S144053 KOKUSAI-TA-GO

The Kokusai Ta-Go was a Japanese prototype kamikaze aircraft from the Second World War. The machine had a wooden structure, covered to a large extent with canvas, and a classic fixed undercarriage. It was made in the low wing configuration. The flight of the prototype took place in 1945, but the plane never entered mass production. The drive was to be provided, for example, by a single motor Hitachi Ha-47 Hatsukaze with a maximum power of 110 HP. The plane was to be armed only with a bomb weighing up to 100 kilograms. The Kokusai Ta-Go was designed as a kamikaze plane made of the cheapest materials and as cheap as possible to produce. Its production was assumed in factories and factories that had little in common with the aviation industry so far, which entailed the maximum simplification of its design. As the machine was dedicated to suicide missions from the very beginning, it was planned to minimize the use of on-board instruments, as well as to use relatively low-power engines, available in 1945. However, the imminent end of the war prevented the introduction of this atypical machine into mass production.