That time the Russian's designed a X-wing fighter plane - Soviet Sukhoi Shkval
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60s were a crazy period for Soviet aviation industry. With Stalin’s death and Khrushchev’s missile obsession, almost every bureau in the USSR was working on a daring new design that would accommodate new military aviation doctrine and get those sweet government funds.
And then there were young or inexperienced engineers fresh out of college, not being able to participate in huge projects because of the time restraints and importance of success, who just sat around.
One of them was Rolan Martirosov, Sukhoi bureau engineer who decided to do something about it and gathered a team of colleagues to work on a completely new design in their spare time.
Their work started by using the fuselage similar to the one of Su-15 interceptor, with large canards to help with steering and maneuverability mounted on top of D-shaped intakes, however this design didn’t work out and they switched to intake design similar to the one on MiG-25.
Fuselage would have 4 wings positioned in X shape with integrated fuel tanks mounted at the end of each of the wings and some sort of landing gear or shock absorbers at the bottom.
Each of the wings would have a rudder that could actually work as both rudder and aileron during the flight and help the pilot steer the aircraft. Additional canards were mounted in the front of the air intakes to help with the stability during flight.
Aircraft would’ve been powered by 2 engines, which would provide enough power for vertical take off and flight with such an unorthodox design.
After creating several scale models and completing wind tunnel tests, a team of young engineers prepared all the documentation and had the feel that this could actually work out for them. They decided to present the project and talk to the man himself- Pavel Sukhoi.
When first presented with the idea, Sukhoi was hesitant, since he clearly understood the situation in the country, how the budget was overstretched with different bureaus developing new planes and helicopters and that it would be very hard to have government funds diverted to such ambitious project, but he was clearly happy with the initiative and the success of the project so far, so he decided to approve the project for further development and help the young team in their struggle.
Specialists from Ilyushin bureau also reviewed and gave positive feedback for the ideas and some funds were acquired to be pumped into further development of the project. He advised them however to go under the radar and continue work on their own as much as they could before presenting the aircraft to the government.
With newly received funds and support from the Pavel Sukhoi himself, the team pushed forward!
Plot twist: *the Star Wars Rebellion was funded by the Soviets and in return they gave them X wing fighter blueprints*
Yes
Using soviet industrial might to create their weapons while giving them technology transfers
Red leader Reporting, Red 5 Reporting, RED OCTOBER REPORTING.
RED DAWN, REPORTING IN!
Admiral Ackbar must have been on the payroll of the Soviets.
Not sure how your channel isn't more popular, man. The combination of quality and quantity is truly unmatched by any other channel that covers similar topics. Well job 👍 Always killing it with the ad segways too lol.
To be honest, this is good infotainment but its not documentary quality.
@Autism Is Unstoppable Few things on TH-cam are documentary quality. And those that are usually seldom release content. Take Mustard for example. This channel strikes a good balance between high quality and high quantity.
AI / 'Algorithm' recommendation.
If you like this channel, you will also love mustard. This and mustard are my all time favourites here... Top notch quality
Found and explained gave me the courage to start my own channel.
It is a "this day is History" channel featuring famous and bizarre aircraft alike
I so far have done the Mig 21, the Beechcraft starship and the Martin B 10 Bomber
Your channel is very inspiring, Found and Explained; good job
Made an kerbal space program plane like that once, a bit longer wings and two seats but else it was much the same except it used parachutes to help with landing who works as its no wind in the game.
Yooo fellow ksp player!
managed to get a 5 engine solution to work with mine with a parachute as a redundancy
Love these old weird designs.
Have been thinking a lot about inverted v tail or x tail for turbulence off the wing not shadowing the tail
I tried it in simple plane. Very manuverable and stable. Only issue is it need lot of wheel clearance
An X Tail split into two, made into canard & rear stabilizer working together.
@@smartfrenandromax6651 Isn't that basically a Rutan Quickie?
Very cool looking, but it would have had the same problems every other iteration of the concept had, transition and landing. In order to land you have to kill your forward velocity, but that means no aerodynamic lift, which means all that keeps you in the air is thrust. A tricky manuever to pull off without computer management and thrust vectoring. Also not ideal when you're coming in low on fuel and shot up.
Ironically the solution might be to go full X-Wing and have the ability to alter the wing geometry. Allowing the plane to fold its bottom wings upward to a fully horizontal position would allow for normal landing with landing gear.
Then, perhaps we use it as a space plane, not a fighter. Strap a booster stage below it to help it get up, and then let it rely on its own power. Then let it glide back through the atmosphere, with enough fuel to perform the vertical landing procedure.
I thought the four tanks at the tips had their own jet engines. An expensive and heavy solution, but it at least gives the pilot direct maneuverability at hover.
Would still be a nightmare without modern computerized control system. Vertical takeoff is not meant for humans.
@@Horesmi Not meant for manned airplanes. Missiles work beautifully.
@@dannypipewrench533 oh darn I meant landing, not takeoff. And reliable vertical landing for missiles is like three years old tech.
This is one of those designs that I'd like to see revisited with updated tech and equipment. I always wonder if the advances made in materials and electronics could offset some issues older designs have, and if those designs could potentially still have benefits worth pursuing.
The problem with them is it is harder to land them. Even if you land it on a platform, it will have to pe precise without you looking at it. In case of emergency or any technical issue, it would be hard to land.
In the future if we are in space, It will be a feasible concept, to just launch off of a platform and then there is no direction in space so it will be easy to fly them. Landing will again be an issue, But hey SpaceX is landing large landers, that are much taller and heavy so it will not be hard to make such planes land.
For a space Force, they are a good design, you don't need wings in space. But on earth, it will be hard to justify such a complicated plane, when planes can land virtually anywhere because of STOL capabilities.
I just want to see the design simulated with modern computers to see if it would actually work.
I'm not a huge fan of telling artists and creators what to do, but I feel like you doing a fictional X-Wing or TIE fighter historical breakdown with ECHenry on visuals would be just...amazing.
Great info. Didn't know USSR imagine that concept. But it would've suffered the same flight & landing difficulties the Pogo & Locheed's Hummingbird had. Which led 2 the projects bening abandoned. Should've been mentioned. It's the old "looks good on paper" but not practical in real life, like so many other concepts experienced. Have 2 admit, it looked great, better than ours.
Nikolai Tesla was definitely the definition of “There’s a fine line between genius and madness”.
what did he do? I didn't get it from the video.
This aircraft is in the cover of one of my books collection. a comprehensive book about secret soviet aviation projects. Super awesome you recreate that into this video.
That sounds like an awesome book!
That is one of the coolest looking aircraft i've seen,reminds me of the 2 seater Starfury from Babylon 5...
Along with the Convair XFY-1 Pogo tailsitter there was the Lockheed XFV-1 competing for the same contract. And then there was the Ryan X-13 Vertijet.
Similar was the Zero-length launch program to launch conventional jet aircraft without a runway using rockets. Slap a big rocket under an F-100 and kick it into the air just fast and high enough for it to start flying before crashing. Fun.
That looks sweet! Regardless of how well it would have worked.
Yes please make a video on the Nazi tail-sitter aircraft. It would add to the menagerie of other strange nazi designs you have built up in your videos. At this rate, you could make full-on alternate ww2 battle videos with all those interesting concept vehicles.
HELL YEAH
It's basically an France Cleocopter without rotor shield and rotating cockpit
Mustard already explain that. It handle like a brick, even with more sophisticated computer controlled on France one. It just don't wanna fly
is real now
Thank you so much for not going for the low hanging fruit and bashing the USSR. A truly informative and unbiased video about soviet technology is hard to come by.
please make a video about the Treibflugel--it doesn't get enough attention in aviation spaces. the Heinkel Lerche is in a similar vein
Please make videos for both of them, along with other experimental luftwaffe aircraft. Those planes never get enough attention, despite the fact many were quite innovative for the time.
That is the coolest design I’ve ever seen!
The CGI on this channel is always absolutely fantastic ! 👍
Thank you...
The Soviets, came very close to a SSTO SR orbit craft. They just forgot the ramjet-to-pure-rocket transition engine, as well, making the body *BE* a longated wing. The only reason the SR-71 had wings, was to hold a bulk engine too far out to exploit sound for speed.
All these soviet BS is little demons talking in your head.(No, I am not jelaous...LOL). Why do these "sovietist comrades" live elsewhere? I think I know why.
@@xres1329 no, not jealous, too much broski, well ( that little critter pops out in the back of *your* mind and says,) *maybe* 👀 ...the western nation have a backup "demon" critters civilization, known as the divine/elites, like so, the Soviet Union may have, before defon abandon from Earth, who know, if, *they will be back* 😆
@Found and Explained: I praise you for the clear efforts you've put into the pronunciation of foreign words. I don't know if my tip of using Google Translate is what got you to get so much better, but I think you did a great job on this voice-over. So praises where praises are due. :)
And as always, thanks for another very interesting video! Cheers!
The memories of glorious and mighty soviet science, thanks for the video
ABSOLUTELY I’d like to see a video on the Triebvogel! Also, how about a video on the Ryan FR fireball and it’s successor, the Dark Shark? Hybrid jet/propeller?
Bring it on!
That’s a cool design! Thanks for the great research and animations.
a TRIEBFLUEGEL video would be great. I would like to learn more than just the basics and your videos are always thorough and accurate. Thanks
X-wings, Star-Furies, and Shkvals, oh my!
I always say that tail-sitter aircraft would be more practical with computer control.
Was the intro scene with the map and clippings created in software or is that a practical set created for this video IRL? Seriously impressive production quality either way.
Another great video - you find some very unique aircraft to dive into, I very much enjoy your content!
Likewise
The vertical position model crafts had promise, however they require converting and transformation ability with wing extensions. Along with engines doing morph Phase vs Stage effects, like jet vtol - ramjet - high & exo rocket switching functions, the key to a SSToL, if still using chem-fuel as source of mobility.
This reminds of a scene from the Oats Studio short film "Firebase." At about the 13:00 mark a traumatized character recalls an alternate dimension where Soviet fighters assault his base. They land vertically and deploy flamethrowers. Not practical or realistic, but nightmarish nonethless. It's essentially a depiction of exotic Soviet fighter jet technology on acid. The Sukhoi Shkval vaguely reminds me of it
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Everytime I see one of these videos I know exactly what to to build next in Kerbal Space Program.
Obi Wan Kenobi: Yuri use the force
Yuri: Da
@Found and Explained; I thoroughly enjoyed this video - entertainment right across the board. Only you could literally voice an advert about your sponsor and make it SO INTERESTING……that your viewers sit through the advert giggling at your astounding sense of humour AND actually making a mental note to use the sponsors services at some point in the future.
And all done with the understated charm of a powerful Jedi using a subtle mind trick 😅.
Dude, you’ve got oodles of TALENT! Great work!!
Would very much like a video on the Focker Wulfe version of this concept
Hey Found and Explained! I'd love to see a video on what could have been, one of the most efficient interceptors, the TSR.2
In the past you've done a video on the Avro Arrow, so it'd be perfect if you did one on the TSR.2
I didn't knew about this project! Looks amazing, was good to build less one ,to prove is functional!
Something initially confused me - you said the things on the ends of the wings were fuel tanks / pods with landing shock absorbers. But animation made the back of the pods visually similar to the early jet engines, like those at 5:15, and they produce what looks like exhaust at 0:58 (its probably just wing tip turbulence...but it doesnt help that it seems coming out of the back of a circular aperture of the pod). Took a moment to figure out wtf I was looking at. I was thinking - why would a fighter have extra thrusters in addition to main engines, its not babylon 5, lol.
SpaceX proved the tail sitter concept. With the right software could be done these days.
Incorrect, DARPA did that first.
@@blackhatfreak I never said they didn't. SpaceX solved the fundamental flaw in the concept, regular safe controlled landings.
Prototypes are easy, production is hard.
SpaceX proved they can be produced.
Man you need more subs, I've been here since before 50k, still baffled at the effort you put
How its gonna land?
Soviet: its cant-
Japan: *ill take it*
Awesome ! we did not think you would be releasing today.
Is it Cycle or Eeeve the Render Engine you are using at present
Cycles!!
Well done and thanks
If you watched Firebase short from Oats Studio, there's a similar jet with flamethrowers attached lol. Didn't know that was inspired by an actual Soviet concept.
YOU NAILED IT AGAIN F&E!
Yes, PLEASE make a video on the Triebfleugel (or however you're meant to spell that)
now THAT is how you make an airplane
fully loaded Yak-28 looked like x-wing
Funny thing this not the only time the Russians would make a crazy “plane” and call it the x-wing. Weird it happened twice tho (speaking of which can we have a video about the sirkorsky S-72 the x-wing??)
Gotta give the engineers serious credit for coming up with a full on original outta the box design
You never fail to deliver.
When You want a Foxbat but watch star wars too much
Very cool looking. Looks like a one way trip kamikaze fighter jet.
Reminds me of something from a Gerry Anderson series.
We could have made this today.
-The swing wings of the F-14 could power the "S-Foils" allowing for landing.
There use to be a twin counter rotation prop version outside NAS Norfolk VA when I was a kid.
Im super positive ive seen this before in a movie.
Something that had people with laser swords? And they had a dark side? I’m sure I’ve seen it too
Nope. I found it. Its that oats studio short "firebase". It transformed into a flamethrower tower after landing on an American airbase
This reminds me of the aircraft from Oats Studio's Firebase 1 that has a scene where a Soviet VTOL lands on it's Tail.
Put fuel pods on the wing tips and also make them the landing gear! (is this a good idea?) So this thing was supposed to take off and land tail first all the time? seems even more difficult than the Pogo's landing.
whit a tail landin plane is a form of lowerin the mas senter in the vertical configuration
Your animation has gotten so good lately
Very cool. It look like the fighter planes that fought the Kaijus in the old Ultraman TV show of the 60's.
Secret Space Program. T-65, 1965? Like a Tank? The Last Starfighter's starfighters are VTOL crafts. So… 'Copy and Paste'? With some edits?
TLS ending featured the Gunstar landing vertically.
The Sukhoi X-Wing seemed to be an Interceptor, that can be launched anywhere and immediately. A manned missile.
(Ala 'Stratos 4's 'TRS-2')
After later Surface to Air Missiles (SAM), it seemed to be better suited for 'Intercept-Recon-Verify' and 'Intercept-Escort' roles.
According to a lot of you the most obvious issue with this design is the difficulty in landing - considering on paper it would rely completely on generated thrust to complete a landing (not ideal for combat aircraft that get damaged and run out of fuel) Humor me if you will, but I wonder how such a design would function if the vertical landing was achieved via ultra durable parachute (s) ? Perhaps one in tandem with thrust. I'm not sure how strong we can make them but if I do recall one of the USA's reusable spacecrafts use them to slow down in landing, so at very least we have the technology to make parachutes that can take extremely high stresses. But what do I know, somebody roast my idea on this I'd love to see the discourse.
Is it possible that you could make a model for a design i made, i would really like to see how that would work out
send it to my email. Nick@foundandexplained.com
@@FoundAndExplained thanks for this oppertunity, i will send the E-mail now.
@@FoundAndExplained dear Nick, i have seen that you still didn't respond to my e-mail. I have the feeling that i messed up my chance, could i at least get some feedback about how i next time should draw designs or how i could contact you?
Apart from the worrying amount of smoke coming from the fuel tanks it looks cool.
Vertical Take-off? Yes!
Vertical Landing? Uhm, landing?
I'd really like to see a video about the Triebflügel, because I simply can't figure out how it is supposed to work.
Man I GOTTA get my hands on a flight sim model of this!!
That 'team' music though! Amirite! I actually have one of these and that team music will go great next time my two friends Luke and Chewwie go for a ride with me!
i would LOVE to see a video on the FW Triebfluegel!!!! i love how crazy it's design is!
That would make a truly cool model.
Tesla was not the first to design vertical takeoff vehicle, that would be Leonardo DaVinci.
Rejecting the design was almost certainly the right decision, as this is one of those ideas that looks great in theory but never really manages to translate well into active service and functionality.
But the team definitely deserved their rewards and careers, it was a very well done attempt.
Good video of a very unusual aircraft. Thanks
Treibflügel, not Triebflügel ;)
Treibflügel means pushing wings. Triebflügel would be something like urge or instinct wings.
I know, ist not easy for an non fluent german speaker. :)
Did America ever try to make a TIE-fighter-shaped aircraft?
That's where Spielberg probably got the idea for the X-Wing Fighter for Star Wars
the plane looks cool
Anything that looks like it came from the science fiction of its era or previous eras is going to look awesome!
@@kellenwong1321 woooord! I still love all the bubbly 50s and 60s designs lol
A video on the triebflugal would be cool
So with odd configuration, wonder how she would have flown? The canards would have helped a little, keeping it from stalling would been interesting.
Perfect work all the time! But I just noticed someone just uploaded your video to a Chinese video website with dubbed voices(scripts are completely the same as yours)and claim it's their original so they can make a profit, do you need further information?
I wonder if they could make it work now with computers compensating for landings. It is still a great idea for carriers and places without runways.
Very interesting video 👍👍
Is that even a question? Of course we'd like to see a video about the insane Focke-Wulf Triebflügel! 😎👍
what about a video about the be-2500 ?? i tried doing research but didn't find how they would use it
Yes please do the Tribfluegal or however it’s spelt, that would be an awesome video. Love your stuff, new sub.
Do the german one
That thing is so beautiful I wish it had entered service on a grand scale.
Another fascinating video of another fascinating aircraft! 😎👍
Wow! I wonder how it would have flown. More for high speed interceptor missions I would imagine.
All planes need this wing design.
You'd better tell about Burya project. It was Soviet intercontinental guided winged missile.
My first video from this channel and I feel I found mustard’s other page. Similar video layout, 3D modeling and narration. This is by no means an insult.
Welcome aboard!
Since the body of the jet reminds me of an f-15, the transformers fan in me is screaming "New seeker concept!"
Solid ad read! I actually let it play.
Thanks I try to at least make them interesting
Tail-sitter, knew it from the moment I saw it. Tail-sitters are an extinct type of aircraft, no doubt for good reasons!
The Soviet design looked a great deal more capable & realistic than the Pogo. The 60's were well into the jet age. Turbo props in military aviation were already thing of the past.
I kinda wonder, what would a landing pad be made of, to put up with the extreme heat coming from those engines. Pavement would get soft and cement, it woudn't get soft, but it wouldn't survive a landing ether.
Cool video!
It certainly looks cool but an aircraft with four wings means that it would have a greater radar signature and make the plane heavier, not to mention more aerodynamically unstable. Even with modern avionics and computers, this aircraft wouldn't be able to hold it's own against some of the more modern aircraft like the F35 or even non stealth fighters like the Eurofighter, Dassault Rafale or Gripen. Still I would love to have seen it in action nevertheless, just to see how well it would have performed.
I would truly love to see a Triebflügel video. Could be cool!^^