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Kamikaze was a tactic in which one starfighter, capital ship, or other vehicle, often loaded with explosives, would deliberately ram a target, often causing massive damage. Craft outfitted for kamikaze attacks were often, but not always, unmanned or run by a droid crew.

1 Examples
2 Behind the scenes
3 See also
4 Appearances
5 Sources
6 External links
- 6.1 In other languages

ExamplesEdit

During the Battle of Ryloth, Anakin Skywalker used the heavy damaged Defender to ram into Mar Tuuk's Flagship.
During the Battle of Sullust, TJ-912 ordered one of her Hyena-class bomber to make a suicide run on the hangar of Ventress's Providence-class carrier/destroyer in order to kill Ventress, which had a confrontation with the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
The Airam were known to occasionally carry out kamikaze attacks, as at the Battle of Nocto.
During the Galactic Civil War, Imperial commandos attempted to sabotage the Rebel starfighter factory Koensayr 42 to program the BTL-A4 Y-wing starfighters it manufactured to crash into the escort carrier Eleusis.
During the Battle of Kamino, Starkiller used the Force to guide the heavily-damaged frigate Salvation into Kamino's planetary shield, disabling it and allowing the Rebel Fleet to land and engage the Imperial forces.
An unmanned GR-75 medium transport rammed a shield generator during the Fondor shipyard assault to allow Rogue Squadron to destroy an unfinished Executor-class Star Dreadnought.
In the Battle of Endor a Rebel pilot, Green Leader Arvel Crynyd, piloted his severely damaged A-wing into the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer the Executor. This sent the massive vessel straight into a doomed collision with the Death Star II.
- During the same battle, a Rebel Blockade Runner committed a kamikaze attack on an Imperial-class Star Destroyer, heavily damaging the command post and resulting in the destruction of its twin sensor domes as Ackbar's fleet was being escorted by Green Squadron to attack the Executor.
The Sun Crusher was used to smash through the bridge tower of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer in Imperial Admiral Natasi Daala's fleet during its flight from the Maw.
At the Second Battle of Borleias, when New Republic forces modified the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya to ram and destroy the Domain Hul worldship from which the Yuuzhan Vong were coordinating their attack.
Vergere committed suicide by piloting an A-wing straight into the heart of a Yuuzhan Vong base.

Behind the scenesEdit

The tactic is a reference to the Japanese kamikaze attacks of World War II, in which pilots would fly planes packed with explosives into Allied warships. The attacks were both devastating and effective.