Kaitens were used during World War II by the Japanese Imperial Navy and were basically torpedos intended to be used as suicide weapons. Originally the kaiten were designed to have escape hatches for the pilot, but as there were never any indications of a pilot trying to use one, the escape hatch was eliminated from later models. Each kaiten was fitted with a 3,000 lb. warhead and were single mission only. They were launched from either a ship or a submerged submarine. A submarine could carry three to six kaitens at a time.
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