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Is this classified as a submarine? Oberiko 14:43, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

God bless those brave Soldiers--The world salutes the Rising Star...Try to be one 15:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fictional Kaiten account

David Mitchell writes a fictional account of a kaiten pilot in his excellent book number9dream.

[edit] Did not manage to save the life of 100k+ people

The US cruiser which carried the fissile material core of Nagasaki A-bomb was sunk by a kaiten, but only on its way back to USA...

The USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was sunk by torpedoes not Kaiten, according to the Wikipedia article on her.204.80.61.10 17:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Bennett Turk

[edit] Range of torpedo

In the article about Type 93 torpedo it is written that its range is about 40 (!) kilometers. How it then could be that the Kaiten which was derived from this torpedo (even the same picture is reused for both) "have to be launched within a close distance to the target"? Audriusa 07:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's a bit confusing, but even at 40km, the submarines would be well within the range of American scout planes... and if they have to stay close to the surface to avoid destroying the Kaitens, they'd pretty much be sitting ducks for attacking planes or destroyers. At least when using normal torpedoes they could approach the targets at much greater depth, where they'd be harder to spot. Mark Grant 13:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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