Russia’s nuclear powered drone that could fly forever…

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[@icekidMEMER]

face revel please

[@acarrillo8277]

Are you going to do Project Pluto and the connected SLAM missile?

[@gabrielb9010]

@@icekidMEMER he already did

[@trainanimator8150]

still waiting on war thunder...

[@chugetnuget6230]

@@gabrielb9010 Where?

[@Iskelderon]

The Wyle E Coyote era of aviation was wild! During the war, German aircraft design/development acted like a pressure cooker, making progress on the fast track and when that pressure got released and the scientists were abducte...liberated along with their research material, it led to progress at an insane rate and the recent nuclear advancements then added its own speed on top.

[@joshuabessire9169]

Remember when the Germans painted a picture of Remagen bridge at the edge of a cliff and the US Army drove across it, and when the Germans tried to attack them it turned back into a cliff? The whole mid 20th century was a roadrunner cartoon.

[@christopherneufelt8971]

It is called The Great Patent Heist. However, the scientists were not abducted! They obeyed the alternative of loosing life and limbs instead for some placement in the US, UK, France or USSR. By the way, these beautiful pictures that they smile? Everything a fakery under pressure. Thankfully all of this will be sooner or later forgotten together with most of books and archives: we don't deserve the future.

[@blckspice5167]

Coerced is probably a more accurate word

[@christopherneufelt8971]

@@joshuabessire9169 I provide you a picture about Coyote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner#/media/File:Wile_E._Coyote's_ACME_Instant_Tunnel_at_MIT.jpg

[@commanderpeanut8029]

Yeah Its nuts, Its where pressure is put, and wacky ideas the human mind can think of garner attention and funding

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I think project Pluto would be a good idea for a future video. Edit-thank you for the likes but you should also comment that you would like to see it as well so he will see it

[@discontinuuity]

Fun Fact: the reactor support structure for Project Pluto was made of porcelain by CoorsTek, which started as a division of the Coors brewing company.

[@pawewysoczanski1884]

Awesome! Would absolutely love a video on Project Pluto! Great to see a video of its Soviet equivalent! Btw, how was the M-60 supposed to fly ? Was it remote operated via radio or radar or did it have some pre-flight settings calibrated into it?

[@bluefandango]

as a former soviet pilot i can attest that i flew an unnamed and unmanned nuclear powered gigantic mini drone.

[@AdamsHadEnough]

If wars were won by ridiculously impractical ideas we'd all be speaking Russian by now.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Actually we would be speaking German. Look at the Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster

[@TETRAsp]

​@@Sir_Uncle_Ned Guten Tag

[@brucebaxter6923]

The Russians did win the space race and also kicked ass in the aircraft race.

[@TETRAsp]

@@brucebaxter6923 America number 1

[@DailyLifeSolution]

Or American

[@risk0systemsuk171]

It would have to carry a power generator which is powered by the reactor and will have to travel at very high speeds at low altitude to cool the reactor. The weight of such a contraption alone is a show stopper.

[@a.p.2356]

The American and Soviets both attempted to make a version which used a coolant loop heated by the reactor to heat the air passing through the engines, but the idea proved to be impractical for the exact reason you mentioned; weight. Both eventually dropped this idea, and the US moved onto a much simpler, much more insane design: using a completely open, unshielded, air cooled reactor *inside the engine.* Instead of a closed cooling loop like a traditional reactor, the design was a supersonic ramjet which superheated air from the atmosphere as it passed through the reactor, and then ejected that superheated (and super-irradiated) air to propel the aircraft. Essentially, they just replaced the combustion chamber in a traditional ramjet with a big mess of fuel rods. And this idea would have worked, actually; it was heavier than a traditional ramjet engine because a reactor weighs a hell of a lot more than a combustion chamber, but that would have been somewhat offset by the plane not needing to carry fuel. The issue, of course, is the whole "open, unshielded, air cooled" thing. Any airstrip it took off from would be heavily contaminated by fallout, and it would dump radioisotopes into the atmosphere in huge quantities anywhere it flew. If it flew low, it would leave a path of death and cancer below it; if it flew high, it would release heavily radioactive material into the upper atmosphere to land wherever the wind carried it. There's no practical way to pilot a plane of this design, and it would have been lethally dangerous for ground service crews too. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and abandoning the idea at that point, the Americans pushed on. What do you do with a plane that's too dangerous to have a pilot, chernobyls any runway it uses, and can never land because it would kill the ground crew? Why, kill all life on earth with it, of course. Unlike the Soviet nuclear powered bomber projects, the US continued development of their SLAM (Supersonic Low Altitude Missile) system after the introduction of ICBMs rendered the idea of a nuclear first strike bomber obsolete. It morphed from a first strike weapon to something more akin to a doomsday weapon; the idea was that in a period of imminent nuclear war, dozens of these could be launched to go loiter over the ocean outside Soviet airspace, potentially for weeks at a time, waiting for the Soviets to launch a first strike. The thought was that there was no way the Soviets could realistically shoot down all of them, even if they barraged the area they were suspected to be loitering with nuclear weapons; some would inevitably sneak through the net. And even one making it through would be a nightmare. In this application, the insanely radioactive exhaust and the danger of an exposed reactor was seen as a benefit; the SLAM would fly around at treetop level, screaming along at mach 3 and attacking as many cities as it could with it's thermonuclear weapons. Once it expended all of its nuclear armaments, it would be programmed to either continue to fly over Soviet territory, or to intentionally crash into something like a city, water reservoir or agricultural area. In the former case, it would circle around over the blasted remains of the Soviet Union, salting the earth with radioactive fallout until it either ran out of fuel and crashed, or until some surviving and very lucky air defense battery shot it down, at which point it would heavily contaminate whatever area it crashed into. In the latter case, the radioactive fuel aboard the plane would be used as a massive dirty bomb, intentionally poisoning the water or food supply with lethal radiation, or rendering a city (or the ruins thereof) uninhabitable for centuries. Either one wouldn't just kill the area under attack; it would make sure it could never recover, too. The goal was to make damned sure that any Soviet attack would result in the complete desolation of the Soviet Union, even if they managed to completely take out the US nuclear capability with a first strike. It also had the benefit of being unmanned; unlike a nuclear submarine or a manned bomber, they didn't have to worry about crewmen deciding *not* to commit a genocidal second strike if a Soviet attack had decapitated the US military command. There was no conscience to be considered here; once the cat was out of the bag, it would keep killing until it was physically unable to do so (and arguably for centuries afterwards). Truly ghoulish shit.

[@Leon_George]

​​​@@a.p.2356Damn, you've done a lot of research into this!

[@dennisyoung4631]

“… the shockwave would cast a mile-wide swath of destruction at ground level, and the heat of the exhaust would start a trail of firestorms in the resulting kindling…. Oh, and the radiation from the reactor would spice things up, too.”

[@savasolarov8424]

@@a.p.2356 Thank you for the informative comment. That is some really terrifying cold war stuff right there!

[@blitzzkrieg1400]

Mate, can you also make a video about Sweden's Saab Gripen? Thanks a lot

[@tieradlerch.217]

"We make sea plane now" "What engine" "Nuclear" "Where we put it?" "Nice question"

[@GabrielOrosco2500]

This aircraft was never meant to be a drone! The Myasishchev M-60 was to be a manned aircraft, but without external windows. Pilot's vision was provided by a periscope, and the pilots were inside a very shielded capsule. I have the documents from this project.

[@robertanthonybermudez5545]

Thank you for the squarespace video with some bits of soviet drone mixed in it. a little weird but entertaining. also very informative about squarespace

[@adamgroszkiewicz814]

To be fair, the US also designed one of these flying radiation pukers back in the 60's....they scrapped it believing that even producing the weapon would provoke the Soviets into striking.

[@xtz9510]

да да, и сверхзвуковое оружие они тоже имели уже в 60 годах, только оно до сих пор не летает как надо😂

[@adamgroszkiewicz814]

@@xtz9510 Росія будує сміття.

[@Per-MichaelJarnberg]

I would love to see more found n explained videos. This is by far the best KZbin channel

[@pseudotasuki]

Uncontrolled fission doesn't result in a nuclear explosion. Or, at least, not the kind you're talking about. The rapid increase in temperature from fissioning pulls the fuel apart, resulting in it becoming sub-critical and halting the reaction before much energy is released.

[@aurorajones8481]

Yea a dirty bomb. SBD 😆

[@user-et2dx5du7e]

I'm just a teenager so i can't say anything, but pretty sure fukusima exploded

[@pseudotasuki]

@@user-et2dx5du7e The explosions at Fukushima Daiichi were due to hydrogen gas leaking from the overheating reactors into their surrounding buildings. They weren't nuclear explosions in any way.

[@alexandergrimsmo]

@@pseudotasuki That's the official story. Even the spent fuel storage ponds went supercritical when it melted down into a "little" pool.

[@pseudotasuki]

@@alexandergrimsmo That never happened.

[@nullc0ntext]

If Project Pluto was a flying crowbar, this thing was a flying potato.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Huh?

[@Icspiders247]

​@John Karavitis Project Pluto was the United States effort to create nuclear powered ram jets for use in a similar project called Supersonic Low Altitude Missile.

[@joelhungerford8388]

Yeh isn't this just a response to SLAM

[@miou118google]

This is the content I dreamt of ! Thank you Found And Explained 👍

[@SledgeFox]

Project Pluto always fascinated me, that would be very interesting, thank you very much!

[@NavyDood21]

This seems like it is the Soviet version of the American SLAM. Not meaning like its a copy or anything, but that they fulfill some really similar roles.

[@hauntedcaptainphoenix5363]

I really wish people would stop living in fear of one another and forget about war their are no good or bad guys we are one family here on this earth when will you humans see that.

[@philiplivdan2297]

Beautifil models and animations, like always.

[@FoundAndExplained]

Thank you very much!

[@Thewayofgrass35]

This one of the only channels that actually interest me

[@Aussie_commando]

love this channel keep it up man

[@RandomAussie-dx9fj]

I just clicked on this and I was like "wat" when I saw the title.

[@sakuraslight]

Video starts at 3.00 😥😥

[@BGsModelWorkshop]

YES! definitely a video on Project Pluto please! 😊

[@Rider_Deez]

Bro the animation and cinematography are so good

[@lightspeedvictory]

Was wracking my brain throughout the video trying to remember the name of Project Pluto LOL Requesting videos on the following: -switchblade aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise (the concept, not the actual fighters I mentioned) -Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14 -the NATF program as a whole -early ATF proposals/McDonnell Douglas’ ATF proposal -Sea Apache -F-20 Tigershark -Bae SABA -Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal -Northrop’s proposal for what would become the F-117 Nighthawk -Interstate TDR -JSF proposals OTHER THAN the X-32 and X-35 -XFV-12 -Gloster Meteor -the proposals that didn’t win the F-X program that spawned the F-15 Eagle -Erado E.555 -model 853 quiet bird

[@MarkOctavian]

Well, Russia has just finished testing Burevesnik - a nuclear-powered cruise missile which can stay in the air for years.

[@michagrill9432]

Saw some drawings of this weird thing years ago and wondered wtf it was. Thx for explaining 😂

[@waverlh]

As for me, I don't care what you cover next. Your content is awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@Tsotha]

yeah this instantly struck me as a Warsaw Pact counterpoint to Project Pluto, however I've never heard of this until now - fascinating how many weird Soviet prototype aircraft I've discovered through this channel

[@heyhoe168]

Yep, I have never heard of both US and soviet variant until recently. My first thought was "it cant be real. It is too dangerous to do.". Then I learned humans ARE this stupid.

[@Tsotha]

it's straight out of Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"

[@captaindouchebag1703]

Nice! Would to see a video on Project Pluto!

[@andrewinsky1197]

What would the blades on the first stage of the turbine have been made of? The extreme temperatures generated by a normal jet engine already are a problem, I can't imagine what it would be like if it had even more heat...

[@modelermark172]

This video was very interesting and informative. Definitely make a companion video about America's Project Pluto SLAM. One thing that both America's Project Pluto and the Soviet M-60 had going against them from the developmental standpoint is exactly HOW do the engineers field test a flying, unshielded nuclear reactor? I remember reading an article (I don't remember the source) about Project Pluto that noted even the engineers working on the idea were blindsided by this question when the hardware phase was well underway. (I do remember one of the wilder ideas proposed was to fly Pluto in a big circle restrained by a VERY long steel tether cable like an Old-School U-Control model airplane.) I also hope that someone will come out with an (affordable) styrene injection-molded 1/72nd scale model of the M-60, one day . . . . Thanks for sharing this with us!

[@dannypipewrench533]

6:27 That is a big OOF right there.

[@akizeta]

Talking of nuclear-powered missiles, have you done a video on the _Burevestnik?_

[@devia1988]

F&E, destroyer of USSR aircraft design bureau pronunciation has returned

[@AaronShenghao]

The most terrifying thing is both sides considered use nuclear engines as a scorched earth tactic. Intentionally release nuclear pollution onto enemy fields…

[@rachetyclankoleg5979]

Nothing like watching a video from this wonderful channel, while the sun rises in this other part of the world, ¡¡fantastic!!. PSST: Good luck!!!.

[@arduinoguru7233]

I guess the name *Found And Advertised* is suitable name for this channel.

[@plumtube01]

Drawing straws to fly that one.

[@kieranmilner4208]

I’d love to see a video on project Pluto also known as the grand slam it’s such a crazy doomsday weapon

[@NHX610]

Superb graphics!

[@cesarvidelac]

Me atrevo a agregar una curiosidad... Los ingleses recibieron algunos Corsair para sus portaaviones en el Atlántico, tuvieron los mismos problemas de entrada en pérdida y resolvieron el problema aterrizando en curva. En lugar de acercarse directamente por la popa del portaciones, se aproximaban en ángulo, mirando el portaaviones por el costado de la cabina. Luego hacían un viraje y tocaban pista al final del viraje. Recordarás que un viraje produce resistencia, baja la velocidad del avión, pero usando los flaps te puedes acercar al portaaviones a un ángulo de ataque no tan pronunciado, sin arriesgarte a entrar en pérdida y con el motor dando suficiente potencia para mejorar el control. Gracias a esta maniobra tanto los ingleses como los americanos pudieron usar el Corsair embarcado. Gran video como siempre!

[@oler777]

Skip to three minutes in3:00 to miss the 2 adds

[@Mr_Lukasgrim]

Could you make a video about the Tacit blue or Have blue?

[@strangeplanet8313]

Those soviets had been watching too much of the Thunderbirds.

[@Wedgetail14]

Looking at the title and thumbnail like "Ohhh... THIS ought to be a good one."

[@cbdrift]

looks like a "thunderbird" from the original tv series :)

[@erasmus_locke]

So basically it was the SLAM but Russian Aka the same as the American version but 4x bigger

[@breadloafbrad]

Huh good timing to open my subscriptions

[@andrewreynolds912]

I would love to see a vid on project Pluto

[@GuremaManaba]

The thumbnail says "Terror Drone" Me: is this Red Alert 2?

[@winstonsmith7801]

Looks like something out of the Thunderbirds.

[@robertanthonybermudez5545]

crazy idea at 5:30 and 6:38 points are mentioned twice. these part of the video is poorly written. except for the squarespace ads. that was great! can you create more square space ad videos?

[@Silver_Prussian]

The russians are currently developing the burevestnik missile (stormbringer) which is seaid to use am engine powered by nuclear energy.

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I have a feeling that it’s just a propaganda thing. Even if they are trying to develop a nuclear powered missile the Russian military is so corrupt that it probably will never get built.

[@bobshaw8558]

the flying sub crashed between Canada and Maine in the late 60's took about two weeks to rescue the thing the Newspaper's called a USO/UFO.

[@digarian007]

Yes, please do Project Pluto and discuss the nuclear drones at the end. If not a lot of information on drones, maybe have the video cover all 3.

[@user-cb2df9zy6d]

In the USSR, there was a concept of a nuclear car, with drawings, calculations, and so on.

[@intuitivme]

Yes for for a video on project Pluto

[@afterlife697]

I would really like to see you cover the IL-40 really awesome looking aircraft

[@christianharris4800]

Nuclear powered Global Hawk sounds interesting

[@brucebaxter6923]

They trialed it. It used an X-ray beam to turn on and off the nuclear reaction. I forget the details but it didn’t have daughter isotopes and when not stimulated it was stable.

[@v.a.d1784]

Please make a video on Soviet Union ground effective aircraft carrier CCCP 🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@peterkotara]

You realise we're talking about the country whose army put cardboard sheets in its bulletproof vests.

[@roryrdmb6667]

4:35 wow! I didn’t know the Fireflash from Thunderbirds was a real thing!

[@Shinzon23]

100% yes for SLAM and PLUTO; the entire project was bonkers nuts in what was trying to be done,, but the tech developed has uses in the nuclear rocket fields, NERVA stuff.

[@suopwith]

“It flies Ivan, I swear”

[@andrerousseau5730]

Yep, do PLUTO ('Polluto'!)

[@robertkerr4199]

I love the attitude of, "why risk the possible loss of a multimillion dollar airplane when we can guarantee the loss of a multimillion dollar missile?" To save a life, I guess.. gee thanks. Now when the millions of people get vaporized, we can all rest easy knowing a pilot wasn't put at risk....

[@indridcold8433]

Fun fact: It takes Uranium 235 to get the chain reaction mentioned in the video. Sorry, the yellowcake uranium you find outside is not fissionable. You will have to enrich it first.

[@PhalanxFPV]

Im currently watching this at 1am in melbourne

[@georgeshulga]

Great video! Just a question - there is nowhere in the video explained how this uav would be controlled (unless I missed it). If it’s been developed in 50s - there were not even microchips produced then, the simple computers occupied rooms. If the operational control was simply based on the ww2 era tech (V rocket giros etc), this drone would simply be akin to later Strizh type uav’s (developed in 70s), so no fancy manoeuvring that is shown in the video, just simply one way mission to drop the load. This kind of explains better why the development of ballistic rockets (end of the video) pretty much cancelled the development of the program in both states.

[@Celler2]

3:22 to skip the chatter. Refresh 2x times, after skip to avoid the ads.

[@paulmartin7241]

Please do a video on SLAM / Project Pluto

[@theheroweneededbutdidntdeserve]

The BIG MUSHROOM

[@everypitchcounts4875]

Can we get a video on Hermeus or the mutant missile

[@Year2047]

Yes. Project Pluto Please

[@r5bc]

Project Pluto next! Or the USA nuclear drone

[@Thegamer-rr7gk]

Weird time to bring up your shop... But okay😂

[@TheSpearkan]

Ah yes, the 1950's, or as Explosionsandfire call it, the pre-60's.

[@P3x310]

3:41 For some strange reason I love the idea of receiving product orders stylized as an overly aggressive propaganda poster.

[@drgonzo305]

This is like a tamed down version of America’s SLAM nuclear cruise missile except Russia’s knock off isn’t loud enough to kill people

[@jimsvideos7201]

For a nuclear detonation you still need very fine control over what happens.

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

4:34 the bullpup airplane

[@pixelnazgul]

For how long does the atom reactor temperature keep increasing? Is it possible to build an unmeltable reactor? If you throw enough money at it...

[@makeromaniagreatagain9697]

Even the Tsar tank was a better idea than this. Hell even the dogs with bomb vests from WW2 were a better idea than this.

[@SaintMarneusCalgar]

3 mins till the video actually starts... i miss the old youtube

[@everTriumph]

A gas turbine has a typical jet pipe temperature of 800C. A nuclear heater would have to heat air to about the same temperature. Not being able to produce the temperature of a flame (if not failing) the nuclear core would have to operate at well over 1000C, and to keep weight within limits the core would have to be nearly naked. US experiments in the 50's and 60's basically gave up due to the weight needed to make the core safe. So a core, glowing yellow/white hot with little mechanical integrity due to the elevated temperatures takes in cold air and heats it to about 800C to power a turbine, to in turn drive a compressor. Oooh! the thermal stresses. Now Uranium is famous in DU rounds for burning fiercely when heated by friction penetrating T72's and similar. I would think chemical stability of the core would similarly be degraded when operating. So I think the super-weapon is one with a highly probable lethality for the user in the first instance.

[@alanarmitage6706]

I think the US Airforce tried a nuclear bomber as well as the Soviets

[@NickJaime]

Also the Soviets are the guys who are its good enough send it. Just think how a bomber spewing radiation out the back would our world look now? I can't even think of a crash the plane and the incident that would happen after. The Soviets were never much on safety so this plane has all kinds of horrible all over it.

[@johnmorley6844]

The Russians have Burevestnik. A nuclear powered cruise missile that can stay up almost indefinitely. I thought was what this video was going to be about.

[@staffancallert]

Nuclear powered drone on an aircraft, fluid engine looks fantastic, I believe it when I see it on other sites than youtube

[@akiramiller9025]

Nuclear aircrafts where tried but failed when people stopped doing drugs to realize flying Nuclear reactor was a retarded idea

[@Otokichi786]

2:55 All the Squares are in the Gulag.

[@NoName-sb9tp]

The flying 3.6 roentgenator. Not great, not terrible.

[@gabrielb9010]

Congrats for reacting 520.000 subscribers

[@FoundAndExplained]

Huge thank you! Appreciate all your support always

[@domcomfermi609]

Bet they call it Chernobyl.

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Usa should build a plane to space using this.

[@forbiddenera]

Captions keep saying MasterChef lolol

[@OmarKhanUK]

All I can see is the FIrey Phoenix from Gatchaman/ Battle of the Planets!

[@XLA-zg1nn]

CCCP PLUTO, Do a vid on the US PLUTO