The Ohka MXY-7: Engineering the Suicide Rocket That Terrified the Navy.

The Ohka MXY-7 was one of the most extreme weapon designs of World War II — a manned rocket-powered glide bomb engineered for a single purpose: hit the target at impossible speeds.
In this breakdown, we open up the aircraft layer by layer to examine its steel armor-piercing warhead, aluminum rib frame, triple solid-fuel rocket engines, firing circuitry, cockpit controls, and the physics behind its final attack run.

We also explore why the U.S. Navy feared the Ohka’s terminal dive, how its 2,646-pound warhead shredded ship armor, and what limitations ultimately prevented it from changing the course of the war.

If you’re fascinated by engineering, wartime design, and the hidden mechanics behind historical weapons, this deep-dive is for you.
What you will learn in this video:
The full internal engineering of the Ohka MXY-7
How its armor-piercing warhead was built
The science behind its solid-fuel rocket engines
Why its final dive reached over 580 mph
How its cockpit controls armed five fuses
The weaknesses that made the weapon both terrifying and ineffective
We used multiple historical and engineering sources to build this analysis.
If you see anything that should be corrected or expanded, let us know in the comments — we read everything.
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