Maybe if they hadn't spent so much money on military ridiculousness Soviet might have still existed today. Instead the Russians make the same mistake again. Is it bad genes, or has it something to do with excessive vodka consumption?
It’s really not. They had MiG-29s and Su-27s, but they weren’t flying in large numbers. You can tell in the video that MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and Su-15s still made up the backbone of the fleet. The US had also gotten better about counterintelligence. the West wasn’t at war with their allies, so the Soviets weren’t recovering technology from wrecks either. Instead they were being fed rejected western designs.
I've got favourites from all over the world, but there's something that's always fascinated me about the Soviet era, and how much was achieved in spite of the kind of limitations/expectations placed on these design teams......and everyone else.
Another wonderful, informative documentary coverage video about the past USSR Air Force .. (Mike Guardia) channel always selecting & sharing super qualified documentaries about military , warfare,Warfield ....video labeled that most famous airplane ✈️ designer's & excellent pilots ,they were residents from non Russian Soviets Republicans. video labeled to successful training of pilots & air defenses systems were independent systems ....thanks for sharing...
It's not a documentary it's propaganda. By 1988 it wouldn't have been hard to find flaws in the Soviet Military, yet the program has non of that - only praise.
After this visit to Finland in 1986 a MiG-29 detachment from Kubinka visited Kuopio (EHKU) and Fighter Squadron 31 again in august 1989 . They held static display and also a solo-airshow. Funny thing happened as the fighter experienced brake-shoot failure and ended up at the net in the end of the runway after boiling its brakes.
It baffles me, that a western documentary about the soviet air force from 1988 is less biased than pretty much any modern documentary I've seen in a long while
Less biased? Bro this is nothing but a Soviet propaganda reel designed to justify western spending with footage and script readily provided by the USSR to showcase its apparent strength. Most of what you see was junk maned by conscripts. Laughable content, like the claim that the MiG-29 radar outperforms that of the F-18.
Its because this was produced by the Soviet Union. There was a lot of western facing propaganda produced. The US and NATO also produced a lot of eastern facing propaganda as well. Its not just for internal consumption.
@@Noubers Still lots of propaganda everywhere yes, this video being a great example. However the Soviet Union had largely opened up to the west under Gorbachev by this point, particularly in the late 80s. Wasn't like the 60s where intelligence on the Soviet Union was much harder to come by.
@@thomervin7450 Ok here is how it works, according to IPA, Russians say ɐ, Americans say ə, and this guy is going ɔ. Nobody is saying it the same but the American vowel is much closer in sound and mouth movement. The narrator has a weird accent.
GPS has its origins in the Sputnik era when scientists were able to track the satellite with shifts in its radio signal known as the "Doppler Effect. lol
The Russians today are still using unguided rockets - in addition to more modern weapons. In reality if the pilot knows how to employ them, simple rockets can be a pretty effective weapons against the right targets, at a fraction of the price of more sophisticated systems.
Several NATO countries -US included- still relied heavily in unguided munitions and Vietnam era planes like the F-4 phantom until 92. In gulf war most of the air to ground weapons used were unguided...
Why not. The USSR fought the Nazis from 1941 to 1945. Every day in battles that were larger than DDay. The equivelant of 5 D Days at the same time using land, air, and sea power. I am sure he also means tactical bombing of strategic sites on the eastern front. The US was not engaged in tactical contact with the Nazis till 1944, and the contact in Libya was manly Italian forces. The Allies didn't actively bomb Germany till 1943, and in '43 Le May halted bombing as the 8th Airforce was " massacred" over Schweinfurt as their losses exceeded 10%. The 8th only resumed bombing in 1944 when they got the P51 with their drop tanks. I have always wondered how the allies had the luxury of postponing operations when the USSR did not get that option. Which gives some insight into how serious the fighting on the Eastern front was and also explains the high casualties.
@@johnweerasinghe4139 Why not? Just go and look at the heavy bomber production and sortie rates of the western allies vs the soviets. The western allies dropped many many many times as many bombs on the Germans than the soviets. This is simply a soviet production, there are several nonsensical claims in this video, cool footage though!
This breaks from being Soviet Propaganda at times and ventures into the realm of straight up comedy! The part about a 9-12 SLOTBACK 1 out-performing the APG-65 really had me laughing!
@Alan Gordon it 100% is. Written entirely to glorify Soviet aviation. I served 21 years in the US Air Force and I can tell you categorically that the majority of the BS claims about capabilities in this film is outright BS. It was made entirely to promote what the Soviets wanted the world to *think* they were capable of. We already knew it was crap.
Reading the comments I'm unsure weather anyone here is aware of the fact that this movie is hysterical soviet propaganda. I mean, it's a movie filmed on soviet military bases in the 80s - it had to get approved by the kgb lol
5:13 I looked it up and this is not true at all. In total, 7,158 Soviet aircraft dropped 6,700 tonnes of bombs on Germany during the war, 3.1% of Soviet bomber sorties, 0.5% of all Allied "strategic" sorties against German-occupied territory and 0.2% of all bombs dropped on it.
i remeber when i was a kid watchign it on vhs thinking that sounded odd but then i listen to that bit again and i wonder if its like lost in translation thing and maybe it meant the put down more bombs on the Germans than the entire weight of the allied air forced combine ... if by that the meant not the weight of all the bombs dropped but the allies but the weight of the planes themselves? but even then thats still doesn't sound plausible but i never did find a satisfactory answer and even if that is what they ment thats a weird comparison to make .. tho if true still an impressive one
Yeah, but Mikoyan went to Moscow university to become an engineer to start with…. So technically he was Russian made specialist, if not there would’ve been another talented guy from Russia, so what’s your point??? There are smart ppl in any country but without schools and universities, all that talent equals nothing! Main intellectual brain CPU in ussr was and is Moscow and St. Petersburg, everything you see was designed and developed there, they built all factories in Ukraine for example and other states. As proof of it you can see nothing was developed in other former ussr countries after usssr collapse, but in Russia new things were developed and still going strong, but look at others: Ukraine sold anything from usssr they could in the 90s, so in 2000 Ukraine army was not existent, everything was stolen or sold to other countries😂 don’t forget Ukraine was VERY VERY strong during ussr with lots of nukes etc.
Tragic to think that Hitler's dream of destroying the USSR would come true a few years later. And the West would cheer Hitler's dream come to fruition, revealing their true allegiances.
Do you know what means word "intervention"? That's what Soviet Russia was experienced when so called "allies" came. There were 14 of them, 14 foreign countries invaded in Soviet Russia.
**From the East. Back then, there were still one or two ahead of the Soviets. Now, the russian doesn't even make the top 20 air forces in the world. They've really nosed dived this decade.
Interesting video but it seems to be very pro-soviet. If this is a soviet made video meant for western audiences then I'm amazed, I never knew they produced anything like this before.
It's a US doc. They are describing the USSR's air power and organization, there's nothing pro or anti soviet about it (unlike everything we see on the news today, which picks it's political slant before doing any actual research or filming).
The military industrial complex had averted interest in making us think the Soviet's capabilities were so much stronger than ours. It justified unlimited investments.
@@williamyoung9401 Which is why it failed, and it also cost them the battle of Britain. Precisely because this is something it is ill-equipped to do, instead of focusing on radar stations and airfields, they turned a minor victory into a decisive defeat
Can someone explain the sentence at 4:08 for me? Did America and Britian give them fighters or did the allies have pilots flying in their great patriotic war?
The "Great Patriotic War" is how Russians and many in the former Soviet republics refer to WWII. The allied nations provided huge amounts of military equipment and supplies under Lend Lease agreements, which is widely regarded as changing the course of Germany's fortunes in the war on the eastern front (among other factors such as most German troops and equipment being thoroughly unprepared for Russian winters).
The Soviet Union liked to release carefully edited footage to show off to their adversaries. Most countries with even a token military do the same thing.
Su 27 Flanker, Su 25 Frogfoot, Su 24Fencer, Su 17 Fitter series totally ignored in the video. I've always wondered why Soviet VVS needs so many ground attack aircraft's whos role were more or less the same! Example: Su 25 and Mig 27 both were for close air support and attack role, then Su 17 and Mig 23MF Flogger B both were frontline fighter bomber/attack aircraft's.
"to suggest so would be flying in the face of evidence" hahahahahahaahahahah HAHAHAHAHAHAHA At least there it was made clear this was Soviet propaganda. Still entertaining to watch lol
I’ll use an example for each type shown in this documentary. MiG-21 is a Gen 2 airframe Mig-25 is a Gen 2+++ (kind of bridges between 2 and 3 Mig-23 is a Gen 3 Mig-29 is a Gen 4 Su-27 is a Gen 4 Western airframes F-4 Gen 2 F-14 Gen 3+++ F-15 Gen 4 F-16 Gen 4 F-18 Gen 4 Modern fighters such as Su-35/F-15X/Rafel/Typhoon are Gen 4 +++ And F-22//F-35/Su-57 are Gen 5
I find that hilarious that all these keyboard Warriors are judging the Soviet Air Force of the 1980s by comparing it to the pathetic Russian Air Force of today It’s like assessing the capabilities of the 1942 Wehrmacht based on bundeswehr of 1950s And mind you the Ukrainians were an integral part of the Soviet military machine at that time
Yeah there's def a lot of uninformed takes here. Doesn't mean the Soviet Air Force was any good lol. Even back then their pilots would get half the flight hours NATO pilots did. Not to speak of the technological superiority the US enjoyed in the latter part of the cold war.
@@Lepo4256 VVS was nothing compared to western airforces in a one on one comparison. But numbers and nukes were expected to make up for their deficiencies in skills.
@@Lepo4256VVS was designed to fight WW3. Pilots and planes would be demolished by the thousands in a real war. A veteran nato pilot is not worth more than 10 average pilots.
Nah, far from it. At least it worked fairly well as an aircraft, even if it had bad range, speed and couldn't really carry any weapons. There are plenty of examples that couldn't even get the first part right. But sure, as a combat aircraft it was pretty much useless.
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yeah, if they're conscription or under-trained pilot, that's won't tell the same thing, but who else can knows, so in the world, nobody and no one is the best, that all.
Ooohhh.....noooo...this is too much information about the USSR for western audiences especially those who've never heard of the Eastern Front. This is mind-blowing to most. " The Soviets can make jets and bombers .."? Wow .....the confusion and the Cold War projections can be seen in the comments......😅😅😅😅😅
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Look at a map from 1939. Germany had no Land-Border with the Soviet Union, so they had to go through Poland (which was under protection of the UK). Invading by air & sea only wasn't really an option.
they have vodka bottles mounted to nato planes with little parachutes to hopefully convince the soviet pilots to eject. i heard they put like a 20 foot tall streamer on it that says "vodka" so they don't miss it, and that it was a little tricky to get the text to display right in groom lake trials
That russian lie about The Yak fighters always gets me they don't sort out the difference between products the Boeing Company made the most heavy bombers with the B17 and 29 but they are Boeing bombers
Yak-1, Yak-3, Yak-7 and Yak-9, which are essentially the same plane, is indeed the most produced fighter of all times. You generally don’t see people referring to how much BF-109E or G was ever made, neither how much Spitfire Mk.I or Mk.IX were built, they are just classified as BF-109s and Spitfires. If the same is done to Soviet Yak family (not specifying each variation), then it’s the most produced fighter ever built. If you chose for analyze a specific variant, probably the Yak-9 is still the most numerous one
@@IllustriousUnknown416 they are not the same plane that is the point there are enough differences in them. the USAAf had a bad habit of assigning a new numerical to any air frame with a different Engine the D model Mustang was originally the xp7 something but they decided against it and went P51D. To vary substantially from a single design and make a new design you don't get the "Most made title"
@@Archie2c I bet you can't tell the diference between a Yak-1B, a Yak-7B (of late production) and a Yak-9. They are very very similar planes but yet classified as different models
Pretty much everbody was experimenting with VTOL at the time. If they copied anyone, I'd say the setup of the Yak-38 most closely resembles some French designs.
@@Zbroja69 I’m not in cope mode. The russian airforce is lol 😂 They’re hardly the spearheads of a blitzkrieg are they???? They’ve not even destroyed the Ukrainian airforce. And the Ukrainian navy, despite not having any noteworthy ships, is having great success!
everytime i see these old videos i am am\zed at houw porfessionally they are usually done. what happened to this style of facts and evidence based videos? they all but disappeared from the news in the last 30 years. Mostly replaced by Russia gate level nonsense.
"it was by far the highest scoring french unit of WW2." As funny as this statement truly is. And even funnier is that i know they meant aviation units. But of all units everywhere I bet most of the SS Charlemagne units would statistically win. If for no other reason than the propensity of soviets to being street-swept.
Straight propaganda. The fact that the narrator is saying “saviet” and “mack” it’s clear he is a non-native English speaker with a terribly forced accent.
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The way this guy says "Soviet" is driving me bonkers!
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@@SC-vj4wv Thank you for a great flight with the Sawviet Air Force.
He pronounces the "o" as in Russian and it sounds like "Sòvietski" instead of americanized "SoUvietsky"
He pronounces USAF (You-Sef) and Mach oddly as well...
Crazy to think that in three years from this video being made the Soviet Union wouldn't even exist anymore. Shows how quickly things can change.
russians cannot into economics 🤣
Maybe if they hadn't spent so much money on military ridiculousness Soviet might have still existed today. Instead the Russians make the same mistake again. Is it bad genes, or has it something to do with excessive vodka consumption?
still same problem just a few trash countries defected and now ask for money draining US economy yet russia is stronger
3 years and the U.S might no longer exist. They even have leader in the WH who rivals last days senile Brezhnev and walking dead Andropov.....
It’s really not. They had MiG-29s and Su-27s, but they weren’t flying in large numbers. You can tell in the video that MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and Su-15s still made up the backbone of the fleet. The US had also gotten better about counterintelligence. the West wasn’t at war with their allies, so the Soviets weren’t recovering technology from wrecks either. Instead they were being fed rejected western designs.
Good video. But can't unhear "Sah-viet" Union
Right, saying it like a Boston guy. "Fahken Sah-viet Union Ked."
i recognize the narrators voice, he did the audiobook version of 1984.
Lol or nat-zi 🤣
He probably says Dah-ling like the Gabor sisters.
And the way he says bah-rage!
I loved this documentary as a kid... had it on VHS... thank you for uploading it!!!
The Su-27 was ahead of its time with maneuvering.
But behind with its avionics, a huge downfall in that era.
I've got favourites from all over the world, but there's something that's always fascinated me about the Soviet era, and how much was achieved in spite of the kind of limitations/expectations placed on these design teams......and everyone else.
nothing was achieved, they stole somehow somewhat that is all 🤣
Stole what? MiG -29 is a unique design not like other aircraft.
yeah, so much was achieved, mass deportations, gulags, political inprisonment, amazing /s
@@freddyfriend5462typical uneducated American response
it was a glorious american inveebtion 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😊
25:10 he’s holding a clipboard, but my brain immediately thought “he’s taking a selfie with his iPad” 🤦♀️
I can't stand the way the narrator pronounce the word Soviet.
Another wonderful, informative documentary coverage video about the past USSR Air Force .. (Mike Guardia) channel always selecting & sharing super qualified documentaries about military , warfare,Warfield ....video labeled that most famous airplane ✈️ designer's & excellent pilots ,they were residents from non Russian Soviets Republicans. video labeled to successful training of pilots & air defenses systems were independent systems ....thanks for sharing...
It's not a documentary it's propaganda.
By 1988 it wouldn't have been hard to find flaws
in the Soviet Military, yet the program has non
of that - only praise.
The Mig 29 is such a pretty aircraft, she really is......
F-15 looks good too as well as some other modern jets.
@@pm3302Meet MiG-35, she's pleased to meet you too.
@@tehgerbil Yep, they've performed incredibly well in Ukraine
Work of art !👍
After this visit to Finland in 1986 a MiG-29 detachment from Kubinka visited Kuopio (EHKU) and Fighter Squadron 31 again in august 1989 . They held static display and also a solo-airshow. Funny thing happened as the fighter experienced brake-shoot failure and ended up at the net in the end of the runway after boiling its brakes.
Of course ....no post on Russians or Soviets is complete without some anecdote on how " inferior " they are
It baffles me, that a western documentary about the soviet air force from 1988 is less biased than pretty much any modern documentary I've seen in a long while
Are you saying that Russians will never conquer Kyiv?
@@jsilva4847I’m just saying there is no political messaging at all here. That’s it.
I agree. Never underestimate your enemy.
We got wiser and learned they are no longer like in the days of the USSR
Less biased? Bro this is nothing but a Soviet propaganda reel designed to justify western spending with footage and script readily provided by the USSR to showcase its apparent strength. Most of what you see was junk maned by conscripts. Laughable content, like the claim that the MiG-29 radar outperforms that of the F-18.
I had no idea this level of detailed information was available in 1988! The Soviet Union just seemed like such a closed off society to me then.
Well, communism in and of itself is a cult specializing in ways to genocide entire populations.
Its because this was produced by the Soviet Union. There was a lot of western facing propaganda produced. The US and NATO also produced a lot of eastern facing propaganda as well. Its not just for internal consumption.
@@Noubers Still lots of propaganda everywhere yes, this video being a great example. However the Soviet Union had largely opened up to the west under Gorbachev by this point, particularly in the late 80s. Wasn't like the 60s where intelligence on the Soviet Union was much harder to come by.
He just learned a new way to say Soviet Union so he made sure to say it in every paragraph
Good lord, I had this on VHS
haha miss VHS days
“SawViet”? I didn’t sawviet that coming
Lol jp but Good doc though
Was feeling like watching a documentary today..
Somebody should really teach the narrator how to correctly pronounce the word "Soviet"
lol don't dogpile on the man for pronouncing 'soviet' like the Russians do.
@@thomervin7450 Ok here is how it works, according to IPA, Russians say ɐ, Americans say ə, and this guy is going ɔ. Nobody is saying it the same but the American vowel is much closer in sound and mouth movement. The narrator has a weird accent.
The Mig 29 is now equiped with a modern day TomTom GPS-system
ahahahahahahhaa, so true
GPS has its origins in the Sputnik era when scientists were able to track the satellite with shifts in its radio signal known as the "Doppler Effect. lol
@@AdminAccount-cr2tb Sputnik was a metal ball in space wtf.
They have their own version of GPS.
@@AdminAccount-cr2tb That's like saying the caveman invented the car because he once rolled a log down a hill.
Wow this was the late 80s and the soviets were using unguided rockets and mig 21s and the US was using laser guide bombs and f117 stealth fighters.
You forgot those were for training tho.
The Russians today are still using unguided rockets - in addition to more modern weapons. In reality if the pilot knows how to employ them, simple rockets can be a pretty effective weapons against the right targets, at a fraction of the price of more sophisticated systems.
Several NATO countries -US included- still relied heavily in unguided munitions and Vietnam era planes like the F-4 phantom until 92. In gulf war most of the air to ground weapons used were unguided...
U a brain surgeon.
😂
@@nos_leN150 nato planes have computers to tell them where to aim those unguided rockets generally, but yeah
Why did they let this guy getting saying "Saviat" Union? It makes the otherwise interesting video unpleasent to watch.
‘Put down more bombs than the RAF and USAAF combined’
X to doubt that claim…..
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Why not.
The USSR fought the Nazis from 1941 to 1945. Every day in battles that were larger than DDay.
The equivelant of 5 D Days at the same time using land, air, and sea power. I am sure he also means tactical bombing of strategic sites on the eastern front.
The US was not engaged in tactical contact with the Nazis till 1944, and the contact in Libya was manly Italian forces.
The Allies didn't actively bomb Germany till 1943, and in '43 Le May halted bombing as the 8th Airforce was " massacred" over Schweinfurt as their losses exceeded 10%.
The 8th only resumed bombing in 1944 when they got the P51 with their drop tanks.
I have always wondered how the allies had the luxury of postponing operations when the USSR did not get that option.
Which gives some insight into how serious the fighting on the Eastern front was and also explains the high casualties.
@@johnweerasinghe4139 Why not? Just go and look at the heavy bomber production and sortie rates of the western allies vs the soviets. The western allies dropped many many many times as many bombs on the Germans than the soviets. This is simply a soviet production, there are several nonsensical claims in this video, cool footage though!
30:34 The AN-225 Mriya took its first flight at the end of 1988.
Russian Air Power (2023) - Same video
SAVIAT Union this is how the narrator pronounces it.
from a serious contender to a cable channel mafia series..
Nice video but reality is different
This breaks from being Soviet Propaganda at times and ventures into the realm of straight up comedy! The part about a 9-12 SLOTBACK 1 out-performing the APG-65 really had me laughing!
It’s not a propaganda film 🙄
@Alan Gordon it 100% is. Written entirely to glorify Soviet aviation. I served 21 years in the US Air Force and I can tell you categorically that the majority of the BS claims about capabilities in this film is outright BS. It was made entirely to promote what the Soviets wanted the world to *think* they were capable of. We already knew it was crap.
lmao, yea. Even though I’m a huge fan of Soviet equipment, this is far too much biased
Its definetly written with "offcial" USSR releases on what info they are given.
Its an american documentary...
Narrated by Peter Marinker? Certainly sounds like his distinctive voice…
It's almost a young Morgan Freeman! I'm getting Shawshank vibes!😂
I've been saying saviet union wrong all my life
Reading the comments I'm unsure weather anyone here is aware of the fact that this movie is hysterical soviet propaganda. I mean, it's a movie filmed on soviet military bases in the 80s - it had to get approved by the kgb lol
5:13
I looked it up and this is not true at all.
In total, 7,158 Soviet aircraft dropped 6,700 tonnes of bombs on Germany during the war, 3.1% of Soviet bomber sorties, 0.5% of all Allied "strategic" sorties against German-occupied territory and 0.2% of all bombs dropped on it.
at the time of the vhs, the soviets probably still tweaked or hide numbers because of propaganda or security i think
I'm struggling to find any facts to back up what he was saying too. What was he talking about?
perhaps it includes all soviet bomber sorties made during the war.
@@SamSam-qk5zr perhaps
i remeber when i was a kid watchign it on vhs thinking that sounded odd but then i listen to that bit again and i wonder if its like lost in translation thing and maybe it meant the put down more bombs on the Germans than the entire weight of the allied air forced combine ... if by that the meant not the weight of all the bombs dropped but the allies but the weight of the planes themselves? but even then thats still doesn't sound plausible but i never did find a satisfactory answer and even if that is what they ment thats a weird comparison to make .. tho if true still an impressive one
Saavee-yet union.
the facts about the Yaks is wrong, the Messerschmitt BF 109 is the most produced fighter ever! Facts!
This "documentary" is pretty pathetic with "facts". Sounds like it was read from USSR reports that no one could trust even soviets
i think he's referring to every different yak fighter model combined, of which there were many lol
Very impressive video 📹 ❤
Yeah, but Mikoyan went to Moscow university to become an engineer to start with…. So technically he was Russian made specialist, if not there would’ve been another talented guy from Russia, so what’s your point??? There are smart ppl in any country but without schools and universities, all that talent equals nothing! Main intellectual brain CPU in ussr was and is Moscow and St. Petersburg, everything you see was designed and developed there, they built all factories in Ukraine for example and other states. As proof of it you can see nothing was developed in other former ussr countries after usssr collapse, but in Russia new things were developed and still going strong, but look at others: Ukraine sold anything from usssr they could in the 90s, so in 2000 Ukraine army was not existent, everything was stolen or sold to other countries😂 don’t forget Ukraine was VERY VERY strong during ussr with lots of nukes etc.
glory to the sawviet union
lmao stop. Everytime he said it I'm like 🙈
Some of the script sounds like a direct translation from 80's Soviet propaganda
It's refreshing, and for you maybe unsettling to hear something other than red scare propaganda
@@adamo1242 propaganda on the flip side of the coin
@jamesferguson2353 Observe both partial truths to synthesise something closer to the truth
The real Yarare Mecha
The Me-bf109 becomes the most numerous fighter at 33,000
Yea needed so many because they were shot down so much
Nope the IL-2 Shturmovik was the most produced fighter of WW2. Close to 45,000 units
Tragic to think that Hitler's dream of destroying the USSR would come true a few years later. And the West would cheer Hitler's dream come to fruition, revealing their true allegiances.
Do you know what means word "intervention"? That's what Soviet Russia was experienced when so called "allies" came. There were 14 of them, 14 foreign countries invaded in Soviet Russia.
Only air force that was ever even close to being as good as the US.
**From the East. Back then, there were still one or two ahead of the Soviets. Now, the russian doesn't even make the top 20 air forces in the world. They've really nosed dived this decade.
The Israeli Air Force is better than the US.
Interesting video but it seems to be very pro-soviet. If this is a soviet made video meant for western audiences then I'm amazed, I never knew they produced anything like this before.
It's a US doc. They are describing the USSR's air power and organization, there's nothing pro or anti soviet about it (unlike everything we see on the news today, which picks it's political slant before doing any actual research or filming).
The military industrial complex had averted interest in making us think the Soviet's capabilities were so much stronger than ours. It justified unlimited investments.
vested interest
@@jeelsvealnerve1163 Source on the claim that this is a US production?
The Soviets had more useful and way more dreaded than their airplanes : their submarines.
At which point did the Russians forget all about aviation training and maintenance?
90s when no dengi
Drink a shot of vodka each time he says it.. comrade
Is this the same doc that's marked as from 2008 in IMDB?
Lol... did anyone else cringe a little every time the narrator says "SA-viet" Union? 😆😆
The Luftwaffe was an airforce designed and planned around tactical support, not the destruction of ciies.
Have you ever seen footage of World War 2? I guess you've never heard of The Blitz? o_O
@@williamyoung9401Provoked by the British who started bombing German cities months before the blitz
The modern day neo nazi was designed to stand outside and let ppl know he's ready to get his ass worked instead of posting dumb shit on the internet
@@williamyoung9401 Which is why it failed, and it also cost them the battle of Britain. Precisely because this is something it is ill-equipped to do, instead of focusing on radar stations and airfields, they turned a minor victory into a decisive defeat
Saw-viet who let that guy narrate the whole thing saying it that way!
Well, technically, in Russian the 'o' in 'Soviet' is pronounced like an 'a' since the syllable isn't stressed.
This seems something that was translated from Russian
And 2 years later it collapsed
3 years the USSR dissolved in that last few days of December 1991 which would be 3 nearly 4 years after 1988.
Funny they talk up air defense etc in Russia/USSR but these days a drone can "get intercepted" ontop of the kremlin. Oh how the mighty have fallen
Friends, where is the Soviet air power? I can't find them in the sky
There were 16.000 Yaks not 37000 like they said at 3:24
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Can someone explain the sentence at 4:08 for me? Did America and Britian give them fighters or did the allies have pilots flying in their great patriotic war?
The "Great Patriotic War" is how Russians and many in the former Soviet republics refer to WWII. The allied nations provided huge amounts of military equipment and supplies under Lend Lease agreements, which is widely regarded as changing the course of Germany's fortunes in the war on the eastern front (among other factors such as most German troops and equipment being thoroughly unprepared for Russian winters).
Lend/Lease
We gave them gear in the lend/lease programme, mate.
as part of Lend/Lease significant numbers of aircraft had been delivered, airacobras, kittyhawks, hurricanes, mitchells...
Yes, one of history's greatest mistakes.
lots of good war planes!
Did Sukhoi not approve this message?
When we look at the air power of the "mighty russia" today... we have to throw away EVERYTHING, russia included.
Sahviet , ok I can't watch this because of that. Those generation 3-4 Sahviet jets are sweet though.
The 'o' in 'soviet' is pronounced like an 'a' in Russian.
Im so curious as to how the filmmakers got all this footage and information ?
The Soviet Union liked to release carefully edited footage to show off to their adversaries. Most countries with even a token military do the same thing.
Pretty sure this film was actually produced in the Soviet Union
The only source at the time is the ussr itself, which means can only be 100% wrong in some way.
Probably from the people who paid him to make it 😉
Su 27 Flanker, Su 25 Frogfoot, Su 24Fencer, Su 17 Fitter series totally ignored in the video. I've always wondered why Soviet VVS needs so many ground attack aircraft's whos role were more or less the same! Example: Su 25 and Mig 27 both were for close air support and attack role, then Su 17 and Mig 23MF Flogger B both were frontline fighter bomber/attack aircraft's.
Hi. One sheep, two sheep.
One deer, two deer.
One aircraft, two aircraft.
Please kill me. All best.
well now you can see where that lead them lol.
@@NickThePilotUSA You mean to say the current Russian VKS?
@@tamzidkarim9402 yes.
The Fencer was top secret during the Cold War, no information of any kind was released.
Sounds like a young Morgan Freeman doing the commentary! 😂
That narrator needs to take a break from phonics! Seriously tho, good video, and thank you!
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"The Soviet Union doesn't mass produce anything that doesn't do it's job." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"to suggest so would be flying in the face of evidence" hahahahahahaahahahah
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
At least there it was made clear this was Soviet propaganda. Still entertaining to watch lol
is this 2nd or third gen jets?
I’ll use an example for each type shown in this documentary.
MiG-21 is a Gen 2 airframe
Mig-25 is a Gen 2+++ (kind of bridges between 2 and 3
Mig-23 is a Gen 3
Mig-29 is a Gen 4
Su-27 is a Gen 4
Western airframes
F-4 Gen 2
F-14 Gen 3+++
F-15 Gen 4
F-16 Gen 4
F-18 Gen 4
Modern fighters such as Su-35/F-15X/Rafel/Typhoon are Gen 4 +++
And F-22//F-35/Su-57 are Gen 5
I find that hilarious that all these keyboard Warriors are judging the Soviet Air Force of the 1980s by comparing it to the pathetic Russian Air Force of today
It’s like assessing the capabilities of the 1942 Wehrmacht based on bundeswehr of 1950s
And mind you the Ukrainians were an integral part of the Soviet military machine at that time
Yeah there's def a lot of uninformed takes here.
Doesn't mean the Soviet Air Force was any good lol. Even back then their pilots would get half the flight hours NATO pilots did. Not to speak of the technological superiority the US enjoyed in the latter part of the cold war.
@@Lepo4256 VVS was nothing compared to western airforces in a one on one comparison. But numbers and nukes were expected to make up for their deficiencies in skills.
@@Sabiqoon-w8y Exactly. No matter how good your planes are, if they’re radioactive ash (or their systems are fried from EMPs) it doesn’t matter.
@@Lepo4256VVS was designed to fight WW3. Pilots and planes would be demolished by the thousands in a real war. A veteran nato pilot is not worth more than 10 average pilots.
SA WE YET!! Union 😂
Sah-V-et.
Ugh..
Crazy how everything in this video is 'the best in the world.' Why is this propaganda in english though?
The Yak-38 lol, one of the worst aircraft ever deployed.
Nah, far from it. At least it worked fairly well as an aircraft,
even if it had bad range, speed and couldn't really carry any weapons.
There are plenty of examples that couldn't even get the first part right.
But sure, as a combat aircraft it was pretty much useless.
1988😮
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yeah, if they're conscription or under-trained pilot, that's won't tell the same thing, but who else can knows, so in the world, nobody and no one is the best, that all.
Ooohhh.....noooo...this is too much information about the USSR for western audiences especially those who've never heard of the Eastern Front.
This is mind-blowing to most. " The Soviets can make jets and bombers .."?
Wow .....the confusion and the Cold War projections can be seen in the comments......😅😅😅😅😅
This aged like fine milk for Russia.
Tsar Empire's ,USSR & Russian 🇷🇺 federal republic ( three different types of authoritatives ) faced similar enmity political policies by neighborhoods , regional strong countries & global dominates ( British, USA) countries ( due to geopolitical competition's )....Soviet airplane ✈️ structures designed excellently& carrying weapons capabilites also fantastic ,superior ...while their electronics &guide equipments were less capability than similar USA 🇺🇸 designed electronics & guide equipments...
do you really pronounce it "saviet?"
Narrator says soviet weird
"stinger was unreliable" yeah okay ruskie
5:10 Is that really true?
Saviet burns my ears
I agree. 😂
What if Germany had only attacked the Soviet Union?
They would have won
Look at a map from 1939.
Germany had no Land-Border with the Soviet Union,
so they had to go through Poland (which was under protection of the UK).
Invading by air & sea only wasn't really an option.
1:30 Lenin was right
they have vodka bottles mounted to nato planes with little parachutes to hopefully convince the soviet pilots to eject. i heard they put like a 20 foot tall streamer on it that says "vodka" so they don't miss it, and that it was a little tricky to get the text to display right in groom lake trials
one of our us army transgenders in the army could take on the entire soviet airforce. and we have millions of them in the army and marines.
i keep catchin those GRU agents smoking dope in the back. got a pile of belt buckles already @@SU-vy8nb
Saw-we-yet union 😂
That russian lie about The Yak fighters always gets me they don't sort out the difference between products the Boeing Company made the most heavy bombers with the B17 and 29 but they are Boeing bombers
Yak-1, Yak-3, Yak-7 and Yak-9, which are essentially the same plane, is indeed the most produced fighter of all times. You generally don’t see people referring to how much BF-109E or G was ever made, neither how much Spitfire Mk.I or Mk.IX were built, they are just classified as BF-109s and Spitfires. If the same is done to Soviet Yak family (not specifying each variation), then it’s the most produced fighter ever built. If you chose for analyze a specific variant, probably the Yak-9 is still the most numerous one
@@IllustriousUnknown416 they are not the same plane that is the point there are enough differences in them. the USAAf had a bad habit of assigning a new numerical to any air frame with a different Engine the D model Mustang was originally the xp7 something but they decided against it and went P51D. To vary substantially from a single design and make a new design you don't get the "Most made title"
@@Archie2c I bet you can't tell the diference between a Yak-1B, a Yak-7B (of late production) and a Yak-9. They are very very similar planes but yet classified as different models
Where in the hell is or was the Saaviet Union??? Also, who is Mack and what does he have to do with jets???
Mmmmmmm.....🤔🤔 I wonder where the Ruskies got the idea for the Yak-38 from....?🤔🤔
Another VTOL Yak prototype...
Pretty much everbody was experimenting with VTOL at the time.
If they copied anyone, I'd say the setup of the Yak-38 most closely
resembles some French designs.
It’s Sowww viet…. Not solveiet😂
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Pmsl 😂 the mighty Russian airfarce 😂😂😂😂
Cope
@@Zbroja69
I’m not in cope mode. The russian airforce is lol 😂
They’re hardly the spearheads of a blitzkrieg are they????
They’ve not even destroyed the Ukrainian airforce.
And the Ukrainian navy, despite not having any noteworthy ships, is having great success!
@@ukraine7249 in some kind of wonderland probably
everytime i see these old videos i am am\zed at houw porfessionally they are usually done.
what happened to this style of facts and evidence based videos? they all but disappeared from the news in the last 30 years.
Mostly replaced by Russia gate level nonsense.
"it was by far the highest scoring french unit of WW2."
As funny as this statement truly is. And even funnier is that i know they meant aviation units.
But of all units everywhere I bet most of the SS Charlemagne units would statistically win. If for no other reason than the propensity of soviets to being street-swept.
Love the Soviet videos. Always fun listening to the comrades bloviate about their second rate capabilities 🤣.
Способности СССР недостижимы для таких как вы. Все что вы делали в том числе США это только догоняли СССР и всегда были сзади.
Not so second rate in the Vietnam War.
Head to Head technology.
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Is America in Afghanistan anymore or did they grow tired like the 2nd rate Soviets?
This is not soviet video, I had this on tape, I can't remember the videos series, there were videos about F16, F15, submarines....
@@1joshjosh1 look at the kill ratio of American jets, still very much positive especially us navy.
Straight propaganda. The fact that the narrator is saying “saviet” and “mack” it’s clear he is a non-native English speaker with a terribly forced accent.
Maybe stick to warthunder, simp.