What the heck is this?

[windswords]

(note: Not sure if this is the right sub-forum for this. If not please move it to the appropriate one.)

I was looking up images on the web for the Kugisho/Yokosuka MXY5 glider when I found this:

The caption says it is a "Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka rocket powered kamikaze attack plane at Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas USA"

But I know it is not. It looks like a simple bomb with wings and a cockpit. This can't be real, can it? ??? But then why would it be at museum?

 

[Michel Van]

it's look, that could be a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka model 11

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6081.0

 

[Peebo-Thulhu]

Must admit that's a good suggestion that it's an Yokosuka MXY7.

Though the proportions look.. 'Off'..

Maybe some one commisioned a 'Mock up' and the creators couldn't find good technical details?

Very best to all.

 

[Antonio]

Many Ohka variants were projected. You can find it all in Justo Miranda's latest book

https://www.amazon.com/Axis-Suicide-Squads-Japanese-Projects/dp/1781555656

 

[redstar72]

I agree that the thing looks like (and most probably actually is) a rather bad and incorrect mockup of the Ohka 11 made for the museum.

 

[shaba]

it looks like early allied interruptions in recognition books which were probably based on eyewitness reports

 

[lark]

Looking the rather simple support,its perhaps a glass fibre construction
in an attempt to represent the Ohka..

 

[sienar]

There are a good number of quite poor wooden mockups in museums, and this appears to be yet another.