So what is with the CLICKBAIT picture??? The Oka was a pretty scary device with a very flawed delivery system, no reason to not use the photo of the item you are actually discussing instead of some rando outlier. Be better!!!
Maybe the effects of the atomic bomb pretty much took care of any other pics of the Cherry Blossom. Hard to recover original film from former enemy one would think >?
Your point is? I recognise the thumbnail pic as an Oka, my nearest museum has an Oka on display. So to me your comment seems pointless. If it bothers you that much, don’t watch. Sheesh!
Ive stopped "watching" these videos and now i just "listen" its confusing when you are talking about one plane and watching another... most times the planes match. Way too often they dont.
@user-og1ux8nr3i not sure of your point here. If I went to a island tribe talking about cell phones and showed them a picture of a wallet because I didn't have photos of my phone you don't think that would misslead people? Explain the point you're making with that comment.
@user-og1ux8nr3i you want me to stop watching and supporting the channel because I said I don't like seeing different planes than we are talking about? That's a really gen z way of going about it. Nothing can be considered constructive criticism anymore. Dark skies is excellent, I would love to see it become even better!
Disappointed in the misleading video image. Thought you were talking about some little known aircraft. Only to find the Oka. Great video, but why use a clickbait picture? Boooo....
You wouldn’t need very experienced pilots, just someone who can control it for a few minutes. They know they are going to die if they hit the target or not, so commitment to the cause was probably more important than absolute flying skill.
The American troops (a large number of Army units with a strong group of Marines and some Navy supporting personnel along with some allies) swept off the main landing point of the west Beaches at Hagushi on Okinawa on April 1, 1945 and prioritized the two Japanese airfields on the central part of the island. These airfields, called Yontan at Yomitan and Kadena near the town of Kadena, were taken within hours of the invasion. Yontan was an airfield with grass runways and thus not suitable for the largest aircraft but because of swamps and hills, it could not be expanded but was sufficiently completed to be used by small aircraft. The Japanese had also seen the limitations of Yontan and had begun to build a new airfield on a larger site at Kadena but it would be weeks before the US Seabees and Corps of Engineers could complete this task. In securing Yontan, Allied troops swept around the airfield and located a cave in a hilly area with a number of Ohka suicide planes hidden inside (I'm not sure exactly how many but the number seems to have in the range of 9 - 15 or so). Almost all the surviving Ohkas in the world today come from this group -- they were quickly returned to the US for engineering analysis but the end of the war lessened their usefulness. There are Ohkas in British air museums, the US Museum of the Air Force in Ohio, the Smithsonian, and small museums in Florida, Chico California, Yuma Arizona. and others. On the morning of Aoril 1, 1945, my father -- having completed his assigned task as an Air Corps logistics officer to conduct the movement of all the physical items of the 20th Air Force in India and China (the famous "Hump" operations of 1944 and 45) - boarded a C-54 heading for Clark Field in the Philippines where the aircraft would refuel and carry on to Tinian in the Marianas. This route followed the route of the B-29s of the 20th Air Force a few days before. On the ground at Clark, their airfield was delayed slightly and then took off (after it would be possible for any person to send a letter, cable, or phone message), it was announced that the invasion of Okinawa had started and they were headed for Yontan, airfield, arriv"ing about 4PM on the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1945 (about 36 hours after the invasion began. As the central part of the island was secured, the work began to set up what facilities could be used at Yontan as a temporary air base until the larger base at Kadena was completed. The Ohkas that were captured near Yontan were brought down near to the base headquarters at Yontan -- with a stop to disarm them by removing the warheads and rocket motors. After they were disarmed, they were brought closer to the headquarters complex, which consisted mostly of tents. One, with the Japanese identification mark of I-18 was directly in front of my father's tent. It is shown on the photo at time-mark 14:40 and in other photos in the next 40 seconds or so. I have a photo of my father standing next to the nose of I-18 along with a high school friend from home, an Army Sergeant who just happened to be stationed nearby. You'll notice that there are movies showing I-18 being disarmed in the video just after the still photo -- I had seen still photos of this process and knew that it was "my dad's" Ohka but I had never seen the movies before. The photo showing my father and the sergeant next to I-18 were taken at a more directly sideways view. You can see my father's tent in that photo; it's identifiable because it's larger than the others in the compound -- since I father was in charge of admin of incoming shipments of materiel, its unloading in the ports, and distribution to user of the items, he ascertained that there was an additional hospital tent that had arrived for the use of the Navy Corpsmen running the hospitals. Being big-hearted and helpful, he offered to take it off the hands of the hospital staff so that they wouldn't have to worry about it and had it installed as the housing tent for himself and his tentmate, a personnel officer. Even in the background of the photo at 14:40 in this video, you can see the electrical wires that brought electricity to the command tents; since they were there, my dad and his tentmate hooked wiring to power an electrical light in their tent (the only one in the row except for the command and admin tents) as well as a refrigerator for medical goods that my father also did them the favor of taking care of. In this way, they had electrical lights and cold beer at night, a luxury attained by few on the island. I-18 was one of the Ohkas taken to the US for study by Naval engineering but according to his stories, it sat right their on its wooden trestles for quite a while. I believe it's now in Chico, California. (I made a similar comment on another RUclips video about the Ohka story and got a reply from a man near Nashville who has a photo of his father, a Navy air mechanic, who is "walking the wing" of another Ohka as it was being moved down a dirt road towards the main air base (sorry, my memory fails, I think it was I-10 or I-13). As the Ohka had no landing gear, they set them on wheeled dollies and towed them along with a construction tractor, thus necessitating a crew of handlers to guide and support the aircraft. Yes, they were towing an aircraft with an armed 2000 pound warhead with a tractor and a rope along a dusty Okinawa road -- if the whole thing had gotten away from them on a downhill and the warhead had slammed into the tractor, what could the result have been???_
@@Bit01 Oh, yeah, I can understand that. In my mind's eye, I can see the armorer in the cave -- Sentry runs in -- "90,000 American troops have just landed 5 kilometers away. We must run and join other Japanese troops for final 'Death before Dishonor' defense of the island!" Armorer - "Oh, yes, but first I'm going to disarm all these aircraft to assure that the American troops are not injured by them when they arrive." Right, that's the way it happened, I'm sure.
@@brucebear1 No bombs are armed until the safety pin is pulled so the blades on the fuse can spin to arm it, genius. You really think they're sitting there on the ground with all that weaponry laying around armed??
Despite the off target comments, I found your story to be very interesting. Also your father was a magnanimous fellow taking care of the tent and refrigerator for the yet to be named MASH units 😊
I like what the U.S. sailors named it. The Baku Bomb. Or 'Idiot' bomb. Most got shot down with their Bettys. Either by fleet air defence fighters or AA. The proximity fuses on 5" gun shells were murder on Japanese aircraft.
The Ohka had one big problem: it needed a launch plane. Be really glad the Kawanishi _Baika_ pulsejet-powered suicide plane didn't make it to service; the _Baika_ could be launched from land bases and it could be attacking a ship at around 450 mph at very low altitude, which would have made it very difficult to intercept even with the F4U Corsair.
Here in Germany there was a similar approach: FI 103 Reichenberg IV (“Karl-Gerät”). They were meant to destroy allied bomber formations by “kamikaze” (In German it was called “Selbstaufgabe” - Giving up on yourself). It was powered by a propulsion engine as it was used on the V1. The project was abandoned as the RLM refused it because of “too many losses” - and the plane was not able to rise to the required altitude. Cheers from Germany!
Speaking of the USS Mannert L. Abele, a Gearing-class destroyer, and showing video of a smaller Destroyer Escort. Surely there are video clips of a Gearing class ship available? 😮
Manchester Air Museum had one (the museum has been closed for a long time now). It was a shockingly simple thing, small, tinny coffin. It was underneath more glamorous aircraft when I was a kid and got overlooked by many. The description moved me to tears as a kid. If you could engineer honour and harrowing desperation, it would look like the Cherry Blossom.
They do the best they can bub! They probably don't have any film footage of any CHERRY BLOSSOMS! Did you think of that? Hard to film a little aircraft like the Cherry Blossom going 500-600 mph dude! They have limited footage of every plane used. I guess they could go to animated representations which are not to bad in some cases?
@@johndyson4109 if they were really doing their best they could have displayed technical drawings or other pictures instead of video that has nothing to do with the subject matter this channel is just fucking too fucking lazy to even attempt to make content that is not full of factual errors and click bait thumbnails
The Ohka, when deployed had negligible effect on any battle, let alone the course of the war in the Pacific. Too little, too late. Like the Nazi Wonder weapons, it was a last act of desperation from an empire on the brink of defeat.
"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?
If you look at it in a totally dispassionate way, the Ohka makes a certain amount of logical sense. If you don't have the industrial capability to create an electronic/automated guidance system for your antiship missile, then putting a guy in it is really the only option. Sure it's a waste of training time and money, but I can't imagine that a piloted bomb chiefly designed primarily to only go in a downwards direction would be all that difficult to fly. You could probably get away with just taking some random guys and giving them a quick crash course (no pun intended)
It takes a lot to make the Nazis look decent, but when they wanted a guided anti-ship missile they just put a television camera in the nose of a glide bomb.
There was a PBS documentary about this plane a few years back. There was even a segment where one of the factories that made these planes, if memory serves. Some cultures, for what ever reason, given a historical context, don't value peoples' lives, or their accomplishments. For those that watch a lot of PBS, this all should be obvious? Sometimes life is not fair, but there are always consequences.
Grandpa Lee spent 3 years in a Japanese POW camp. He ate fish and rice, rarely, that whole time. He was randomly beaten. He REALLY did not like his "Jap" jailers.
The term “Near Miss” is perplexing. If a kamikaze nearly misses, does that mean a HIT? I suppose the term should be “Near Hit”, to imply a miss. English is a challenging language.
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.
In Germany at that time, there were volunteers to fly manned V-1 bombs, the project called "Selbstopfer-Einsatz" is described in Hanna Reitsch's book "Fliegen mein Leben".
Yeah, the clickbait photo is why I opened the video. Yet what I find in the video is an aircraft that I have known about for years. In fact I have four models of the Ohka, along with the R-4 Reichenberg, in different scales. Then there are those surviving examples seen in museums in both Britain and America. So this aircraft is no big surprise. However, I have never seen the aircraft in the clickbait photo that is rather intriguing. Yet we are given no information on that UFO.
You seem to miss out so much nuance in your writing/presentations. The Ohka was devastating when used successfully, but that didn't happen that often. It was a threat for sure, but a tad overstated, especially when being carried to the drop point of the mission, underslung in a slow bomber and very vulnerable. Also, the men of the Tokko or Kamikaze operations weren't uniformly brave and self sacrificing. Many couldn't find their targets (whether purposefully or not), many suffered mechanical issues and had to land elsewhere, manhy were shot down once in the target area, and many even though trying to hit their target, just plain missed.
The Germans also had a version of this, it was a pulse jet V-1 fitted with a cockpit and the pilot would line up on his target, then lock the controls, then bail out. But the V-2 and other wunder weapons won out.
The Fieseler F-103R Reichenberg IV. As it turned out, the prospect of the pilot baling out was almost as impossible as it was with the Ohka, as the engine placement meant the canopy usually jammed against the jet intake of the Reichenberg, making it almost impossible to squeeze out of the thing before it hit its target.
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
It actually makes a lot of sense from a totally dispassionate logical viewpoint. If you don't have the industrial capability to create a mechanical/electronic guidance system for your guided missile, putting a pilot in it is the next best thing. Also, these things didn't take "thousands of hours" to build. They were designed to be cheaply slapped together from aluminium and wood as quickly as possible. The fact that over 800 were built and deployed in around six months, and at a time when the Japanese factories were being bombed by the USAAF every five minutes, sort of disproves the "thousands of hours" argument.
"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...
@@jamesredman1263 The A1 Skyraider and A2 Skyshark (The Skyshark was cancelled before entering production) were propellor driven planes with the A1 seeing combat in Vietnam. The A4 Skyhawk was definitely a jet aircraft. I remember building a model back in the 70's. That said I'm not sure what the aircraft in the thumbnail is, as it doesn't appear to bear any resemblance to the silhouette of even prototype A4s. I'm sure I've seen the plane somewhere however.
@@Brightsideofmilitary yup and this guys videos are always using wrong pictures and stock footage in the background, really low effect stuff, while basically reading wiki pages. Meanwhile there are much better aircraft related channels like Rex's hanger or Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
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.
I wonder how it could have performed in a fighter role as a jet. As small and light as it is it could have an scaled down Junkers Jumo, It had some intakes at the rear fuselage already which must be for the rocket engine.
Did they have hydraulics? That is the big question. Because no pilot could be strong enough to manually manipulate the control surfaces at those speeds.
Common sense dictates that they must have hydraulics, but the combined stress stemming from material shortages, fanatical & incompetent leadership, & pinning hopes on tactics that're senseless to begin with, i wouldn't be surprised that these baka planes didn't have hydraulics at all.
Lots of speak about fanstical ideology, but remember, many of these pilots were quite literally bolted in. What a horrible reality. Executed for treason, or forced to kill yourself.
The Betty was an amazing aircraft. I think it was Betty Bombers who destroyed the Prince of Wales and the Repulse? Somebody please fact check me ! The Japanese Navy amazes me….ships like the mighty Yamato etc, their aircraft carriers.
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 correct🤷♂️
I have to give a massive recommendation to a video called Inside the Ohka Manned Missile. It's over on a channel called Blue Paw Print. Give it a watch and see exactly how the thing worked.
I think he might be commenting about the picture. I was curious about the pictured aircraft with caption too. I have no idea what it has to do with the Oka.
Imagine standing around smiling and happy before you set off on a certain death mission for yourself. Nothing worse than humans and fanaticism or some kind of notion of what you are doing is "holy" - what a shit plane. 👍
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 is with the CLICKBAIT picture??? The Oka was a pretty scary device with a very flawed delivery system, no reason to not use the photo of the item you are actually discussing instead of some rando outlier. Be better!!!
Or, as Melania urges you, BE BEST!
Maybe the effects of the atomic bomb pretty much took care of any other pics of the Cherry Blossom. Hard to recover original film from former enemy one would think >?
Your point is?
I recognise the thumbnail pic as an Oka, my nearest museum has an Oka on display. So to me your comment seems pointless.
If it bothers you that much, don’t watch. Sheesh!
@@Jones607I find your comment far more pointless than his. If you don’t understand why people resent Clickbait, don’t comment! We get it!
@@Jones607
Sorry, but that's not an Ohka.
"...especially the iconic F6F Grumman Hellcat (shows Dauntless dive bombers) and the Vought F4U Corsair (shows Avenger torpedo planes)."
The greatest threat of the Oka still exists today. Fanatical ideology.
Like in our politics, unfortunately.
Ive stopped "watching" these videos and now i just "listen" its confusing when you are talking about one plane and watching another... most times the planes match. Way too often they dont.
Just how much film footage do you think there is?
@user-og1ux8nr3i not sure of your point here. If I went to a island tribe talking about cell phones and showed them a picture of a wallet because I didn't have photos of my phone you don't think that would misslead people? Explain the point you're making with that comment.
@@DoingThingsToStuff -- I think you just want to nit pick. Please do stop watching this channel and I’m sorry that they are not as perfect as you.
@user-og1ux8nr3i you want me to stop watching and supporting the channel because I said I don't like seeing different planes than we are talking about? That's a really gen z way of going about it. Nothing can be considered constructive criticism anymore. Dark skies is excellent, I would love to see it become even better!
@@DoingThingsToStuff -- good points. I’m a boomer.
Disappointed in the misleading video image. Thought you were talking about some little known aircraft. Only to find the Oka. Great video, but why use a clickbait picture? Boooo....
They built 852 of these things. I can't imagine purposefully killing over 800 of your loyal pilots on purpose....
You wouldn’t need very experienced pilots, just someone who can control it for a few minutes. They know they are going to die if they hit the target or not, so commitment to the cause was probably more important than absolute flying skill.
You mean organic targeting computers these were guided missiles not planes.
You can always be sure your cause is just and your leadership competent when suicidal attacks are your best hope
The American troops (a large number of Army units with a strong group of Marines and some Navy supporting personnel along with some allies) swept off the main landing point of the west Beaches at Hagushi on Okinawa on April 1, 1945 and prioritized the two Japanese airfields on the central part of the island. These airfields, called Yontan at Yomitan and Kadena near the town of Kadena, were taken within hours of the invasion. Yontan was an airfield with grass runways and thus not suitable for the largest aircraft but because of swamps and hills, it could not be expanded but was sufficiently completed to be used by small aircraft. The Japanese had also seen the limitations of Yontan and had begun to build a new airfield on a larger site at Kadena but it would be weeks before the US Seabees and Corps of Engineers could complete this task.
In securing Yontan, Allied troops swept around the airfield and located a cave in a hilly area with a number of Ohka suicide planes hidden inside (I'm not sure exactly how many but the number seems to have in the range of 9 - 15 or so). Almost all the surviving Ohkas in the world today come from this group -- they were quickly returned to the US for engineering analysis but the end of the war lessened their usefulness. There are Ohkas in British air museums, the US Museum of the Air Force in Ohio, the Smithsonian, and small museums in Florida, Chico California, Yuma Arizona. and others.
On the morning of Aoril 1, 1945, my father -- having completed his assigned task as an Air Corps logistics officer to conduct the movement of all the physical items of the 20th Air Force in India and China (the famous "Hump" operations of 1944 and 45) - boarded a C-54 heading for Clark Field in the Philippines where the aircraft would refuel and carry on to Tinian in the Marianas. This route followed the route of the B-29s of the 20th Air Force a few days before. On the ground at Clark, their airfield was delayed slightly and then took off (after it would be possible for any person to send a letter, cable, or phone message), it was announced that the invasion of Okinawa had started and they were headed for Yontan, airfield, arriv"ing about 4PM on the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1945 (about 36 hours after the invasion began.
As the central part of the island was secured, the work began to set up what facilities could be used at Yontan as a temporary air base until the larger base at Kadena was completed. The Ohkas that were captured near Yontan were brought down near to the base headquarters at Yontan -- with a stop to disarm them by removing the warheads and rocket motors. After they were disarmed, they were brought closer to the headquarters complex, which consisted mostly of tents. One, with the Japanese identification mark of I-18 was directly in front of my father's tent. It is shown on the photo at time-mark 14:40 and in other photos in the next 40 seconds or so. I have a photo of my father standing next to the nose of I-18 along with a high school friend from home, an Army Sergeant who just happened to be stationed nearby. You'll notice that there are movies showing I-18 being disarmed in the video just after the still photo -- I had seen still photos of this process and knew that it was "my dad's" Ohka but I had never seen the movies before.
The photo showing my father and the sergeant next to I-18 were taken at a more directly sideways view. You can see my father's tent in that photo; it's identifiable because it's larger than the others in the compound -- since I father was in charge of admin of incoming shipments of materiel, its unloading in the ports, and distribution to user of the items, he ascertained that there was an additional hospital tent that had arrived for the use of the Navy Corpsmen running the hospitals. Being big-hearted and helpful, he offered to take it off the hands of the hospital staff so that they wouldn't have to worry about it and had it installed as the housing tent for himself and his tentmate, a personnel officer. Even in the background of the photo at 14:40 in this video, you can see the electrical wires that brought electricity to the command tents; since they were there, my dad and his tentmate hooked wiring to power an electrical light in their tent (the only one in the row except for the command and admin tents) as well as a refrigerator for medical goods that my father also did them the favor of taking care of. In this way, they had electrical lights and cold beer at night, a luxury attained by few on the island.
I-18 was one of the Ohkas taken to the US for study by Naval engineering but according to his stories, it sat right their on its wooden trestles for quite a while. I believe it's now in Chico, California.
(I made a similar comment on another RUclips video about the Ohka story and got a reply from a man near Nashville who has a photo of his father, a Navy air mechanic, who is "walking the wing" of another Ohka as it was being moved down a dirt road towards the main air base (sorry, my memory fails, I think it was I-10 or I-13). As the Ohka had no landing gear, they set them on wheeled dollies and towed them along with a construction tractor, thus necessitating a crew of handlers to guide and support the aircraft. Yes, they were towing an aircraft with an armed 2000 pound warhead with a tractor and a rope along a dusty Okinawa road -- if the whole thing had gotten away from them on a downhill and the warhead had slammed into the tractor, what could the result have been???_
Nothing, since the bomb would not have been armed.
@@Bit01 Oh, yeah, I can understand that. In my mind's eye, I can see the armorer in the cave --
Sentry runs in -- "90,000 American troops have just landed 5 kilometers away. We must run and join other Japanese troops for final 'Death before Dishonor' defense of the island!"
Armorer - "Oh, yes, but first I'm going to disarm all these aircraft to assure that the American troops are not injured by them when they arrive."
Right, that's the way it happened, I'm sure.
@@brucebear1 No bombs are armed until the safety pin is pulled so the blades on the fuse can spin to arm it, genius. You really think they're sitting there on the ground with all that weaponry laying around armed??
Despite the off target comments, I found your story to be very interesting. Also your father was a magnanimous fellow taking care of the tent and refrigerator for the yet to be named MASH units 😊
@@brucebear1You forgot to include references in your dissertation 😅😂🤣
I like what the U.S. sailors named it. The Baku Bomb. Or 'Idiot' bomb. Most got shot down with their Bettys. Either by fleet air defence fighters or AA.
The proximity fuses on 5" gun shells were murder on Japanese aircraft.
"BAKA Bomb." Idiotic or foolish.
The Ohka had one big problem: it needed a launch plane. Be really glad the Kawanishi _Baika_ pulsejet-powered suicide plane didn't make it to service; the _Baika_ could be launched from land bases and it could be attacking a ship at around 450 mph at very low altitude, which would have made it very difficult to intercept even with the F4U Corsair.
Here in Germany there was a similar approach:
FI 103 Reichenberg IV (“Karl-Gerät”). They were meant to destroy allied bomber formations by “kamikaze” (In German it was called “Selbstaufgabe” - Giving up on yourself). It was powered by a propulsion engine as it was used on the V1. The project was abandoned as the RLM refused it because of “too many losses” - and the plane was not able to rise to the required altitude.
Cheers from Germany!
Another thumbs down for AI thumbnail.
Hey, I’m the narrator of this video and I take offense
Speaking of the USS Mannert L. Abele, a Gearing-class destroyer, and showing video of a smaller Destroyer Escort. Surely there are video clips of a Gearing class ship available? 😮
I always hope the audio is accurate because the video is seldom historically accurate.
One of the first images was that of a 4 piper destroyer, far from a Gearing Class
Manchester Air Museum had one (the museum has been closed for a long time now). It was a shockingly simple thing, small, tinny coffin. It was underneath more glamorous aircraft when I was a kid and got overlooked by many. The description moved me to tears as a kid. If you could engineer honour and harrowing desperation, it would look like the Cherry Blossom.
Get your photo descriptions straight.
They do the best they can bub! They probably don't have any film footage of any CHERRY BLOSSOMS! Did you think of that? Hard to film a little aircraft like the Cherry Blossom going 500-600 mph dude! They have limited footage of every plane used. I guess they could go to animated representations which are not to bad in some cases?
It's not called an "Oaka, the picture he displayed clearly says "baka".
@@johndyson4109 if they were really doing their best they could have displayed technical drawings or other pictures instead of video that has nothing to do with the subject matter this channel is just fucking too fucking lazy to even attempt to make content that is not full of factual errors and click bait thumbnails
@@kyotaiken That's what the US named it. To ridicule it.
@@johndyson4109 Or avoid this very minor topic entirely!
What aircraft is the photo
It's like an XF88 without the intakes on the wings. Idk
Wrong, it's the Clickbait 2000f 😂😂😂😂😂
A-4 Skyhawk
@@joshuaboudreau5258 haha!!
F-2000 Clickbait
Pilot ignites rocket engines, The Ohka glides noiselessly. Does anybody edit this stuff?
The Ohka, when deployed had negligible effect on any battle, let alone the course of the war in the Pacific. Too little, too late. Like the Nazi Wonder weapons, it was a last act of desperation from an empire on the brink of defeat.
Is just me or am I noticing a lot more click bait thumbnails
I've enjoyed the channel since the day i've found it. Imagine my disappointment that you stoop so low as to resort to clickbaiting.
I'm amazed that content creators think no one would notice bad or incorrect content. We notice!
The Mannert L. Abele was not a Wickes or Clemson class destroyer.
whats in the photo thumbnail?
A-4 Skyhawk
I thought that was the nxy7 he's talking about..but it looks like he has things mixed up....
@@JonnieComp
Looks like a Batplane to me.
@@JimGeigerMusic "A-4 Skyhawk"
No it's not, take a better look.
Love the research and content. Thanks for your hard work,
See others’ comments regarding using appropriate images.
Ive read the Japanese had 5000 old planes in reserve on Japan. They meant to use them as kamikazes when we invaded. The A bombs ended that threat.
Kinda looks like a primitive A4, with a lot less wing and nose heavy.
"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?
*Clickbait image of fake aircraft* --------- Why ? Why ? Why ? -------------- *Why show such crap ?*
Why show a US Skyhawk on the title page??? Get your act together
Look again. That's not an A-4.
You really need to pick up on your spotting skills.
If you look at it in a totally dispassionate way, the Ohka makes a certain amount of logical sense. If you don't have the industrial capability to create an electronic/automated guidance system for your antiship missile, then putting a guy in it is really the only option. Sure it's a waste of training time and money, but I can't imagine that a piloted bomb chiefly designed primarily to only go in a downwards direction would be all that difficult to fly. You could probably get away with just taking some random guys and giving them a quick crash course (no pun intended)
You should do a video on the plane in your clickbait thumbnail someday. This video is down voted, and the channel blocked.
Thank you, sir.
It takes a lot to make the Nazis look decent, but when they wanted a guided anti-ship missile they just put a television camera in the nose of a glide bomb.
Good episode on a unknown to me Kamikaze airplane
There was a PBS documentary about this plane a few years back. There was even a segment where one of the factories that made these planes, if memory serves. Some cultures, for what ever reason, given a historical context, don't value peoples' lives, or their accomplishments. For those that watch a lot of PBS, this all should be obvious? Sometimes life is not fair, but there are always consequences.
Grandpa Lee spent 3 years in a Japanese POW camp. He ate fish and rice, rarely, that whole time. He was randomly beaten. He REALLY did not like his "Jap" jailers.
The term “Near Miss” is perplexing. If a kamikaze nearly misses, does that mean a HIT? I suppose the term should be “Near Hit”, to imply a miss. English is a challenging language.
Weren't the poor pilots threatened with their families being killed unless they "volunteered?"
Misleading, the original picture showed what looked like an early A-6 Intruder design and their primary video is WW II
It seems so farcical now given guided missiles and drone advancememts. What a sad wrong side of history to die for.
Should do one the Kamikaze divers.
Another nice video.....well done and thank you for your work.
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.
In Germany at that time, there were volunteers to fly manned V-1 bombs, the project called "Selbstopfer-Einsatz" is described in Hanna Reitsch's book "Fliegen mein Leben".
Certainly not up to date but efficient enough
Picket destroyer duty must have cause many cases of PTSD.
You showed a jet aircraft not a Kamikaze. I have seen an OHKA before.
Yeah, the clickbait photo is why I opened the video. Yet what I find in the video is an aircraft that I have known about for years. In fact I have four models of the Ohka, along with the R-4 Reichenberg, in different scales. Then there are those surviving examples seen in museums in both Britain and America. So this aircraft is no big surprise. However, I have never seen the aircraft in the clickbait photo that is rather intriguing. Yet we are given no information on that UFO.
You seem to miss out so much nuance in your writing/presentations. The Ohka was devastating when used successfully, but that didn't happen that often. It was a threat for sure, but a tad overstated, especially when being carried to the drop point of the mission, underslung in a slow bomber and very vulnerable.
Also, the men of the Tokko or Kamikaze operations weren't uniformly brave and self sacrificing. Many couldn't find their targets (whether purposefully or not), many suffered mechanical issues and had to land elsewhere, manhy were shot down once in the target area, and many even though trying to hit their target, just plain missed.
The Germans also had a version of this, it was a pulse jet V-1 fitted with a cockpit and the pilot would line up on his target, then lock the controls, then bail out. But the V-2 and other wunder weapons won out.
The Fieseler F-103R Reichenberg IV. As it turned out, the prospect of the pilot baling out was almost as impossible as it was with the Ohka, as the engine placement meant the canopy usually jammed against the jet intake of the Reichenberg, making it almost impossible to squeeze out of the thing before it hit its target.
"Smoke billows from her damaged shafts" ?? Not her stacks?
These are great videos for people with the tism
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
It actually makes a lot of sense from a totally dispassionate logical viewpoint. If you don't have the industrial capability to create a mechanical/electronic guidance system for your guided missile, putting a pilot in it is the next best thing. Also, these things didn't take "thousands of hours" to build. They were designed to be cheaply slapped together from aluminium and wood as quickly as possible. The fact that over 800 were built and deployed in around six months, and at a time when the Japanese factories were being bombed by the USAAF every five minutes, sort of disproves the "thousands of hours" argument.
I like how they have towed the plane backwards through the parade at the end of the video,
Indicating their contempt of the plane.
The Shinano was a BattleShip I read..not a carrier..
And the Picture is a Clickbait..
Please be honest
"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...
Why then is the thumbnail an early model A-4 Skyhawk?
Clickbait demeans your site.
A4 was a prop plane. The plane in the thumbnail is neither Ohka nor Skyhawk.
@@jamesredman1263 The A-4 Skyhawk is a jet, a strike aircraft denoted by the "A" designation. Look it up before you respond.
@@jamesredman1263 The A1 Skyraider and A2 Skyshark (The Skyshark was cancelled before entering production) were propellor driven planes with the A1 seeing combat in Vietnam. The A4 Skyhawk was definitely a jet aircraft. I remember building a model back in the 70's.
That said I'm not sure what the aircraft in the thumbnail is, as it doesn't appear to bear any resemblance to the silhouette of even prototype A4s. I'm sure I've seen the plane somewhere however.
Slowing down your narration and putting up fake thumbnails won't help you in the long run
The "Allied Forces" destroyed the two countries who were defeating Russia and China. Doesn't anyone find that odd...?
12:47 Jet propelled bomb? And what is with the thumbnail?
Lol look at all the bots below.
haha - yeah - but why?
Damn true
Yeah, I wonder what that’s all about?
@@mjo326 More likes and comments mean more views, and more views mean more revenue, my friend
@@Brightsideofmilitary yup and this guys videos are always using wrong pictures and stock footage in the background, really low effect stuff, while basically reading wiki pages. Meanwhile there are much better aircraft related channels like Rex's hanger or Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
Okas are being used to great affect by Ukraine without losing a human. Drones are what i am writing about
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.
Annoying clickbait that this article has nothing do with the aircraft pictured.
I wonder how it could have performed in a fighter role as a jet. As small and light as it is it could have an scaled down Junkers Jumo, It had some intakes at the rear fuselage already which must be for the rocket engine.
Wrong pic😮. My dad with BCOF occupied the Kamikaze school which trained these pilots. It was not perfect.
Did they have hydraulics? That is the big question. Because no pilot could be strong enough to manually manipulate the control surfaces at those speeds.
Common sense dictates that they must have hydraulics, but the combined stress stemming from material shortages, fanatical & incompetent leadership, & pinning hopes on tactics that're senseless to begin with, i wouldn't be surprised that these baka planes didn't have hydraulics at all.
Bait & switch
Thought these old outclassed Destroyers were sent Stateside in glory?
it was the first guided cruise missile.
Lots of speak about fanstical ideology, but remember, many of these pilots were quite literally bolted in. What a horrible reality. Executed for treason, or forced to kill yourself.
Smart munition.
"Smoke billowed from her shafts"?
Only 1 x Okha succeeded in hitting a ship (but not sinking it), not a good ROI.
I need one of those . Just not for that .
What is the thumbnail if its not the aircraft in question ?
I'm seeing A LOT of Winging going on....
Is this now a WarThunder Thread???
The Betty was an amazing aircraft. I think it was Betty Bombers who destroyed the Prince of Wales and the Repulse? Somebody please fact check me ! The Japanese Navy amazes me….ships like the mighty Yamato etc, their aircraft carriers.
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 correct🤷♂️
Why the thumbnail? Stop doing that. Stop it!
Less AI and more better content/audio.
I have to give a massive recommendation to a video called Inside the Ohka Manned Missile. It's over on a channel called Blue Paw Print. Give it a watch and see exactly how the thing worked.
Looks like some more thumbnail fungus...🤢
this channel has really gone downhill, their click-bait style has become unwatchable.
So what about the plane in the thumbnail?
I'm glad it's not just me.
Put in some real effort and, for goodness sakes, stop the stupid, breathless, commentary.
Why you so clickbait??????
Japanese-guided anti ship missile. It's progress!
No it isn't ,not even close ! THIS IS BS !🤔
Please explain.
@@deadon4847Yeah, please do, I’m interested in hearing your reasoning.
@@sdcoinshooter What parts is he claiming are BS.
@@deadon4847 That’s exactly what I would like to know.
I think he might be commenting about the picture. I was curious about the pictured aircraft with caption too. I have no idea what it has to do with the Oka.
Imagine standing around smiling and happy before you set off on a certain death mission for yourself. Nothing worse than humans and fanaticism or some kind of notion of what you are doing is "holy" - what a shit plane. 👍
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....
Ohka = cherry blossom Baka = Fool
Why in the opening shots do they show A WW1 four stacked destroyer?
I clicked to find out what the airplane was .
It wasn’t in the video.
I have no reason to open the video if everything is see is false.
i wouldnt day 3 rockets firing is a silent glide
But what’s the plane in the thumbnail?
I could do without the music. I
Very interesting subject and very well done!
What is that aircraft in the thumbnail? It isn't an Ohka.
Shame on you.
SUPER CRAZY COSMO🔔⚠️!?