14.06.2009, 05:37
KG64_cnopicilin Wrote:You have to be a very bad pilot if you cant hit a ship with your plane :lol: (its good idea anyways)
Funnily enough, experience showed that attacking ships in this manner wasn't that easy. Watch the film clips of it. Even under intense AA fire, the japanese planes remain on course, but often miss their target altogether.
The preffered approach as taught to kamikaze volunteers (no-one was ordered to attack in this way) was to approach very low, zoom climb, then dive at speed to the target. Although the ship appears a very big target up close, it isn't so large from further away if you see what I mean, and the Japanese themelves realised that a degree of expertise was required to dive onto an exact spot. Attacks against the deck were preferred for superior penetration and effect.