Kaiten
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Kaiten were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.
A Kaiten, Type 1, at the Tokyo Yasukuni War Memorial Museum.
Kaiten Type 1 periscope at the Tokyo Yasukuni War Memorial
A Kaiten Type 1 being trial-launched from the light cruiser Kitakami
A Kaiten Type I at the Tokyo Yasukuni War Memorial Museum
Suicide attack
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A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators intentionally end their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are a form of murder–suicide that is often associated with terr
Kaiten
…Kaiten (回天; lit. 'Turning the Heaven', commonly rendered as 'turn of the Heaven's will' or 'the heaven shaker') were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II. In recognition of the unfavorable progress of the war, towards the end of 1943…
The hijacker-pilot Marwan al-Shehhi carried out a suicide dive on the South Tower (left) with United Airlines Flight 175 during the September 11 attacks, New York City
Plaque marking the location of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, written in Urdu. Translation: Place of Martyrdom, Ms. Benazir Bhutto martyred. Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide terrorist in 2007.
Illustration of Samson by Gustave Doré.
Commemorative plaque for the 1905 Murchison suicide attack