{"id":708924,"date":"2026-05-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=708924"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:49:41","slug":"kugisho-yokosuka-mxy7-ohka-rocket-kamikaze-baka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/kugisho-yokosuka-mxy7-ohka-rocket-kamikaze-baka\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ohka: Japan&#8217;s Rocket-Powered Kamikaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>The aircraft was 6.07 metres long. It carried a 1,200-kilogram warhead in its nose. The cockpit had a basic compass, an airspeed indicator, and a single switch that started three solid-fuel rocket motors. There was no landing gear. There was no parachute. The pilot, on enlistment, signed a formal agreement that he would not return.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka \u2014 Japanese for &#8220;cherry blossom&#8221; \u2014 was the first purpose-built suicide aircraft in history. The Allies, who fought it from March 1945 until the end of the war, called it Baka. The word translates as &#8220;fool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.65\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Model 11<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> October 1944<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Length:<\/strong> 6.07 m (19 ft 11 in)<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Warhead:<\/strong> 1,200 kg (2,650 lb) ammonium picrate<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Powerplant:<\/strong> 3\u00d7 Type 4 Mark 1 Model 20 solid-fuel rockets<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Top speed:<\/strong> 650 km\/h horizontal, 1,040 km\/h in terminal dive<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Range from launch:<\/strong> 37 km after release from G4M Betty bomber<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Total built:<\/strong> 852 (155 used in combat)<\/p><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1877380790  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/g4m-betty-ohka-mothership.jpg\" alt=\"G4M Betty bomber\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Mitsubishi G4M &#8220;Betty&#8221; \u2014 the bomber that carried each Ohka to within 30 km of its target before releasing it. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Weapon Born of Desperation<\/h2>\n\n<p>By autumn 1944 Japan was losing on every front. The American B-29 raids were accelerating. Allied submarine warfare had cut off Japanese oil supplies. Conventional kamikaze pilots \u2014 fighters loaded with explosives and flown directly into Allied warships \u2014 were achieving real results, but the aircraft were obsolete and slow. American carrier-based combat air patrols were shooting them down before they reached their targets.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Imperial Japanese Navy&#8217;s Aeronautical Research Institute, the Kugisho, proposed a different approach: build an aircraft optimised purely for the suicide mission. Cheap. Fast. Hard to intercept. Carried to the target by a conventional bomber. The pilot would only have to fly the last few minutes \u2014 the part where speed and inevitability mattered most.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How It Worked<\/h2>\n\n<p>An Ohka mission began with a Mitsubishi G4M &#8220;Betty&#8221; twin-engine bomber, modified with an Ohka clamped under the bomb bay. The Betty climbed to 8,000 metres and approached the target fleet at 320 km\/h. At roughly 30 to 35 kilometres from the target, the Ohka pilot \u2014 already strapped in his cramped cockpit, who had ridden along since takeoff \u2014 was released.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=67288236  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/ohka-rocket-suicide-aircraft.jpg\" alt=\"Ohka rocket aircraft\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ohka in flight configuration. Three solid-fuel rocket motors gave it 60 seconds of powered flight at 650 km\/h. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ohka glided downward, building speed. Once aligned with the target, the pilot ignited the rocket motors. The little aircraft accelerated to 650 km\/h horizontally, then transitioned into a terminal dive that hit nearly 1,040 km\/h \u2014 Mach 0.85, faster than any Allied fighter could catch. The single switch in the cockpit triggered the warhead on impact.<\/p>\n\n<p>One Ohka strike on the destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele on 12 April 1945 killed 84 men and broke the ship in half. It was the first warship in history sunk by a guided weapon \u2014 fifty years before &#8220;guided weapon&#8221; became a normal phrase.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Allied Counter<\/h2>\n\n<p>The American counter-strategy was simple: kill the bombers before they could release. The Ohka had no usable range without its mothership. The G4M Betty, weighed down by an Ohka, was 50 km\/h slower than normal and could not manoeuvre. American F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs were given strict instructions to focus fire on Bettys carrying Ohkas, and to ignore unloaded escort fighters until the Ohka was destroyed.<\/p>\n\n<p>The strategy worked. Of 155 Ohka combat sorties, only seven scored direct hits on Allied warships, and three of those were on already-damaged ships. The vast majority were destroyed in their motherships before release.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Pilots<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Ohka programme drew its pilots from the same pool as the conventional kamikaze units. Most were university students conscripted in 1944. Their training was minimal \u2014 the aircraft was, after all, designed for one flight only. Many never got to make even that flight; their motherships were shot down before release, killing the Ohka pilot along with the bomber crew.<\/p>\n\n<p>Three Ohkas survive in museums today. Each is small, neat, painted in green-grey camouflage, and unsettlingly cheerful in appearance \u2014 a reminder that the most cruel weapons in aviation history are not always the largest.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: Imperial War Museum, National Air and Space Museum, &#8220;Suicide Squads&#8221; by Richard O&#8217;Neill.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft was 6.07 metres long. It carried a 1,200-kilogram warhead in its nose. The cockpit had a basic compass, an airspeed indicator, and a single switch that started three solid-fuel rocket motors. There was no landing gear. There was no parachute. The pilot, on enlistment, signed a formal agreement that he would not return. 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