the pilot ignites three rocket engines, accelerating to over 600 miles per hour in a power dive. The seemingly unstoppable Ohka – a purpose-built human bomb – begins its silent glide toward the stricken destroyer." So which is it? A power dive, or a silent glide?
"Especially the iconic Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vaught F4U Corsair" The "sometimes we use different images" disclaimer notwithstanding, why images of what appear to be Dauntlesses and Avengers at that point? There would I would think be plenty of archival footage of the F6F and the F4U…
SUPER CRAZY COSMOšā ļø!?
Good episode on a unknown to me Kamikaze airplane
i wouldnt day 3 rockets firing is a silent glide
Certainly not up to date but efficient enough
Yokuska not yokosuka
David Mondey's books "The Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of WW2", 1984 (ISBN 1 85152 966 7), p.250, again DISAGREES with you: for Yokosuka MXY7 Model 11, maximum speed listed as 404 mph (NOT 600 mph, as you claim- unless you use the VNE diving speed instead?), and range of 23 miles only: WW2 CAP missions were flown bit more than that, away from the carrier;
Now, the unfinished Model 22, having TSU-11 jet engine with 100 HP 4-cylinder piston /compressor, looks much more interesting, but only a single prototype was tested….
So what about the plane in the thumbnail?
Misleading, the original picture showed what looked like an early A-6 Intruder design and their primary video is WW II
The term āNear Missā is perplexing. If a kamikaze nearly misses, does that mean a HIT? I suppose the term should be āNear Hitā, to imply a miss. English is a challenging language.
I'm amazed that content creators think no one would notice bad or incorrect content. We notice!
I could do without the music. I
Only 1 x Okha succeeded in hitting a ship (but not sinking it), not a good ROI.
this channel has really gone downhill, their click-bait style has become unwatchable.
From what I understand they were studied after the war and found to be very hard to fly & aim at speed, but of course none of the pilots survived to tell the Japanese engineers that.
Thanks to the clickbait thumbnail, i thought this was something new that i never heard of, come to find out, it's the well known Ohka. Unsubscribing from this and the other Dark channels. This crap has to stop
The Shinano was a BattleShip I read..not a carrier..
And the Picture is a Clickbait..
Please be honest