The ultimate interceptor that would still beat anything flying today... XF-108

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  • @FoundAndExplained
    @FoundAndExplained  9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

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    • @demortorman
      @demortorman 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Already watching it on Opera :) Best browser ever! I use it for more than 10 years

    • @AdmiralLj
      @AdmiralLj 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Best channel whit the worse sponership

  • @DBTwister
    @DBTwister 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +176

    small typo....1000 miles = 1600 km

    • @farfromreal
      @farfromreal 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

      yep repeated at 9:56

    • @Eagle-mn9mo
      @Eagle-mn9mo 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      1680

    • @pedropabloarango
      @pedropabloarango 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Maybe its nautical miles?

    • @nahornig
      @nahornig 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah, I choked on that too.

    • @petiertje
      @petiertje 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Thanks for this. As a 'non mile person' I was wondering why 160km was considered long range :D

  • @JGreen-le8xx
    @JGreen-le8xx 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +15

    SR-71 has entered chat.
    "Yeah, my top speed is still classified. So you won't be beating my records anytime soon Jr. ".....

  • @Isteak80
    @Isteak80 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +11

    Quite possibly the coolest looking "never was" planes I've seen. It matched so well aesthetically with the Valkyrie bomber too.

  • @Eclipse135.
    @Eclipse135. 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +64

    It looks like a baby Xb-70 Valkyrie

    • @buttcracker
      @buttcracker 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      That’s what I thought it was seeing the thumbnail before reading the title

    • @Coyote27981
      @Coyote27981 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +15

      Which makes total sense, same period, same company.

    • @dc-101
      @dc-101 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@Coyote27981 and same engine

    • @roryhennessey1983
      @roryhennessey1983 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      They don't grow their canards and four extra engines until adulthood

    • @Eclipse135.
      @Eclipse135. 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@roryhennessey1983 I was actually thinking of that in my mind earlier hahaha

  • @skenzyme81
    @skenzyme81 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +25

    8:09 The pronunciation of *"Row-Terry"* Missile Bay should make us all glad be looked up how to pronounce *"Rapier."* 😅

    • @danielreed1859
      @danielreed1859 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Starting to think he’s AI

    • @skenzyme81
      @skenzyme81 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      @ He's very real, but it's common for Australians to seem like AI. 😅

  • @llewis7324
    @llewis7324 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    Funny how it looks so much like the AVRO Arrow.

    • @rupertphmode1753
      @rupertphmode1753 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ...and the British TSR2...also a way-ahead-of-its-time aircraft that was also scrapped at birth.

  • @alaingabriel1710
    @alaingabriel1710 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    Ahem, what about the Avro Arrow? The Avro Arrow prototype supersonic interceptors and pre-series aircraft actually flew, using the prototype Orenda supersonic engines. The Avro Arrow worked with early testing success with these prototype Orenda engines. The next step was testing with the production series Orenda supersonic engines but before this could happen the entire Avro Arrow program was cancelled by the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    At least the US got the AIM-54 Phoenix and A-5 Vigilante out of all this...

  • @joankroll8091
    @joankroll8091 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +18

    Funny how much this plane resembles the Avro Arrow. And in the same timeframe.

  • @saint_alucardwarthunder759
    @saint_alucardwarthunder759 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +29

    So it's a MiG-25 in a cowboy hat

    • @B-52H
      @B-52H 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      No it's a baby valkerie

    • @saint_alucardwarthunder759
      @saint_alucardwarthunder759 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @B-52H val is a bomber

    • @B-52H
      @B-52H 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@saint_alucardwarthunder759 ik but it has more in common with that project

    • @ForceOfChaos1776
      @ForceOfChaos1776 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It quiet and fast now shhhh

    • @GeeShocker
      @GeeShocker 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      You mean the americans saw the MIG-25 in 1969 and traveled back in time just to bin the project in 1959?

  • @modelermark172
    @modelermark172 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thanks for making and sharing this, Found and Explained; this was one of the most intriguing Cold War designs that we never got; though I do understand the reasons. In the end, only the Soviet Union managed to get their MiG-25 into production; though Canada did come in a close second by getting five flying prototype of the CF-105 Arrow, while our XF-108 (and XF-103) never really made it past the wooden mockup stage.
    But I couldn't help but wonder what might have happened if North American Aviation and Avro Canada had decided to combine their projects by using the Canadian CF-105 airframe with American engines, avionics and weapons developed for the XF-108 to produce a mach-3 interceptor? Since Avro built the F-86 under license, these two companies already had established ties. There would have been plenty of obstacles to overcome, not the least of these being the different units of measure. But as with the (ultimately unsuccessful) American / German MBT-70 tank project, each nation could have used their own measurements, with all interface points being metric.
    One of my future modeling projects will be to depict this using the Hobby Craft 1/72 scale CF-105 Arrow, using scratch built exhausts and Phoenix missiles from the Hasegawa weapons set, along with decals adapted from an F-106 sheet to represent the fictitious F-108C. Eventually, I'd like to do a second one in Canadian AF markings as the CF-105 Arrow Mk. V.
    My Like is in the 1.8Ks

  • @dad_jokes_4ever226
    @dad_jokes_4ever226 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +24

    Looks a lot like the carrier based RA-5C Vigilante

    • @VigilanteAgumon
      @VigilanteAgumon 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Same company

    • @mookie2637
      @mookie2637 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@VigilanteAgumon Same forward fuselage and other components I think.

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Ironic, an interceptor built to stop a supersonic bomber that never happened. Cough-cough, Foxbat.

    • @jade7631
      @jade7631 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Foxbat was built in dozens. Unless you mean an actual interception which it also had. It just never shot anything bombers down before.

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    The Molot bomber was a bootleg B-47/52. It ended up carrying rocket boosters and fuel tanks on it's back instead of dropping nukes.

  • @WeaponTheory1
    @WeaponTheory1 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    The XF-108 Rapier was an ambitious project with incredible potential, designed to intercept threats at unmatched speeds and altitudes. Although it never entered production, its advanced design and capabilities still spark admiration and show how ahead of its time it was. It’s a fascinating "what if" in aviation history.

  • @anthonyovering6038
    @anthonyovering6038 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Welcome Back, Avro Arrow!

  • @erasmus_locke
    @erasmus_locke 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    If you think it looks like an XB-70 you're right. It was designed by the same people and borrowed a lot of technology the engines in particular.

  • @wyw876
    @wyw876 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    0:43 I had no idea Mr. Handy from Fallout was in a documentary! lol

  • @stenic2
    @stenic2 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    I thought the rapier was meant to fight the m-50 which was a Soviet supersonic bomber ( its real performance were very modest despite the looks)

  • @korvusknull1447
    @korvusknull1447 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    It would have been a great aircraft. A modern version would be useful for long range interception and as a munitions truck.

    • @Bikini_ST
      @Bikini_ST 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      The F-15EX flies at mach 2.5+ and 3000 miles of range. I think it would satisfy the role of bomber inceptor.

  • @okb1068
    @okb1068 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Would love to see you do a video on the Super Scorpion developments.

  • @Ghent_Halcyon
    @Ghent_Halcyon 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Could you do one about the SR-71I? It’s basically the YF-12, but with AIM-120’s, and with the SR-71 body instead of the A-12.

  • @ChristIsKing4ever-l9w
    @ChristIsKing4ever-l9w 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    So America's version of the MiG-31

    • @thekraken1173
      @thekraken1173 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +13

      If you look at the timeline and operational role it is closer to being America’s Mig25

    • @GeeShocker
      @GeeShocker 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@thekraken1173and ten years earlier.

  • @connarcomstock161
    @connarcomstock161 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    USAF - *Looks over the border at what the RCAF is upto in the mid 50s*
    "We want one of those."

  • @nipock3037
    @nipock3037 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    "Accept for Fallout fans," Well depending on if we can get to a Vault in time and which Vault it is at that, Lol

  • @Repeal_22nd_Amendment
    @Repeal_22nd_Amendment 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Two of them WERE built AND flown, the SR-71 Blackbird and the F-4 Phantom. Don't youse guys follow aviation history?

  • @barriewright2857
    @barriewright2857 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    The question i have to ask could this be built today. But with all of the latest military aviation technologies .

    • @haydnw869
      @haydnw869 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      YES exactly my thought too!

    • @TeensierPython
      @TeensierPython 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Of course it could. But why?

    • @haydnw869
      @haydnw869 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@TeensierPython yeah it would never be build due to the necessity for minimising radar returns and kinetic performance “speed (aka how much speed you can retain whilst Manoeuvering) is key”
      A Mach 3 boom and zoom interceptor would be shot down or at lest kept at such a distance as to be ineffective.
      Not to mention I’d imagine even with modern technology this new 108 would still be a maintenance hog.
      Sadly interceptors went extinct for a reason.

  • @jayd3217
    @jayd3217 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +13

    They didn't design it the took almost all of it from the Canadian build Avro Arrow.

    • @indigohammer5732
      @indigohammer5732 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Both have a Delta wing, and the similarities pretty much end there.

    • @scottgarriott3884
      @scottgarriott3884 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      the planes were developed simultaneously and both were cancelled in 1959. There is no evidence designs or technology were stolen, but I do wonder.

    • @gort8203
      @gort8203 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real.

  • @AndyFromBeaverton
    @AndyFromBeaverton 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Are you going to cover the F-4X? The projected speeds surpassed the Foxbat, putting it in range of the SR-72.

  • @jimroberts3009
    @jimroberts3009 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    The Lockheed aircraft design looks a lot like the Bristol 188 but larger.

  • @mightymightyenapack2530
    @mightymightyenapack2530 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    That is just a Avro arrow but with weird wings stealing is not nice

    • @gort8203
      @gort8203 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real.

    • @mightymightyenapack2530
      @mightymightyenapack2530 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @gort8203 oh then you shouldn't get butt hurt when the Russians made the tu 160 that looks similar to the B 1 lancer right or you going to say the Russians copied us 😥

    • @paulholmes672
      @paulholmes672 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      The F108 project was started in 1955 as an interceptor version of the XB-70 to include the overall plan form as well as the same J-93 motors, scheduled to burn the Boron based JP6 fuel. It was also designed for Mach 3 flight out of the gate. The Avro Arrow was conceived around the same time (~1954-55) but it was a Mach two interceptor, incorporating a 'newfangled Delta' winged design similar to our F-102/F-106 interceptors, both from the 1954 Interceptor Project. There was no 'stealing' going on.

    • @mightymightyenapack2530
      @mightymightyenapack2530 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@paulholmes672 Avro arrows had a prototype the f108 didn't you were stealing I will keep saying that because your country does the same if it's China or Russia you would say the same thing

    • @gort8203
      @gort8203 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@mightymightyenapack2530 You talk like a child. You have the knowledge of a child if you think the Rapier was copied off the Arrow. Grow up.

  • @lordMartiya
    @lordMartiya 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +13

    Curious you say "European units" when almost everyone uses Metric and the US have been defining their units on the Metric ones.

    • @Coyote27981
      @Coyote27981 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Metric should be called "not dumb units".

    • @28_satryohafidzfathanmufli53
      @28_satryohafidzfathanmufli53 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      fr lol

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      And he's Australian 🙄

    • @warungbule
      @warungbule 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      There are precisely 3 countries that don’t use “European Units”; Liberia, Myanmar and USA.

  • @fjandro9646
    @fjandro9646 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    I think XF-103 was way crazier, honestly

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    It's a very MAD world.

  • @jeffery7281
    @jeffery7281 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    CF-105 and XF-108 - two of my most favourite interceptors. There is almost none files about the Rapier, so I'm happy to check my YT mainpage and see it being broadcasting!

  • @lohikarhu734
    @lohikarhu734 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Kind of killed off like the CF-105 Arrow.
    Politicians of the day decided that there was no need for manned interceptors, but, as usual, they failed to see that needs would change, yet again.

  • @knowledgerocket2818
    @knowledgerocket2818 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    9:55 "A range of 160miles" - I'm sure not! that wouldn't make any sense, Fix please otherwise great vid!

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations that seem to be deliberately inserted into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH

    • @joshthomas2143
      @joshthomas2143 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      🤓☝️

  • @KaiNakamura-z8b
    @KaiNakamura-z8b 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Another story of the US going all out on a soviet rumor... Sounds kinda familiar...

  • @CallMeKoGaming
    @CallMeKoGaming 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    3:40 EXCUSE MW WHAT WAS THAT EXPLOSION?

  • @carstenpedersen3200
    @carstenpedersen3200 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    A range of 160 Miles?

    • @ThomasD1962
      @ThomasD1962 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah... The missile had a 160 mile range. Combat range of the Rapier would've been 1160 miles and the ferry range 2480 miles. Sounds better!

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations that seem to be deliberately inserted into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH

  • @jehoiakimelidoronila5450
    @jehoiakimelidoronila5450 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    My good sir, *why you keep changing the thumbnails?* the one with see-through is good enough

  • @jaydawg7
    @jaydawg7 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Imagine this with modern missile systems...

  • @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P
    @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    YEAH...... in an Air show.... flying low at........ MACH 3.0!!!
    That's "...low at 3. OHHHHhhhhhhhh!!"

  • @maplelafe7671
    @maplelafe7671 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Tictac...... hold my nanodrink.. 😅

  • @Gringo111R
    @Gringo111R 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    Oddly enough, I could still see the concept be an effective answer to patrol the distances of the Pacific. The XF-108 and F-107 always facinated me, North American had some great ideas and planes!

  • @ElbowShouldersen
    @ElbowShouldersen 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Maybe the Mig-25 was basically a Soviet copy of this plane?

  • @thebritishengineer8027
    @thebritishengineer8027 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Errrr NO..! Jet engines have problems over Mach 2.3 as kinetic heating makes the air going into the engine to hot to combust. Reaction Engines fixed this by super cooling the air going into it's Sabre Engine. Saunders Roe had a different take on the problem a Rocket Engine for interception, a jet for cruising. The SR177 went from brakes off to 70,000ft in under 4 minutes, the 1955 version did Mach 2.3, had developed mid air re-fuelling of both engines and a max ceiling was 97,000ft. Had the project not been cancelled by a sell-out labour government (again) and dirty deals by Lockheed….. We might now be flying Colonial Vipers.

    • @PennyBloater
      @PennyBloater 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      MacMillan's conservative govt cancelled the Saunders-Roe SR.177 rocket-powered interceptor project on December 24, 1957: You're thinking of TSR2

    • @gp33music41
      @gp33music41 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Liquid fueled rocket powered interceptors are just terrible ideas in general

    • @thebritishengineer8027
      @thebritishengineer8027 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @gp33music41 The Me163 Komet ran on fuel so deadly it would melt the pilot, so Saunders Roe fixed it. A version of it's RP/HTP it was stable burned, without forced ignition, gave you 30% more thrust than kerosene and more importantly was not cryogenic. Used in Britain’s Black Knight ICBM, it was far more capable than anything the US was building but was canned over politics.

    • @gp33music41
      @gp33music41 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @thebritishengineer8027 Keep telling yourself that. By your logic Britain is the greatest aircraft designer in history, and everyone else just really sucked and copied them. The US wasn't wasting resources on manned rocket powered interceptors because they are stupid.

    • @thebritishengineer8027
      @thebritishengineer8027 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@PennyBloater You are totally correct, but what was the stick McNamara kept using to cancel the SR177, Black Knight & TSR2 programs... The Anglo American Financial Agreement in 1947 saw labour do a loan shark deal for a £3.75 billion mortgage. That began the decline of Britain’s Industrial/Technology base, as every time we came up with a world beating idea....... The Yanks would turn up and say "that's ours" you don't play ball we want our money back. Becoming a major contributor to Britain’s post war economic instability and accumulative burden on our finances. You see labour screwing over it's peons, is not a new occurrence.

  • @Tom-j2k8n
    @Tom-j2k8n 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    It was meant to an escort for the B-70 . When it got canceled so did the Rapier

  • @pedroleal7118
    @pedroleal7118 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    It looks like a mix of the Avro and the TSR, with a touch of Vakyrie , probably copied from some Russian design...

  • @onenote6619
    @onenote6619 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The SR71 could also beat anything flying today. But it was a nightmare to maintain. Best performance in one category is not *always* a trump card.

  • @johnjensen2217
    @johnjensen2217 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    @9:58, a range of 160 miles? I love these videos but they could really do with improved proofreading of the script. It seems every video includes a rather glaring error. Maybe it’s a ploy to get more comments? Does YT reward channels with more comments?

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations he deliberately inserts into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH

  • @mookie2637
    @mookie2637 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    YF-12 signing in at12:36 :)

  • @ray.shoesmith
    @ray.shoesmith 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why would you crack a nugget Nick?

  • @paulpark1170
    @paulpark1170 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Now we can see where the F-15 and A-5 Vigilante were born from .. - a decade or two earlier.

  • @Zelva_484
    @Zelva_484 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    No square space fluid engine? Bro really fell of

  • @alm5992
    @alm5992 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    "European Units" are actually "THE ENTIRE EFFING WORLD UNITS, *except US."

  • @lib_av224
    @lib_av224 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    3:38 they knew what they were doing 💀

  • @fredv7487
    @fredv7487 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    When ever you have funding problems that means the kickbacks weren't large enough.

  • @interrobangings
    @interrobangings 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    that's not the Avro Arrow

  • @tomorrow6
    @tomorrow6 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +11

    Hang on there was a British low flying plane that had quite a similar wing configuration

    • @Rob_F8F
      @Rob_F8F 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      BAC TSR2

    • @mookie2637
      @mookie2637 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Rob_F8F Totally different intended use case. The TSR2 was specifically designed to be a strike/interdictor aircraft. That's why it theoretically had (for example) terrain following radar. The 108 wing design is a cranked delta, the TSR2's definitely was not a delta, and was designed for a relatively high loading.

    • @Rob_F8F
      @Rob_F8F 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@mookie2637 Yes, TSR2 was for strike/recon and not interception. I rise it as I believe that was the British aircraft that the OP was thinking of. It shares the same time period and general shape with the Rapier.

  • @scottgarriott3884
    @scottgarriott3884 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    km are European units? lol Try "International units".
    The only people using miles now are Americans and Liberians. The rest of the globe has long abandoned arbitrary units like cheesburgers per freedom.. and miles.
    Would have been nice to compare this to the Avrow Arrow of the same time period and whose purpose was identical and whose looks were similar. They were both developed in the mid 50s and cancelled in '59. But the Arrow flew.

  • @eternaltale6482
    @eternaltale6482 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Russian Kamov Ka - 22 from 60 ties ! Bizzare chopper, that looks like plane.

  • @VictorKiithsa
    @VictorKiithsa 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Can you please cover the concept of the F16 Gunship? It was a heavily modified F16 frame built around the GAU-8 Avenger cannon, and it's so weird that I feel it needs to be covered.

  • @gearheadgregwi
    @gearheadgregwi 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Instead, the Russians were launching farm tractors into space.😂😂

  • @charlesblithfield6182
    @charlesblithfield6182 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Looks very much like the AVRO Arrow interceptor in planform.

  • @davesradiorepairs6344
    @davesradiorepairs6344 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    They did not design it, they inherited it from Avro Canada, who hade developed the Avro Arrow..
    Through a bit of "negotiation" with the US, Diefenbaker killed the Arrow project, and a plane flew off to parts unknown..
    Canada was "convinced" by the US to buy American Beaumark missiles instead, to protect the US from Russia over the North Pole..
    They even made a movie about it... th-cam.com/video/aJwBHtYHIaw/w-d-xo.html

    • @scottgarriott3884
      @scottgarriott3884 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The movie took off and ran with some wild speculation, but cannot be quoted as fact. There is absolutely no evidence that a plane escaped destruction or that the Americans "inherited" the Arrow. They did inherit a lot of the AVROW engineers once it was cancelled, but the 108 was developed simultaneously and cancelled in the same year.

    • @gort8203
      @gort8203 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing for a high speed high altitude aircraft. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real. These two jets were developed around the same time, but the US just had the sense to cancel theirs as being too expensive and unneeded.

  • @radustana
    @radustana 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Do a video on the project isinglass aircraft,which was a proposed SR-71 replacement designed in the mid 1960s

  • @deepakgkrishnan6062
    @deepakgkrishnan6062 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hi, can you make a video on HAL HF-24 Marut.

  • @keithchiyanike2985
    @keithchiyanike2985 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    has any african ever produced a military aircraft or have plans for one?

    • @cmbaz1140
      @cmbaz1140 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      The rockets of space x are considered military tech and elon is from africa 😂

    • @keithchiyanike2985
      @keithchiyanike2985 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@cmbaz1140 but non of space x's ventures directly serves any African interests. I like your thinking

    • @themalhotras1597
      @themalhotras1597 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@keithchiyanike2985the cheetah? used by South Africa

    • @themalhotras1597
      @themalhotras1597 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@keithchiyanike2985cheetah

    • @keithchiyanike2985
      @keithchiyanike2985 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@themalhotras1597 that's interesting didn't know about it

  • @jonathanvince8173
    @jonathanvince8173 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hang on that looks similar to the 1956 design of the TSR2 that was built and flown in the early 1960s and also similar to 1958 design of the Canadian Arrow both planes were built and strange they were canceled. The British one already proved to do well over Mach2 as the chaise plane could not keep up which was an over Mach2 Lightning. No available DATA about the Canadian but reports over Mach2. But the British one had not gone to its capabilities yet before testing was scrapped no reason why given? So was the American one a copy of either two planes? Perhaps that is why they stopped building it. Also strange that the tom cat looks similar too. Could this this had been the start of some sort of corruption in governments?

    • @Coyote27981
      @Coyote27981 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      What part is exactly similar?
      TSR2 is nothing alike.
      And the arrow... Sure its as similar as all twin engined delta winged planes are to each other...

  • @agoogleaccount2861
    @agoogleaccount2861 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine a hypersonic UAV..but instead of manned like this aircraft it's a bit smaller and flies like a mcq9 reaper drone

  • @lantinian
    @lantinian 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I do want to see a vid on the Rockwell XFV-12

  • @bush_wookie_9606
    @bush_wookie_9606 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Well that was good timing on my part

  • @arifeldman6365
    @arifeldman6365 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Looks like the cousin of the Avro Arrow and the TSR2

  • @sharlin648
    @sharlin648 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    So basically this would be a MiG-25 just 15 odd years early.

  • @yobadomayobaubabushki2912
    @yobadomayobaubabushki2912 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Bankrupt project Skylon next please.

  • @kibathemechanic4967
    @kibathemechanic4967 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Awesome video!
    Could you do a video covering the ORIGINAL F-14B, and it's planned follow-on, the F-14C?

  • @xfire7
    @xfire7 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Vigilante with larger wings , mach 3 , don't think so.

  • @alimzazaz
    @alimzazaz 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    0:41 Post world war lifestyle include a floating robot from a well known video game franchise 😌

  • @payag_venture
    @payag_venture 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    15:24 Dassault Rafale please..😊

  • @paulmarynissen
    @paulmarynissen 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why does it say FX-108 on the animation if it’s supposed to be XF-108?

    • @johngordon9426
      @johngordon9426 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      An American President was involved at some point that's why.

  • @stormhawk31
    @stormhawk31 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Can you do a video about the A5?

  • @MetalBeastShred
    @MetalBeastShred 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Bears a remarkable similarity to the Canadian Avro Arrow... 🙄

  • @DocWolph
    @DocWolph 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The more I hear of this kind of thing, the more I keep thinking the Movie "Firefox" should have been a Russian movie of a Russian spy trying to steal an American Super plane. Obviously, in keeping with the Russian Party line, the spy was successful, but the spy learns that the plane he stole, is not even the most advanced plane they have and if he gets it this super plane home the US will immediately build that more powerful plane. So, he opts to destroy the super plane will making it very clear he did. All while being on the line to his superiors trying to negotiate for as little punishment as possible. If not for himself, then his family. All with the US possibly playing the Spy to get the plane back or at least keep it out of Russian hands.

  • @anotherbacklog
    @anotherbacklog 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    It the flying brick December

  • @sparc4ux
    @sparc4ux 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    UK, Italy, and Japan GCAP program.

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Missiles won out.

  • @BradiKal61
    @BradiKal61 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    baby XB-70

  • @philh9421
    @philh9421 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ooh look a TSR-2 lookalike

  • @bharathyadav1589
    @bharathyadav1589 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Looks like a mirage on steroids

  • @brockisenburg5437
    @brockisenburg5437 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Kinda looks like a delta wing aardvark

  • @thesirmaddog8209
    @thesirmaddog8209 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Look up A-5 Vigilante

  • @Bulgarian_Jedi
    @Bulgarian_Jedi 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Yes, but only in your dreams!

  • @volcano1979
    @volcano1979 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    what about the Slovakia flying car?

  • @PLAN50
    @PLAN50 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Yes it would beat an F22 in seconds.

  • @brendonpower5082
    @brendonpower5082 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    YF4E Phantom

  • @DUBEE43
    @DUBEE43 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ukraine can build a Fleet of them now

  • @erdwin5613
    @erdwin5613 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Never knew there are fighter version of XB-70 Valkyrie

  • @rayracer06
    @rayracer06 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Good story as this one the avro arrow