Germany gives Japan V1 parts and data so they can strike critical targets without killing themselves

Maybe a stupid question, but with the engine so far of the center of the plane, doesnt that make it hard to fly or controll? It must force the nose to go down the whole time the engine is on.

Actually, kamikaze attacks were found to be more economical than traditional attacks at the time. Essentially, all the good pilots were either dead or crippled, so it was easier to train a teenager in an obsolete plane to slam into a ship than it was to train them normally. It was also a lot quicker, and they found that they actually lost fewer planes when using kamikaze attacks as opposed to normal torp/bomb attacks.

V1's weren't unguided but they were only accurate enough to maybe land in a certain post code.

>V1 to strike critical targets

sure thing, bro

>V1's striking anything other than some field 200km away
heh

It might be a bit ass heavy to compensate.

Well I mean, I mean it would probably have a big ass bomb in the nose would put the center of gravity over the center of lift.

>ichioku gyoukusai is a meme

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because one man is a honorable trade for 1000.

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They expected to land on the runway and have a crew open them.
Japan's always been stretched for resources.
Latches only on the outside are better for outside storage than latches on the inside only.

The general incompetence and last-ditch reality of the kamikaze programs doesn't make up for that fact that they are retarded. Like sipping a poison laced with an antidote to another poison you've been injected with before. Sure, it'll do wonders about your initial poisoning, but that's only pushing your problem uphill.

In the final stages of the war, the V1s accuracy had reached a level comparable to the V2. Come to think of it, if Germany had given Japan information and parts for V2s, Japan would have been the first nation to send a man to space.

>V1s accuracy had reached a level comparable to the V2
So somewhere between “inaccurate” and “lucky to hit the right country?”

As for your second point, nobody was being sent into space on V2’s. And they’re DEFINITELY not being sent on Weeb2’s

unlike the jap version the german was meant to bail out before impact since suicide missions aren't part of german warrior tradition.

Remember, Japan's entire late-war strategic planning revolved around killing as many GIs as possible. High Command figured if they caused a million or more casualties, the US public would demand peace at any price (given what we've learned about the US public in the last hundred years, were they wrong?). There would be a cease-fire, followed by talks, and Japan would be able to get most of what they had originally wanted out of the war at the table, just by using the threat of more bloodshed that the US public would refuse to accept.

This was their actual grand strategy after the war started going badly for them. They figured that it would cost them 10-20 MILLION of their own people--and they were perfectly o.k. with that. They figured that they could absorb 20-40 million dead before they collapsed as a nation and had to sue for peace.

Remember, that's the context for the kamikazes. They were considered an efficient trade--Japan could survive anything less than a 40:1 ratio (including civilians), and kamikazes offered the potential of 1:100+, even counting all of the kamikazes that never made it to a target.

The only thing that stopped Japan was a freak-out after Nagasaki. Japanese atomic scientists were able to identify not just the type of bomb used at Hiroshima, but accurately determined the amount of U-235 Little Boy used. They also estimated that we would need at least 6 months to enrich enough Uranium ore to make another (again, this was rather accurate). Fat Man shocked High Command--they had no idea how we'd done it (they knew Pu-238 was too "hot" to use in a gun-type warhead, and nobody else had even conceived of the implosion design). They had been nuked twice in almost as many days, and had to assume that we had dozens more, ready to go (we had 1 pit and 0 assembled bombs). Suddenly, the possibility of losing 20-40 million lives in exchange for *0* GIs was a real possibility.

The Emperor caved, and the war was over.

>bail out
>right into jet intake

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Essentially, Hirohito bluffed himself into taking the golden parachute we'd been offering him (because he was the only person who could order a surrender and expect to have that order actually followed) and selling out his buddies in the war faction of the government. If he'd known our actual rate of atomic production, he probably would have held out for MacArthur's planned invasion.

And even then, part of the war faction tried to launch a coup, take Hirohito into custody for his "protection", and continue the war. A US bombing raid inadvertently spoiled the surprise required to pull off the coup, and it was stopped.

And yet, if Japan hadn't fooled itself into surrendering, suicide missions would have played a massive part in their attempt to choke us on blood (both ours and theirs). So, yeah, they made a lot of sense in Japan's strategic planning.

Japan's industry wouldn't be able to keep up with losses of equipment, and they were already starving because of US submarines destroying their merchant fleet. The war would've eventually just become a genocide if they decided to keep fighting, and given the American public's opinion of Japan after 1941, I doubt any faction in the US would seriously oppose that.

>Hirohito
How the US managed to reason themselves into not lining this fucker up for a public execution to show the average jap just how much of a "god" he really was is way beyond my understanding.

Thus the survival rate.

The successful occupation of japan hinged on him living

>They expected to land on the runway and have a crew open them.
Japan's always been stretched for resources.
Ok, i'll bite that bait. Do yo have any explanation why okha had no landing gear, the warhead was built ino the airframe , AND the cabin latches were on outside?

So wait a year and then do it.
Anyone that objects can join him.

Sure. Like that would not have managed to turn the entire Japanese population back into kamikaze mode. You might as well imagine North Korea arresting Trump then executing him as an evil tyrant.

Why they didn't kill him after it was all over, like Saddam Hussein, is beyond me as well. It is almost like they were worried Japan would join the Soviet Union or something.

A god in shinto isn't some eternal, omnipotent thing. No one in Japan thought the Emperor's divine ancestry somehow made him immortal. This had also been demonstrated by every single previous emperor as they died, most recently Yoshihito who kicked the bucket in 1926. So executing him would have proven nothing whatsoever, it'd merely remove the one guy who could somewhat reliably tell everyone else to calm the fuck down.

Having the enemy boss man sitting quietly like a good little bird in a cage while you remake his government is good optics.

>good optics
Unless you are talking specifically about lenses kindly fuck off with your buzz words.

Purpose of horizontal stabilizers is to counter those torques with the lift forces they produce. Unlikely considering the craft, but with trim controls on the stabilizer the engines effect could be largely cancelled by trimming according to it and the plane made easy to fly by the pilot.

The Soviets might have scrounged up some kind of scrap fleet by then and sent people to occupy a good half of the islands.

Beyond the fanatical dedication for throwing life away, one Japanese guy for 20, 30, 40, or a whole shipful of American GIs and sailors?

On top of any other war material or hardware, stuff you destroy when you fly one of these things loaded with explosives, into an Aircraft Carrier, Liberty or Victory Ship?

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>buzz words.
optics literally isn't a buzzword retard