2/3- Secret Russian Aircraft of WWII

History Channel - History has overlooked the unimaginable hardships Russian designers faced under the paranoid rule of Josef Stalin. Frequent purges represented a constant threat. Yet, in spite of the ever-present danger, Soviet aircraft designers mastered technical hurdles astonishing even by today's standards. This hour features extensive archive images of never-before-seen aircraft and the designers who brought them to life. The innovative aircraft profiled include a swept-wing Delta aircraft design; a rocket-powered fighter; a long distance fixed-wing aircraft with features later incorporated in the U-2 spyplane; a flying tank prototype; a submarine-bomber combination; and a canard-wing aircraft. And we highlight remarkable aircraft launched after Stalin's death in 1953, like the delta-winged supersonic Concordski and the world's largest plane, the Antonov 124 Ruslan.

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Science & Technology

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• Secret
• Russian
• Aircraft
• World
• War
• II
• dogfight
• air
• combat
• airplane
• history
• Soviet

[Brera011]

A flying submarine? One hell of a blip on a sonarscreen.

[Ispintechno1]

@Brera011 lol! Ambitious none the less. But usually designs that are a compromise between two different sciences usually fail.

[DARKSTARBLACKOPS]

smart guys everywhere back then

[Fidelchan1]

That is why the soviet United Collapse, because they never appreciate a smart guy

[omnadrener1]

@omnadrener1 and used the MCA india aircraft nose of aircraft.have to love Russia also they sold the Russian B-90 bomber to China as there future bomber!!!!!!!

[omnadrener1]

Russia builds awesome Aircraft to this Day.Cant wait to see the Pakfa enter service and the Russo-Indo Fgfa 2nd version of Pakfa with different wings and two seats the Pakda bomber and a new Stealth attack aircraft there working on to replace su-25.they sold the Mig-I-2000 to Iran as the Shafaq.USA uses the Yak-141/41 Freestyle and its upgrade Yak-43 and the Yak LFS on F-35 even though none of the Yaks entered service Mig LMFS stealth India took the Body from the Mig LMFS

[xxxDarkProjectsxxx]

wtf?!!!! plane that can swim under water too.. but maybe u.s has more advenced bombers who knows?

[Djrepsaj]

@fillopygeesi information that could become loose ends, also remember Stalin wasn't better than Hitler

[thebaskill]

@fillopygeesi Stalin was just an idiot, thats why

[fillopygeesi]

Did I miss something? Why would they be executed by their own people for experimenting with rockets

[skipsassy1]

Rocket power does not make it an aircraft, rocket power is useless because of fuel burn! The German's ME 162 was real as a jet engine could stay up as we have seen

[maddympkv]

flying tanks ?? Soviet baddassery at its best