Yokosuka Ohka
The Ohka (Cherry Blossom) was designed to allow a pilot with minimal training to drop from a Japanese Betty-bomber at high altitude. The Ohka pilot would detach, ignite the rocket motor, and dive into a ship. and guide his aircraft with its warhead at high speed into an Allied warship.
Late in World War II, the Dai-ichi Kaigun Koku Gijitsusho (1st Naval Air Technical Arsenal) at Yokosuka, Japan, designed the MXY7-K1 to teach less experienced pilots to fly the Model 11 "Ohka" (Cherry Blossom) kamikaze suicide rocket bomb. Some 755 of these suicide aircraft were built.
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