The Soviet P-38
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Soviet engineers excelled in the conception of revolutionary aircraft. However, a lot of those designs could not see the light of day. In particular due to Stalin's repression which did not spare any class of the Soviet society.
Today I propose you to discover one of those which is a look a like of its twin beam american cousin P-38, the G-38!
Pavel Ignatievich Grokhovsky is the father of this fighter-bomber and Pavel Albertovich Ivensen is the one who corrected it's major flaw masterfully. However they were both sent to the gulag and the prototype could not be completed. Sending talented people weakened the Soviet engineering and the USSR started World War II with a huge technological disadvantage concerning its aircrafts.
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This aircraft looks like it was initially inspired by the Fokker aircraft rather than the P-38.
Maybe, I didn't find any information concerning a potential aircraft which might have inspired the Soviet engineers. But this plane seems to be a kind of mix between the G1 and P-38.
And That is the great advantage of the dreams of Karl Marx, the ability to turn a great green pasture of grass and flowers into Dung and flys......
The result of communism summed up in 1 sentence
Im completely surprised by this...i love the "Flying Wing" shape
Me too, when I was making the video, I fell in love with its shape.
@@F-14DTomcat how fast did it go once the wing span was shortened?
The new design allowed to the plane to gain 250km/h, since its original speed was 300km/h, its new speed was 550km/h.
I saw a documentary where they showed a plane with a twin boom tail. They stated it was a Nazi Germany plane they were building to replace the Stuka. It was late in the war and was never fully developed and never depolyed.
Have you ever heard of it?
There were plenty of German undeveloped plane projects to remplace the Ju-87, but I think the plane you are talking about is the Blohm & Voss BV P.196.
It bears a passing resemblance to the fictional German plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Nice looks though.
I see the plane you're talking about, indeed it is a fictional plane and they called it called Blohm & Voss 38
Fokker G1 in the first 7 seconds of this video !
Exact! you have a good eye!
Soviet engineers were as good if not better than German and British!
Indeed, they were good and had also a special talent when it came to make good things which were really simple. But as a descendent of Soviet immigrants fro Caucasus, I am far more impressed by German engineering.
it looks a bit like the FOKKER G1..
I agree, it is like the son of the p38 and the g1 who grew up in USSR.
Design-intended speed could have been reached with bigger powerplants, but the wide wing inhibits pilot's downward view. Too bad politics got in the way.
Yes, Soviet plane projects being destroyed by bad politics was something very frequent including it's jet fighter project of the time on which I made a video.
You're quite correct about early Soviet fighter designs used during the first couple of years of Soviet involvement in WW2. However, later in the war, Yakovlev and MiG came up with some rather advanced fighter designs that were equal, if not superior, to the Nazi fighters at the time. Of course, they also had the Lend-Lease fighters that the US gave them.
Yes you are right, I was much more talking about the beginning of the war because this plane could have entered in service even before the operation Barbarossa because it was nearly at the completed prototype stage in 1937.
@@F-14DTomcat After looking at the video, it would seem either the Soviets had the same idea as the Americans at the same time or a visitor from the USSR visited Lockheed while the P-38 was being designed and liked it.
@@drivernjax I am not really sure that the Soviets this time stolen the concept because initially, it was to be a far larger plane and the one who corrected the plane (Ivenssen) was under placed high surveillance in 1935 due to a first condemnation (he got the right to keep working there) and so could not got to the US and the work on the P-38 started in 1937.
@@F-14DTomcat I didn't mean to imply that the Soviets stole the idea (although they weren't above doing something like that. Of course, so were the USA and other countries.). I meant to say that, perhaps, a visitor saw the concept and liked it and he returned to the USSR with the intent of developing a Soviet twin-boom fighter along the lines of the P-38. There have been many times in which two countries developed similar things but took different tacks to get there.
Ok, got it🙂
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Good video - but is there any way you can improve your accent? Your accent makes your speaking very hard to understand.
Yes I'm working on this to improve my pronunciation. Forgive me it was my very first video.
@@F-14DTomcat I am certainly interested in you next videos!
@@retepeyahaled2961 Well the next one will come out soon and I it is a plane I am pretty sure that nearly no one heard about and will surprise many. Hope you enjoy.