“Japanese kamikaze”
That was a desperation move. They were running out of planes and pilots.
You miss my point. In the desperate condition the Japanese were in, using all manner of substandard planes, pilots with no experience, flying into incredible amounts of anti aircraft and American fighters at Okinawa (the most deadly battle the USN ever fought) and the Philippines, they were able to hit 30 aircraft carriers. If in 1942, when they were our equal at sea, had they sent most of their 250 top of the line aircraft at Midway at our carriers as kamikazes, they would have sunk all of them. A trained kamikaze pilot in a top of the plane (a manned cruise missile), when deployed in waves would have shown the extreme vulnerability of aircraft carriers. Exactly what Iranian or Chinese missiles will reveal if our carriers are deployed against them in a non proxy war. The kamikaze plus V2 rocket were the very early harbingers of the demise of the carrier.