Kaiten

Kaiten
Kaiten
	A Kaiten, Type 1, at the Tokyo Yasukuni War Memorial Museum. The gun in the background is not part of the vessel.
Type	Manned suicide torpedo
Place of origin	Japan
Service history
In service	1944–1945
Used by	Imperial Japanese Navy
Wars	World War II
Production history
No. built	approx. 420
Variants	Type 1; Type 1 Mod.1; Type 1 Mod.2; Type 2 (prototype only); Type 3 (only a project); Type 4 (approx. 50 produced); Type 5 (prototype only); Type 6 (prototype only); Type 10 (1-2 or 1-6 produced);
Specifications
Guidance; system	Manually piloted with gyroscopic stabilisation and automatic running.
Launch; platform	Submarine, surface ship, and coastal bunker

Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Turning the Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker"^[1]) were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.

^ Hashimoto, Mochitsura (1954). Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1914–1945. Translated by Commander E.H.M. Colegrave. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

[Sunk-1] Hashimoto, Mochitsura (1954). Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1914–1945. Translated by Commander E.H.M. Colegrave. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

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