Could use that to pick my mother-in-law up for church on Sunday

@tomasneel1980

3 ай бұрын

And drop her off? Lmao

@carycoller3140

2 ай бұрын

​?​@@tomasneel1980😂

Insane when you think the engine output was pretty close to the output normally seen in Gas Turbine powered Destroyers.

@DMSparky

5 ай бұрын

Well I mean a lot of the western destroyers have LM2500's which are a derivative of the 1970's GE CF6 aircraft engine... If the west wanted to produce a 25000hp helicopter engine they would have but they had no need.

@BasedTruthSeeker

5 ай бұрын

@@DMSparkylearn when to give up and just appreciate a machine. Not everything is a d*ck measuring contest

It is unfortunate that the airframe was not used to develop the Hotelicopter!

@subwayfacemelt4325

5 ай бұрын

You Sir/Madam fully deserve a ROFLcopter. I don't know how to make them so you'll have to go and get your own. If I had one lying around, I would give it to you, promise.

Soviets: We need something to hide our nukes from the Americans. Also Soviets: Lets unveil it at an airshow.

@mbpaintballa

4 ай бұрын

Soviets: we can't feed our people and invade our neighbors Also Soviets: why are our people fleeing, and why do our neighbors hate us?

@byteresistor

4 ай бұрын

The truth was that the soviets didn't have some super secret advanced technology that could compete with the americans so they tried showing off by unveiling their "secret" projects to the public.

@slackerman9758

3 ай бұрын

They needed the helicopters so we couldn’t be sure which silos had missiles. Letting us know that they had a helicopter let everyone else know that it would be a shell game.

@thundercactus

3 ай бұрын

Because the Soviets were on the back foot technologically and in terms of production, their mantra for military technology was very much "What's the point of developing a new weapon if nobody knows you have it?" Their military ideology has always been the APPEARANCE of strength over actual strength. They'd even show off prototype aircraft at airshows.

@slackerman9758

3 ай бұрын

@@thundercactus They flew a prototype aircraft to the US with Khrushchev aboard (Tu-114). Had to station ships along its path since it had a high probability of splashing down.

USSR - We need a massive, powerful aircraft that will haul top secret cargo so the Americans won't suspect anything Also USSR - Let's show off this massive, powerful aircraft at public air shows all over Europe!

@kentonian

5 ай бұрын

As it turns out they were and are(now Russia) a paper tiger. Most of their equipment Well underperforming western expectations let along their own propaganda.

@zaqwsxxswqaz3877

2 ай бұрын

Но, США ведь демонстрировали на авиашоу свой самолёт-невидимку?

@TheReckoningBeginsToday

2 ай бұрын

Russians always show their hand. If they show it off. Its the only one they have. It was used as propaganda threat. Not a functional military threat.

@TheReckoningBeginsToday

2 ай бұрын

@@zaqwsxxswqaz3877When you see a US spy plane at an air show, its about seven versions older than the one really being used.

You can still see the upper side of one of the two from a suburban train when passing near Panki station from behind the fence of the helicopter factory where it was built.

Eine total beeindruckende Doku!💪💪💪 👍😎🇦🇹

@DON666

2 ай бұрын

Bitte was? Allein schon diese schreckliche KI-Übersetzung mit der grausamen KI-Stimme, die ständig das Tempo wechselt, macht mich fertig...

Although no more than a mockup model, same design team came with even larger, and even more insane transport helicopter. Mi-32 was to be built on a basis of a triangle, with 3 giant rotors (potentially even larger than these featured on V-12), each powered by either two or TWO PAIRS of turbines, and with maximum load of 150 tons.

@StefanBlagojevic

5 ай бұрын

@Vatharian Just checked it online, absolutely incredible. I knew about Mil Mi-30 Vintoplan, but not this behemoth. Good read, thanks.

@rumpelstiltskin6965

5 ай бұрын

This was informational!!! Cheers!! 👍

@GerinoMorn

4 ай бұрын

Were they planning a helicarrier? :D

Looking at that makes the aircraft made for "Thunderbirds" not seem so outlandish!

@Dr-Weird

5 ай бұрын

Wow. Core memory. I forgot they had this stuff

@livinginvancouverbc2247

5 ай бұрын

Thunderbird technology was the best! Who else had the coolest looking craft that could fly from space to underwater?

@TeddyBear-ii4yc

5 ай бұрын

@@livinginvancouverbc2247 I watched one the other night about blackmailed scientists breaking into a nuclear something. When IR gets the call they send Thunderbirds 1 & 2. So when the ramp goes down on 2, I'm saying "oh they'll use the 'mole' to dig them out" 🙂 They didn't... they had a mini-JCB with a lazer fitting to cut thru the steel doors. I won't spoil the ending about if they made it in time... 🙂

Russian helicopters are in a class of their own. They are super humongous.!!! Even as a cessna pilot I just wonder how they can even fly at all.

@user-hf7jp2lt5x

5 ай бұрын

Early helicopter aerodynamicists realised that if the air vehicle was ugly enough, the earth rejected it.

So sad to see it die so young... Great engineering...

Power is also perception, which is why they unveiled it.

The engineers must have been a) immensely proud of their design and b) glad to have not been executed for failing.

@MAGGOT_VOMIT

5 ай бұрын

Same is true for NATO's plandemic.

@kendallevans4079

5 ай бұрын

All that design work with nothing more than an abacus 🧠

@mbpaintballa

4 ай бұрын

@@kendallevans4079 too bad that abacus couldn't be used to improve the economy

@antonkvit7722

3 ай бұрын

Comments like this just show your complete ignorance of history. The USSR under Stalin and after Stalin were two very different countries. Nobody was being executed for failing projects in the 70's.

@kendallevans4079

3 ай бұрын

@@mbpaintballaYour not good at understanding conversations, are you?

Meanwhile, the Osprey can't safely carry 20 soldiers reliably.

@happilyham6769

3 ай бұрын

Osprey is a far more complicated machine.

@crazytrain7114

3 ай бұрын

@@happilyham6769 To everyones detriment.

@howardhughes6212

Ай бұрын

@@happilyham6769 complex weapons are garbage. Two most reliable firearms in history are the Glock and the AK. Both are reliable because of simplicity

@riv9739

27 күн бұрын

​@@happilyham6769 It's not about that, but safety and efficiency 😂😂😂

@mikrich76

20 күн бұрын

Flying death trap

10:24 cameraman got distracted 😂

@The-Cat

5 ай бұрын

I nah probably the wind caught him off guard... is what official documentation states what had happened. Don't mess with soviet wives even from the grave they can rough their husband up

@stephentroup7943

26 күн бұрын

Every once in awhile you need to be reminded what you're fighting for!

Companies can build an Osprey. It’s another thing to believe that the young folks in the military can understand it’s repair when the repair manuals are classified. Civilians can watch watch on with a sense of disbelief or horror. It doesn’t change anything since humans are disposable assets.

And it just sits there, outside at a museum without a purpose 😔

@livinginvancouverbc2247

5 ай бұрын

If it's at a museum then it has a purpose.

Humanity can create whatever they imagine,all they need are engineers and unlimited money.

@HrSamstag

2 ай бұрын

No, it's exactly the opposite: limited money. That's what keeps the value, if at all. "Unlimited money" is the epitome of fiat money (vice versa), the main design error deliberately created by central bankers (= _anti-money_ engineers), which led to the fateful state that only those engineers who work for the war and mass destruction weapons industry - the military industrial complex - are the ones who have unlimited possibilities. Bitcoin fixes this.

Excellent as usual. Thanks a lot

Fascinating. Thank you. 👍🏻

Enhorabuena primera vez te escuchó en español!!! Saludos

All this work for a country with huge mountain ranges and you get a service ceiling of 11,000 ft

@bruhmania7359

5 ай бұрын

russia is mostly low tundra and bogs

@FarmerDrew

5 ай бұрын

@@bruhmania7359 they wanted Georgians to have to come to Russia to see this, because it sure was not going to be cruising the Caucasus Mountains

My wish: Please add data in SI-units to these in imperial-units, because the most part of the world uses them.

@stevenkelby2169

5 ай бұрын

*the entire world, apart from 3 backwards countries...

@eat_a_dick_trudeau

5 ай бұрын

Do you want him to cut the crusts off of your sandwiches as well?

@AngelFonte

Ай бұрын

The vast majority of the world uses the metric system. You Americans believe you are the navel of the universe.

This chopper still holds a few world records this many years later… WOWOWOWOWOw😮😮😮😮😮

This helicopter has a greater lift capability than the C-130 Hercules.

@FarmerDrew

5 ай бұрын

This couldn't even fly over a mountain range

@robgrey6183

5 ай бұрын

Updated C-130's are STILL in common use. Russian monstrosities sit rotting in overgrown fields they call "museums".

@michaelchristensen5421

5 ай бұрын

@@robgrey6183 I ise to work and fly on C-130's in the Navy. That is why I said it had a greater lifting capacity than the Herc did.

@darrellcook8253

5 ай бұрын

How does it perform under combat? Or at mountain clearing altitude? Bigger is not always better. And it makes for a tempting target. Too many political failures, so much damage done. Oh yeah, what's its range loaded?

@kentonian

5 ай бұрын

If the Ukrainian war has taught us anything, it is that most claims of soviet/Russia technical performance are well over stated

By looking at this video the background pictures are recognisable as mountains of Guadalcanal in Solomon islands, where Henderson airfield is located. Great place to visit the WW2 relics . Great history.

The opposing rotor rotation results in neutral torque but yaw was actually performed by opposing cyclic same as the CH-47 i.e. one rotor applies forward cyclic and the other applies rearward cyclic at the same time turning the aircraft one way or the other. (on the CH-47 yaw is performed by left/right cyclic due to the longitudinal configuration of the rotors). This is transparent to the pilot, the controls work exactly the same as a single rotor helicopter.

@bellytripper-nh8ox

4 ай бұрын

Replying to @atomicskull6405: **DARZHNARZHFLERZHERZHERVLE? DARZHNARZHERLARBLEFLARVERZHARFLERVERZHAZHER??**

My absolute favorite rotorcraft,bought the 1/72 Amodel kit of the v-12 shame it did t make production series.would make a great flying crane with a front gondola,but I digress…

Ivan: "Dmitri, it's your turn. The commode is backed up." Dmitri: "Dah! but Ivan we are flying over Moscow. Wait until Omsk so we can dump the radioactive 'pudding' over the city. No one will complaint about Omsk, but Moscow...."

A very good episode many thanks.

Great video

The Osprey sure looks similar to that.

Informative as always. Great video. As per usual.

It is absolutely excellent as usual. Bravo best Docu-Channels on the Tube.

Primera vez que escucho un video de Uds en español, bastante bueno!. Felicitaciones!. First time I hear one of your videos in Spanish. Thank you very much!

Russia wrote the book on helicopters.

Gran video

The Russians have an ability to make equipment that looks like it's been drawn by a 5 year old child.

@codyblade7872

2 ай бұрын

Reckon you can do better ? 😂

@riv9739

26 күн бұрын

And can even defeat clowns with washing machine chips 😂😂😂😂

Excellent, thanks.

I saw it in person at monino before the pandemic and yes this thing is MASSIVE

nice documentary video

Sounds an awful lot like Convair’s B 58 Hustler… obsolete by the time it was ready to go. One more amazing and unprecedented machine that answered a question that no one was asking anymore.

This is the coolest video made in a while by Dark Skies. Definitely my favorite so far!

Plural of “craft” is “craft” not “crafts”.

@ernieszelepcsenyi5710

5 ай бұрын

Hearing crafts instead of craft makes my ears bleed. LOL

very good

Love Soviet engineering, mostly mind blowingly bold

Main reason why this helicopter failed: there were two, not three. One to carry a missile, one to carry its warhead, and the most important third for carrying vodka was missing

@kendallevans4079

5 ай бұрын

That is on-site/every-site!🍻🍸🍾

Einfach Spitze

Why haven’t they perfected it and kept that thing going is what I wonder it’s massive and seems like they could use it in many applications

Cool.

Fascinating episode, I don't know very much about the old Soviet military system. Please make more of this 0:15

Great narration, very good choice of words, well spoken.

In limited production there is some rich folks that would buy the air yacht. I would love to see the climate convention attendees be brazen enough to fly one into Geneva.

The Osprey concept isn't new and it's very dangerous. I'm glad the Marines just grounded the whole fleet. They should give up on the Osprey concept completely. There never gonna work. They've been trying a long time.

This craft is what inspired the the US' Osprey

Impressive as always! Great research!

Impressive AI speech for Spanish version! Nice documentary indeed!

@atunaco

5 ай бұрын

Impresionante como mantiene el timbre y la entonación originales en un español muy cercano al europeo. Con todo la IA todavía no ha llegado al tema de la pronunciación del alfabeto y los acrónimos en Español, espero que no se le enreden mucho las diferencias entre el español de América y el de Europa.

That dual-rotor Soviet machine, the one we clearly took inspiration from for the V-22 Osprey, the way it sent the scientists and researchers scrambling to find a purpose for such a machine, was precisely what it was intended to do lol send the Americans scrambling with shock and awe. The Soviet Union, they truly were powerful and could've been a real beast had they not eaten themselves from within.

This channel rocks

The soviets always had to go huge.

Your videos are outstanding. Production quality is on par with any documentary I've seen. Kudos to you!

There is a video I watched where they take like 200 people up in them to this day but why not keep making it better

I just love the idea that in the thumbnail picture some designers babushka insisted on having curtains installed lmao

I was inside V-12. It’s mind-blowing

Maintenance on this must have been insane, aggravating and annoying.

Cool rifle but I think I’d prefer the Unitah Precision so I can choose my own furniture kit

Just think of all the massive tunnels under the states that go for hundreds of miles everywhere that no one knows much about.

I wonder how many hundred pounds of fuel it burned for every minute in flight?

10:24 "Youre just recording the helicopter, arent you darling?" Silently pans camera upwards to rotors...

With the nuumber and severity of wild fires do to global warming I think that this helicopter could find a great use in modern times and once it is used for firefighting to make it cheaper you could also build some for military and a far larger commercial market. A modern heavily modified Mil Mi-12 would be a game changer for building in hostile places.

very good video

9:08 "...required extensive training to master adequately"... As opposed to mastering it inadequately?...

My only question… what did that beast sound like?🤤

Looks like a Rotodyne.

como helicoptero de combate de incendios habría sido espectacular

I like the metamorphosis.

You're telling me they were scrambling to find out the purpose of a nuclear missile sized helicopter 👀 come on now CIA

Pretty sure they made an even larger 4 prop as a prototype.

Die Geschichte ist sehr interessant. Schade, das zum Ende hin die Bezeichnungen verenglischt wurden. Gutes Video 🙂

Imagine how long they knew the planes were spying on them before they finally decided to start shooting them down

@user-sk7fl3wp3d

2 ай бұрын

Как разработали ракету, способную достать U-2, так и стали их сбивать, это было большим сюрпризом для пилотов этих самолетов и они перестали летать.

Im Jahr Eintausendeinundsiebzig. :) Kleiner Fehler, aber trotz KI-Stimme sehr interessante Doku.

La inmensa URSS y su legado ....

Again Dark Skies highlighting something in the picture showing something....

@NoInfoFound

5 ай бұрын

Exactly. Showing... Something...

If this was a flying building the Airbus A380 is a flying village.

WHEN I SAY TUCK CARLSON YOU SAY BENS FAVORITE NEWS MAKERUPPER 😂😂😂

They only ever built two of them. Just like the SU-57's, and T-14 tanks!

“Helicopters for USSR not just vehicles,it’s a lifestyle” True😂❤

This thing could have carried a 105 mm cannon like the AC-130.

Surprised it wasn’t compared to modern day Chinook

They always want to boast the biggest, largest, etc. But why aren't they still in service?

I was next to it. The tires are about 6 feet tall.

The wall coming down anyway

I saw this IRL in Monino Air Base in 2019

The same Paris-Airshow? The 1973 Paris Airshow where their Tupolev Tu-144 crashed killing all on board? Yeah, I think no one will forget the Soviet performance that day. 🙄😟😥

Russian tech is breathtaking, was and will be.

sometimes, public investment can be less burocratic

Why did they goto all the trouble to make the rotors sync and miss each other instead of just moving them slightly further apart?

@primitiveroad3422

5 ай бұрын

Stability and structural integrity. The farther apart they are, the more strain put on the center and less stability when airborne

@livinginvancouverbc2247

5 ай бұрын

The rotors had to be in synch to fly without a tail rotor.

@darrellcook8253

5 ай бұрын

That way its easier to discern rotor rpm differences when they inexplicably collide with extreme vigor. Let the crashing begin!

Please don't slide down the path others have taken, with an excess of superlatives and flowery language, as has crept into this video. Your short and generally punchy narration is one of the reasons I enjoy your videos. I didn't enjoy this one anywhere near as much as normal.

First step vs the Osprey

6:45 that really looks like an X-15 going up the back ramp of a Russian helicopter. What gives?

@j.griffin

5 ай бұрын

That’s not an X-15. An X-15 has a 22’ wingspan. That may sound narrow but for comparison, a C-5 Galaxy cargo bay is “only” 19’ wide. An X-15 has a huge rectangular vertical stabilizer in comparison with the horizontal stabilizers. The “horizontal” stabilizers actually aren’t even horizontal- they slope downward diagonally like those on an F-4 Phantom. Also, if you go look at some line drawings of the X-15 there is a horizontal “stabilizer” (for lack of a better word-I’m sure that the engineers called it something else) that is part of the body on both sides that starts up front and actually runs all the way down the sides of the plane from which the main wings and the horizontal stabilizers extend. I believe that this came from lifting body research. There is a “three view drawing” under Specifications on the X-15 page on Wikipedia- look at that and you’ll see how different these two planes are. This is a much smaller,simpler plane- the empennage is conventionally shaped, as is the nose and wings, albeit much smaller than average. Remember- the XLR-99 engine was the most powerful horizontally operated throttle-able rocket ever built. The Soviets had nothing that was ever even close.

@mipmipmipmipmip

5 ай бұрын

First thought was a cut-up f104 but it's too small

@maxshep2829

5 ай бұрын

Possibly a large anti-ship missile?