You're confusing the Baika and the Ohka (Allied nickname: Baka Bomb) rocket powered flying bombs. The Ohka (Baka) was designed by Ensign Mitsuo Ohta and his students at the University of Tokyo and was not, repeat, not a copy of the Fieseler Fi 103R or the unmanned V-1. The Ohka was powered by 3 solid rocket powered engines and later models were designed to use thermojet engines.
The Baika's design was a directly influenced by the Fieseler Fi 103R, as it was pretty much a direct copy though with some improvements in the Japan's version and none were built by war's end.
For reference, the Ohka and Baika.
V-1 and Fieseler Fi 103R
For an "Air Frames Engineer", you should have already known this and a simple layman such as myself shouldn't have to to correct the 'expert'.
In fact the Germans Where going to upgrade the V1 to take a pilot as-well but Hitler Forbid the Idea Of Manned suicide missions.
Incorrect. The Baika was directly influenced by Germany's manned V-1 which was intended to be used in suicide missions. Read about Germany's "Leonidas Squadron" that was formed to fly the Fieseler Fi 103R, it was only the intervention of KG 200's commander that this unit didn't see widespread use, only 35 pilots flew the Fi 103R on suicide missions against bridges during the Battle of Berlin. Each member had to sign a declaration that said, "I hereby voluntarily apply to be enrolled in the suicide group as part of a human glider-bomb. I fully understand that employment in this capacity will entail my own death."
Here is proof of the Japanese Kamikaze Rocket Plane that the F4u Loaded with Rocket booster's was to catch.
Please post any proof of a Corsair using JATO pods other than the tests on an old F4U-1 that I mentioned? The Corsair never used JATO pods operationally, that means outside of the couple of experimental test take offs, a Corsair never had JATO rockets mounted. So, please explain how a plane could have used JATO pods when it never carried them in the first place?
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