One pilot clutched the plane's operating lever deadly, his face grim, his scope in which was a warship roaring with cannonballs. As the pilot pressed the button at hand, the engine at the rear of the plane suddenly spewed out a long flame, and the pilot was also dead in the seat. The warship in the scope grew larger and larger, and the pilot became more and more insane, and looking at the terrified and distorted face of the gunner on the ship, the pilot also shouted the slogan "Long live His Majesty the Emperor" in a loud voice. The plane was right in the middle of the flank of the warship, and a fire was ignited in an instant, and the steel was distorted by the fierce explosion, and the violent explosion sound spread throughout the Pacific Ocean.............
This is a real scene encountered by the US military in the Pacific War, this so-called "aircraft", which is the so-called "final weapon" of the Japanese military in World War II, the Sakura special attack aircraft. Sakura special attack aircraft width of 5.07 meters, length is only 6 meters, weight of two tons, it seems not big, but this guy, the body of the explosives weighed as much as 1.1 tons, that is to say, in addition to cockpit equipment, engines, fuel, more than half of the weight is the warhead, and this 1.1 tons of explosives is a strong "trinitro anisol", with the cherry blossom special attack aircraft in the dive stage up to 1000KM / H speed, this is simply a super shell. The average old US warship was directly killed and wounded and lost its combat effectiveness.
Sakura, on the other hand, is particularly easy to get started with. The driver does not need to learn any complicated driving skills, and there is no altimeter, airspeed meter, fuel gauge in the cabin, just an operating lever and aiming equipment. And the tactics are very simple: the Japanese Air Force bomber "One Type Land Attack" is taken to an altitude of 8,000 meters, and then thrown down, the attack angle is strictly set to a 7:1 tangent value, the pilot does not need to do any complicated operations, just close their eyes and rush.
This small, easy-to-use, and powerful weapon was simply a life-saving straw for the Japanese army in World War II. In the technical verification stage, the Japanese military could not wait to build 755 pieces, from the initial idea to the batch loading, but 5 months, you can imagine how high the Japanese military at that time had high expectations for this thing. During this period, the Japanese military also trained a large number of "volunteers" as Sakura special attack aircraft pilots, and specially established the 721 Aviation Group for this purpose, and eventually more than 600 people joined the suicide squad. Compared with the "Huitian Torpedo" and "Kamikaze Special Attack Team", the "Sakura" special attack aircraft is really no way back to death, the first two things theoretically have a way to escape, the "Sakura" special attack aircraft does not even have a landing gear, the cockpit is directly welded to death, it can be said that when the driver steps into the cockpit, the fate of death can not be escaped. Therefore, in order to prevent drivers from fearing death, the Japanese military "brainwashed" these pilots and instilled various ideas of "death for the emperor" and "the rise and fall of the imperial state, in this one fell swoop". One of them, the pilot of the special attack plane named Hotaro Torimura, made a creepy poem: "This spring, where will I bloom cherry blossoms, I die, smile, please smile, please don't cry, make my death more meaningful" This inexplicable death psychology made them act very boldly in actual combat, at least there was no escape from the battle.
However, this crazy weapon did not bring about a slight improvement in the situation in Japan, because the actual combat situation was very bad, and there was no expected victory of one machine and one ship, and the reason for this was only because "the ideal is very full, and the reality is very backbone." As early as shortly after the Sakura special attack aircraft came out, the Americans intercepted one of this thing in Okinawa and sent it to the Air Force Experimental Base in Maryland to study the advantages and disadvantages of this thing and the attack mode thoroughly. In the subsequent countermeasures, the Old United States let the naval aviation multi-crew, non-stop patrol, early detection, early warning, and find him outside the "cherry blossom" range. On the other hand, Japan's "one-type land attack" bomber, after loading the "cherry blossoms", its maneuverability and range were greatly reduced, and when it encountered the old American air force, it was simply powerless, and could only hurriedly throw down the "cherry blossoms" to escape. As mentioned earlier, the attack angle of the "cherry blossoms" is very fixed, it must be 7:1, and the range is extremely short, and many "cherry blossoms" run out of fuel and fall into the sea before they reach the range. Until Japan was defeated and surrendered, a total of 7 battleships were achieved.
The "Sakura" special attack plane is the last madness of the end of Japanese militarism and the prelude to the demise of Japanese militarism. Today, when we look at these crazy weapons, we can only lament the crazy oppression of human nature by war........