Crazy Soviet Inventions. An 100-Ft Inflatable Radio Antenna Tryouts

[@WA0AUQ]

This is actually a great idea. I can tell you that our Amateur Radio Emergency group would love to have this antenna. It is perfect for HF emergency communications.

[@DellFargus]

Lol. Just buy a hamstick.

[@kandle54]

Use a telescopic one or... Use a tree.

[@walsakaluk1584]

So is a tree or building. This is a pretty neat idea. Practical? Not really.

[@siler7]

What kind of range boost would this provide?

[@Chris-wp8po]

You could use a weather balloon too

[@АлексейСокол-е8д]

Честь, хвала и уважение советским инженерам.

[@stephenwilhelm]

When a male radio truck sees a particularly attractive female radio truck.... I can't even finish the joke.

[@MonkPetite]

That in David Attenborough his voice 😂

[@lc3853]

Whoop! She's a dish. A dish antenna truck.

[@spacewrecks]

And you thought wacky, wavy, inflatable tube man was only good for selling used cars.

[@mxk6104]

This actually seems like a really smart idea. I know NASA is building inflatable space stations as a test. What I'm confused about is why the operator is dressed in a Hawaiian shirt?

[@panatypical]

Well, it's nothing new in the world of wave transmission. What they call satellites are actually platforms of electronic gear held aloft by balloons.

[@CimuraiSampi]

​@@panatypical exactly

[@RitaKocova]

Legend has it that he is a German on vacation.

[@vonPalme]

It's an invention for geologist expeditions, so he's dressed in civilian clothes.

[@panatypical]

@@mxk6104 They already have inflatable space stations. They're called balloons.

[@nickadams2451]

Sergei were you able to find any thing in how the wiring was done with the canvas material? Would be interesting to see it in person. 😊

[@alangordon3283]

That’s probably the only one ever made as it’s totally ridiculous .

[@kandle54]

There was no wiring. It's all a distraction bullshit.

[@muha0644]

Likely a metal wire is in the inside, tied to the end of the balloon.

[@anchorread68]

@@muha0644 probably like tethered-drone, it has a wire dispenser with the end of the wire tied to the drone acting as conduit for power and data.

[@henningdammann-emden]

This thing is going up like it is on viagra.

[@cetocoquinto4704]

Funniest comment 😂

[@ottopartz1]

The operator looked like a German on vacation.

[@Billy_Bad_Ass]

EXACTLY what I thought!

[@panatypical]

Yes, even Germans need recreation now and then.

[@billsmith1770]

my wife has watched this vid 263 times . never knew she had an interest in electronics .

[@ivankoval3540]

Per year or per day?

[@jonthinks6238]

😂

[@kandle54]

An infected PC or mobile phone. Reflash and install an antivirus. Your wife is innocent. That's how they promote their crappy videos about "glorious" dictatorship.

[@kandle54]

Infected device, not wife's fault. Chan owners use bots to promote video.

[@Molon_Labe1776]

Schwing! 📶

[@dagnt8145]

I'm no engineer , but the wind would topple that .

[@videoviewer2008]

True, but then it pops back up. No worries. And with more pressure and better materials, it could actually be quite impressive.

[@lasskinn474]

it's not rigid enough. it's pretty neat if you just need a bit of antenna to be up high.

[@42anon427]

It's for fair-weather wars.

[@purdunetae2995]

When it was going up, you can see guide wires. I think it being mobile was a stunt for the film crew. Pretty sure three or for guide wires would be stacked to the ground to help keep it in place.

[@jonmcentire]

Well if they were moving that truck 25-30mph and it was staying up still, that's the equivalent at least of standing still at those wind speeds. As someone who put up many military radio antenna masts, this would be a breeze. The only issue I see is this this would make it very easy to spot your location from both the air and on land. It's literally like having a literal pin stuck in your location for all to see.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Is that an Inflatable Radio Antenna in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[@ingridseim1379]

Am I the only looking at that on top of the tiny car and seeing something out of a Dr. Seuss illustration?

[@juliogonzo2718]

Behold the Soviet inflatable dingus antenna in all its glory!

[@DT-wp4hk]

The original teletubbie truck.

[@ValuedTeamMember]

I wonder if that's where SNL got the idea for the Conehead sketches?

[@richardbell7678]

And I thought that the STEM antenna jokes were bad. The STEM antenna was made of specially heat treated metal that could be stored as a flat piece on a roll, but curled into a tube as it came off of the roll, which allowed a thirty foot long antenna to be stored, with its extending mechanism, in a volume the size of a shoebox. Being intended for satellites, the antenna did not need to support its own weight. Why all the jokes? STEM stood for 'Storable Tubular Extending Member'.

[@Марат-й7в7ц]

С такой антеной Голос Америки слушать наверно было очень приятно))

[@juliap.5375]

Нафига? Там каждый второй ведущий был из бывших офицеров рейха. Не, ну разве что как средство для вызова рвоты послушать можно было))

[@melvance7281]

It's not crazy if it works....and that will work....in calm winds. TV satellite trucks use air pressure to raise the masts for their microwave antennas...not entirely different, but not exactly the same either

[@NAVYABHAN]

It seems weird, different and unconventional but this is a great idea that can be applied to my hobby of amateur radios!

[@tripsaplenty1227]

Imagine having to drive that motorized bullseye around a warzone, lol.

[@SuperStarkweather]

Video says it's for expeditions in taiga and mountainous areas not for warzone

[@flanfre_skarlett]

Let me ask you Do you have any idea where mobile radio repeaters are meant to be positioned on the battlefield?

[@simonh6371]

@@flanfre_skarlett It depends on the type of network. I worked on rebros - VHF rebroadcast stations - and those were much smaller, just a Landrover and 2 or 3 guys, and normally had to bridge a ridge of hills between 2 Brigade sized formations so we were closer to the front, whereas other detachments like this - Radio Relay or Ptarmigan detachments - were way back in Division, in guarded areas. Those guys had mains electricity running off generators and took TVs, VCRs, kettles and microwaves with them, and could crash out in their heated trucks. We took porn mags and made tea and cooked on a gas cooker. Still it was better than being in the infantry and brewing up on a hexy stove outside, at least we had tents and camp beds. Plus we had folding chairs, if you needed to go on a shovel recce you could pull the canvas seat part forward, pull down your combats and shreddies, and sit down in relative comfort to unload yourself, instead of squatting like a real soldier. Whichever you were in anyway it didn't matter how far from the enemy you were, if they DF'd your location and you weren't transmitting in clear so they couldn't get int from your comms, you were screwed as they would just ask their MLRS battery to please remove the grid square you were in.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

@@flanfre_skarlett no i didn't know this stupid thing existed until yesterday.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

@@SuperStarkweather The soviet union didn't make something unless it had a military purpose. They were too poor to produce civilian stuff and keep up with West in military production.

[@blakezhuko3906]

That’s me when my alarm clock goes off in the morning.

[@xiaoka]

In Soviet Russia, hard-on gives TV!

[@tudogeo7061]

Why the censor bar when it's on the ground?

[@juliap.5375]

Some title, e.g. name of archive

[@stanislavsetevoy3332]

Because video was stolen from another yt channel

[@JTA1961]

I gas Inventor had been to... Poleland

[@teppotulppu1603]

That music got something same that music in those old 007 movies.

[@ivannovoselac3518]

Even more bigger invention is that much speed and volume air compressor.

[@simonh6371]

I was in the British Army Royal Corps of Signals and trust me something like this would have made life a lot easier. Every time we got into a new location we had to put up 3 masts, 2 of them free standing, the 3rd one (Engineering Net, on a VHF rebroadcast detachment) was bungeed to the back of the landrover but still with only 2 or 3 guys on the det it took 2 of us 10 mins to each put up a free standing one with guylines pegged out etc and one of those bastards took a chunk out of my hand when I let go of a telescoping section before I put the peg in to hold it in place. This way we'd have been sitting with a brew and an egg banjo within 10 minutes of arriving in location. Also we wouldn't have tripped over the guylines at night when going on a shovel recce. If I knew about these I would have defected to the Soviet Army.

[@mk12pickle]

HAhaha that sounds a lot like our Signals Squadrons in Canada, of which i was a member. We used these Vixen masts that I always sure could have been forced up with compressed air, because when you pulled the pin, and they came sliding down they would bounce on the compressed air in the base of the mast. Did you ever get to do a crash move while all the antennas were up?

[@simonh6371]

@@mk12pickle Oh yes of course that was par for the course lol. If someone on the det had sloppy voice procedure and pissed the YoS off (Yeoman of Sigs, I guess you'd have them too) then they would get crash moved all night multiple times to teach them a lesson. One crash move was an angry Waldmeister (forest ranger) who forced us to move, even though our genny was on a metal tray filled with spill soil so no danger of oil leaking into the ground. He came in the morning too when I was in my gonk bag after a night stag on the radios - well it was a Rebro so you just watched the VRCs and the IBRU, literally. Forests are almost holy to Germans.

[@mk12pickle]

@@simonh6371 hahah, sounds like your Sr NCO's found ways to make your life difficult just like ours, except when we did a crash move we were told to just rip the hessian off the windshield and drive. Antennas, blackout entrance and everything gets smashed.. that's what we were taught a crash move was, because the only other more severe move order past crash move involved thermite and running. The most severe move order we got was 10 minutes warning. But- One time a guy sat on a mic during a road move and was complaining very vocally about a sergeant, and that guy was digging holes for days and carrying around a SAW till he looked totally haggard.

[@simonh6371]

@@mk12pickle We were told that in the real deal there would be no putting up tents and free-standing antennas, and using gennies, we'd just bungee all 3 antennas to the lanny and sit in it with the engine running. Hessian on the winshield lol, that brings back memories.

[@mk12pickle]

@@simonh6371 Right on yeah, good times!

[@UnwrappingByMimiKoteng]

Amazing

[@thejokerspeaks]

Whoops, we just went through a tunnel!

[@onmyworkbench7000]

That's neater than a skeeters Peter!!!

[@KR72534]

Why not just use a balloon to raise a wire?

[@damiang888]

because that would be silly and undignified, unlike driving an inflatable dildo

[@465maltbie]

The easier to hear you my dear... thanks for sharing. Charles

[@jasmorris1286]

I feel a bad Austin powers joke coming on

[@jonathananderson9769]

Ах, сосёнушка, ты зеленая, Не шуми ты надо мной! Ай-люли, люли, ай-люли, люли, Не шуми ты надо мной!

[@JaYogik]

Автору канала-сделай ролик про первую в мире сотовую связь. Помню видел чёрно-белые кино где наш учёный с телефонной трубкой ездил по городу и звонил. Потом КГБ засекретило

[@erikz1337]

Must have worked great on a windy day 😂

[@14KiloWhisky]

Nice idea 💡

[@bikramjeetgoswami6523]

Nice music. 😀

[@moroboshidan7960]

0:30 to 0:40. Pause Subtitles: Tadalafil. Talk to your Doctor.

[@arestide-valentindamiean8140]

It's possible that the wire was sewed in a spiral around the shape to avoid sharp bending as the antenna was folded. Like another guy said in the comments, it's a great idea for emergency services to establish quick radio communication. The operator is civilian because the antenna, as genius it is, isn't suitable for military purposes. Much too easy to be discovered.

[@craigescapeddetroit5198]

That thing looks like it's about 40 feet high.

[@douro20]

Inflatable towers exist.

[@danbrit9848]

when you get home on the third date...lol

[@Spiritofthewild-d9o]

cool idea...and it works good...maybe put a ghillie net over it for camo

[@NoPegs]

Smekalka, literally.

[@williammielenz3752]

My ED meds at work.

[@SeanDamonGreene]

boiyoyoyoing !

[@dancarter9183]

Looked like Is this was the original Long Dong Silver

[@johnsamu]

The first STEALTH antenna because anybody who sees it will NOT believe it's an antenna😉😉😁😁

[@PlutoTheSynth]

she has a nice voice

[@Natali_Kim593]

Лять, ну конечно, айзенберг придумал эту антенну. Без айзенбергов, шниперсонов, рабиновичей вопче же на обойтись. Везде их вставляют. Черт бы их побрал, шоб они были здоровы.

[@Weise1001]

ha, i recall seeing inflatable s400 systems inn use nowadays - the russians are crazy

[@DerekCully]

Clever.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Oh my... 🤣🤣🤣

[@MAZEMIND]

Can't wait for putin to send this to the front LOL.

[@juliap.5375]

What a reason? Soon after this video Russians launched first in world sputnik and opened for humanity new way of connection.

[@jonathanfriedlander8563]

Innovative

[@bikechainmic]

Bet putin would love to be that tall.... which gives me an idea for him🙂

[@OhItsThat]

I wanna say the 50s were so cool when it comes to innovation and experimentation. However this being a Russia/Soviet Union video it could have been filmed in the early 2000s.

[@Behold-a-Duck]

Lol

[@juliap.5375]

In early 2000s, e.g. 2004 Russia successfully tested hypersonic glider (as it was reported by US intelligence then and officially confirmed back in 2018). Now is year 2025, except China, all rest still living like in 1950s…

[@juliap.5375]

Soon after this video Soviets for first time in world: - launched into space satellite and man, - land on Moon, Venus, Mars, - built space station where people can live :)

[@OhItsThat]

@ I saw that episode of the Twilight Zone.

[@aldvladim]

Tomorrow Elon Musk will use this idea and it won't be funny

[@Kitsaplorax]

Pyat bolut pyat!

[@baihui7349]

Inflatable xui na ZIL

[@avus-kw2f213]

The inventor deserves hero of the Soviet Union

[@unovox]

They were so far ahead of us!!! Long live the Soviet Union!!❤

[@juliap.5375]

Soviets already in 1970s launched into space active radars with power from nuclear reactors, nobody else still have similar radars. But one of them fall on Canada, lol. Modern iteration of that reactors already have power of 1 MWh. Incredible a lot for space.

[@Electester]

It's not that stupid as it looks!

[@jonthinks6238]

The whole thing is laughable. It's military. Goofy guys in civilian clothes. The radio equipment is bouncing around. (Soviet style) But John Wayne CB, thanks for the laugh. 😂

[@stanislavsetevoy3332]

It's for geologists in the fields

[@glasno]

me

[@KennyP-zh5uy]

Flacid

[@mikesuch9021]

Wow Russia is as bad as mexico when it comes to intelligent inventions.