The Soviet Superplane That Rattled America
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"Powered by 8 turbojets mounted on the front and two on the tail..."
Now this is some Kerbal tier shit..
Moar boosters?...
lol
*covers entire aircraft in turbojets and breaks physics*
"perfect."
Fuel efficiency?? Jeb had never seen such bullshit before.....
Having it running right now, I'm gonna build one after my space shuttle/X-15 hybrid went through testing.
“The United States launched their first spy satellites, the Corona”
*Visible sweating*
C.I.M. Please stop
Medium im still sweating
Medium halp
was gonna make the same joke haha ,HELP USA MADE COVID CHINA SAVE US
Where is the funni
Things impossible for US: stop measuring length in football fields, and weight in abrams tanks.
But... MERICA
But... ‘MURICA!
But... 'MURICA
ELH Imp AMERICA FUC YEA COMING IN TO SAVE THE MOTHAFUCKIN DAY NOW
Makes more sense than feet and pounds though.
I had no idea old spy satellites actually dropped film to be picked up and developed. It makes perfect sense but it's not something I ever thought of before and it's incredibly interesting.
3:23 I never realised what 'flying under the radar' actually meant, wow
And in cool way
Yeah I felt I needed to illustrate that. The phrase is used so often and people tend to think radar doesn't work low to the ground as a result.
@@RealEngineering but.. but.. the Earth is flat.. /s
@@revaddict true but my ass is round very very round..
@@kellyjackson7889 wat
U.S. : Is it a boat or a plane?
Soviets: yes
Lmao yes
DA!
yas
You ever wondered what if the us and the ussr worked together on a single project for 2 or 3 years
AH WE BUIL CHINOOK
America: These Soviets are up to something... but what?
Soviets: Giant seagoing missile launcher plane.
Putin told us. Offshore nuclear blasts. Cause tidal waves. Russian inland cities are not susceptible.
The Corona? Lord, that word just keeps popping up.
Right
Dam I was going to comment that XD
Lol
Damn
Hope this video won’t be demonetized
Plane? No comrade, that's a flying ship.
one hell of a troop carrier it would have become!!hundreds of infantry men on 1 plane!think 20-40 planes on one beach head alone in hour with this plane!!!
@@bernhardtsen74 imagine how this airplane design would change the airplane industry.
@@scotthenrie5674 dang!if the other parts of the airforce could cover or clear a wider beach area, or even if they build wings bigger and could clear hills and small mountains to land in cleared areas hours before by engineers on stragetic places in other countries!
unclear how the boat/ship argument applies to this glorious monstrosity...but i love it! do wheeled vehicles count as "boats" for the "a ship carries a boat" qualifier?
@@scotthenrie5674 imagine if America hadn't suppressed the Soviet Union to the point of its collapse.
You can say what you want, but Russian engineers are creative af
Creative minds+vodka=most amazing shit ever
Dan 240Z Ikr. Look at the Ekranoplane, the Sr-71, the Nuke proof tank and the nuclear powered X-12. Concepts and visions that nowadays would be deemed as ridiculous and useless.
Inspired by Germans... Sometimes.
Ashmeed Mohammed facts the U.S and the USSR have many german inspired technology for warfare
Literally the definition of Soviet rockets is overengineered
Soviet: this can hide us from the radar cuz of the curvature of earth
Flat Earthers: thats a lie
But satellite can see them faster. and they can give information to the ship to attack them.
@@danlam1526 I see u complete missed the first half of the video
Flat Earther: "Curvature of the Earth is NASA's propaganda to deceive Soviets and everyone"
Cap
400th like
“I want a ship!”
“Sure”
“Make it fly”
“So a plane then?”
“No, it’ll be on water”
“A seaplane?”
“No, a ship that’s on top of water at all times”
Not at all times, only when its moving
@@clifford3292 it's probably why the project got scrapped.
no wonder soviets bankrupt 95% of their weapons are failed projects...
@@wanderingbufoon nope. 1. it was too big to maintain and the engines needed 5 workers each to keep them running
2. the sea water could damage the ekranoplan's body
3. it couldnt turn quickly so the boats ahead at least 1-2 miles had to be warned before. ( the turning radius is too big )
4. it could only move in the caspian sea. not in the pacific due to high waves and storms.
5. new leader of soviet union and he crapped the ekranoplan forever
Floaty boat
How much advantage you want to take from the GROUND EFFECT...
Russian Engineer: Yes...
Russian Engineer: Da!
What happens to ground effect in a big sea? Imagine 20 ft. Swells. It looks like a fair weather ploat to me.
@@whemadre Big sea?,...problem, haven't figured that one out yet. Fly jet boat while I think...
@@whemadre It stops working, why do you think they scrapped the idea?
@@staggabob it's not stops working, idea was dropped by financial and stupidity reasons
You know it's a badass plane when it's name is CASPIAN SEA MONSTER...
@Béla Bá 7:19 listen carefully
@Béla Bá So KM - its ''Korable-maket'' in eng
''ship layout"
@@bulbarobat more like Ship Prototype
@@MrMediator24 ок you right
@@bulbarobat yes, but you can also use it as Kaspiyskiy Monstr :)
Ekranoplans have fascinated me ever since I was a child, I even built the Revell kit for the Orlyonok. Unfortunately, my cat destroyed that years ago.
Alexeyev was not involved in the accident that destroyed the KM, that was caused by an inexperienced pilot who brought it out of the ground effect zone.
Alexeyev was on board the Orlyonok prototype when it suffered an accident in 1975, but he was not at the controls at that time. He was instructing new pilots, and one of them ran it aground on some rocks. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation, Alexeyev took over the controls, engaged the nose engines, and got the craft back to base.
Unbeknownst to the inexperienced pilot, his little accident had managed to shear the tail of the Orlyonok off. Alexeyev recognized this, and managed to keep thine thing under control on just the nose engines. Pretty amazing.
The hull of the Orlyonok prototype was not reinforced in the same way as a production craft, so it was much more "delicate".
Anyway, this was the excuse that the Brezhnev government needed to push him out of a leading role at the CHDB. Brezhnev had little interest in Ekranoplans, and apparently fell asleep during a screening of demo reels for the KM.
So the blame for the accident was dumped on Alexeyev, and throughout the rest of the 70's, was slowly demoted, until finally being kicked out of his own design bureau.
@Man with hair yeah i don't care about you either
I care
Their loss I suppose. Hope Alexeyev found his feet somewhere else.
They fascinate me too, and i was watching rc youtube and saw this th-cam.com/video/jQNWLDSTbok/w-d-xo.html and decided I am going to design my own 3d printed one based off his. It is currently in development.
@@anxiousearth680 He died in 1980. He was 63 years old.
Sea birds use that effect and so does that sheet of paper which falls off the desk and then skims along the floor for feet/ inches before dropping.
Nope.
True that why the paper rocks back and forth as it is is a few inches off the ground
@@ohg4338
Exactly...That's caused by the energy it collects while falling and when that is used up, it drops.
The film said that the powered movement forward produces the compression which provides the lift but unlike the paper, it remains as long as the engines and airscrews are turning..
A bird will give an occasional flap to put more energy in.
Innit great when we see science come together?
@@82spiders
My...That was useful and constructive reply.......Nope?Eh?
marc bell..Ding bleeding Dong.
@@MauriatOttolink, compression lift is only a small part of the total lift, there is also the wing that deflects airflow downwards and the aircraft rises (Newtons 3rd Law), but most of the lift comes from the low-pressure region over the wing, but this type of vehicle (Ekranoplane) gets a boost from what is known as "Ground Effect", any aircraft in ground effect (about half a wingspan above the ground) will experience a reduction of 'Drag' without loss of lift, creating a nett gain in lifting ability.
"Caspian sea monster"
An aircraft with this name could only be nothing short of amazing XD.
its just the NATO name, at a time when little about them was understood in the west.
there are a whole bunch of designs from different design bureaus in the old soviet russia.
these things where generally highly politically driven, and what the soviet lord giveth, the soviet lord also taketh away
7:19 Comrade, its called [luːn'] not lung [lʌŋ].
The hen harrier. For NATO military it was also an insurmountable difficulty in pronunciation. So they called him UTKA (Duck).
@@bulbarobat carrying letters "KM" on its fuselage. CIA disambiguated it as "Kaspian Monster"
military.wikia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster
@@bulbarobat launch the M E G A D U C C
@@bulbarobat luni. The moon!? 🤔
I thought Wendover Productions had a monopoly over anything aircraft related
Incorrect. Mustard does.
I was thinking about Wendover Productions throughout this entire video 😂😂
move over wendover!
Q mustard with the (with respect) better aero vids
Just like mustard and 8bitaviation
Oh so that's why this was recommended to me the rocket name is _corona_
Rokie YT 😂
That’s what I was wondering!
The satelite is named corona, not the tocket.
Not like it matters....
Lol
@@janosskublics7438 пото ераз
Так от з
@@123qwe171 sorry i don’t speak russan (or what)
US navy: itll take days for the Soviets to reach us from across the Caspian sea
Lun: *Z O O M*
Is it a plane? Is it a boat?
No,its a ploat
Sarim Zia
Good one
Here
Have a like
and another one ;)
it is a blane
"Плот" xD russian word that means "raft" and is spelled as "plot"
its "bone"
*Crash on a commercial plane*
"We're losing altitude!"
*Crash on the Acranoplan*
"We-"
Timothy Flisk if the engines go away in a best case scenario it would just slow down and not break apart (excluding the engines).
"acranoplan"
That's Ecranoplan (french écran).
It would most likely skim above the ocean as it slow down and then land shaken but fine. If it hits a sudden high wave, then it will disintegrate. That plus the fact that missiles are a thing make it a cool concept that sadly does not have a place in a modern military.
@@mobiuscoreindustries It can work as a fast transportation vessel, though, both for troops and for cargo.
@Real Engineering At 5:44, when you say counter-rotating, you actually mean contra-rotating. It's a common mistake, but an important one nonetheless.
Counter-rotating propellers are those on a twin-engine aircraft, when one is rotating clockwise and the other one counter-clockwise (so that there's no critical engine). Contra-rotating is what the ekranoplan had, two sets of propellers rotating around the same axis in opposing directions.
So did the fairly unknown British Avro Shackleton ... It was fitted with 4x contra-rotating propellers back in the 50's, loved that plane when I was a kid. I even scored a sticker from the RAF with a Shackleton on it stating- "8 screws are better than 2 blowjobs" haha
*nerd moment*
I first saw these in the game "World In Conflict: Soviet Assault", and I've been fascinated by them ever since
Yeah same here. I thought it was made up until I saw them in another documentary. Those guys at Massive Entertainment really did their homework. :)
I remember that part...launching missiles from the sea.
Such a good game
too bad they were waste of money and resources.
@@flipflop4396 too bad the game not fully completed and very underrated.
Great quality videos, never disappointed :)
this was uploaded 4 minutes ago nice try but he does make great videos
It looks like something Hydra would use back in WWII
You make it sound like Hydra was in the war
I'm lost. Are you talking about Operation Hydra, or Canadian spies? Or both? Or neither?
@@liesdamnlies3372 nah the hydra from Marvel
Oh.
I thought we were talking about real-world things. Welp.
@@joyphobic lol
4:08 "It weighted a massive 240 tons, but it could take off with almost double that."
'Almost' makes it sound less than double. 544 is _more_ than double. (240×2=480 for all the smartasses)
That Weight more double of blue whale. Damn we powerful 💪💯
almost double its own weight?
286 tonnes not 240
thats a small one
In Soviet Union planes fly on water.
No Really.
In Soviet Union ships fly on air.
@@ideallyyours *float
In the USA you fly a plane
In Russia plane fly you
Imagine doing your normal routine patrolling the seas in a battleship and sea one of these just emerge from the horizon.
Then after that, it proceeds to launch a missile hurling even faster than the ekranoplan itself
Satan Himself it would be sunk immediately. The US Navy is the largest and most technologically efficient navy the world has ever seen.
Satan Himself WHAAAAAT IS THAAAAAT?!😰😱😨
Yep zero in on it with your four Aegis class Destroyers
yea imagine the Battle ship turning its 9 16 inch guns on this floting aluminum foil plane hahahaha hillarious
General: comrade engineer
Engineer: weird science again?
General: yes
Engineer: ok what do you want me to make
General: a giant sea plane!
Engineer: *internal happiness*
golden
lol we "need giant flying boat", like how there is missing an "a"
Internal happiness 😂
157 239n you needed me
That's pretty much how it went.
3:24 "curvature of the earth"
flat earthers: what?
Boeing: *Designs plane which could carry 17 MBTs across the oceans*
America: Manifest Destiny?
We will manifest ALL of the destiny... as soon as congress lets them make these, that is.
Until the anti-climb computer fails and the rest is history
Hey, Manifest Destiny never said it ended at the west coast, it only said to go west.
No, a proposal to rapidly reinforce NATO in case of a Soviet invasion.
**drinks vodka**
Blyat we need giant flying boat
...da....horosho...
blyat sovok naebnulsa((
Idi nahui boris cheeki breek
Nono too expensive get more картофель
Lololol
Bold choice using squiggly underlines for your figures ;) Awesome video as always.
New animator. I'm sorry, it won't happen again 😂
Heyy
@@RealEngineering why? is he/she fired? 😂
@@pikachu5647 i think they just mean to tell the new animator not to do that, very unlikely to fire someone just for some underlines lol
@@RealEngineering I didn't even notice any errors with the animations - in fact, I made a comment earlier about just how impressed I was by the animations.
no wonder they are not in use anymore. "The demise of the seaplane was a result of its inability to take off or land in rough sea conditions even while flying conditions were good, and its use lasted only until runways were more commonly available".
Russia: we’re making a plane that can fly on water at super fast speeds
America: 😶 *say sike right now*
lol what a stupid fucking idea lol.
Sike I disband and the plane is abandoned
ok
@@v8Buster87 It may be fucking stupid but it was a creative idea.
@@ArcticArmy Creative ideas need to be functional... this thing isn't applicable in small numbers. They would need to build a lot of them, and I can only see this being useful during an invasion. It would cost too much. Just not useful enough. Get more value from a destroyer or littoral ship.
This. I did a high school report then school project about the ekranoplan, which helped me choose what I wanted to learn in university. Thank you Korabl Maket, although your life ended during the Cold War, you made a student 10 thousand kilometers away choose what he does 30 years later.
Wow awasome story man what do you do now?
@@savage_king-2993 Right now I'm studying aerodynamics and hydrodynamics at uni. I hope I can land a job in the aerospace industry, though my dream is making a WiG craft affordable and safe enough to be used as a meaningful mode of transportation.
Your a fucking geniuses I'm happy we have people like ylu to shape our future one day. And you can maybe one day find the cure to cancer ❤
@@savage_king-2993 Well my field isn't really towards fighting cancer but I hope I can at least help doctors and scientist get to their workplace :)
@@kurumi394 😂😂 that's even better and I bet ypu want to make it energy efficient so we don't harm thr planet anymore that a step closer to helping us and our health you rock man!!!
American Navy: No Soviet ship can travel faster than 60 knots across the sea.
Russian Navy: Hold my vodka.
Its not a ship
Johnny Dominguez Well, it still exists...
Hold your vodka locked! (until the time, it's actually needed) Watch some news. 14 people died, while putting a fire out on our secret deep-diving spy-boat. Losharik - OOOOOOO - inside, normal hull on the outside. (maybe) - (developed to cut American cables, supposedly. They (you - if you are an American) have these kinds too.)
@UCj9N_KDP0I9VYgxNl6HXX_w Drinking vodka when you mourn fallen comrades is somehow "no compassion"? I feel for people in the U.S., when earthquakes happen... - You are a moron! And I never said it was "performing" - it would be too deep. Just walk your fingers on a keyboard & read some newspapers.
I was in Newe London, and saw many of our Subs come back in with the con tower all squished, gee they said they were only going 22 knots. ......and my name is Little Orphan Annie! Thank you America! Thank you to the Young people of America who serve in the Military!
I love that you note and list your references. That's awesome.
Not even 15 seconds into the video and corona already mentioned.
Oh yeah beautiful
You look good 😉🌹
@@schefflerjone1808 dude wtf
@@schefflerjone1808 lmao what
Where I live in Rogaland Norway, we have an entire bay filled with islands. Right now a lot of the passenger service between them, is done by catamaran. Long before I was born, the was a service from Stavanger to Sauda (a little town at the end of a fjord in the northeast), where they ran hydrofoils. I believe this is the perfect place for ekranoplans.
Agreed, as he said in the video, short distances between small islands that don't have room for airports is the perfect application of this technology.
It's strange how much creative we can get in destroying each other.
This channel has quickly become one of my favorite educational channels on TH-cam. You do a phenomenal job and I hope you know that. It’s both entertaining and enlightening. Thank you
9:50 - This genuinely looks straight out of a video game / a sci-fi movie
Best video of the ekranoplan I've ever seen thank you.
Same here, I have seen some videos about this fascinating concept, but this one, tho brief, was most informative.
Check Curious Droid, he has an excellent video on Ekranoplans, and incredible videos overall
@@gigakoresh thank you! Yes I've seen that one as well. I went on an ekranoplan deep dive a while back. I still think this is the best especially for a first timer
Curious Droid made a more detailed video. Somehow he researched into what exactly happened with the chief designer and some of the internal struggle behind the curtains of this project, also mentioned that Russia is looking into reviving the idea of such craft as a military transport (oh boy it would be cool).
@@mihan2d I'll have to go back and watch it thanks
Now we know how it feels for penguin to be called "bird"
xD
best comment
In some way or another, I can imagine such a thing in a metal gear game.
Truly a weapon to surpass Metal Gear.
But honestly, it fits the time, it's weird enough, it's russian. Yup, that would fit right in.
@@HappyBeezerStudios the amphibious Metal Gear in Metal Gear solid 2 is probably way ahead.
Man, ground effect vehicle is in MGS 3
Still waiting for a country to make one of those super big birds from Ace Combat games
Aigon?
XB-0 IRL!
Arkbirds
Arsenal bird
Shame we dont utilize ground effect craft for logistics more.
Maybe one day short haul drone deliveries crossing lakes using ground effect?
Because this isnt an aircraft
The issue with ground effect vehicles is that the hover height is directly proportional to the scale of the vehicle.
This can also be seen with hovercraft, which work along the same principles - the rubber skirt around a hovercraft traps air, making the ground clearance higher than it would otherwise be for a vehicle of it's size.
Even so, a 100 metre long hovercraft will hover at several metres of ground clearance, yet a car sized 5 metre long one hovers at all of about 20 cm.
These vehicles would do wonders for overland routes too, with careful planning - as long as the vehicle has high enough ground clearance, all you need to do is remove taller obstacles, and any vaguely level ground will function something akin to a road.
But again, the problem is one of scale.
a 400 metre long ocean liner scale ground effect vehicle works amazingly (according to theory) - with a ground clearance measurable in the hundreds of metres it can clear almost anything in any conditions.
But a 5 metre long drone or car sized on is basically a disaster, because the ground clearance is only a few CM...
This problem also makes prototyping highly problematic, which is perhaps why these vehicles never really took off;
Usually the logic with prototypes is to start at a very small scale, then slowly scale upwards.
For most technologies this works;
Rockets, aircraft, cars, trains, boats...
You can apply it to any of these with little consequence, since what applies at the small scale is still largely true at the large scale, and within certain bounds, all scales are useful.
But, the ground effect vehicle has no such luxury.
Not only do smaller vehicles have much lower ground clearance, they also suffer vastly more stability problems than larger ones, and are thus more accident prone....
So, yeah. I'm sure it'd be great if we ever developed it. But, the way things are we probably never will.
However it's unlikely to ever be useful for drones.
Think of it more along the lines of being a replacement for stuff on the scale of cruise ships and oil tankers.
(or, not so much a replacement, as an intermediate point between a ship which is very slow, but can carry a huge load for the fuel, and an aircraft which is very fast but uses a lot of fuel and carries a relatively small load. Ground effect vehicles would slot somewhere inbetween those two extremes.)
Imagine instead of taking a jet from London to Sydney taking 25 hours, you took something the size of a cruise ship which took more like 50-60 hours.
Nowhere near as long as the several weeks it takes traditional ships, but not as fast as an aircraft.
The tradeoff is that the trip can be much more luxurious (again, cruise ship size, not aircraft size), and it'll be cheaper.
(much more fuel efficient than an aircraft for a given weight.)
KuraIthys Maybe not drones, really meant Autonomous vehicles. Such as the Great Lakes area.
@@uss_04 I think just having those boats with the hydro planes (not sure if it was called that) in the water and lifting the body up at high speed to reduce drag is good for now, or maybe efficient enough multirotor aircraft
Ellington musk is probably saying: hold my beer
Never stop these vids from coming, amazing stuff man
i saw the thumbnail and though, hmmm it looks like someone from the Space engineer game made this. MOOOOORE thrusters!
It does not gonna lie.
Nah, can't be it mate, I'm not seeing rotors, pistons, irregular convulsions and PRAISE CLANG!!!!
Lol just slapped atmo thrusters in a weird spot on the front, stacking them off the sides of each other 😂
Started with an attempt to look like a plane, got the proportions a bit wrong, and then gave up and added the thrusters in weird spots... exactly like my builds!
0:10 so this was how it's created huh.
*Ah yes, can confirm that this was my birth.*
@@coronavirus1952 *the prophecy is true.*
It boggles my mind how cold war fueled such massive and unorthodox inventions.
When you live in the world where you have to wonder if a shooting star you just saw is just a meteorite or beginning of the end, you get creative.
@@konstantinkh That's a very good point. I was born in USSR, BTW, I get it.
It's really the one downside to the end of the Cold War. Neither the Americans or Russians are innovating like this anymore. Back then we were in a race to see who could get to the moon first, now, by contrast, it's all about the latest IPhone. Today's innovation isn't nearly as impressive.
@Max Raider Not only that, rivalries can boost innovation
For some reason people try harder when the cost of failure is death.
Seriously, that USSR hover behemoth thing is the coolest vehicle I've ever seen.
Is a hovering metal behemoth.
Has 10 jet engines.
Weigh more than most mountains.
This could of been a behemoth in Battlefield the game :)
In battle situations (or just if needed) Лунь и КМ both can fly at surface and make "jumpflight" at 30m above water. Lose 50% of control , but still can. They can be really good machines, but... : (
Hey Flat-earthers.... 3:24 is for you 😂
They will still say it's a lie because the Russians came up with that claim, and communist claims could not be correct.....
@@chubbychicken5585 wait a chicken that talks?
There is a company in Singapore. called Wigetworks, which is in the process of building WIG (Wing-in-Ground) aircraft.
Glad to hear that. Looks really nice and efficient concept.
www.wigetworks.com/airfish-8/
If the wing is in the ground then you are definitely doing something wrong
it could have been a solution for electric planes over long distances.
transport of goods and mail between islands
It still can be.
The problem is how to you deal with boats that could be in the way.
@@magic1wizard whoops...
@@magic1wizard Piccolo: ...D O D G E !!!
magic1wizard Or waves
Here's another concept for you:
Passenger ekranoplans could connect cities and countries along the coast or from opposite coasts.
This will require increased monitoring of the weather in this region, improved accuracy of forecasts, and planning voyages only when the sea is calm.
To equip this passenger transport with an engine that, in the most economical mode, can maintain the ground effect, and with an increase in consumption, maintain a stable flight at a sufficient height (in case it is necessary to fly over land or waves). As well as a drive to a water turbine for the ability to move like a boat.
Modern equipment, satellite communications, and modern radars will allow the autopilot to receive a 100% reliable forecast of wave height, wind strength and other parameters long before the need to make a maneuver. The regulation of thrust, flaps and rudders is a fairly simple automation.
Any seas that have 6+ meter waves shut down all air traffic, all small watercraft, and large watercraft can only hold position and wait for better conditions. A GEV/plane can fly.
Awesome videos. Great work visualizing complex ideas. Love your values.
Finally someone does a good, detailed look at the ekranoplans. I am to this day quite sad the Boeing never made the Pelican, when I was a kid and I first heard of the concept I thought it would be cool (although probably not very practical) to have it function as a high speed aircraft carrier. You could fit about 4 F-16's into it and if you needed an airforce deployed very quickly then it might have been a good option. Then again, air to air refuelling is a far more effective way to achieve this.
DARPA resurrected the project this year. It's called the Liberty Lifter
*America:* Check THIS out
*Russia:* _yawns_ that's it?
That's what Elon Musk did when Russia wanted to sell a rocket to him for quite a lot more than its normal price, so he made SpaceX.
I mean I think the ability to take pictures from space satellites is waaaay cooler than water strider plane.
Kay guys, really?
You're bashing a country here, in a video describing an amazing technological advancement that was made by scientists from that country.
Politely, fuck off. And for the record, America was not the first to space, do you really think we were the only ones taking satellite pictures?
@Him Adri Underestimating Russia again? There's some countries that did that too... didn't go too well for them.
@@eloryosnak4100 Don't worry about Internet trolls. Those of us who were in the military and got to interact with the Soviet designs that worked were duly impressed.
According to Russian Wikipedia (and English too) Alexeev suffered severe injury during presentation of a new ekranoplan Volga-2 in January 1980 and died in a hospital month later after two surgeries. He is buried in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.
Thank you for creating and sharing your knowledge through video format.:)
Always feel sad when the engineer disappears. So many more great things they could have made :(
better to make them "disappear" than have someone else use them.
So selfish and meaningless we could have been on other worlds by now they even see this what narrow minded people could have been if they just worked together and solved problems together.
Excellent graphics, detailed description, highly educational, this is awesome work man, thank you!
The biggest problem I imagine is salt water together with the pressure means that it is forced in to the engine so probably the blades were getting chewed up which is why they made a smaller version and put a turbo prop on top of the tail in the end although only a small plane for carrying people. If a blade brakes inside an engine, it could explode and unlike a normal plane it would probably dip sideways in to the water... ouch.
A:um sir that much engine can't make us go airborne
B:so what the only thing it can do
A:welp,it can still lift a little above the water... Oh and move soo fast
B:then we gonna name it on naval crew
Its sad this amazing technology is now dead. Companies from today really should explore more of its potential.
Companies only care about profit, not the good of humanity.
There’s a company in Singapore(widgetworks) utilizing ground effect craft for water- taxis, and a German company(whose name I don’t remember) just went public as a manufacturer w/over $100m in investment... So the technology’s not dead just yet.
@@chadthundercock4982 what does that have to do with any of this
Voxle that makes no sense... companies don’t just care about profit they care about what is most efficient...
there are any number of Russian third party builders trying to exploit this space at any given time
There are actually some promising designs, check out EP-15
Soviet engineers went full Thunderbirds on the Ekranoplan with the cruise missile pods on top.
Perfect for hunting carrier groups... just imagine something that suddenly emerges from radar shadow and fires barrage of six P-270 ramjet Mach 3 missiles each with 100kton nuclear warhead on the target.. bye bye carrier.
Wohoho that was nice concept of attack.
@@xmeda Right? That's why i'm surprised their development completely stalled after the cold war. I would have expected their use in a ASM carrier role to be quite high on the list of important anti-western technologies.
@@staskouzmine Yeltzin's task was to destroy what remained after Gorbachev.. no surprise. Then funds were needed elsewhere. That 90" period devastated so many projects. And check how they sold YAK-141 to USA which was later transformed into F-35..
@@xmeda The Lun could never carry nukes. The Orylyonok was way to small also.
I think it could find its niche as a type of high-speed PT boat. Super-fast, able to be heavily-laden...kind of an A-10 Warthog of the Sea. The problem, I think, is trying to make the thing into an oceanic Battleship-plane.
By far, the very best video I have seen on this awesome machine !
Top notch graphics as well.👏👏👏
EKRONOPLANES OR CASPIAN SEA MONSTER is now used as the primary example to explain the "Ground effect" topic in Aerodynamics...Good job Real Engineering channel...
Yes, its been like that for quite some time now.
I would like to add something that may be of interest. Back in 1997 I met a Russian scientist in Washington, DC. He had a green card he got “in US national interest” and, back in USSR (Russia) used to be the chief of the civilian Ekranoplan project (never brought to fruition). I remember his first name only (Boris). Later he told me that he was invited to join start-up based in San Francisco with the objective of designing and building a fleet of Ekranoplans to serve trade with Asia. I lost contact with Boris when he moved to the West Coast and goes without saying that now, 22 years later nothing came out of the project he joined although the Boeing project in this video may offer a (conspirator theory type) clue...
That is amazing stunning bit of engineering.
When the Past... Looks like the Future... its always looked amazing at speed...
yep, 20th was the most advanced century
America: babe im home alone
Russia: *builds this*
11pm Me: just one more episode
3am Me: wow I feel smart
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I like how World In Conflict never forgot to add this.
Thank you so much for providing us with sources too!!
What an absolute unit.
Can you do a video on counter rotating propeller ? Like how it generate higher thrust
A boat cleverly disguised as a plane that serves as an obnoxiously expensive and costly hovercraft made with quite a bit of fragility
In the late 1980s, I saw the tests of the ekranoplan "Lun" 3:34 on Caspian sea, and I see "Orlyonok" 6:14 every day, passing by him to work and back. He stands at the pier in Moscow.
I just saw that you cite your sources with annotations, even in a video format. Huge props for encouraging further reading and promoting facts.
If passenger versions ever get to the public
It would be easier to transport drugs
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Imagine how awesome was the feeling of first testing it.
W.I.G ( wing in groud craft) a multi model air craft which in its main operational mode flies to close proximity by utilizing surface effect action.
I always wondered why my drone, when its battery ran low, wouldn't be able to keep flying, but still hover above the ground for a short while.
Wait, your drone had wings? Thats amazing
Yeah...no...
@Gorden Gecko thank you for slapping this moron with knowledge
I bet he's the type of guy that uses his drone for spying on underage little girls
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@@JustJohn505 what the fuck is wrong with you
*_*Wendover Productions wants to know your location_**
Fucking Normie
Great vid.
Good research.
Thankxx
I remember dueling revolver ocelot in one of those back in '64
In the Navy, my dad flew A-4s. If you ever saw the movie _Top Gun,_ the scene where the guys is describing the planes they'd be up against in training as, "Smaller, faster, lighter and more maneuverable" those were A-4s. They had a delta wing shape and my dad said, "At 500 knots and ten feet above the water, you can't crash. It's all you can do to keep yourself that low because the ground effect beneath you is pushing up so hard you're pressing the stick down to stay low."
A fisherman once threw an oar *_over_* his wingman's plane because when they flew that low it scared all the fish away. :)
If this story is real, I'm super fascinated by it. Flying above the water at such low altitude must be such a thrill. The feeling of speed...aaaah!
My dad used to take my sis and me every weekend to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico back in the 80s and 90s for pizza and to buy groceries at the Commissary. We'd have a blast driving by the road at the end of the airfield and watching the Skyhawks take off and fly really low above us. We'd giggle so hard because of the noise and the vibration.
They eventually switched to the way cooler Super Hornets, but we really loved how the tiny A-4s looked like mosquitoes. BTW, I miss that base so much. I still feel like crying; I wish they wouldn't have closed it. God bless!
@@jesuschristiscallingyou953 Our sailboat was named the Skyhawk and only a very few people ever asked if it was named after the A-4s.
Mom drives a Honda Pilot with the Colorado license plate [USN A-4].
The Skyhawk my dad flew was trans-sonic so you could break the speed of sound in a dive and then maintain just above that speed as you pulled out but the closer you got to sea level, the slower you'd go. They never had afterburners as far as I know. Imagine how fun *_THAT'D_* be? :)
Curious Droid has made a similar video, it goes in a little deeper for those who wondered...
Funny, I just watched CD's video on the topic a day or two ago. He went more into the political side of the project whereas this is a much better explanation of the physics and engineering. Both videos are interesting.
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litteraly makes me think of the "star wars" ships flying on the ground; holy moly, i like it
Very interesting point about what could have been possible for an amphibious landing with these bad boys
In the Russian version of Wikipedia, it is said that Alekseev was engaged in the development of a new ekranoplan passenger plane. But he suffered a serious injury during the test and died a few weeks later, in February 1980.
I remember discovering this back in 2012! It was such a weird aircraft design my college brain was fascinated with its exotic design! I also found russia's massive hovercraft ship at the same time, the one that is basically a destroyer that can go on land with a massive tower/bridge in the center, 3 massive propellers on the back and several cannons for defense/offense! It looks way too heavy to actually go on land but it did!
Interesting that it never really saw use, I think the Pentagon had a better idea for military equipment than the Kremlin did. Our hovercraft landing craft was way smaller, and designed to be used in conjunction with our navy ships, so they could be deployed from all over the world, while the Russian version was basically a destroyer but without the endurance (aka reliability of a boat and the fuel stores of one too) so it would need to be brought to a nearby Russian port (maybe under it's own power or transported by a massive cargo ship somehow, would need some heavy duty cranes to lift it up and out of the ship) and loaded and launched from the port to a target within reach from the port, as it was way too big to fit inside of a ship.
Unfortunately that meant that this amazing and awesome looking hovership idea wasnt picked up by us and we have these less cool but practical hovercraft, but no hoverships. 😭🙁
Flights in Kenya between 2 beach towns happen a few metres above the sea. The views of the sea and beach are spectacular. 50-seater Bombardier Dash planes from Canada are used. 👍🏾
I’m pretty sure that Batman used this design on his boat