B-29's Mortal Enemy | Superfortress Against MiG 15

The last battle of the mighty Boeing B-29 Superfortress in Korea, against the MiG-15, the formidable Soviet jet fighter.
The confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force.
On the morning of November 30, 1950, a group of B-29 "Superfortress" bombers of the U.S. Air Force were ordered to attack an air base in North Korea.
Since the outbreak of the Korean War on June 25, 1950, the United States, which responded quickly on July 7, 1950, immediately formed the so-called "United Nations Army" to send troops to assist South Korea. In just one month, the North Korean army was forced to withdraw near the 38th parallel.
At the same time, in the face of the North Korean army, which has almost no air supremacy, the US bomber fleet is rampant over North Korea, and those fighter jets can also attack the ground forces at will;
It can be said that at the beginning of the war, the "United Nations Army" was everywhere in the sky, without any threat! It is precisely because of this that the American B-29s have also become more and more "presumptuous". After they pushed their front into North Korea, they dispatched a large number of bombers to bombard its major air force bases, so unsatisfactory!
But on the morning of November 30, 1950, all this changed because of the "random entry" of a fighter jet!
In the B-29 bomber fleet that was attacking the North Korean air force base, an extremely fast fighter jet suddenly jumped into it. The Air Force F-80 (a straight-wing jet fighter) only gave a symbolic chase and then watched the incoming fighter disappear from sight and become a "black spot", messy in the wind alone.
B-29 General characteristics
Crew: 11 (Pilot, Co-pilot, Bombardier, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Radio Operator, Radar Observer, Right Gunner, Left Gunner, Central Fire Control, Tail Gunner)
Length: 99 ft 0 in (30.18 m)
Wingspan: 141 ft 3 in (43.05 m)
Height: 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Wing area: 1,736 sq ft (161.3 m2)
Aspect ratio: 11.5
Airfoil: root: Boeing 117 (22%); tip: Boeing 117 (9%)[97]
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0241
Frontal area: 41.16 sq ft (3.824 m2)
Empty weight: 74,500 lb (33,793 kg)
Gross weight: 120,000 lb (54,431 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 133,500 lb (60,555 kg)
135,000 lb (61,000 kg) combat overload
Powerplant: 4 × Wright R-3350-23 Duplex-Cyclone 18-cylinder air-cooled turbo supercharged radial piston engines, 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) each
Propellers: 4-bladed constant-speed fully-feathering propellers, 16 ft 7 in (5.05 m) diameter
Performance
Maximum speed: 357 mph (575 km/h, 310 kn)
Cruise speed: 220 mph (350 km/h, 190 kn)
Stall speed: 105 mph (169 km/h, 91 kn)
Range: 3,250 mi (5,230 km, 2,820 nmi)
Ferry range: 5,600 mi (9,000 km, 4,900 nmi)
Service ceiling: 31,850 ft (9,710 m) [28]
Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (4.6 m/s)
Lift-to-drag: 16.8
Wing loading: 69.12 lb/sq ft (337.5 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.073 hp/lb (0.120 kW/kg)
MiG-15 General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 10.102 m (33 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 10.085 m (33 ft 1 in)
Height: 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 20.6 m2 (222 sq ft)
Airfoil: root: TsAGI S-10; tip: TsAGI SR-3
Empty weight: 3,681 kg (8,115 lb)
Gross weight: 5,044 kg (11,120 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 6,106 kg (13,461 lb) with 2x600 l (160 US gal; 130 imp gal) drop-tanks
Fuel capacity: 1,420 l (380 US gal; 310 imp gal) internal
Powerplant: 1 × Klimov VK-1 centrifugal-flow turbojet, 26.5 kN (5,950 lbf) thrust
Performance
Maximum speed: 1,076 km/h (669 mph, 581 kn) at sea level
1,107 km/h (688 mph; 598 kn) / M0.9 at 3,000 m (9,843 ft)
Maximum speed: Mach 0.87 at sea level
Cruise speed: 850 km/h (530 mph, 460 kn) Mach 0.69
Ferry range: 2,520 km (1,570 mi, 1,360 nmi) at 12,000 m (39,370 ft) with 2x600 l (160 US gal; 130 imp gal) drop-tanks
Service ceiling: 15,500 m (50,900 ft)
Rate of climb: 51.2 m/s (10,080 ft/min)
Wing loading: 296.4 kg/m2 (60.7 lb/sq ft)
Thrust/weight: 0.54
Armament
Guns: **2 × 23 mm Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 autocannon in the lower left fuselage (80 rounds per gun, 160 rounds total)
1 × 37 mm Nudelman N-37 autocannon in the lower right fuselage (40 rounds total)
Hardpoints: 2 , with provisions to carry combinations of:
Bombs: 100 kg (220 lb) bombs
Other: drop tanks, or unguided rockets
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[@Dronescapes]

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[@Mr4827k]

the best b29 video and by far the most accurate video on the end of wwii. Every other video makes it seem 2 bombs was all that happened in August but this one explains all the the other raids after the A bombs that lead to surrender.

[@Electriceye1984bySam]

Love any vids with the B-29… great post thank you!

[@Samuel-su4qc]

I'm so glad you made this documentary because we don't have many videos on the Korean war and the B29 is a plus 💪🏾 I can't thank you enough 🙏🏾💯

[@Dronescapes]

You are welcome!

[@salvagedb2470]

Great vid very informative an researched an great footage of the B29.

[@benquinneyiii7941]

A specific course of action

[@user-el2qk6pz4x]

Thank you your service 참전용사 여러분 감사합니다

[@ThePrader]

My father was awarded a battlefield commission in Korea, along with the 1st and 2nd of 3 Silver Stars he was awarded, and the Bronze Star with "V" device. He also fought as an infantry battalion Commander in Vietnam, and was awarded his 3rd Silver Star along with The Legion of Merit. He said about Vietnam what General Omar Bradley said about Korea: "This is the wrong war, at the wrong place, against the wrong people". We should have been the ally of Vietnam and helped them kick the French out. Dad always thought it was the rubber and tire companies, and one in particular that starts with the letter "M" that caused the US to get involved with that war. We never had those tires on any of the family station wagons an army officer uses to drag the "brats" to the next fort or post.

[@clydesuckfinger8068]

The first (in modern history) that the US went to war in an un-Constitutional manner. Congress is the only authority that declare war. Hence the reason Korea is referred to as a “police actions” and South East Asia being referred to as starting with the Gulf of Tonkin. There has been NO declared war since 1945.

[@RKarmaKill]

"Special Military Operation"

[@dukecraig2402]

You couldn't be more wrong, the Banana Wars were the same thing all the way down to the term Police Action being coined for them, it already existed by the time of the Korean War. The Banana Wars happened at the behest of big American money, ie the Standard Fruit Company and the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita Banana). General Smedley Butler who was more involved with them than anyone else in the military coined the term War is a Racket based on his experiences from which he'd named his speeches and later his book. The Banana Wars lasted from 1898 to 1834 when FDR stopped them with his Good Neighbor Policy.

[@handsomeman-pm9vy]

Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit. The last time any country officially declared war was in August 1945, when the USSR declared war on Japan. Yes, if the Atomic bomb had not been dropped on Japan, the USSR was going the be part of the invasion of Japan.

[@ChaplainDaveSparks]

By specifying "modern history", you're excluding the war with Spain, correct?

[@bluetopguitar1104]

I wonder how the B36 would have done against Mig 15s. Scary thought. Those poor guys in the B29s. Why the hell did the British sell a jet engine to Russia? Talk about misguided.

[@conroypawgmail]

I love your channel, but you guys need to fact check your videos a bit more. North Korea wasn't "highly industrialized" It may have been more industrialized than South Korea at the time, but even (retired Air Force Colonel) Walter Boyne in the video put it "what little industry the north had" (19:00). Saying "Highly industrialized North Korea" is like saying highly agricultural New York City, or extremely safe Chicago streets. The MiG-15 isn't "200 miles faster than the F-80". LOL. It is way closer to 100 miles PER HOUR faster (23:55). It's a distance versus speed thing. 😉 The MiG-15 does not have 20mm cannons. It has 23mm cannons. (17:50) The F-80 did not perform so poorly in ground attack. It actually was relegated to ground because of the MiG-15. It did quite well, in that role, but there was not enough of them and their range was limited, compared to propeller driving strike aircraft, so more planes were brought in, like the F-84s and F-51s, and F-82s.

[@dukecraig2402]

Something the one guy got wrong is the claim that they painted the bottoms of the B29's black the first time for night bombing in Korea, that's wrong, there's a directive dated June of 1944 that all B29B's (the special night bombing variant) have their undersides painted gloss black along with plenty of WW2 era pictures of the B29's of the special night bombing groups in the Pacific with black undersides. Obviously what happened was during the Korean War when they brought back night bombing they ordered that the B29's used for it were to have their undersides painted gloss black because they already knew to do that based on their WW2 experiences, but it wasn't something they came up with during the Korean War like he makes it sound. The channel WWII US Bombers has a video on it where he even has a screenshot of the June of 44 directive ordering the night bombing B29's to have their undersides painted gloss black. That's the absolute best channel for anything and everything concerning US bombers in WW2, using only credible sources like USAAF reports and studies he's dispelled more myths about B17's, B24's and B29's than you can imagine, even the one about the saying "The whole 9 yard's" supposedly being based on the length of a belt of .50 cal ammo for the defensive guns of a bomber, nope, didn't come from there. Thats the go to channel for anything about these planes.

[@samantharay6098]

wrong, north korea was highly industrialized makes everything else (irrelevant pedantry anyway) you tried to tell us worth 💩

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

Nobody likes a no it all 😂🤠👍 Start a channel, you sound like you know what you are talking about.

[@YouTubeOdyssey]

When Colonel Walter Boyne is speaking of "What little industry North Korea had", he is not talking geographically, he is speaking to the B-29 being effective at destroying the industrial targets in the South Korean theatre, when under North Korean possession. The video then explains that the industrial and infrastructure of North Korea was not targeted by the bombers, in an assumption the South could "unify" North Korea by possession.

[@scottpasse4420]

The B32 might not have been a viable option “The pressurization system had problems which were never solved and so the role of the aircraft was changed to operating at low to medium altitude.”

[@robertbennett9949]

The Japanese surrendered to the US, as otherwise the Soviet Union would have been in Japan within a week. The Soviets would not have allowed the emperor to remain and would have charged him as a war criminal. Also, they would not have done a deal with the criminals who operate the Unit 731 biolabs.

[@despahoria3043]

1h of documentary and you barely mention the war in Korea against Mig-15s at the beginning. I thought you’ll talk more about Korea. What a waste of time.

[@garcia83viz]

Brigadier general Rosie O'Donnell?

[@migmadmarine]

F80 is poor at ground attack? I wonder if jack broughton and others that flew it are rolling over in their graves at that😏

[@MegaBloggs1]

edit the bad spelling in the subtitles

[@cherchezlesoir7166]

LOl.. what a crap..the b29 was horrible inefficiant while using explosvies, and the war criminal lemay simply changed to Incendiary , burning complete cities.. in one attack killing 100.000 people in tokia, civilians !... shame

[@dukecraig2402]

Oh shut up, you have no clue what you're talking about and are just echoing the same old crybaby nonsense you've read other crybaby's spew out. The reason they switched to low level night bombing using incendiary bombs is because unlike in America where people live in neighborhoods and work in places across town where factories are centralized because everyone has a car to get there they found out that in Japan in the 30's and 40's they built production facilities on the edges, and sometimes in, neighborhoods, that way where everyone worked was close to where they lived, the basic infrastructure of Japan back then was different from America especially today, and if that's where the targets that would shut down their war production was then that's where they were going to bomb, and use the kinds of bombs that would be the most effective against area's built from mostly bamboo and paper, killing civilians doesn't win wars and they knew that, but if the targets were in populated area's then so be it, it's called doing what it takes to win a war, how you were gonna feel about something 80 years later that you don't know squat about was the last thing on their minds.

[@DRAGONSLAYER1220]

So glad to have your wisdom on youtube...

[@migmadmarine]

Calm down, comrade. Unless u want to apologize for nanking, bataan,etc. But u have anti yankee axe to grind, dont ya?🤨

[@samantharay6098]

LOL @ RETARDS LIKE THIS KID

[@phillipnesmith2698]

How many people did the Japanese kill in Korea, China, Manchuria, Formosa, Burma, India, Malaya, Phillipines, Hawaii, Aleutian Islands, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Dutch East Indies, East Timor, Singapore, New Guinea, Guam, Nauru, Wake Island, Kiribati, the Solomons, Truk, Andamans and many many other places? Millions upon millions of people butchered but the United States is the evil one because we firebombed their cities.

[@trevoncowen9198]

Why is the most powerful nation on earth always mad out to be h the underdog? They literally had the capacity to cross an ocean to drop 1,000,000s of tons of bombs and had a radar guided dogfighter. Definitely the aggressor.

[@Dronescapes]

Maybe because many did not even want to go to war. At the end everyone should be grateful they stopped a psychotic Nazi regime, and an equally fanatic imperial Japan that attacked the U.S. to begin with. I urge you to learn how many innocent people Japan purposely murdered during WW2, often with methods reminiscent of the ones used by Nazi Germany. The war effort during WW2 was a sacrifice that cannot be boiled down to some weird catch phrase.

[@garylyons3036]

Why did the American tax payer pay for all that and never got anything but more taxes

[@MarvelousSeven]

If the B-29 was unable to carry the atomic bomb, the backup plan was to have specialized British Lancasters do it.

[@kzoo4053]

But it did drop A bombs to Japan.

[@MarvelousSeven]

@@kzoo4053 correct, but for a while it was unclear if the B-29 design would be able to in time. Backup plan was to have specialized black Lancaster deliver them instead.

[@jagdpanther2224]

@@MarvelousSeven Lancaster cant drop A bomb !

[@MarvelousSeven]

@@jagdpanther2224 Yes it could. If it could drop the Grand Slam and Tall Boy, it could carry the Little Boy bomb.

[@apis_aculei]

While Avro Lancaster could carry the A bomb, it did not have the range required to reach Japan from Tinian. The B24 Liberator had the same problem.

[@user-wy5ud8fy9b]

Victory to Allies !

[@silentwatcher1455]

Macarthur the great loser.

[@chrisloomis1489]

The First ... Stupid War , fought by Washington Politicians ... Not by the WAR DEPARTMENT ....My father was in B-29's and remembered the boredom then absolute tension when reaching the Target Zone , he spoke about the MIG being a threat to the Spokane B-29 's he flew in ....

[@dukecraig2402]

Nope, I don't know where you guy's that claim that malarkey got your history lessons from but you should demand your money back. The Banana Wars were exactly the same thing, first off the "War Department/Department of Defense" has naturally been involved with every war, that's the business they're in, you're thinking about CONGRESS not declaring war when US forces fight in one, and it's been going on long before the Korean War, as mentioned the Banana Wars, which lasted from 1898 to 1934 when FDR stopped them with his Good Neighbor Policy, were wars that not only happened at the behest of big American money but they were where the term "Police Action" came from. The Standard Fruit Company and the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita Banana) were the main driving forces behind the Banana Wars along with other big American money interests. Gen Smedley Butler who had more involvement in them than any other person in the US military gave lectures after his retirement that were titled War is a Racket, he later used that as the title of the book he wrote, and all of it happened before WW2 including his lectures and his book.

[@giuseppezambotti8576]

Did anyone of you see any MiG 15 in this video?