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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 45 points 22 hours ago

"The primary role of the relatively untrained pilot was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket engine would then land using separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable."

I was picturing something more like a Kamikaze.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I gotchu:

That is the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a Japanese kamikaze rocket plane

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 hours ago

The flower is very kawaii.

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

~~rocket plane~~ human-guided missile

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

potato, missile-o

[-] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 22 hours ago

You're thinking of the Reichenberg-Gerät, although the Nazis were crazy they weren't crazy enough to actually use it.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

There were a small number of kamikaze attacks against Oder bridges in conventional planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Squadron#Oder_bridge_attack_missions,_April_1945

There also was a squadron of conventional fighters dedicated to fly ramming attacks against bombers, which was used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Elbe

Eventually, these tactics are not that crazy. In war, lives and machines are expended to reach a goal. If some tactics seem crazy, then only because that fundamental fact is harder to ignore.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

IDK the reason they didn't deploy that thing, but it certainly wasn't prudence or concern for pilot safety because the Me163 rocket plane was used.

[-] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

The Me163 was supposed to be reusable, including the pilot, the Reichenberg was one time use only, including the pilot.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The Me163 was supposed to be reusable, including the pilot

The pilot was reusable, if you count fertilizer as a re-use.

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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