01 November 2022 (01:19-UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Aban 1401/06 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1444/08 Xin-Hai 4720/01 ноября 2022 года
This year there is a lot of talk in the Western-NATO news media about Iranian ‘Kamikaze’ drones (UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) being used by Russia. Maybe it is because in March of this year, Iran actually revealed what their own news media calls Kamikaze drones.
Photo via Tasnim News Agency, 06MAR2022.
The actual official name of these UAVs is Me’raj-504. Me’raj means ‘ascension’, not Kamikaze. It was designed for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), it is considered an upgrade of the Me’raj-214 UAV. They are used specifically to target air defense systems. The Me’raj-504 can carry a bomb with up to an equivalent explosive force of 2.5kg of TNT over a 100-kilometers flightpath.
The biggest advancements in the new design is a great reduction in cost, and time, to build.
The problem I have with the use of the word Kamikaze is that it is totally psychological on both the Western-NATO governments/news media, and Iran’s news media. The official meaning of Kamikaze is ‘Divine Wind’, coming from two failed attempts by the Mongol Empire to invade Japan. Both times a typhoon struck just as the Mongol ships arrived off Japan, destroying them. Thus it was divine intervention using the wind.
However, ever since the end of World War Two, the Western world associates Kamikaze with suicide. In desperation, during the last couple years of the war, Japan formed a suicide squadron; pilots who were trained to deliberately use their aircraft as bombs. They were officially called Kamikaze as in a Divine Wind to save Japan, but the victorious Western allies took it to mean suicide.
U.S. Navy (USN) silent film, made between 1944 and 1945, shows a Kamikaze just missing a U.S. battleship, and then striking the side of an aircraft carrier. The USN likes to boast that no Kamikaze succeeded in sinking a ‘major’ U.S. ship:
Perhaps the Iranian news media is using Kamikaze in the Divine Wind sense? The Western-NATO news media is certainly using it in the suicide-terrorist sense.
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