Special attack may refer to:
*A euphemism for
suicide attack
A suicide attack is any violent Strike (attack), attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has suicide, accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have oc ...
, used in whole or in part for the names of some World War II units:
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Japanese Special Attack Units, a variety of suicide units and weapons
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Kamikaze, a Japanese special attack air unit type
***Surface Special Attack Force, the ten ships assigned to
Operation Ten-Go
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Sonderkommando Elbe
''Sonderkommando'' "''Elbe''" was the name of a World War II Luftwaffe task force assigned to bring down heavy bombers by ramming them in mid-air.
Its sole mission took place on 7 April 1945, when a force of 180 Bf 109s managed to ram 15 Allie ...
( en, Special Command Elbe, link=no), a German interceptor unit
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Special attacks, a feature of fighting games
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Special attack (''Pokémon'')
See also
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Aerial ramming
Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed. Long before the invention of aircraft, ramming tactics in naval warfare and ground warfare ...
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Attack (disambiguation)
Attack may refer to:
Warfare and combat
* Offensive (military)
* Charge (warfare)
* Attack (fencing)
* Strike (attack)
* Attack (computing)
* Attack aircraft
Books and publishing
* ''The Attack'' (novel), a book
* '' Attack No. 1'', comic an ...
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