Concept Aircraft : Kugisho Ohka 43 "Otsu" (1945)

Kugisho Ohka 43 "Otsu" (1945)

During the waning months of WWII, Japanese designers contemplated producing a light interceptor version of their new jet-powered Ohka 33 kamikaze aircraft. Much like Nazi Germany's "Volksjagers," these cheap, expendable fighters could be launched en masse to battle American bombers -- in this case the launches being facilitated by rocket boosters and 97-meter-long catapults.

The Ohka 43 project only got as far as the mockup stage before the project was abandoned due to Japan's surrender in August 1945.

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