Soviet Menace | From The First Russian Bombers, To The Nuclear Tupolev Tu-95 Bear | Documentary
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2023
- The Soviet menace. A history documentary about Russian aviation. From the origins of aircraft bombers to the nuclear Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, including the Ilya Muromets, the ANT-4, ANT-9, ANT-25, Petlyakov Pe-8, and how the Soviets stole and copied the Boeing B-29 Design.
The Tupolev Tu-95 (Russian: Туполев Ту-95; NATO reporting name: "Bear") is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platform. First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Long-Range Aviation of the Soviet Air Forces in 1956 and was first used in combat in 2015. It is expected to serve the Russian Aerospace Forces until at least 2040.
A development of the bomber for maritime patrol is designated the Tu-142, while a passenger airliner derivative was called the Tu-114.
The aircraft has four Kuznetsov NK-12 engines with contra-rotating propellers. It is the only propeller-powered strategic bomber still in operational use today. The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound. Its distinctive swept-back wings are set at an angle of 35°. The Tu-95 is the only propeller-driven aircraft with swept wings that has been built in large numbers.
The design bureau, led by Andrei Tupolev, designed the Soviet Union's first intercontinental bomber, 1949 Tu-85, a scaled-up version of the Tu-4, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress copy. A new requirement was issued to both Tupolev and Myasishchev design bureaus in 1950: the proposed bomber had to have an un-refueled range of 8,000 km (5,000 mi), far enough to threaten key targets in the United States. Other goals included the ability to carry an 11,000 kg (24,000 lb) load over the target.
Tupolev was faced with selecting a suitable type of powerplant: the Tu-4 showed that piston engines were not powerful enough for such a large aircraft, and the AM-3 jet engines for the proposed T-4 intercontinental jet bomber used too much fuel to give the required range. Turboprop engines were more powerful than piston engines and gave better range than the turbojets available at the time, and gave a top speed between the two. Turboprops were also initially selected for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress to meet its long-range requirement and for the British long-range transport aircraft, the Saunders-Roe Princess, the Bristol Brabazon Mk 2, and the Bristol Britannia.
General characteristics
Crew: 6-7; pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, communications system operator, navigator, tail gunner, plus sometimes another navigator.
Length: 46.2 m (151 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 50.1 m (164 ft 4 in)
Height: 12.12 m (39 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 310 m2 (3,300 sq ft)
Empty weight: 90,000 kg (198,416 lb)
Gross weight: 171,000 kg (376,990 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 188,000 kg (414,469 lb)
Powerplant: 4 × Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engines 15,000 PS (15,000 hp; 11,000 kW)
Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating fully feathering constant-speed propellers
Performance
Maximum speed: 925 km/h (575 mph, 499 kn)
Cruise speed: 710 km/h (440 mph, 380 kn)
Range: 15,000 km (9,300 mi, 8,100 nmi)
Service ceiling: 13,716 m (45,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 10 m/s (2,000 ft/min)
Wing loading: 606 kg/m2 (124 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.235 kW/kg (0.143 hp/lb)
Armament
Guns: 2 × 23 mm (0.906 in) Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 autocannon in tail turret
Missiles: Up to 15,000 kg (33,000 lb), including the Kh-20, Kh-22, and Kh-55/101/102, or 8 Kh-101/102 cruise missiles mounted on underwing pylons - Наука та технологія
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I liked the British guy's stories.
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I was stationed at King Salmon Air Force Station in Alaska in 1976, A bear bomber came in on final due to an in-flight emergency of low fuel. He was allowed to land and then refueled to head back to it's base. One of the gunners or observers held up a Pepsi can that was red white and blue at the time. No one got on or off the bomber so we were confused as to how the man had a US Pepsi can on board the bomber. Our commander had the picture blown up to life size and displayed in the combat alert center on our little base!! While the governments of both countries were at odds, the people of both nations were not, it was my first glimpse that the people of the Soviet Union were not eager to fight with the US. Beautiful looking aircraft though I favor the B-52!
Couple of comments to make here!
Concerning the bomber: What a sight to see in person! Was the Tupolev’s engines noticeable louder than the base’s usual aircraft? True airmen can appreciate true airmanship regardless of the flag on the fuselage!
and then the Pepsi: Pepsi’s sworn enemy was Coca Cola, and to get the upper-hand, their CEO Don Kendall made a deal with capitalism’s sworn enemy, the Soviet Union. He was so successful, that by 1971 Pepsi was being made, bottled and sold in the USSR! It’s an absolute wild tale that involved the CEO personally charming Soviet Premier Khrushchev, and for a time, even accepting vodka as a form of payment. Do check it out sometime!
The Pepsi - soweit Union relationship is a wild story! Chruschow loved this stuff and after payments in vodka became unprofitable the sowiets payed in demobilized warships and submarines which Pepsi sold for scrap metal
@@expertizerAh yes, the Pepsi Navy.
17 submarines, 1 cruiser, 1 frigate, and 1 destroyer. Pepsi briefly had, on paper, the 6th largest navy in the world, even if its fleeting fleet was to go straight to the ship-breakers.
@@jamesm3471 what a time it was to be alive :D
And then September 83 came along and they shot down KAL 007 over Sakhalin. Not feeling all fuzzy about that Pepsi can. I was at NAS Keflavik, Iceland at the time. Fun and games every night up and down that slot...non stop leading up to Able Archer 83. And we all know what almost happened then.
I was a U.S. Treaty officer and went to Russia's Engle AFB in 1996 to witness the destruction of this aircraft as they did for some B52s. At that time I was encouraged that our two countries might continue down the road of peaceful coexistence. Now it seems we are back to the relationships we had in 1970. An opportunity missed for the world.
What does the destruction process look like?
The problem is that NATO kept expanding towards the border of Russia.
@@robertbennett9949 we do what the fuck we want, russia isnt something to worry about lmao
@@robertbennett9949Utter nonsense. Russia need only ever worry about NATO if it actually invades a NATO country
@@diggledoggle4192We've been encircling them for decades with bases and NATO expansion. Kinda hard for them to not eventually do something to a NATO country when they're all but surrounded by NATO and NATO allies. As much as I love America, we're the aggressors, not Russia.
Loved the last segment, with the Russians bringing two Bears to the UK. It's a shame that the world has regressed.
Yes its a great shame. Now the Bear's are back doing the stuff that they were designed to do.
Give this guy commenting in the last 20 minutes a medal for his humour. Best part of the whole vid.
I as a 20 year retired US AF Military aircraft maintenance technician, as with many others, luv the Soviet Russian TU-95 Bear's iconic sleek design, it's 4 engine twin contra-rotating propellers, even though it was the Communist USSR enemy's premier long range bomber, it is definitely a stunning looking iconic Cold War aircraft.
I esp luv British Commodore Phil Wilkinson's inside story of the diplomatic air show display tour of the Russian Air Force and Navy's TU-95 Bears to England.
Thank you Commodore Wilkinson for sharing that great story, of which I have never heard before.
Story at the end was awesome. You can tell that even tho he was trained to fight the Russians, he still had respect for somebody just like him, just on the other side. Very cool
yes, that interview/story at the end was excellent.
The fact that it is propeller driven makes it a uniquely distinctly beautiful masterpiece of Russian design.
Soviet design.
@@robertbennett9949 as was the an-225, soviet
One of them landed at my local airport for an air show about ten years ago. It's exactly eight miles away and the sound of it was loud enough to wake me up.
I was in Moscow for the previous inauguration of President Putin and I watched the fly past from the gardens behind the Kremlin. Helicopters first and then fighters, then I think Russian 'stealth' planes. But I think we were all surprised when these enormous four-engined Tu-95 bombers flew over. The sound that these planes made was extraordinary. Not a jet's roar or the thump of a helicopter engine, but something deeply sonorous and different. I remember looking up at them and thinking "look, here comes the enemy."
You guys can never come even close to the original narration of Peter ustinov..
I could listen to this guy's soviet encounter stories all day
Soviet engineers are very efficient. I bought a Russian snowblower that was equally good at melting snow and even better as a boat anchor ⚓️
Incredible behind the scenes history that almost no one knows about! Amazing planes and aviation history. In the end everyone on both sides has great pride and respect for flying.
Copying something gets you there very much faster, but most of the knowledge is actually gained in the development of the original design
Throughly marvelous episode, thank you.
1992-99 was best peaceful years between west and east. Sad to see how world has gone downhill in many levels.
Ak tak jedine roky 1989 - 1991.
Potom začali USei vyzbrojovat Ukrajinu proti Ruskej Federácii.
Dnes to vrcholí, záleží len od senilneho pedofila Bidena či chce 3. S.vojnu.
They were years of coexistence and cooperation but US, realizing itself as the hegemony, began behave like one, demolishing who refuse to bow to its dictates, and Nato kept pushing right towards Russia's border. Russia was too weak to do anything.
@@Time4Peace - Three Baltic nations took advantage to gain back their independence, and other Eastern European nations knew how volatile and corrupt Russian politics are from the past. By choice and as guaranteed protection against Russian rule. These nations joined NATO. That is happening right now in Ukraine, as it tried to join EU and later on NATO. Putin’s attempt to crush freely elected leader and install someone who obeys Putin’s Russia.
After Stalin died and more liberal leader came to power. Few of the Warsaw pact nation tried to gain political freedom, but were quickly crushed by the Soviets. It’s good to remember non of the Soviet Union partner nations didn’t join one party communist rule freely or if they wanted to be part Warsaw pact, but were forcefully invaded by SU. Who then in turn choose puppet dictator run the previously democratic nation. Jailing opposite party leaders and anyone who SU thought was dangerous to communist ideology. After WW2 my old home country lived in fear of getting invaded by SU. Finns had to provide communist party majority seats in government. Even though communists lost every election. Conservative Party won most of the election but they were not allowed to form a government. Every bigger or “sensitive” purchase had to be okayed by Moscow. All the military equipment, with few exceptions, had to bought from Soviets. If Finns bought something, like Saab fighters Soviets had a change to look it over. After 1990 everything changed and Finns were free to run their country as they pleased. First get rid of SU fighters and bought F-18 hornets.
@Time4Peace
Total BS
ruSSia was offered the opportunity to be part of a peaceful and democratic world.
ruSSia joined the G7 (although its economy was not at that level) and there were negotiation for ruSSia to join NATO too.
In 1997/98 ruSSia made joint military exercises with NATO, and a cooperation treaty was signed in 1997.
Then poo-tin arrived to power...
@frankguz55 you seriously believe this 😂😂😂😂😂.
This has got to be the most stiff upper lip British story telling I have ever heard and thoroughly enjoyed. His explanation of a bunch of Russian airman getting snot faced was so eloquent I was just giggling. Well done sir great story told with panache and gentlemanly demeanor and language.
Isn't he speaking with a North American accent?
@@tubthump😂
@@tubthumpHe' might be referring to the last potion of the documentary the chief RAF commodore telling the story of the British inviting the Soviet bear bombers over to the UK
@tubthump not remotely, he sounds (and looks) like Prince Andrew
@tubthump He said British story telling, not British accent...
Either way who knows.
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What a brilliant video. I especially enjoyed the chap at the end and his whole monologue. Thanks for making this and for sharing.
That "Chap" was the equivalent to a one star General officer. In the Royal Air Force, he's an Air Commodore.
"My gast was totally flabbered." What the Brits do with English is marvelous.
Before seeing actual combat in Syria in 2015 and Ukraine in 2022, the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear was commonly getting intercepted by NATO interceptors and also dropped the Tsar Bomba the world's most powerful nuclear bomb on October 30, 1961.
Rad by som poznal bombarder USei ktorý nedosiahne stíhačka Ruskej Federácie ?
A ktorý bombarder nedá dole S-550 ?
@@user-lc6ht4hj5c English plz.
Great documentary, really enjoyed it - especially the story at the end -.. thanks a lot for uploading!
Has a radar signature of the sun.
"recruited from Germany at the end of the war" that's one way of putting it!
In 1985 I was 15 years old and got a chance when touring East Berlin Germany 🇩🇪 😳, to go to an air show that was happening and stand beside a Bear to have my photo taken with the pilot and the rear gunner. It took forever to get the photo because to get any of the aircraft in the shot other than the landing gear my mom had to stand back like 20 yards and people kept walking in front of us. I got to sit in the cockpit of a Mig-21 too. I loved that. I gave the pilot a drawing I had made of a Mig-21. He gave me his address and he became my Russian pin pal for a while. I'm sure it was more of an assignment for him by the KGB to try and glen info from me. My dad was a Ranger heavy weapons instructor and I'll bet they were hoping I would say things like my dad is in Angola right now and I miss him or something like that.
What an absolutely wonderful interview.
Thank you for this.
I can watch these all day. Nothing better to fall asleep to
A very fascinating and well made documentary. The Western airshow report at the last 30 minutes was quite a special treat and entertaining. Thanks. :)
Loved the gentleman at the end especially, thanks!
Great video, really liked the story at the end.
Wonderful documentary!
Makes me believe in humanity again.
If there were no politicians this world would be such a wonderful place,!
Also being a physician I must add to include “administrators” along with politicians : then the world would be near paradise!!😊
Excellent. Especially the interview. Marvelous.
It is crazy to think how open and peaceful the Russian air force and navy were in the 1990's. Not forgetting the Red Army as well, as their choir and orchestra had a free open air concert at Helsinki Senate Square in collaboration with Leningrad Cowboys, a goofy Finnish rock band. Those were the days, my friend.😪
We never thought that Russians would pillage their neighbors and threaten to nuke the rest of the world.
It is as if the Cold War was actually managed by sane people.
I was too young, in my teens… but from my age now and perspective of the current world, I so much wish that those days would come back…. Even for just a few years, to let everything just cool down. The Russian people are not evil…. The people in power are…. And they have a first class ticket to HELL on one of these Bears!. So sad.
yeah, that were the days...
Meanwhile we were bombing the shit out of everything.
Ah, the lenningrad cowboys, authors of my favorite version of 'puttin' on the ritz'.
Extraordinary presentation. Well-done! ✈️👍
Your Work is Spectacular !
The Best I have Ever seen.
Thanks Sir .
There really was a window of opportunity in the 1990's. Sadly we missed it.
nonsense
What could've been done to catch the opportunity? Strangle Putin?
There definitely was. We could've learned a lot from them, but I guess pride was more important.
@@volo870 good idea, I tweeted it more than two years ago and got suspended. The opportunity was in the 1990s.
@@yeanah2571 I don't know what we could learn from a bankrupt dictatorship, besides of the not to do.
The noise from its propellers drive their crew into insanity.
I heard that as well
Bull poop!
@@jyy9624and you still have your hearing? Lucky for you!
That figures
A great story, thanks.
Excellent video. I have one net to pick, I think you misspoke at the 21:46 mark where you say the TU 16 bBdger first flew at about the same time as the B 25.
21:35 The only B-25 bomber I'm aware of is the Mitchell and its first flight was in 1940. So if the TU 16 began flying around the same time then THAT'S the aircraft that needs waaay more coverage than it's gotten so far..
OK, I don't know how heavy the tank on that Atland is, but even if it was empty, that's got to be 50% of the plane's weight at least, aside from altering the aerodynamic profile. I have never seen that footage before and that is damned impressive both on the part of the plane's engineering, and on the pilot(s)'s prowess.
me encantan estos videos, gracias por agregar subtítulos
Great stuff excellent. The pilots flying those Tornados made their day for sure! Grettings.
The story of the pilot tearing up talking about flying to Cuba honestly is one of the best stories I’ve heard it was probably the closest thing to escaping the USSR without defecting
I was stationed at Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks at the time and remember the buzz that aircraft caused with it's emergency, and the permission to land being granted.
That man's whole monologue was riveting haha
What an excellent film.
The Soviets used to run a Tu 95 out of Cuba and try and fly it up the East coast. Routinely they were intercepted by fighters. They modified a Tu 95 turning it into a transport for Nikta Kruschev when he needed to travel abroad. The fact that it was obviously a modified bomber and the fact the leader would have to exit the plane by a rear facing door was deemed to be embarrassing.
Very well documented! 🙏
Joyful to watch!
Congratulations!
I’ve seen some crapy documentaries!😩
This particular one it’s really good!👌
Stress was the Cuban missile crisis and having to curl up under my desk as a first-grader.
Wonderful documentary ...Thanks
Watched again, mainly to hear the “Bears On Holiday” story, but the entire video was worth another viewing.
This was mesmerizing to me,
to see how militaries
of the world interact.
It just looks Russian. What a beast. One of my favorite aircraft.
Thank's. Intresting.
🇨🇦 Ive heard that cf 18 pilots flying interception ,can feel the prop noise!😮 🇨🇦
awesome!
The Tupolev Tu-95 and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress are a bunch of big, [so ugly they’re] beautiful b•stards! Their rivalry is greatly underrated to this day!
Another great vid. At the moment it is busy at nights in the Fairford area. I can literally tell what is in the air but I have no idea what a Bear would sound like.
Wow the film and Photos are fantastic
Sidebar : does anyone else see footage/photo of a Bear and think :
ILL Communication ?
?
Great album..great cover!
@@treestandsafety3996 phew.....thought I had Mandela'd an entire band haha 😎 cheers 🍻
I always loved the Tupolev design. Bomba 💣 крута 💕
The narrator did a good job, no constant use of "however" as a matter of fact I don't he used it once.
where is this aviation museum that can be seen at minute 37?
You lucky guy all the food and vodka! Great pick Nick! Awesome time to be alive to witness!
Great story telling
Amazing Story!!
The man at the end was the icing on the cake
Loved it! One of the B-29's captured by Uncle Joe was one autographed by George C. Marshall during an inspection tour at the Boeing plant in Wichita Kansas. I've often wondered if the Ruskies had the same level of engine trouble as we did with the 29's, especially the early ones used to bomb Japan which the ones obtained by the Soviets were a part of.
They even back eng a personal photo camera left by a crew member hanging by his strap in its leather case. You follow uncle joes orders strictly or ... well we all know.
You either get A: Shot on site or B: You get a vacation to a Gulag somewhere in the cold wilds of Siberia.......never to be seen again.
Yes the Soviets had most of the same problems with the copied engines so much so they later made their own svetsov engines also they had difficulty with getting the sheet metal to the correct thickness as they didn’t have presses to the exact tolerances so they had to vary the thickness of each panel making the plane heavier with less range .Also the fact everything on the B29 was imperial English measurements and not metric made copying even more difficult. It was rumored the Soviets had spies sent to the west to try and acquire imperial rulers and tooling to try and compare to metric measurements.
i heard they replicated the dents@@JuanSaldivia-xz6jj
@@ronalddavis wow. Cant belive it. Its true or your pulling my leg?
Excellent
Quite the story at about the hour mark. Great story.
I lived a few miles from the now closed plattsburgh air force base in plattsburgh ny in the 80s, back then as part of the strategic air command there was a b52 in the air loaded with nukes 24/7 365
wonderful story
intersting interview at the end.!!!!!!!!!
absoultely loved and memorised.. I searved with the British Army in the 80s.. Im 57 now and and remember time served along American our freinds.. we have lost so much.. my best to all
I'm no slavophile but it is too bad that that brief period, right after the Cold War ended when both sides seemed open to friendship didn't last longer.
The Soviet "BEAR" was a very scary bomber of the late 1980s...
It's a scaled up B29 with new engines. It was already obsolete when they finally started production. They couldn't steal a B-52 to copy. It was already obsolete when they managed to produce them.
@@abergethirty Let me list foreign (stolen) words in English that you used in the above sentence:
scale
engine
obsolete x 2
finally
start
produce x 2
copy
manage
😂
@@abergethirty u have no clue
@@abergethirty No need to copy the B52 when the TU95 is pretty much the same thing in real world terms and better in other ways such as range.
@@abergethirty
Thanks again for your information and analysis on USSR MILITARY
The plane is based on technologies acquired when copying B-29 into Tu-4, with turboprop engines designed by captured German engineers interned on the Volga river.
Let me remind you that Werner von Braun was born in Georgia, lived most of his life in Mozambique and after the war, immigrated to USA where he happened to instruct American engineers how to build a simple rocket to take them to the Moon 🤣
@@ShamanKish You might be commenting on a wrong video.
@@xandervk2371 I'm sick and tired of reading stuff like: Chinese steal everything, Russians steal everything, they never make anything original, and so on. No, I'm not on wrong video.
Turbo prop engines designed by captured german engineers intervened on the Volga river? Really? I don't think so.
@@davidfoster5906 Interned, not intervened. It is also your God given right now to think.
Forgive me but I forgot to comment on the Phil Wilkinson segment. I worked as a lad at dowty rotol in staverton Glos before following my career into music and the media . My father and i were huge fairford fans. I was living in Germany in 94 but my father was there. Do you have any other info regarding this historic event? Its still fascinating. Dave
For me, the Bear and the Fiddler symbolise Russia in all its hugeness.
We in India has the naval -142 variant and IMO, it was a most premature and retrograde decision to phase them out in 2017 as, after the 142, India lost realtime long range surveillance completely.
There is one aircraft on static display at INS Kurusura, the naval museum in Vizag and I shall be paying my respects to it soon during my east coast ride.
Somebody please post that Swedish Air Force Viggen interception anecdote here😂
That was a great story at the end.. sounds like they all had a great party.
Very interesting and informative talk from the British Attache
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still -:motion photography job. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Enjoying this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast "🚀of Florida 🐊🐊🐊. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉🎉 😉😉.
The tu 95 is a sexy looking lil plane
Good video. A bit slow at first. The last third was worth waiting for but could perhaps be broken out into a separate piece just focused on the UK visit.
If it should come to pass that I must die in WW3, I’m at least gratified that the TU-95 was part of it all, how cool is that: I lived and died in a conflict in which ONE of the most awesome propeller driven aircraft ever conceived played a part. An apex aircraft of the 20th century still going strong. Color me odd, but the Bear is so much more classy than myriad other aerial platforms. Grateful for the little things, which are the big things.
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26:55 extremely long range fuel tank attachment
We fly to moon now comrade you see, Да? lol
@@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter Muhahaha haaaaa, da comrade ,haaa haa!
Engines have been designed by Brandner, an Austrian engineer captured by Russians after WW2 Brandner and his teal worked at Heinkel, Last venture was the HELWAN 300 fighter jet
IT certainly lives up to it's name.
Engeneering masterpiece
Telling a story you’ve told a hundred times, now in front of a camera, not easy. This guy did very well. The absurd pathos of the Cold War was communicated. The Russians did well to assure that the British hospitality was reciprocated in full before departure.
Never the less the Russian design brilliant aircraft just like the British and ather countries well the Russian beat the Europeans flying to space can't understand why the people in Europe hate the Russian they are friendly people from my experience
I would love to know what the cost of the three Planes and 76 Crew cost and who eventually paid for it. Great to see such cameradery
"My ghast was totally flabbered." 😂 I'm definitely going to borrow that quote whenever I can find something close to justification for doing so. 😂
I find it amusing that the T95 is basically a stretched-out and heavily modified version of the reverse-engineered B29 which crashed in the UdSSR back in the 40s.
What a beast.....😧 I guess it had to be to carry that big ass tank..!
Great unexpected adventure.
They said about the bear being noise Z. But, it is called the "BEAR", And I think it's "BEAUTIFUL" It's on my bucket list to get a ride on.
Based on the sound of a roaring Grizzly Bear, the NATO name is perfect 🐻🐾
Propellers on a swept wing looks just odd, but apprently they made it work
EXCELLENT REPORTING PRESENTATION
They started long time ago with basic technology and they kept adding to it until our time now , where things are totally different . The competition between the two countries brought the best in both in them u til now . Where are we going from here