Yak 38 Forger

[Waltham1892]

Well, it might not have been much of a fighter but it was a great test-bed for ejection seats.

[AtholAnderson]

Yak-38 VTOD

Vertical TakeOff and Die

[TheFiendish78]

i love soviet planez but this one was really a piece of shit. anyway americans didnt had much more success in vtol. they just bought the brit harrier, modified its canopy and called it a us plane. i'm tellin ya, in vtol its the brits who own

[redneck10ivan]

The first Soviet aircraft with vertical take-off was a Yak-36

[evilintel]

Good for some practice, bad as an actual weapon.  To think Lockheed made the same mistake....

[DarryllK]

This aircraft was just a propaganda tool to say "hey look we got VTOL so suck it!" With the poor design and unreliable nature the people who allowed these planes to fly should have been jailed for putting so many pilots lives at risk.

[EagleOwlHayakawa]

The accident, shown in this video was caused by emergency system failure, not aircraft's own. The system had a false alert and ejected pilot. So it was. Read about that somwhere before.

[BernieEOD]

And what is our answer? Use the same system on our F-35B

[baconluvr2]

its a HEF, a huge embarrassing failure

[ProffaBubba]

Aircraft doing a funnel maneuver at the end of the video? :-)

[GalaticSpaceHero]

Yea, i can see the parachute look like it failed on that ruskie too on the last shot.

[NottheFacePlease]

It seems the engines are always a problem for most Russian aircraft.

[ARKIEX]

@NottheFacePlease

agreed !

[krbosak]

@NottheFacePlease Yeah they produce too much thrust.

[Cnupoc]

Why shut the video right there ?! What happened to the pilot ??

[SAVSAV1212]

ThaFunkster100

Yak 38 actually based on Yak 36 which was designed in 1950s when the Yakovlev Design Bureau began work on a VTOL system.

[petar1shuwack]

Nice original design LOL

[ThaFunkster100]

Total Harrier copy.

[sturmovyk]

@ThaFunkster100

Yak 38 first flight 1971... introduction 1976

Harrier first flight 1981... introduction 1985

So what are you talking about ?

[NoAntidote666]

@sturmovyk actually the harrier was introduced in 69. get your facts straight

[krackersdave]

@sturmovyk Wayyyyyy off the mark, If you really think the Harrier was introduced in 1985 how do explain it's role in the 1982 Falklands conflict? The harrier was flying back in '65 as a prototype.....

[binaway]

@krackersdave The original Hawker P 1127 (Harrier predecessor)  first flew in 1960. sturmovyk is thinking of the Harrier 2 and forgetting about the original Harrier

[AgentVRush]

Nearly 40 Harriers were lost in accidents too...

[Moosiepoohkitty1]

Typical Russian piece of shit. I just wish they would have tried to do something original instead of trying (and failing miserably) to copy western designs.

Must be that classic russian inferiority complex.

[flankerpraha]

@Moosiepoohkitty1 Sorry but that's complete bullshit. Thre was nothing copied in Yak-38 (yeah, planes have wings and engines). If one plane has similar chracteristics (like STOL/VTOL in this case), that has nothing to do with copying. Well harrier is much better construction, no one denies it, but Yak-38 was original construction. And what is "typical russian piece of shit"? How is than even possible for russians to have planes like Su-27 and others, if all those are TRPOS?

[hotlanta35]

i heard the ejection seat was a back breaker

[RichKilla86ers]

0: 33 LOL there go a pile of shit on the ground

[gigobait]

Im Russian and i know this thing was garbage and failure from start

[TheCharlie359]

@HeildemKrieg, True what you say about speed though, the fastest Harrier flew at 735mph while the YAK flew at 795mph, thats my mistake, apologies. The YAK was a much larger and heavier aircraft and not as manuverable as its British counterpart though, also it was ugly in comparison lol.

[TheCharlie359]

@HeildemKrieg, Its my understanding that the YAK-38 first flew in 71 and deliverys began in 76, the spying incident you refer to took place over the carier Kiev just outside of the then Lenigrad and happened in 75. The prototype harrier first flew in 1964 and it began entering service in 69, thats the info i have. Regardless the Harrier is acknowledged as the only truly sucsessful VTOL aircraft with close to 1000 units produced. The YAK also used 3 engines to acheive what the harrier does with 1

[TheCharlie359]

@HeildemKrieg, The Harrier was more reliable, had a far better engine, later versions flew faster than the YAK-38 and many more Harriers were made, whether the YAK-38 went into production first is debatable, either way the Harrier prototypes flew first therefore the Harrier came before the YAK-38. The YAK 141 though was undeniably a better plane.

[TheCharlie359]

The Brits DID do VTOL first, not the soviets!

[binaway]

More of a simplified West German VAK 191B (which used a 4 nozzle vector thrust engine with 2 additional lift engine system) than a Harrier copy.

[EJ205T]

L_0__

[evildeathmonkey1]

Stop bashing the Soviet aircraft designers.. They made some genius planes. Mig 21 is a ridiculously well designed aircraft. They used to just keep them outside in the winter cold, with only a plastic sheet on them. They just pulled of the sheet and flew away. American test reports said it only needed an oil filter and some minor sensor replaced after more than a 100 flight hours. Try that with an F16.

[CyphenPhsyX]

@evildeathmonkey1

the SU-47, 32, 37 and dont forget the amazing TU-160 which flew over US boarders and wasn't even detected! Totally agree with you! Russian tech is fairly old yet VERY powerful and effective!

[michaelkennedy100]

Many harriers were lost in the in the falklands war due to failure or crash or are they going to admit now that they were indeed shot down

[JVC7400]

Another russian copy... they need to put more work into their planes like they did on MiG-29 and Su-27

[nasasteve2]

Need to check your glasses the JF-17 looks more like an F16 than 38 but i suppose if you looked through frosted glass from a range of 400 meters it might look the same as the Russian

[nasasteve2]

Möbius is right the P1127 kestrel prototype for the harrier first flew in 1960 it's funny the 36m bears more than a passing resemblance to the harrier.............. It's amazing if the Harrier is really that rubbish why did the US make them in droves and indeed why in that case did the Russians feel the need to copy it????

[Deimxneyron]

This is not a Yak-38… this is the Yak-36M model 1964 (not to be confused with first in the world functioning VTOL Yak-36 first flight in 1962) certainly Yak-36M had a lot of technical flaws, given the fact that they flew for 5 years before the Harrier its first flight, most of which were eliminated on Yak-38 to 1971.

[mobius1aic]

@Deimxneyron And the Kestrel flew well before the Forger.

[KarthikSoun]

The JF-17 copied this Russian design!!

[thomaspruzina]

Neither harrier was succesfull except verticall take of it have nothing to offer, extreme maintinence costs, subsonic speeds, low maximum altitude, almost no manueverabiliy and so on. I would compare it to V22, second biggest flying shit that costs extreme money and maintinence, has no realiablity (First in this chart is of course B-2, that corroded due to materials that badly it needed special atmosphere in its hangars and couldn't fly in bad weather and also, it was proven detectable by Rus).

[wellerocks]

Holy shit that one goes fast up vertically. Such a shame it was under harsh soviet production. It had a lot of potential if they would have perfected it during another 5 years.

[sobuliak]

also the Forger could not VIFF-vector in forward flight this what made the harrier so deadly in a dogfight just ask the argentine fighter pilot.

[AstroChickenII]

Soviet aircraft...ambitious but rubbish. Except for the Antonov 225, of course.

But loads of harriers also crashed, but the harrier was first.

[kpadmirer]

When the Indians tried to buy the Yak for their navy the Russians told them to get the Harrier.

[N37BU6]

I always liked it, but notice how you rarely see footage of it carrying oh, I don't know... a payload?

[Orthodoxcrusader]

@N37BU6

Cause it's a lame-ass 'Harrier' rip-off... Only to show the concept of 'we can do it too'...

YAK-141 on the other side is quite amazing piece of machinery; Killed by rotten Russian economics at the time...

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@N37BU6 holy crap you are right, all the videos I have seen it has nothing.

[asianiinvasion]

it was a useless aircraft. it had half the payload of a Harrier and one third the range lol.

[fsxUSnavy]

it looks rare

[n1b3luNg]

You see that vertical takeoff from the carrier in the beginning?

Guess who uses that design now?

The Good Ol' US of A.

Ever heard of the F-35? Of course you have.

Well it uses the same design for taking off.

[LCPStud]

@n1b3luNg

Well, not exactly, on the Yak there were lift engines that did ONLY that, provide vertical thrust. After that they were dead weight. The F-35 SINGLE engine engages a fan in the front for lift. It is a major weight savings, only the fan unit itself becomes dead weight after the transition to fwd flight.

It is a FACT that some Soviet pilots refused to fly these things. That is right, they decided they'd rather take their chances in the gulag than fly this piece of shit.

Uncle fucker.

[n1b3luNg]

@LCPStud

This is a beautiful aircraft. It worked well. Like I said, it was mainly because of the Soviet's rush to get pilots in these.

[KAMAZist52]

harrier uses a changeable vector of draught Yak 38 uses elevating engines on a design these are absolutely different planes

[killkidnumber2]

harrier would eat tht om nomnomnom

[shelovescandy]

this one is so cute FUCK RUSSIA I HATE YOU RUSSIANS YOU WNT TO HAVE WHOLE WORLD TERRITORIES IN WORLD AND YOU WANT WORLD TO BE AT YOUR FEET FUCK YOU BASTARDS GOD WILL PUNISH YOU AND YOU WILL BURN IN HELL >:D >:D >:D

[pavel280488AA]

shut up georgian monkey you suck

[mer3abec]

Maimuna virishvila

[pavel280488AA]

@shelovescandy hha georgian monkey toiletcleaners in moscow lol

[medusacrack]

Yak-36 Forger - ,,nearly forty were lost in accident' and that's it; again the Brits gave to soviet GRU false plans of their aircraft Harrier.

[YaropolkMSK]

@medusacrack

You shouldn't blame the GRU for that! There are 90 confirmed Harrier Jump Jet family losses!

[AMFvideos]

One of the best!!

[LCPStud]

Are you kidding, the pilots used to fake illness to avoid having to fly the POS.

The lift engines had a 25 hour service life.

The Russkies make some great planes but the Yak38 sure as hell wasn't one of them.

[jxvwp]

Yes. The "Forger" was just a panic rush job to counter the harrier

[n1b3luNg]

@LCPStud

WHAT!?!

DUMB BITCH!!!

The Yak-38 Forger was a genious design that outdid the Harrier in EVERY way.

Vertical-to-Horizontal flight was smoother, and the many crashes were because the SOVIETS (not Russians) made a rash desition to not extensively test, and so the pilots going in were unprepared. The design itself was genious.

[cowboylionzden]

@n1b3luNg

idiot! yak 38 was not a succesful as the harrier!!!accept fact!

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@LCPStud not only that, the engine gave out in tropical climate

this shit really sucked big time, also this compared to the Harrier is a piece of crap

[GhostOfPaley]

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