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Engineers: We have this design that would be superior to the West.
Officials: That’s fantastic! Really impressive! What engines does it use?
Engineers: We would need to develop a dedicated-
Officials: CANCELLED.
yea=s yes yes facts
That is capitalism 101. Using existing parts for maximum profits.
Look at the world today, in cars in particular, they use the same things as other cars.
You buy a 100,000 car and you find inside cheap plastic parts from a regular old vw.
Heck, even supercars or exotic cars that are even more expensive.
Instead of developing their own custom shape headlights or tail lights or internals, they will use whatever they find from a universal parts bin.
Profits.
The soviet government was more capitalist than the american one, because you see all the crazy project the americans made with one off custom stuff.
If soviet’s Engine design Bureau had supplied the of VVA-14 erkanoplane VTOL Thrusters at right time, the designer and engineer Robert Bartini would have conducted more tests and would have moved on with his phasing plan and the erkanoplanes would have been a reality.
The ekranoplan was a really cool idea that had no chance of ever working well. It was horribly expensive to operate, maintenance was a nightmare and it only worked well in calm seas. Although it may have been able to evade the RADAR of its era, modern surveillance systems would eat it alive. Having said all that, it was sci-fi cool for sure.
The calm seas comes with a caviat. The bigger the plane the higher the practical height off the surface. So massive planes actually have pretty reasonable cruising height and could handle all but the roughest seas.
It worked well, it's just a dumb idea for a military application. The trick to them is that they become increasingly more efficient the larger and heavier you make them. You could send thousands of people and cars from London to Florida in 4 hours. You could send cargo between LA and China cheaper than any method ever known. With the advent of modern day LIDAR/RADAR and correctional AI, the same issues that plagued the "flying wing" of the 50's and were subsequently fixed while engineering the stealth bomber can be applied to ekranoplans. If someone wants to engineer the things they would dominate heavy shipping and travel.
@@Mithrral Yeah, but the cost of RnD alone would be enough to bankrupt any large company if it didn't work, which makes most of them not take such a big risk.
@@SlayerBG93 The caspian sea monster could only handle 1.2m and that was pretty much the only big ekrano plan. its surface effect height is listed as 4-14m according to Wikipedia. but waves in the range of 4-7m arent that unusal in open seas. That is also one of the reasons hovercraft dident take off more they couldent hande waves over a few meters neither.
The soviet always have the crazist ideas
Yea, pretty much
and always doesn't work
Ever heard of Germans?
which dont work
Soviets are always drunk, hence the crazy ideas
Honestly, with how crazy and innovative Russian engineers were in the Cold War, it raises the question:
What if they had the proper technology to actually put their designs into service?
Ground effect airplanes work only on the drawing board
Not entirely they do in fact work HOWEVER they aren't practical they REALLY don't like rough water
@@JohnBeck-pb9xl That means they don't work because they need a flat surface like a pool table that doesn't exists in nature
Imagine the world with no conflict and everyone just helping each other to develop
We would be conquering Mars now😂
Answer : Red Alert
Wow, this is incredible. A friend of mine who knows I'm crazy for Ekranoplans forwarded this too me. I'm three books into an Alternate History story where the Soviets and NATO fight it out in 1980, and I'm intending to keep the story going into the 2000s. I think this project is going to be funded in the "Soviet Endgame" universe!
can you share some weed?
FYI their intended purpose was submarine hunting. Their best real life military application would probably be amphibious/beach assault as they can carry large amounts of troops and equipment.
@@Mithrral I agree. In the first book, Advance to Contact: 1980, the Soviets used the A-90s and the KM to seize the northern coast of Iran.
I have a world that involves the Soviet Union being reformed into a different regime, and it did not fall anywhere near as much as it did in 1991. I am conducting research to identify potential technologies for the "21st Century USSR". I do wonder if you have anything to share with me there lol. I'm really versed in the Soviet Army though, as well as Russia's modern army.
@@taelorpickel2830If you are well versed in the Russian army, then please tell me whether a victory over Ukraine would be obvious for Ukraine and how this war affected Russia’s military capabilities.And is Russian technology really not as bad as we are told in the propaganda news?
Robert Bartini, the man behind Soviet Ekranoplan and Ground effect is equivalent to Nikola Tesla of Aeronautical Engineering. He created one of the best designs in the world including getting a world record during WW2. He deserves his own movie like Oppenheimer as his life was one of the most craziest among any scientist/engineer in the world.
Born in a peasant home, grew up in a rich in Hungary, Crashed a plane at the age of 17. Served in WW1. Went to Italy for studies. He became an active Italian communist, escaped Italy after the Fascist takeover. Went to the Soviet Union and became their top engineer. He was a truly great polymath. He designed one of the best soviet planes of WW2 in PRISON. He even wanted to make an invisible plane using advanced optics and physics. He had a truly crazy life. If he would have lived for more time Erkanoplanes would have been real and he also designed an Erkanoplane Aircraft Carrier.
Very well said
Wow that is a great life story indeed
I thought it was Alexeyev who thought of the Ekranoplan.
@@StevenRamos248 I don’t know who Alexeyev is, but Robert Bartini is the man behind Ground Effect theory. It’s the physics theory on which Erkanoplanes work.
@ashrithrao06 He was a head of a Soviet bureau that made hydrofoils.
(4:32) "it's well-known that up to *two times more fuel* is needed to launch a rocket from the Northern or Southern Hemisphere [than from the equator]". This is way off. There _is_ an advantage, but the difference in fuel requirements is more like 3-4%, definitely not 100%. It depends on a lot of things, mainly the orbit being flown. Rockets are already over 90% fuel by mass, so you can't just double the amount. You can bet every single rocket would be launched from the equator if this was the case, instead we have Cape Canaveral at 28 degrees north and Baikonur at ~46°N…
Ask where that equator line was drawn is WAY off.. it doesn’t go through Florida!
@@bcasir7557 haha omg I hadn't even noticed, it's only on screen briefly. Apparently the equator goes throughs most of China, and India is almost entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. This channel might need someone to review their scripts and graphics…
4:31 I'm sure as hell that line is not the equator
Yeah I think it is too offset from the real one...
Only about 1,600 miles off
Can you do a modern ground effect aircraft?
You can start the video by explaining how massive and awesome Ekranoplans are, hype up their modern descendents, stuff like "imagine what a modern day GEV would be like. What if I told you there was one, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the airfish 8" and then record scratch as you pan to the airfish 8 because it's tiny compared to what Ekranoplans are.
How did the smaller spacecraft fit into the bigger one? You have only shown it in the rough sketch animation and it doesn't make any sense on the 3D model.
i was wondering that part as well... did the soviet designers just put a question mark into one of the spaces for how it would launch?
Yeah, we definitely need the ground effect air craft carrier episode.
I would love to see modern take on this. The cool thing about ekranoplans is that the bigger they are, the better, because they can fly higher over water, which means rougher water as well. Huge ekranoplan flying over ocean is quite possible.
That aircraft carrier sounds like a neat video
This is so cool. Love seeing these planes recreated on this channel!
Editing Error Disclaimer: 4:30
This line is actually the Tropic of Cancer, 30° north of the Equator... Sorry guys
Ah yes, the "Casp'n Sea Monster." Named after the "Casp'n" sea.
Accents
Spelt ‘Caspin’ by the creator actually. Incorrect, it’s Caspian.
@@gabrielb9010nope. He even spelled it wrong multiple times and he seems to have huge problems with pronunciation in general. He sometimes swallows half of the words
Another great video! Thank you mate!❤
10:00 just imagine watching this live, right in front of you!! AMAZING
A new video covering the Ekranoplan aircraft carrier? YES, I definitely want a video covering that topic!
Once again, you have delivered gold! Thanks for keeping it up!
I have been waiting for this video from someone for a long time!!!
I swear this feels like something straight out of C&C Red Alert fan fiction 🛫☠️
Such an awesome video, the channel always amazes me every time! Especially the crazy Soviet stuff!
@9:41...someone went alittle crazy with the f14
It appears the crafts may be flying backwards while docking at 7:50, just something that may be worth a look
Gerry Anderson obviously had a hand in this design. LOL
just came back from school to a found and explained video. this is life
If this beast was added to modern warships, it will be the first EKRANOPLAN with inbuilt single bomber carrier🥶
the soviets were thinking like some aerospace scientists in ace combat lmao.
Definitely want to see that carrier.
Awesome video...and can we talk about how smooth his transitions into his sponsor plugs are?
Requesting videos on the following:
-switchblade/reverse variable geometry wing aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise (the concept, not the actual fighters I mentioned)
-Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14
-the NATF program as a whole
-early ATF proposals/McDonnell Douglas’ ATF proposal
-Sea Apache
-F-20 Tigershark
-Bae SABA
-Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal
-Northrop’s proposal for what would become the F-117 Nighthawk
-Interstate TDR
-JSF proposals OTHER THAN the X-32 and X-35
-XFV-12
-Gloster Meteor
-the proposals that didn’t win the F-X program that spawned the F-15 Eagle
-Erado E.555
-model 853 quiet bird
-the USSR’s Project P-2 submarine
If I had my way, you would have a show on the History Channel. Your show would be entertaining as well as informative. Too many History Channel shows only amuse.
Always cool to see vehicles that might have been...
And yes, I would like to see a video on that ground effect aircraft carrier. 👍
cool video man
1:48 Dimitri needs body armor to protect himself from his medals!
I love how even the camera itself now have water dripping from it.
(was going to calculate camera wind speed but couldn't find an equation... is it possible to determine solely from the droplets?)
Caspian Sea.
7:40 I believe you used the wrong model for the KM as the graphic shows the Lun and not the KM
Ground effect aircraft carrier? Yes, please!
In the next video, talk about the AYAKS(AJAX). It's the russian counterpart of the SR-91 Aurora.
I want this thing built NOW
I love Ekranoplans, yes more videos on them please!:D
Looking forward to the Blended-Wing-Body video(s) 😁
Just adore this stuff.
What accent is this? Is he an Aussie? "Wootahr" for water hahaha love it
aircarft carriers are nowadays sitting ducks
Cant wait for Bartini ground effect aircraft carrier video
0:34 ---- it looks craaaaaazy good , i need some 3D models / technical drawings of it to make RC jet out of it 😃😃😃
This looks like something from the Soviet version of Thunderbirds.
Ground effect aircraft carrier? Yes please!
You should have a wallpaper section for all the animations you do
TIL The equator runs through Texas. That explains a lot.
Sorry mate that's an editing error, the line shown is 30° north of the equator
nice video
I love the Ekranoplan !
I just love the sponsorship Segway
Ground effect planes work only on the drawing board or CGI animation
You should do a video on the Hydrofoil Albatros Rocket, where they strap a rocket on a boat to launch a space shuttle to space!
there is something un-deniably sily about how it looks not that its dumb but its certainly a goober
ground effect aircraft carrier video yes please!!
Sqsp adds looks tempting
Your equator line at the 4:30 mark is too far north by ~30 degrees latitude or over 2000 miles (3300 kilometers).
Looks like something out of Star Wars
Nick is back!!!!
Imagine the strides that could be made were the nations of the world to set aside their petty differences and their focus on war machines and instead focus on continually challenging one another to friendly competition, eventually surpassing the need for competition and working as one unit to create new and incredible machines and a solid planetary defense.
Please talk about the USA jeep VTOL concept (Garrett STAMP).
Sometimes I'm sure Cold War designers of all sides watched too much Thunderbirds.
The line that you showed is not actually the equator which is far lower.
Imagine your hauling ass on a cross atlantic ekranoplan flight and you become another one of the unfortunate slim chance statistics of ekranoplan breaching whale collision!
Not to be a geek, but it's Caspian not Caspan Sea monster. Great Video tho
4:32 Eh? That line is not the equator. It is not even the tropic of cancer.
The line shown in the video is not the actual equator
The thrust from the mothercraft would slam into the jet on its back...not too feasible
I paused the video just to comment "Combination of numbers" haha
is blud gonna made another video on the cl 1201?!?!
Do the GE carrier too
"Caspin" 😂
Nautical engineers were probably screaming "waves!" to the aerospace guys every time they proposed doing anything outside of the Caspian sea. I honestly think engineers lost sleep over the fact that oceans are not a perfectly flat plane.
You should do a video on the idea for a 10-gigaton bomb
Please make a video about tu 128
It would be interesting to see if we could make these planes with today's tech.
You can, its just that they aren't practical anymore, the M 25 would probably still be practical tho as anti air weapons use radars to detect enemy planes and radars have a altitude to detect planes so that it doesn't accidentally detect people
@@Panzerkampfwagen_VI995 Stop considering military purposes, start thinking about commercial ones, it would undeniably be possible and viable.
@DrakyHRT I mean there was a mil mi helicopter that could actually help with civillian cargo as it could carry nuclear missiles
@@Panzerkampfwagen_VI995 Yeah, but we're talking 500 thousand metric tons or more, while going at mach 0.8 and having the same fuel economy as a large freighter ship.
@DrakyHRT I mean it only got to be a prototype as after satellite imaging of the earth started existing hiding nuclear missiles was obsolete and because of the fuel economy it would only be used to carry extremely heavy things like for example space ships or cruisers to navigate on the sea
Nowadays it could be feasible, considering current fly by wire technology, current turbofan and propfan stuff, it can be done, and there's another interesting thing, it wouldn't be difficult to make one powered by hydrogen, since it didn't have problems with pressurization...
Wait did you show the actual orbiter launching from the mother ship?
Im trying to get into the discord but the link is expired
The exhaust is onto the space ship?
American aircraft: Let's make a big but practical airplane for different tasks
European aircraft: Let's try something light but maneuverable
Russian aircraft: Morre turrbine = *Morre plane*
Funny where you put the equator.
Amazing
From what I remember watching before, the Americans stopped design’s earlier on their version of it cuz of how much the weather in the oceans around the US would have effected it, and i guess the Caspian Sea is much calmer weather? So that’s why they went ahead, and man seeing them things are monstrous!!!
well, at least we can see how this one would perform in action ... in avatar 2
Ekranoplan for Space, thats just Crazy
4:32 What kind of a freaking equator is that? ~ 😲😳😂
9:41
F14???
Soviet Union: Nah
Not even the size of the windows doenst fit to the size, where is the smaller craft? Inside the engines? And it lands moving backwards? :D
YEA PLEASE DO THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER
I always thought ekranoplans were the most hilariously awesome things 😅
Caspian Sea. Caspian Sea Monster.
Was it not The Caspian Sea monster
meanwhile in a Japanese video game this ekranoplan might transport mechs and captained by a Russian stereotype wearing an eye-patch with beard and mustache combo ranting about America being evil imperialists.
you are referring to Robotech and the SDF-1 ?
Here I go again ... HOLY THUNDERBIRDS, BATMAN!