“The primary role of the relatively untrained pilot was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket engine would then land using separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable.”
This is missing the manned surface-to-air missile, one of the most batshit concepts of WW2 imo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349_Natter
“The primary role of the relatively untrained pilot was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket engine would then land using separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable.”
I was picturing something more like a Kamikaze.
I gotchu:
That is the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a Japanese kamikaze rocket plane
rocket planehuman-guided missilepotato, missile-o