By 1944, the United States had built the most advanced bomber in the world — the B-29 Superfortress, a pressurized, computer-armed aircraft so expensive it cost more to develop than the entire atomic bomb program. Flying above 30,000 feet, it was supposed to be untouchable.

Japan couldn't let that stand.

This video breaks down the desperate air war fought high above the Japanese home islands in the final year of World War II — from American bomber crews battling a newly discovered, 150-mph jet stream that wrecked precision bombing, to Japan's home defense pilots adopting one of the most extreme tactics of the entire war: deliberately ramming their own fighters into B-29s when their guns ran dry or failed to bring one down. We look at how the B-29's remote-controlled fire system gave it devastating defensive firepower, and how that same firepower pushed increasingly desperate Japanese pilots toward a tactic built on pure self-sacrifice.

This is the story of a bomber almost too advanced to stop — and the enemy willing to destroy themselves trying anyway.

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