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.

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.

Putin told us. Offshore nuclear blasts. Cause tidal waves. Russian inland cities are not susceptible.

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

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.

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

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

this was uploaded 4 minutes ago nice try but he does make great videos

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!? 🤔

@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 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLd-iq91uLrGn58.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.

Right

Dam I was going to comment that XD

Lol

Damn

Hope this video won’t be demonetized

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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*

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

@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 :)

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"

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.

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

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

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)

That Weight more double of blue whale. Damn we powerful 💪💯

almost double its own weight?

286 tonnes not 240

thats a small one

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.

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.

In Soviet Union ships fly on air.

@@ideallyyours *float

In the USA you fly a plane In Russia plane fly you

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.

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

...da....horosho...

blyat sovok naebnulsa((

Idi nahui boris cheeki breek

Nono too expensive get more картофель

Lololol

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!!!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

Oh yeah beautiful You look good 😉🌹

@@schefflerjone1808 dude wtf

@@schefflerjone1808 lmao what

DARPA resurrected the project this year. It's called the Liberty Lifter

Aigon?

XB-0 IRL!

Arkbirds

Arsenal bird

xD

best comment

Yes, its been like that for quite some time now.

*Ah yes, can confirm that this was my birth.*

@@coronavirus1952 *the prophecy is true.*

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

This could of been a behemoth in Battlefield the game :)

yep, 20th was the most advanced century

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.

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

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9Wkg7agqrHQdY0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbGidbmEntDNo3U.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a65imtCSt9W3ipc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etqhdauBq6-uk2Q.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i-B4Y9uX0ZnNnoE.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9dnfrV7nK64eYE.html

Profile pic checks out

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

@@nashir1187 MQ-9 Reaper

@@JustJohn505 what the fuck is wrong with you

ree

Or just one running jet fuel to stuff even more ppl in

@@quangho8120 electric motors don't need to swallow thousands of gallons of salty sea air just to stay in the air. They would be better sealed and better suited to the operating environment.

@@MrGonzonator electric? Ugh how big and heavy would the batteries be and how much payload is left after you subtract the battery weight? Electric boats? Yea, the Subs are basically electric, as are some cruise ships...with onboard gas Turbines making the electricity right?

@@coachwilson5967 I don't know, it's just an idea. If SpaceX can do a throttleable full-flow staged combustion cycle engine, and Tesla can make cars that can accelerate 0-60in 2.1s, and Maxwell can make good on their promise of delivering 500wh/kg batteries then I'm sure some combination of all their engineering know-how could make something like this possible. It may be that a 50km journey is short enough that a simple hydrofoil (electric ones have been demonstrated) can make the journey more efficiently in a couple of hours, but a 300km/hr electric beast of an airplane doing the trip in 10 minutes would be much cooler.

@@coachwilson5967 I don't know about electric boats though. It seems like boats regularly run out of fuel. Some estimates for aircraft carriers say they will run out of diesel fuel in 3 days (most aircraft carriers nowadays uses nuclear because of that) and in WW2 the Germans even built specialized submarines called "milk cows" to refuel their U boats (combat submarines). So I mean, it's easier said than done to get boats that run on electricity, and I'm also not so sure about electric airplanes.

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.

link

Fucking Normie