The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14

[@scotlandghost]

"Designed 50 years ago by an eccentric visionary..." The opening when describing everything awesome ever.

[@michaelvonbiskhoff7771]

Well, the story of Bartini is as interesting as this plane: his father was a baron in Austro-Hungary, and the governor of Fiume, having Italian ancestry, so his name was actually Roberto Oros Di Bartini. He was raised by impoverished relatives of his father. He joined the Austro-Hungary army in 1916, was captured and spent the war in Russian captivity. After the war, swing that his homeland, Croatia, was under Yugoslav control, he moved to Italy, where he became an Italian citizen and joined the Italian communist party. When Mussolini took power, he fled to the Soviet Union where he started his career as a great aircraft engineer. He was arrested during Stalin's purge, as many other aircraft engineers, and forced to work on different projects. After 1953 he was rehabilitated and won the order of Lenin in 1967. He also published a scientific paper in the Proceedings of the Soviet Academy of science, proposing that there are 4 dimensions only on average, initially considered a hoax and a joke by many physicists.

[@fallingwater]

@@belliduradespicio8009 as all the "awesome" projects got shot down for being tremendously inefficient or eye-wateringly expensive, we gradually narrowed down the most efficient and economically sound designs - and now we do everything like that. Which is why all cars and all planes all look the same. Want to see awesome stuff again? Look at radio-control stuff, where we can still afford to go bananas with the designs without worrying about committee approvals.

[@pietroseven8228]

Something similar could be in Avatar 2

[@rabidbeaver167]

Ok boomer

[@michagabo8819]

When things were at their very worst: 2 Suns, Cross in the sky, 2 comets will collide = don`t be afraid - repent, accept Lord`s Hand of Mercy. Scientists will say it was a global illusion. Beaware - Jesus will never walk in flesh again. After WW3 - rise of the “ man of peace“ from the East = Antichrist - the most powerful, popular, charismatic and influential leader of all time. Many miracles will be attributed to him. He will imitate Jesus in every conceivable way. Don`t trust „pope“ Francis = the False Prophet - will seem to rise from the dead - will unite all Christian Churches and all Religions as one. One World Religion = the seat of the Antichrist. Benedict XVI is the last true pope - will be accused of a crime of which he is totally innocent. "The time for the schism in the Church is almost here and you must get prepared now" Tuesday, 20 March 2012 The Book of Truth

[@CakeAcquired]

quietly flexing on everyone with his beautiful renders

[@alexander1485]

this is the most evil post until someone likes it again

[@Bippinpaul]

@@mallenwho for real?? not even 3d Max?

[@mikewizz1895]

I couldn't even make a semicircle in any rendering program

[@Bippinpaul]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j Sketchup is the modeling software.. but for the walkthrough, it could very well be Twinmotion. And he also has the links to the animation studio which actually made those in the description. They are cool.

[@Bippinpaul]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j Well, sketchup in general is very easy and intuitive to use compared to Blender. You can get overwhelmed with Blender quite easily. Blender has far more control over everything. But it still requires a level of expertise to achieve this level of animation. With sketchup and Twinmotion its absolutely easy to achieve quite similar if not the exact end result as this.

[@RealEngineering]

Can't fool me. That's clearly a spaceship from Star Wars.

[@dalsosegno]

you fool, the spaceships from star wars are soviet exports

[@tanush6941]

Lmaoo good guess

[@leovang3425]

@@dalsosegno shouldn't you be at the bottom of the Denmark Strait

[@dalsosegno]

@@leovang3425 my bad, they made me into a ground effect battleship

[@anngo4140]

@@dalsosegno They export to both sides, uncovered by that dude from that Casino.

[@normtrooper4392]

Bartini was born in 1897 and he produced technology that would not seem out of place in 2097. What an engineer

[@robertzackrisson7208]

A modern Leonardo Davinci! He was far ahead of his time.

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

@@robertzackrisson7208 I agree

[@danielguy3581]

But he didn't. He had some outlandish ideas that didn't pan out. The video makes it seem like the fault was merely inept manufacturers/suppliers, but clearly this is simply a nonfunctional design.

[@veggiedisease123]

You should read about how he ended up in the Soviet Union. You could make a movie about the guy and people would think it was fake.

[@davidbarnwellutech4663]

@@danielguy3581 Why clearly? It seems it was a problem with the manufacturer. Why is it "clearly" a design problem?

[@optillian4182]

"I am limited by the technology of my time." -Bartini, probably

[@Arkiasis]

And Soviet bureaucracy.

[@matasa7463]

I hope modern engineers will revisit this concept, it's very interesting.

[@trueinnovator7207]

@@matasa7463 Probably will never happen tho. Remember, it's better to split the job according to the destination, rather than making an all rounder machine. This makes repairing easier, and the pilot doesn't have to learn so much flying and boating.

[@DawidKov]

@Daniel C Zeppelins are too slow and too big for the amount of stuff they can carry, it's simply not worth the effort. Bartini's projects, as outlandish as they are, could have very definite benefits, like creating an alternative to the slow cargo ships we have today. In Russia in particular, a ground effect cargo ekranolet would allow opening the Arctic route without the need for icebreakers, the vessel simply flying over the ice sheets. The speed of an aircraft, combined with the cargo capacity of a ship. This stuff could really be incredible.

[@mikeschumacher9715]

And Tony Stark's dad...on his film in the movie.

[@photonanim]

An actual mothership

[@jappir61]

I agree

[@BoB4jjjjs]

@@jappir61 A monster Mother Ship. Hello Earthling :-))

[@adrohan5801]

So how about your Destroyer project? It will be a very strong military armament.

[@DeltaR2023]

Clever.

[@jetgraphy]

10/01

[@captain_commenter8796]

Quality over quantity= Mustard And that is good

[@BoB4jjjjs]

@Om nom nom I can't see it ever being built now! They built a ground effect one for the military, but I think they gave up on it, they might not have had the Soviet Union survived intact. That might have been a tad scary!!

[@chiboreache]

only one thing is missing - km/h and other metrics, which is using THE REST OF THE WHOLE F* WORLD

[@OrdinaryLatvian]

@@BoB4jjjjs Read the comment again, they were talking about the video.

[@audi1ification]

Found and Explained *sreeching*

[@ceddricc5909]

@Om nom nom man i have hopes for this Meaning that KZbin can easily become the most accessible learning tool/site EVER

[@hallquiche]

Man, the cold war is fascinating. The technologies invented during those times are just batshit crazy. There was Eraknoplans, the SR-71, Space Shuttles, attempts at supersonic bombers Just a competition of showing off between two superpowers.

[@ntdscherer]

And then there was the nuclear powered unmanned nuclear bomber / cruise missile. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

[@РоманБекиров-с4м]

Attempts? Tu-160, T-4, M-50 and XB-70 do exist, you know.

[@ntdscherer]

@@РоманБекиров-с4м Interesting planes! Though only one of those ever saw production.

[@hallquiche]

@@РоманБекиров-с4м Yes, but what I meant by attempts was that no supersonic bomber really caught on after a few prototypes were built, both the east and the west really tried to make them work but they quickly became quite obsolete.

[@ebadurrahman7848]

don't worry the new cold war 2.0 is here we will see what China and America can make!! so sit back and enjoy the show!!

[@2paranoid484]

He truly was ahead of his time, imagination has no boundaries!

[@winterfell2650]

Couldn't agree more, imagine if he was alive today with the tech we have now, be very interesting

[@jayagobyrajagopal8552]

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[@MajorOutage]

And here I thought "normal" Ekranoplans were the peak of Soviet engineering awesomeness....

[@jeffbenton6183]

Same.

[@redsun9261]

They were. That ugly "do-it-all" thing couldnt lift itself from a water without enormous thrust of VTOL engines. A lot of dead weight in flight, very complex design, small payload for a 57 ton "plane". Yet Alekseev's ekranoplanes perfectly did it. Each one of them.

[@ValentineC137]

@@redsun9261 however this design had a ground effect height of 8 meters, making it possibly viable as an actual sea-worthy craft

[@mjuellarsen]

It makes the ekranoplan look downright practical!

[@Arthion]

Yes, I suspect the height it could achieve ground-effect would probably offset the other problems compared to a conventional ekranoplan who by themselves are limited so that they cannot work other than over calmer water.

[@captionmissilec.7018]

The Soviet’s literally said fuck it to everything, Beautiful

[@handsomeharold5726]

Kinda has me starting to wonder who were really the craziest engineers, the soviets or the nazis.

[@harshsharma03]

@@handsomeharold5726 wonder what bringing both their craziness together could've accomplished

[@handsomeharold5726]

@@harshsharma03 super flying tank carriers 😎 (Or the splitting of Poland)

[@danielf.285]

Yet everthing they built is bulletproof

[@XMarkxyz]

@@handsomeharold5726 I think the meshup of being Italian and working for the Soviet Union made Bartini came up with the strangest idea

[@jedison2441]

Gotta admit, that design looks cool AF. This is one of those designs that was too far ahead of it's time. An aircraft like this would be much easier to engineer today with modern techniques and materials.

[@IR-xy3ij]

Ground effect vehicles cannot really fly on uneven surfaces, so it limits their use to perfectly smooth lakes for the most part

[@askeladden450]

@@IR-xy3ij the larger the aircraft, the more they are resistant to uneven surfaces. thats why he though a massive ground effect carrier would be able to cross the turbulent waters of the atlantic.

[@fence03]

Let’s remake it! It’ll be coooooool!

[@_RandomPea]

With research and development this would possibly change human transport. Shame that visions like this don't get investment without a military purpose, us humans really should do better.

[@KB-bh9hp]

It's an extremely ugly looking vehicle, but I'm sure it's effective.

[@3dfreak2000]

The gigantic flying aircraft carrier version, is a kind of machine which could perfectly fit on a James Bond movie as the villain's mobile fortress.

[@kaijudirector5336]

It is one in Metal Gear Solid 3.

[@kingofburnttoast]

Actually there was one used in Devil May Care, one of the continuation Bond novels

[@haarukko]

I get really strong Fallout 3-4 Vibes from the very industrial design

[@javierpowell4705]

@@денисбаженов-щ1б can you elaborate rather than repeat the same thing, useless would be a far overreaching statement when it can provide a strategic advantage to be able to quickly deploy fighters in a matter of hours. No doubt it'd be highly limited by how much it can actually fit within the plane,or ekranoplan, or whatever the exact specification ground effect vehicles have. I noticed you mentioned ASW when if you read the comment above it was about the aircraft carrier version looking cool not the ASW version.

[@buddhapork]

@@денисбаженов-щ1б You don´t see the strategic advantage of a carrier with several times the top speed of conventional carriers?

[@alimtimm7355]

It even looks futuristic by today’s standards, and the millennium falcon-like cockpit is actually the best cockpit design for aerodynamics

[@falcondragonslayer]

Lots of things from that era looks futuristic even today. Like the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (Mustard also made a video on it)

[@dynasty0019]

Copied from the TU-4 which itself was copied from the B-29.

[@ML-xp1kp]

Not everything is copied from everything that has vaguely the same properties as it. Just because a cockpit has a dome glass layout, this doesn't mean it is a copy of the Tu-4. The Tu-4 is one of the only instances of complete copies being adopted into service, albeit being redesigned for Soviet weather and equipment operational standards. You see, contrary to popular belief, engineering is a skilled profession that requires experience and years of training, and aircraft aren't simple lumps of metal. Also, the design process doesn't consist of "let's do this" "ok".

[@Bochi42]

The millennium falcon cockpit was based off the B-29 one just in case someone didn't know.

[@Silverware88]

Where you get the source I'm actually kinda interested now

[@saturnv2419]

Do you want a VTOL jet, a seaplane or a ground effect vehicle? Bartini: YES.

[@gilzor9376]

lol!

[@FakingANerve]

Was he talking to himself here? 😏

[@Calvin704704]

Bartini: ДA

[@thebigbaiter]

My mother used to work on the plant where this prototype was built and tested back in the days. In early 90s when USSR fell apart people were struggling to survive. Parents didn't see salaries for months and amounts, when paid, were nothing but a joke. So plant management gave some of the territory neighbouring the plan'ts take-off stirp to employees, so they can grow potatoes and a like to help them to survive. As a kid I was helping out my parents in this "orchard" and was able to see some TU-95 (Bears) come and go for maintenance in about 500 meters from our potatoes plantation :). But the most significant was to observe the remains of this craft - cabin and hull, no wings. They were lying not so far and my kid's imagination draw some parallels with Star Wars Falcon remains. I recall I was able to stair on this craft forever untill my mother call me back to work.

[@Buster_Piles]

You are living proof that what does not kill us makes us stronger. Many people, like me, in the west greatly admire Russia, its people and its national spirit. I wish our corrupt politicians were not working to make war between us, we are brothers. I send my best wishes to you. 🤝

[@thebigbaiter]

​@@Buster_Piles Thank you! From Russia with love :)

[@Buster_Piles]

@@thebigbaiter 👍🤝

[@talpark8796]

thx 😄

[@ΣτελιοςΠεππας]

This story perfectly encapsulates all the problems of the Soviet Union. The government was spending money on scifi weapons while the workers making said weapons had to grow their own food.

[@Infested82]

My wife is great - granddaughter of legendary Robert Bartini. I am very glad that there are video about his breakthrough technologies.

[@thatguyalex2835]

That sounds interesting. :) If you have any engineers in your family, can you guys make a passenger jet version of this plane? I'd pay for tickets to fly in this futuristic aircraft

[@user-ew5vj1sl1u]

r/thathappened

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

@@user-ew5vj1sl1u Reddit moment

[@FreeStuff11TakeItBy12]

@@user-ew5vj1sl1u what?

[@MultiPauletto]

круто! он был самый яркий и нестандартный конструктор...

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

I'm convinced that this is what came out after an ekranoplan, harrier, and 737 loved each other _very very much_

[@Dave_Sisson]

To me, it looks like it took some design cues from the British Handley Page Victor strategic bomber that was in use from the 1950s to 1980s.

[@chrismartin3197]

And the Millenium Falcon.

[@user-mn2mw1og8u]

I feel like this design should be revisited with more modern technology

[@Redbellynelly]

Yeah with the recent developments in VTOL aircraft and polymer design for the floats, this concept is definitely more viable now. However not sure it would be an appropriate solution to deal with modern subs, and would be defenceless versus any other military aircraft. Maybe a heavy lift vehicle though?

[@riilhiiro]

I feel like it should get revisited, but what dragged this down was too much ambition. It’s really tacky.

[@johnassal5838]

The immense beniffit of ground effect requires you to stay within one tenth of your wingspan of the surface. Ocean waves often grow to 60 feet with "rogue" waves sometimes rising up 100 feet above their neighbors. This means no such craft could make full use of the effect except over water and even then it would really need a wing span of 1000+ feet not even counting when bad weather would force it to either go well out of its way around a storm or gain a lot of altitude to go over. That size is a hard requirement but it would be almost as cheap as a ship but almost as fast as a plane. IF a 1000+ foot version could work then you really might get a helicarrier (except they'd probably only travel between places like that needing to land to launch or recover fighters.)

[@xx_city_lights_gamer_xx6589]

@@johnassal5838 you do remember that Mustard said this craft would have the ability to fly up to 30,000 ft right? Rogue waves would not be that much of a problem

[@betzalelfonteijn6106]

@@johnassal5838 so you'd need a 1700 foot wingspan. The world's longest aircraft carriers are more than half the length. I'm guessing that when the ground effect craft is moving at full speed, all you'd need to do to launch an aircraft would be to expose it to the full airspeed and release it. So that GEC could be a lot thinner than an aircraft carrier (no need for a runway, no need for a maintenance crew)

[@texarkana3781]

Bartini was probably the most underrated and underappreciated designer in history

[@Matyniov]

those flying aricraft cariers look like pure soviet punk

[@piotrmalewski8178]

I actually wonder if that wasn't one of those projects Soviets made only to leak it to the US to make their enemy waste time and money.

[@Attaxalotl]

[RA3 noises intensify]

[@Willard_guy]

Reminds me of the flying cariers from Ace Combat

[@jacobhunter6891]

Fallout's vehicles look grounded in reality compared to those things

[@OffGridInvestor]

They had another design in the 30s for a monster sized plane with like 16 engines and like 200 yards wide. A few renderings and videos of it on youtube.

[@MultiSciGeek]

That render with his most ambitious design is simply EPIC

[@proph7543]

It's the most deiselpunk thing I have ever seen, but it's not really dieselpunk. Coldwarpunk? Soviet-punk? SovPunk.

[@kyleg3588]

@@proph7543 sort of a soviet version of atompunk

[@proph7543]

@@kyleg3588 Atompunk, that's the term.

[@notyourbusiness7368]

I swear, the soviets built literally everything. And everything that they built eventually was abandoned.

[@hansreiner1637]

Most were abandoned due to lack of funds, too expensive and the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's sad honestly, they are really interesting

[@codemy666]

Almost the same with Nazi Germany

[@deanmilos4909]

Most of such inventions were really niche projects which could have only been used in a handful of roles , plus most of these projects were really expensive and a lot of the times weren't practical enough

[@PrograError]

@@codemy666 well... they brought the jets and rockets to US and USSR...

[@BigSmartArmed]

@@hansreiner1637 Wrong. It's called parallel development which assures competition between design teams.

[@L_U-K_E]

7:33 damn this shot never gets old. Looks amazing every time i see it.

[@De_Tjiminator]

The vva-14 has to be the single most mustard worthy vehicle in the world

[@protonjones54]

?

[@raifij6698]

The aircraft carrier is the one that worthy it check all the box

[@NaN-noCZ]

“... Flying aircraft carrier” Marvel: “WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!”

[@howardkerr8174]

Actually, if you watch the Gerry Anderson series Captain Scarlet or the follow-up: The New Captain Scarlet, it looks like the folks at Gerry Anderson Productions thought this idea of a flying aircraft carrier " had wings ". Sorry about that.

[@hedgehog3180]

This is so much cooler than the helicarrier, putting heli blades on a carrier is boring and overdone, racing along at 300 km/h just above sea level now that is cool.

[@tomf3150]

Marvel ? Never watched "Captain Sky and the world of tomorrow" ?

[@DarthKanye]

@Steve Pringle but it’s set after the fall of the soviet union

[@Cinnamorollthecut3st]

Lol yea

[@FoundAndExplained]

Wow this is an incredible concept! Where did you get the real life footage... wait that's 3d? impossible!

[@tashyouu]

Didn't you see the soviet documentaries' footage in this video?

[@mallenwho]

CG renders

[@captain_commenter8796]

Yoooo it’s F & E

[@mastergun57]

@@jeddllau yea found and explain Real engineering and Mustard I love all of them😁

[@rev.andyh.1082]

I love Found & Explained! Your channel is the only one I’ve ever hit the notification bell for. Keep up the good work!

[@Erik.P.B]

I love how the Soviets were all about function over form, yet they inadvertently end up making some of the most aesthetic and unique designs ever.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Yeah

[@mrnorthz9373]

Aesthetics are derived from function imo. Look at a tank, its 100% function uet it looks very pleasing. Also a knife, so simple yet so aesthetic. Or buildings with domes, although they might have parts purely for looks the concept of a dome is to guide sound.

[@zhaobenshan]

The return of the king

[@covert0overt_810]

for Frodo…

[@nguyenthehien3034]

@@covert0overt_810 For Frodorov.

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

"Potatoes"

[@neworder736]

without American's power you wouldn't have peacefull life from all those dictators from Hitler to Soviets and asians or even primitives Islamists. America sacrificed to save the world on every wars, Americans invented 98% of modern technologies and built cities from Dubai to Bangkok and Hongkong Americans control internet and the space. America is the new order not the rome empire.

[@neworder736]

so who invented the airplane: Americans

[@gnoblin3895]

New Elite Dangerous ship manufacturer confirmed: The Soviet Union

[@NeutralGenericUser]

lmao this is exactly what i was thinking! That aircraft carrier, especially, reminds me so much of my Type 10 Defender!

[@Sammie1053]

I think you cracked the code. I knew there was something familiar about that design: what it really needed for vertical takeoff was two ducted nacelle engines, some extra armor, and two medium hardpoints.

[@theflightguy8726]

this is the secret sidewinder MK2 by Soviet Lakon Spacecraft

[@JRDShamrock]

looks a lot like the star citizen's Hoplite

[@NeutralGenericUser]

@@JRDShamrock except you don’t feel through the ground in this one ☺️

[@henriksti2]

I get astonished by how clever, rich and limitless the human mind is when they apply themselves for making wars. Look at that machine, man. That's amazing, really awesome and it's built when there was no internet, no electronic help of any kind. This topic about wars and soviet machines is growing on me every single day. I love it.

[@SMGJohn]

He was not really intended to have his design for war, but USSR prioritised defence of the motherland at all cost over civilian industries, so obviously if you wanted your wacky designs to get any form of funding, you would need to at least fire a couple of nuclear missiles and have space for machine guns.

[@idontthinkso5966]

Well when your existence is on the line, you better do the best you can.

[@charliepearce8767]

Im a successful 60 year old fabricator, building many machines throughout my life. It becomes a lifestyle if you can make it profitable .. My body's nearly worn out and I wish I had another lifetime to make more.

[@o.5523]

No internet or google is the most impressive part. You literally had to have an alien sized brain to hold so much information. I get that books existed but most of it was theory and the new stuff Soviets made havnt been practiced or even written - crazy planes or first man in space

[@kingmosesix432]

@@o.5523 thts not alien sized brain thos r our extreme human capabilities... We just think we camt coz we got numbed by our comfort : interent n google

[@redoneteron5933]

Not only are these concepts revolutionary, they look awesome as heck. I *absolutely* think spaceships built with those two designs (& sci-fi materials ofc) would excel for their in-atmosphere traversal, cargo hold, weapons capability, and fuel/power efficiency. Even if they might suffer in terms of raw acceleration, top speed and turning capability, it still makes for an excellent hauler/heavy gunship.

[@DrPeculiar312]

How exactly would a vehicle designed to fly as close to the ground as possible function as a spaceship? Do you have any functional brain cells?

[@eskanderx1027]

It seems that Soviets had a SHIELD agency of their own...

[@kgb976]

Hail Hydra

[@memeityy]

Soviet Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Legion of Defense

[@cutiebunnyamber3447]

@@memeityy bruh 🙏

[@eskanderx1027]

@@kgb976 Nah. Hydra Kaputt! Was their call...

[@doublep1980]

Well, in the Marvel Comics they even had their own Avengers team, called the ''Winter Guard''.

[@ariefbudi427]

how many experimental aircraft do you want? Soviet: YES

[@handsomerob1223]

You're wrong, He asked how many aircraft and they said can you do it all in one?

[@alanlozano6535]

DA

[@roguespearsf]

What a stupid meme

[@kishascape]

@@handsomerob1223 Swiss Army Plane

[@joeh5377]

People who played Metal Gear Solid 3 will recognise this aircraft, the ‘WIG’. What a game.

[@quillmaurer6563]

"WIG" is actually a suitable technical name for it - "Wing-In-Ground effect."

[@SniperWolf1001]

Yes! I remember this from MGS3. Such an interesting design

[@alex_avasese_15]

Finally a group of cultured people

[@chrismanmadrid]

My man

[@TheStrstudios]

So weird that I watched the 'cutscene movie' of it yesterday and was wondering what the aircraft was!

[@AeYronu]

Бартини, Бериев, Алексеев три лучших конструктора в гидроавиации, но каждый из них был гением в своем направлении. А так как в общем тема была одна, то многое их проекты схожи и перекликаются. Да и совместных проектов у них не мало.

[@sentinelcheese3420]

THIS is what the internet and the world needed!! Mustards incredible imagination and bringing the VVA-14 future models into our lives! EEEE! I'm so happy it finally happened! :3

[@MustardChannel]

Thank you for watching!

[@ninjanicholas2459]

There are two types of engineers in this world: Engineers that constrain to technology of today and Engineers that make things that no one has tried to make a new tomorrow.

[@shiny4984]

then there where soviet engineers, those where a bit crazy and just said "stupid problems require stupid solution"

[@shaider1982]

I read something like that but the first type are constrained but do try to squeeze the last drop of proven and known tech to create awesome vehicles (think P51, Spitfire, Thunderbot).

[@ademaulana998]

Type one is technicians and type two is inventors.

[@thebrowns5337]

Then there are scientists that make medicine and Russian bots that pretend medicine is a new concept and very scary.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

@@shiny4984 Soviet Union had a double approach to engineering. There is that one, well known approach of make it do one thing and do it exceptionally good, with low maintenance and cost. A workhorse. In every field you have at least one of those designs. They could work with minimal maintenance even half a century later and actually outperform newer designs. I mean, in my physics lab we still use some Soviet instruments from early Cold War - they are bulky, ugly... but they do the job perfectly and they are not a snowflake that you can't touch in a wrong way. Throw it, kick it, plug it back in, it works just as it did. New models, you look the wrong way, it goes to shit. And then there is that other approach that was born out of the revolutionary spirit of communism and socialism that required that every day, in every field, you test, try and dare. Of course, when you build a society like that, many of your projects go to shit as is common when you try to make a revolution in something. Revolutionary jump has a big chance to fail. But those were the engineers that made some really next level concepts and designs. When dare to innovate was more important than quarterly fiscal report. It was simply a part of culture. It is not that you didn't have innovative engineers in other societies, but the culture was different. In the west, all that mattered is to end the project with more money than it took to finish. The "what's in it for me" mentality of capitalism where nothing gets done if it does not make money for a corporation. And that is why you don't see as much engineering dares in the west and designs are more conventional. The problem with western engineering in recent years (maybe 2-3 decades) is that they started overengineering things. Make a thing, then cram it full of electronics and subsystems so it can do a crapton of things... yet none of them especially good (as would a specialized item) and not nearly as robust or maintenance-light. So it ends up being an expensive pile of electronics that does many thing fairly decent until it breaks down (or becomes obsolete due to the planned obsolescence) which is way too common. And, on the other hand, you have a Soviet built Lada Niva, an ugly looking thing, an upside down trash container with wheels... but it can go up the oiled flagpole and requires maintenance once every century XD Simply, different approaches to engineering. I would not say that one is necessarily better than the other - but they ARE very different.

[@ASLUHLUHC3]

Gosh that flying aircraft carrier looks straight out of sci fi

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

It's straight out of Ace Combat!

[@ILIZIUM]

USSR win!

[@MrHamncheez]

Steampunk scifi! What a cool concept for a video game, where that was actually developed.

[@paulbrownman7307]

Brings to mind Virgil's #2 Thunderbird... "F-A-B Scott"

[@Gato303co]

@@MrHamncheez Actually, for the time it was done, it will classify more like "Dieselpunk"

[@anscart2969]

This flying aircraft carrier is some serious AceCombat type of insane

[@bettyschnauber8238]

And a little bit of Warship Gunner to boot

[@Jinkguns]

It's weird, I'm in love with this design. A shame it was never fully realized.

[@Silvyya]

a game with stuff like this would be so sick

[@lacavernademr.fuller7414]

but whould be infinite to desing because of the billions of tinni effects to recreate ( sorry if its spelled wrong )

[@TokyobuckettsLive]

Or was it??🤔🤔😱😱

[@reahs4815]

@@Silvyya You could probably build one in War thunder as you can create your own planes, tank, ships or helis.

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

It's a Beautiful aircraft. 😊

[@someasiandude4797]

Kinda isn't but the render is so good I would agree with you

[@Narcan885]

It's strange, so bulbous, but good looking.

[@neworder736]

so who invented the airplane: Americans

[@Jam2048-1]

Its a flying submarine.

[@JFrazer4303]

Form follows function. Anything that's properly designed for its function, is good. This thing was, no matter what those who don't understand it think. "If it looks right, it'll fly right" is a red herring.

[@andriypredmyrskyy7791]

The attention to detail on your blueprints (I mean, even if they're just copies of pdfs that's amazing) is impeccable. The best presentation of design documents I've ever seen bar none.

[@findlaydavies9613]

This is literally the coolest plane ever. You can't change my mind.

[@mohamedabadila]

Bartini would have enjoyed watching these 3D renders of his creations & imaginations :')

[@vuelvoel2011]

he is still alive, bro.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@vuelvoel2011 He was born in 1897 so….not so much.

[@ryaeon9793]

@@vuelvoel2011 you can watch the video for real. it stated "deceased" if you know what that mean.

[@kleenexbox974]

@@vuelvoel2011 no he died in 1974

[@keshavdawra12]

Lol

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Everyone is gangster about ground effect until they need to turn or encounter the open sea waves 😁

[@raosaudahmedk8895]

Logical .... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Narcan885]

This thing could benefit from ground effect 24 foots from the surface. Safe from any wave.

[@Yizahi]

@Subhojyoti Chakraborty I'm no expert but I seriously doubt 8 meter claim. Also we need to keep in mind that ground effect is not on/off, it is strongest near surface and then exponentially drops off the higher aircraft flies. If you can register "some" ground effect force at height X, it doesn't mean that it is enough to keep aircraft airborne at that level. Lun class vehicle with twice bigger wings suffered A LOT from uneven sea and couldn't turn at all, unless it was done in the insanely large turn radius.

[@MugoanE]

"it isn't mountain, it is wave" 😛

[@ninjaboi1312]

@@MugoanE yeah and VVA-14 isn't a airplane it's a hydroplane. 8 metre is like a two floor building.

[@AnkushB1811]

Born way too early, guy would have designed literal space fleets

[@Shepard_AU]

He probably would've made that aircraft carrier concept able to go to space. It still amazes me that the USSR was devoting their time and resources solely on this project to what was an active threat that needed a solution [ie anti-submarine], and it is such a shame that he passed away before the project was either successful or cancelled. The Soviets seemed quite eager to see that project take shape.

[@ryanchowdhary965]

@@Shepard_AU me who is willing to restart the Soviet Union solely to see its failed prototypes come to reality. ; )

[@LunaMapping_KR]

As a Sci-fi fan, even by today's modern standarts this still looks Futuristic and amazing.

[@horusmorus5588]

This man can only make bangers

[@xTonyTornado]

its not just one person behind these videos lol

[@robbieaulia6462]

@@xTonyTornado I mean if only one person is making this video it would've taken years

[@Leadblast]

Belkans are incapable of doing something wrong

[@bastadimasta]

Nothing makes sense here. A vertical-take-off high-altitude ground-effect submarine-hunter designed by a Italian-Soviet engineer who was an Austrian by birth.

[@DocWolph]

It sounds like he should have been working for the West. But then the F-35 derived its basic design from an abandoned Soviet design, so I can seen Airbus or Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas or some other building this plane. A flying Aircraft carrier as a rapid deployment and retrieval platform would have been easily welcomed by the USN and/or USMC, as an example. Or if the cargo plans panned out, it would change shipping forever.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@DocWolph It would have to be developed in secret, or else it will go way over budget.

[@DocWolph]

@@jeffbenton6183 Admirals and Generals be like that.

[@friendlyroughai3319]

throw enough money and you will make anything possible.

[@robbieaulia6462]

@@friendlyroughai3319 I can throw all the money I want and it won't be enough to prevent stars from existing at some point

[@drizzlingrose]

okay like, why isnt Bartini in the Redalert universe, those machines would be such fun units to play with! :O

[@shahnazfiaz2015]

Who knows, maybe he is. Stingrays and the MIGs in RA3 are quite weird designs.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

@@shahnazfiaz2015 something tells me being that RA3 is a "what if Albert Einstein was the one taken out of history" yeah; I can say Bartini might have sent the Russians 100 years ahead like Einstein did the world.

[@shahnazfiaz2015]

@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 and yet the allies still have very advanced tech. If the Soviets were to develop something like this, the allies would definitely make a counter.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

@@shahnazfiaz2015 I'm still annoyed about the whole thing about EA trying to simplify the story of the series. and thanks to that; we got C&C4 out of it; and look how that turned out. I'm just glad RA3 was atleast still enjoyable.

[@shahnazfiaz2015]

@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 honestly, the one improvement in the RA3 campaign was the "two commanders" system. Actually felt like you were a commander of a nation and where others were also doing the same.

[@mirage809]

"A 5000 ton flying aircraft carrier." An idea that sounds like madness, even with today's technology and this madman of an engineer had it all figured out back in the 60s and 70s! One has to stop and imagine just what he would come up combining his ground effect theory with another 50 or so years of technological advancements. I can imagine NASA or ESA transporting entire rocket ships from factories on one continent to a suitable launch site on the other side of the globe in record time. A shame his vision never came to fruition.

[@FortuitusVideo]

Perfect for the French/European space program.

[@drdewott9154]

Yeah. And like with the dedicated Ekranoplan episode, it is surprising that these machines really havent been developed further despite everything. Many of the modern operational challenges could be highly lightened by modern avionics and automation systems. And the concept still has strong potential on several inland seas like the Baltic for smaller scale operation. It could even have a strong effect on environmentally friendly mobility. Given the vast efficiency of Ground effect vehicles, that would seemingly make it much easier to build a large scale greenly powered vehicle of this type than an equivalent airplane! Especially with batteries, given how the energy efficiency of Ground effect flying could offset the weight of batteries.

[@mygiftmatters]

Well, NASA is a joke now because they admitted that space is fake and astronauts never landed man on the moon. Don Pettit, “We had that technology but we have since lost that technology.” Or “The Blue Marble has to be fake because we have no actual photos of earth.” Astronauts also independently admitted they never went to the moon. “Space may be the final frontier but it’s made in a Hollywood basement.”

[@user-qf6yt3id3w]

The idea of a flying ground effect aircraft carrier is so awesome.

[@worldoftancraft]

Wasn't you supposed to do shit talk instead of stating your admiration, was you?

[@micajones1483]

Those Soviet-Era aeronautical engineers did some amazing shit when you factor in the budget and tech they had to work with. The pinnacle of efficiency and creativity.

[@foxy4851inactive]

@Fremen every one has more freedom in ussr and russia than most others countries like usa, France, etc just not non official news to prevent bullshit on tv and medias

[@AndreyGontovoy]

No! This is just funny stories! They Connor invented even toilet paper!!!

[@foxy4851inactive]

@Fremen the usa was not better with the anti communism propaganda at least you could've executed ur neighbour just by calling the cops lol but i can agree that there was a free speech issue in the ussr

[@charlesterrizzi8311]

@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 i trust corrupt businessman more than corrupt government. Don’t like businessmen? Don’t buy. No problem.

[@tupolev.designs]

Imagine if they had the money equal to USA And if they had a colab with the nazis (because the nazis also made a lot of creative shit)

[@S28426]

So this where Wargaming get their batshit crazy designs

[@OptimisticNihilist15]

Soviet Balans, my dear comrade

[@S28426]

@@OptimisticNihilist15 Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь. Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз! Славься, Отечество наше свободное, Дружбы, народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы, к победе ведет! Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы, И Ленин великий нам путь озарил. Нас вырастил Сталин - на верность народу На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил. Славься, Отечество чаше свободное, Счастья народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы к победе ведет! Skvoz grozy siialo nam solntse svobody, I Lenin velikij nam put ozaril. Nas vyrastil Stalin - na vernost narodu Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil. Slavsia, Otechestvo chashe svobodnoe, Schastia narodov nadezhnyj oplot! Znamia sovetskoe, znamia narodnoe Pust ot pobedy k pobede vedet! Мы армию нашу растили в сраженьях, Захватчиков подлых с дороги сметем! Мы в битвах решаем судьбу поколений, Мы к славе Отчизну свою поведем! Славься, Отечество наше свободное, Славы народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы к победе ведет!

[@fainahyar]

Sssss, dont let wargaming implement this idea to be modern warfare

[@MetallicalCatastroph]

You mean Project Aces, right?

[@pegasusted2504]

@twinblade98 and this is what they look like ;~) I know people complain about balance lol but that would be awesome to see :~)

[@VoIPPortland]

Russian engineers are amazing. Also some of the coolest trucks on the planet.

[@laszlogg]

Hungarian born actually

[@aikonym]

Not Russian engineers. SOVIET engineers. It is not the same.

[@АгронДепартье]

Which trucks you have in mind and why ? Thanks

[@begun65vdal5]

This is the reason why a lot of them, also IT people left russia in 2022.

[@алексейкудрин-б8ь]

​@@begun65vdal5 Именно те кто уехал они не русские и не какого отношения к России не имеют,а те советские инженеры ковали щит России они как раз настоящие русские.

[@0bserver416]

How many strange experimental aircraft would you like to have? Soviets: - Da!

[@markrobby7136]

Lol🤣🤣🤣

[@Lush_Produce]

Pootis

[@SurROJA]

Смешно)

[@bruceblake9942]

There is no such word "aircrafts" in English. Both the singular and plural form of this word is "aircraft". BB in BC.

[@0bserver416]

@@bruceblake9942 You're right. Completely forgot that! Just like word ship doesn't change in the plural form. Thanks for the correction!

[@TheOrangex88]

Thank you MGS3 for showing me some of the most fascinating 60’s technology.

[@doubledook799]

yup

[@a.p.6580]

It's quite the good game, you could even say... Pretty Good...

[@zr8693]

"Ground effect vehicle??"

[@gertmuller9936]

He "passed away"

[@rebel0nyx]

Was looking for this comment :)

[@envynemo4170]

only if he had today’s modern computer tech

[@billboyd4051]

We'd all be dead by now.

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

@@billboyd4051 No, rather we would have got the opportunity to live in a Undivided World!

[@anhtunguyen781]

@@everythingisheresahil2283 you mean, *UNDER THE LEADER SHIP OF THE GLORIOUS SOVIET UNION*

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

@@everythingisheresahil2283 Yea, after killing more than 30 million people... That wasn't their own, I mean.

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 ohh really but is capitalism doing great in African Nations?huh The actual communism(USSR one) probably isn't bad at all ,Look at their achievements!!! But but Maois* ideology is too bad and it's not even communism. And I agree that Stalin was very cruel but also The USSR got the WW2 at that time.

[@Epzo1]

When Ace Combat players think "No one would make something like this in real life", I'll just point to this guy. The flying aircraft carrier concept is just straight bonkers!

[@TonyT-fz8od]

the editing, the voice the presentation. truly nobody can beat the quality of your videos

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

well lemmino has videos of equal, if not exceeding quality.

[@TonyT-fz8od]

@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 thanks for letting me know

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

@@TonyT-fz8od you're welcome

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

@@TonyT-fz8od also check out Jared Owen

[@dtgs4502]

I like the fact that the carrier design wouldn't even need a catapult since all it has to do is release the aircraft while cruising.

[@noobplayer_23]

In theory it would work but in practice it's probably too expensive to do bc fuel cost and maybe a catapult is needed

[@CockatooDude]

@@noobplayer_23 Also aerial refuelling just makes way more sense as a way to get fighters from one part of the world to another.

[@bruceh9780]

Imagine landing on one by matching cruising speed. . . . .

[@dtgs4502]

@@bruceh9780 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5Taf4evaZxsfJo

[@dilbertfirestorm4851]

that aircraft design is not very practical. you can only launch it one at a time.

[@glowtail3744]

This plane definitely has the ability to carry a lot of stuff

[@ThatCyberpunkGuy]

Yeah could carry 10 Americans

[@Suspicious259]

The Russian stuff...

[@hypersoda1215]

But it couldn't carry your mom

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

@Thegamenest No shoes No service

[@michaelcorbidge7914]

2 tonnes was mentioned. It's something but still limited. Priority was probably for the fuel load.

[@sultanofsick]

I wonder if we'll ever re-visit and actually complete massive ground effect vehicles like these.

[@WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT]

@jasperpercabeth9140USA is creatively dead and the old Russia is also dead

[@alexseredin]

I still hope to see the video telling the full story of Robert Bartini. He has an amazing bio, being raised in a noble Italian family, he gave all his fortune to Italian communist party and moved to Soviet Union for a better life, got arrested in 1938, still survived and kept creating the aircraft designs that were way ahead of time... Genius who can be compared to Tesla and Leonardo.

[@deller5924]

Please stop tripping. Bartini didn't move to the USSR in pursue of a better life. That's the caliber of mind of the shallow and miserable. Bartini moved to the USSR to contribute in Socialism, because he hated capitalism.

[@alexseredin]

@@deller5924 that's what I meant - he moved to USSR for better life in Socialism. Anyway, he's a person who deserves a biopic.

[@Ksart]

@@deller5924 A normal human being is living his life because of joy of living, not because he hates something. Bartini was normal, the only his problem were western nazifascists regimes. He didn't find their ideas fascinating. And besides all that, nowhere in west he could have that kind of freedom to experiment the way he does.

[@toby070]

This looks like a contender for something that should appear in Thunderbirds

[@AtheistOrphan]

F.A.B!

[@casuallatecomer7597]

Would it make for replacement for Thunderbird 2?

[@GoodnightFromHim]

@@casuallatecomer7597 no it could replace thunderbird 6

[@quillmaurer6563]

It is extremely Thunderbirds-like, in fact having a lot of similar capabilities to Thunderbird 2 - VTOL, can land anywhere, huge payload capacity. And they both use a partial lifting body arrangement. Thunderbird 2 wasn't intended to fly in ground effect, and could cruise at Mach 2 (despite not having a supersonic shape at all).

[@NisseOhlsen]

Experts: There are no new ideas within aviation. Bartini: "Hold my Martini"

[@jsprite123]

His project failed because the Martini was stirred, not shaken.

[@brentonherbert7775]

There's only no new ideas. Because people are complacent with what they have... When there are clearly economic developments to be made... People just want all the results without any of the investment of money.

[@Randomadventuresebike]

There is no new ideas because we are still using aerodynamics to fly. We should be beyond riding on fluid air in 2021. A hundred and 115 years we have used air fluid to keep us up. Time for new flight dynamics

[@gemguy6812]

@@Randomadventuresebike lets talk when you get an anti gravity machine.

[@brentonherbert7775]

@@Randomadventuresebike Oh im sorry i didnt realise we could keep burning as much fossil fuel as we want because unlike hydrogen its not an infinite resource.

[@ckl9390]

I wonder if anyone has looked into trying the ground effect again for rapid long-range travel with high carrying capacity? This sounds like it could be useful in the Canadian Arctic, even just as a civilian cargo and passenger aircraft.

[@AeYronu]

Увы но не смотря на все попытки в других странах и других конструкторов это получилось только у Алексеева. "КМ", "Лунь" и серийный "Орленок".

[@martinharris5017]

There was another Russian ground effect aircraft, the Ekranoplan, and in Canada, John Frost of AVRO designed a number of ground-effect concepts that never progressed very far.

[@PhoenixFires]

For the most part it just isn't a viable solution economically nor practically. Its cheaper to use ships or planes. Less fuel, more distance, greater cargo capacity, and more weather survivability. This is a jack of all trades trying to have everything all at once and it has it all, but not better than any of its predecessors.

[@swapnilmankame]

All hydrofoils are technically Ground effect.

[@ЮрийСамофал-ю9ь]

Kaspian Monster searth in google

[@josephbingham1255]

Robert L. Bartini was a prolific Soviet innovator that thought outside the box. The respect they had for his previous successful designs allowed him the backing to try new concepts. Knowledge is limited - imagination encompasses the world - Albert Einstein.

[@willbo6017]

The fuselage almost looks likes James Cameron’s Avatar military crafts

[@Ronaldo882.]

Totally agree

[@cvr527]

Actually, the Avatar craft looks like the VVA 14.

[@dulistanheman]

You got that right 👌

[@blaircox1589]

Faster and cheaper for the movie producers to copy, than do anything original

[@act2wasstronger182]

Those were actually inspired from these..

[@Carfeu]

The art in this video is insanely good

[@ady12377]

Wait is that Rick Harrison's Pawn shop in your profile pic?.

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

Wow, this could've been one of the coolest aircraft ever, probably THE coolest. RIP Mr. Bartini

[@macaron3141592653]

That 5000 ton version, or at least its rendering, made my jaw drop. Imagine seeing that zoom along the ocean at 400mph, my mind is being blown right now

[@Shepard_AU]

Imagine being in a small dinghy and having that massive thing go over you. I'd be curious to know what would happen, considering how much air is being compressed to make that thing fly.

[@kirayoshikage4057]

What will happen when you realize that its literally nothing when evergreen can carry about 100000 tons of cargo while totaling about x2.5 that? It may not be fast, but in the long run it carries more per day than a dozen of these hopeless machines.

[@OZIGamingTR]

@@kirayoshikage4057 lol what? If the designs actually came to fruition they would be so much more efficient than giant cargo ships.

[@kirayoshikage4057]

@@OZIGamingTR You don't seem to comprehend the basics of aerodynamics or laws of thermodynamics, for that matter.

[@OZIGamingTR]

@@kirayoshikage4057 You don't seem to be able to comprehend basic english. What part of "if they came to fruition" don't you understand? In your original comment you made no remark about it not being possible, however if it were, I stated, it would be much more efficient than your slow cargo ships.

[@KastaRules]

-Do you want to engineer an airplane, an helicopter or a hovercraft? -DA.

[@kbissenov]

Lol that’s exactly what I thought)

[@JSDFEnthusiast]

I'm already getting flashbacks of MGS3...but I definitely can't wait for the day he makes a video about the J7W1 Shinden or some really cool WWII prototype.

[@abdulwasey3506]

Yesssss someone who knows about the j7w, please turn this into a petition for him to make a video about it in the future.

[@oregonsbragia]

What a genius. He was ahead of his time.

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

That flying aircraft carrier looks like something out of an alt-hist anime.

[@namjanamja747]

Future boy conan

[@KillahMate]

It _is_ actually alt-hist - Charles Stross features this carrier design in his sci fi novella Missile Gap, and it's very awesome.

[@wellwell5483]

Any alt hist anime suggestions?

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

@@wellwell5483 aldnoah zero ?

[@Kaebuki]

@@wellwell5483 Tanya the Evil?

[@Acid_8501]

Like the saying goes; Reality is often more unbelievable then science fiction

[@AaronOfMpls]

Well yah. Reality has less need to make sense, or to conform to storytelling conventions.

[@jsnsk101]

western designers: aircraft carriers need a long runway to due to the planes take off or landing speeds. Soviet designers: How about we make the carrier go faster than the planes?

[@kristinagraversgaard5328]

Yes Ivan, Yes! Have more Vodka, and Potjatjo you genious!

[@Milky_mans]

We’re called RUSHians for a reason!

[@CynicalOldDwarf]

I was wondering how the planes would take off and land, didn't occur to me that the CV would be flying so fast the aircraft could just lower down onto it

[@rustythecrown9317]

Too bad half their stuff is actually rubbish.

[@connoratwell7906]

@@rustythecrown9317 I mean, you throw enough shit at a wall and some of it might stick

[@lunamaria1048]

It looks remarkable! Like a modernize version of this would've be revolutionary

[@gordievsky4895]

The amount of work you put in these videos is insane. 3D rendering is great, explanations are clear and on point, reasearch has obviously been done. That's impressive and very enjoyable. Thank you again.

[@RobBon12]

I've seen this baby up close and personal at Monino years back. Crawled all over it. PS Fantastic 3D artwork/animation! I'd keep that guy on payroll. :)

[@kenisto9746]

fun fact he's a 1 man production crew

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

This would fit right in in Ace Combat.

[@graysonridge4080]

I better see this in AC8

[@notatallheng]

They'll probably expect the player to fly under that 8-meter gap to shoot a weak point on the underside...

[@graysonridge4080]

@@notatallheng oh shit now we REALLY need this in AC8!

[@konohamaru77]

Director of ace combat: time to go to russia to steal this blueprint and make it to ace combat

[@Leadblast]

Dem Belkans

[@yvc9]

The prototype aircraft carriers are pure awesome...jesus

[@johnshoulders6586]

“ Find any submarines yet?” “ Not yet, Commander.” “Hey, what’s that up ahead coming out of the wat--“

[@alexythemechanic8056]

CLONK

[@SpeakerWiggin49]

Hey, he did say it successfully flew 8 meters above the water.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

"It is I! Barack Obama! And I have come to exact my vengeance on you for allowing my wife to die at the hands of Donald Trump!"

[@christopherstein2024]

@@SpaceMonkeyBoi "This won't bring Michelle back!"

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

@@christopherstein2024 "I've already made up my mind! N***a!" **plane explodes**

[@hillppari]

We need some modern ground effect cargo planes or other kinds of transport.

[@michaelcorbidge7914]

They really only safe over c a lm water like lakes. Parts of the pacific can be calm for long periods . As we know , pacific means peaceful.

[@davisdf3064]

@@michaelcorbidge7914 If they are small, sure, but the whole thing about an Ekranoplan is that it's efficient, fast, can carry a Frick ton more than a plane, and maybe the best part, the larger it is, the higher it can fly and the more stable it is. It's literally a "the bigger, the better" type of vehicle, and i could see it being developed as an alternative for fast cargo travel across the oceans.

[@pihermoso11]

@@davisdf3064 the ekranoplan operated on the caspian sea, which is the largest lake... so it is much more calm than the pacific or atlantic, they would have to redesign the thing to operate on oceans like pacific/atlantic

[@davisdf3064]

@@pihermoso11 It's like i said in my previous comment, if you need to make it fly higher to bypass strong and violent waves, you just gotta straight up make it bigger!

[@stormtrooper9404]

Not a chance up against powerfull govermental backed duopol of Boeing/Airbus! They are too big too fail, and too failed to think big!

[@darkhorseman8263]

With modern meta materials, this would now be viable.

[@madphantompixels6478]

Buildable yes, practical no. Even the slightest accident would likely result in catastrophic failure, resulting in the complete destruction of the vehicle. They would be highly vulnerable and easy to destroy. Hence the fact nobody has bothered with it since.

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

even without them it would be viable

[@nadarith1044]

@@madphantompixels6478 Those 'easy to destroy vehicles' exist already, they're called _aircraft,_ and your comment resembles the commentary made on early aircraft when they were still in its infancy, the real reason this thing wasn't bothered with is because developing technologies costs MONEY and people are by large unwilling to fund radically new aproaches and risk their MONEY when there are perfectly adequate proven and tested alternatives available, if the guy didn't die and the company building the jets didn't fuck up the project would most likely produce workable military vehicles and the concept would be explored wider why is that every experimental vehicle always brings wannabe armchair engineers that act as if they knew the project inside out and are so ready to expound their flaws while making it sound as if they're the worst concept ever and the only one with such flaws? this is like the idiots screaming about terrorist attacks on 'vulnerable' hyperloop tubes while ignoring that railway tracks, bridges and subway tunnels fucking exist and share the exact same infrastructural vulnerability yet somehow aren't constantly blown up, but no clearly the tubes will be a natural bomb magnet and made of cardboard to boot

[@thegto8535]

@@madphantompixels6478 You are such a simpleton 🤣 It goes the same way for aircrafts, boats, aircraft carrier, submarines, tanks, and so forth.

[@bobbertonsmivelton7019]

@@madphantompixels6478 That was the same with the first airplanes, taking a look at the wright brothers plane looks like a pebble could take it down, if someone decides to engineer the crap out of this technology with our new engineering, and upgrade it over the years the technology would be very good.

[@begun65vdal5]

I visited the planes remainders near Moscow 0:15 during my Engineering studies not knowing anything about it. Thanks for the great explanations + historical footage + super animations!

[@bahrainphonegamer5706]

Bartini has a huge imagination, and that's a fact.

[@russetwolf13]

"SNAAAAKE! IT'S NOT OVER YET!" Surprised no one's making those references yet.

[@russetwolf13]

@Jordie Jordan I see you are here to be cast into the Philistine Pit.

[@sandalphoncpu]

Chapman: I created ground-effect in F1 in the 70s Bartini: I am 4 universes ahead of you

[@kuiper921]

lmao

[@AlexIsUber]

Bartini: "I'm 50 moves ahead of you and everyone else"

[@rishenreni7618]

Yooo f1 fan

[@stuartd9741]

Ah, but the Lotus ground effect, all be it crude, actually worked.!

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

Sandalphon, It didn't work.

[@Xeemix]

Wow! That Yak-36 footage was beautiful!

[@paleoph6168]

The Soviets came up with beautifully unconventional designs that sadly, lost their potential. 😔

[@arandomsystemglitch2398]

Mostly due to shoty design and materials used for it tho one thing I think they'd actually have if they stayed alive longer is a magnetic train they even had a prototype made but never could be used since they fell before it could be tested

[@midwestnagyfa]

I'd say this one didn't lose its potential though. It just was assigned to the wrong people. Someone has to fund this today, its too incredible.

[@arandomsystemglitch2398]

@@midwestnagyfa yeah but the only problem is its to Rusty and over grown to work any more and no one will do that funding till it gone completely and it'd probably be in 2130 by the time people do that but who knows maybe if some people that know about it get really good paying jobs they could team up to fund another project for it

[@midwestnagyfa]

@@arandomsystemglitch2398 They should just make a new one, but yeah, you're right. A good name for comments. The email: "A random system glitch replied to you"

[@CCCW]

@@midwestnagyfa Right? 8 Meters of ground effect?? That alone basically solves a ton of "problems" ground effect vehicles have

[@Salvavideocrack]

I propose that we should kickstart a redesign of this incredible plane.

[@coyotelong4349]

I’m with you on that

[@26th_Primarch]

Most comments: "What a crazy sci-fi plane" Me: *Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater flashbacks*

[@LordStimpy]

What a Thrill..

[@dylanstandingalone]

IM STILL IN A DREAM

[@PrimusEquesTemporis]

Facts

[@JanitorScruffy]

*Squeezes Balls

[@empwiina]

Thank you!

[@zelenyyisad5417]

I realized one main thing from these videos about the Soviet Union, if you make a ci-fi movie and do not know what technique to add there, look at the old developments of the USSR

[@TheGreatSteve]

If I were a multimillionaire, I'd spend my money on restoring these sorts of things.

[@jimmyohara2601]

Have a lot left ?? Billionaires (& millionaires) are always making copious amounts of money 💸💰 every minute (literally). They don't just have a one off lump sum of $$££€€¥¥¢¢, & that's it. You are clearly financially illiterate. hmmm 🤔🙄😐.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@jimmyohara2601 Nothing he said even came close to implying he'd spend on this only once and would not afford to do otherwise. He literally said "these... things" - of course he'd be making more money and reinvesting on his magnanimous hobby. Insulting people for no reason (especially when it's clear you don't understand what they are actually saying) does not make you look smart - it makes you look stupid.

[@communistpotato3204]

@twinblade98 probably liked his own comment

[@blizzard4025]

@@jimmyohara2601 here we have a troll in his natural habitat

[@jimmyohara2601]

@@blizzard4025 yeah, you & your Momah under a foot bridge in drains. Whaaa haa hmmm 😅😂🤪

[@DevilDogMuNky]

MGS3: Snake Eater fans: "I already know what the W.I.G. is thanks to Sigint."

[@paintnamer6403]

A fun game that has some interesting weapons.

[@johnhammon703]

I was looking specifically for someone to mention MGS3 lol

[@M0b1us_118]

@@johnhammon703 I was too.

[@suprisebuttsecksspy5958]

Great now usa should create hf blade and nanomachine son that harden in physical trauma

[@First-Name_Last-Name]

Snake EATERRRRR

[@JDNicoll]

“It will be able to do this! And this! And this! And this!” The visionary’s dilemma…

[@jursamaj]

Yeah, as soon as they mentioned the inflatable pontoons, I knew it would never work…

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@jursamaj I can only imagine having to maintain that system. You'd likely have to replace the pontoons every time too.

[@TheArklyte]

@@JimJamTheAdmin care to specify why?

[@Vodkavsky]

@@TheArklyte Likely because they probably wouldnt be able to develop a system to safely deflate and store the pontoons while in the air without damaging them or the parts of the aircraft their attatched to since they would be subject to wind forces when deflated and would possibly catch enough wind before being retracted to be ripped off and possibly damage the plane. I dont understand why they didnt just create pontoons with a wheel system in the middle of the pontoons so that you can retract the wheels to land on water and just extend the wheels to land on land. Even if the wheels were destroyed somehow, the vertical engines could be used to lower the aircraft to the ground without killing the occupants, and probably with minor damage to the plane, possible even no damage to it.

[@TheArklyte]

@@Vodkavsky because pontoons are supposed to be working as amortization and only in conjunction with airlift? While using extended hull increases mass and changes aerodynamics?

[@sampreece3900]

You can see the ground effect in action with gliders, which is enough to show how energy efficient it truly is.