Im not sure if you love tu-22 or Mari more naw tell us the story about the lost tu-22 movie and ho it was about to be movie star by the way your channel is the best English speaking channel about soviet/Russian aviation
I dont understand your channel, like you only have 192K subs. You deserve millions! The production quality, the time and effort that is put into your videos and the information are all absolutely top tier. Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe! Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (Also thanks for introducing Brilliant, its great for understanding calculus!)
Hi there, I love your videos, and I wanted to use the type of music you use from epidemic sounds in my videos. Would you mind sharing the playlist of the type of music you use?
There's a great joke, the punch line of which is "but you f*** one goat..." about how you can do all these various fantastic things in life - build magnificent houses, scale mountains, rescue people from burning buildings - but none of these matters, because if you "f*** one goat" you will forever be known as the "goat-f***er" - and not the house-builder, the mountain climber, the fire rescuer... Same thing here.
Hey. One thing to correct- at the beggining you say it is Danzig. That is partially correct. It original name is Gdansk. Danzig is german wordfor that city.
The entire sequence of events is so crazy that two fighters, who took off from the same airfield, chasing each other thinking they're enemies ended up being a footnote
@@squalosus223 I would still differentiate between Russia and the Soviet Union, while there were a lot of cases of gross negligence and stupidity during Soviet times, but they still operated a much more functioning military than Russia does today.
That navigation system sounds INCREDIBLY convoluted. Changing 0 from real north to "our target = north" sounds like it'll just add a TON of room for error and confusion.
Paul Crickmore is recognized as the world authority on the SR-71. He is remembered for his observation that, "You've never been lost until you've been lost at mach 3 at 80,000 feet.
Kind of like our Astronaut who was on the Mir space station for a year(?) He said "you have never heard silence until you have been on a space station that is having a total power failure".
"I still remember how to disassemble and clean an AK-47, but I don't remember much from the math classes," is, perhaps ironically, one of the most American sentences I've ever heard.
I assume that the flight plan said that somewhere around that area they'd get locked up by radar and would have to evade interception of a fake missile. Which would make sense, but also when getting locked up by radar, the RWR will scream bloody hell at you to warn you're being locked. so my guess is the crew knew somewhere in that point they'd get locked, which they did, but for different reason, but they were none the wiser to these reasons, and just deployed CMS as expected.
I did too. That's the point when it turned into Mr. Magoo or the pink panther or even inspector clousseau obliviously avoiding all the attempts to thwart him by pure accident. The musical choice really punched up the comedy factor, too.
You seem to have found my stash of stories! 😅 The funny thing is that controllers requesting takeoffs in the opposite direction was so common, that Tu-22 navigation computer had a special "correct course 180°" switch, that would mirror the route automatically. The only thing that Lt. Drozdetsky had to do is TO FLIP A SINGLE SWITCH!
@@TheMemeDynamics He worked on Tu-95. I don't know why he was in Baranavichy for some time. He said that drinking gets boring quickly. Nevertheless, every member of ground engineering personnel had a 10L canister of pure ethanol, "just in case".
5:05 Dude is literally waving a too-large wrench around that nut, accomplishing no work at all while appearing to be very busy. Someone give this man a medal and promote him immediately!
...the fact that paper skies found that video was incredible....too funny - during the cold war, there were so many screw up on both sides that it's no wonder we all did not get blown to smithereens...
@PerilOS That's a far more detailed response than I deserve. I really hope that your job has improved, or you've found something better. Life is far too short for 12 hours of nonsense per day. Also the German spirit of efficiency and skill made me laugh because those are exactly the values I was raised on.
@PerilOS Oh man, I'm in the legal field, and I could apply that expression to the kind of work I do. "One draft, one sip". But hold on to that hope. It's all we've got sometimes.
@PerilOS Don't ever give up your ideas nor your dreams. I you feel like creating your own business, please go for it. It will be tough, but at least you should be able to create and maintain the environment you seek, where personal commitment is valued. (If I understood well) Just remember to not put all your hopes on anyone all at once, people are all different and some differences might disappoint you ;p Every person can shine if put in the right place, and encouraged to. (And I'm not talking only for you but for myself too. I find it hard to renounce the comfort of a part-time salary job where I bore out, but with which I have the time to work on half of my projects. The other half implying that I quit the damn part-time job. So... I need courage.)
Maybe he sucked at aerial navigation, but he was pretty good at political navigation. And I think we can all agree that it's an important skill to master
"In the olden days, if an agent did something _that_ embarrassing, he'd have the good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold War." -M, _Casino Royale_
As an Iranian I must mentioned 3 points: 1- on 25 march 1983, about 14:30 (middle of the day) we have an small earthquake near Tehran, 5.4 magnitude, that killed 30 peoples, so the earthquake not related to this incident 2-last week of March is our national holiday for the new year (Nowruz) so the readiness were low 3- I heard many years ago that Tehran air defence system that consist first generation MIM-23 hawks tried to get a radar locked but it's jammed then the tu-22 turned to East toward Afghanistan (which in those days actually considered as Soviet land) so Iranian control do nothing and guessed it is a Soviet commercial/transport aircraft that got lost, the tu-22 never exceed mach 1 at all time and simply we not know it's a bomber with kh-22 on it.
@Aria Azari Thank you for the correction. While gathering all the information, at least 2 accounts indeed mentioned the "holiday" (not Nowruz but Ramadan) as a possible cause. General Alexander Tarakanov, the commander of the 46th Air Army, specifically mentioned it. However, all those accounts referred as a holiday to Ramadan and as ... ... hard to explain ... as if they wanted to throw in Ramadan not as an actual reason but as something that everybody would know about Islamic culture. On top of that according to my research, in 1983 Ramadan was in June. All in all, Ramadan didn't seem convincing, so I decided to exclude the holiday as a reason. Thank you again for the correction.
@@PaperSkiesAviation Please note that Ramadan and Nowruz are not the same holiday. Nowruz is the Iranian or Persian New Year celebrated by various ethnicities worldwide. It is a festival based on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar, on the spring equinox-on or around 21 March on the Gregorian calendar.
4:26 - My country has mandatory military service. The same phenomenon happens here: Every time a high ranking officer was scheduled to visit, we would pretend to be busy maintaining our equipment and vehicles. There was times where I applied oil to the same vehicle for over 20 minutes, a job that normally takes around 2 minutes, just to look busy. The best one was when the 3rd highest in command of the army visited us. We sat down to eat but were not allowed to start eating until he arrived, just so we would be busy eating when he saw us. However it seems like the guy knew the trick and was purposely for almost 1.5 hours. Seeing as the time was getting late, it would be suspicious if we were still eating, so we were allowed to eat and then went back to pretending to be busy with maintenance.
The fact that this story would barely make it as a B-movie plot, and yet happened in the CCCP is both amazing and appalling. What is truly excellent is your story telling and where you apply it :) Keep it up !!
If you want to know of the US version of this pilot, just google for "Wrong Way Corrigan". In the 1930s he started near New York City and was supposed to fly to the US west coast, and somehow ended up near Dublin, Ireland.
Of course the USSR would lie and punish the guy ordered out of the control tower by a general by accusing him of ordering the general out of the control tower. I just...wow. Everything about this incident is just mind-blowing, including the USSR's ability to take a miraculously happy ending to a potential catastrophe and make it tragic and needlessly cruel regardless.
The bomber deploying jammers right when they were being locked on by actual fighters is a priceless coincidence, if it was the captain who pressed the button it explains why he run out of luck.
=))). The military controller: Why didn't you tell us about the change of course on your civilian airliner? Just imagine the hilarious conversation between them=)), when in fact the one asking was the one who lost his bomber over the civilian controlled airspace=))).
Man with the amount of coincidences of that flight it's amazing they didn't actually end up defecting. Also I do feel the pain of having to do dull math over and over again while learning how to take apart rifles.
There ia a long list of countries that would make sense to defect to as a Soviet pilot, but the post revolutionary Islamic republic of Iran, ruled by brutal mullahs, in the middle of a long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is not at top of that list, lol.
4:48 - I feel that. My schoolhouse barracks was so crowded with guys waiting for school, we could clean the entire building in an hour...which was bad because we had to clean it for 8. At first, I found a group who ""cleaned"" the laundry room every day and we established 30 minute duty rotations for cleaning the hallway window. If duty happened to notice someone important coming he'd very kindly remind all of us to "hey, don't forget to check the lint traps" because we-uh...we were so forgetful in cleaning out those lint traps 25 times a day. When they got us, we disbanded and I found a single spot at a convenient sitting height on a particular door that would never come off and scrubbed it for the whole day every day for weeks.
When I was in the US Army in the seventies, 'looking busy' was a required skill. Also during a Reforger exercise, my section of 2 M114s were doing a relocation movement. The E6 section leader wasn't the brightest guy in the platoon, but it was a simple maneuver so the TC of my track decided to get a nap, there is nearly the same floor space as the M113 and we ran with 2 or 3 man crews, and gave me a chance to run the track for a while. After going around some woods we turned left instead of right as briefed. I had my driver go off road to get along side of the other track to try and get their attention, we were on radio silence, but I could not get the attention of either the section leader or his driver, normally the company commander's jeep driver, to stop. Not knowing what else to do I fell in line behind him until we ran into an opposing tank battalion and got swatted while crossing an open field. Sat there for several hours waiting for the platoon Sgt to come pick us up. Since we were in such an open area a passing jet took the opportunity to use us for a bombing run. I never got any grief for this, everyone knew the section leader's capabilities, but it was quite a while before I had a chance to TC again.
@@baronvonslambert same in healthcare dude, boss gets mad if he sees me sit but doesnt see that ive been running forr hours nonstop working my ass off
@@baronvonslambert - Ah, yes. It was the constant threat of getting your own job done early, then being forced to do some other slacker's job for them just because you got yours done in good time. Gotta learn to be scarce or, at worst, look busy when discovered. Otherwise they'll start expecting you to always be done early and start shifting more work onto you. Which, in turn, could make you appear to be an underachiever after being appointed with more to do.
@@baronvonslambert I work in a warehouse too. I understand your predicament PERFECTLY. Have the same mentality from my bosses: they will rope me and some other poor bastard in my section into extra work if they catch me just standing still...
This crew was so lucky on each and every single phase of the event, that's truly funny, this story deserves to be a movie and the two airplanes taking off from the same airbase chasing each other would be the icing on the cake. 🤣 Incredible story! thanks a lot for sharing it.
Yes that hit me as well. Those were infamously difficult planes to fly by all accounts and he was apparently a brilliant pilot. His blind spot was trusting his navigator.
@@bradleyfried5157 The navigator probably was under pressure too, if he told that something was off he would have been reprimanded, and in the soviet system i wouldn't blame him. The navigator was reassured when the pilot told him that he was indeed seeing the "expected" cities. The whole incident is the escalation of small mistakes that normally would have been corrected quite easy.
In WW2, there was an RAF bomber returning from a mission deep into Germany from England who set off east after dropping his bombs, and it was around 20 minutes before one of the gunners noticed that they were still heading east. They got back, eventually.
203rd heavy bomber regiment of the USSR: "We messed up by flying into the completely wrong direction" 7th Bomb Wing of the USAF: "Well at least you didn't accidentally dropped a nuke on yourself"
That’s the problem though. We learned about the American accidental nuke drops decades after it happened because the documents were declassified. However, according to the few declassified ussr documents that exist, no accidental nuke drops ever happened. Which is massively suspect. No way is that possible when you hear about the number and insanity of shenanigans that happened in the ussr’s air force, which somehow beats the ridiculousness of the us air force
@@SmackcrackIV To be fair air deployable nuclear weapons are a much much larger part of the US triad than the soviet one. We had a few incidents, but we flew probably 10x more than the soviets did, at least when it comes to nuclear arms.
There's a joke from the 1970s in Poland, which captures the essence of IBD. The First Secretary Gierek visits the construction site of Katowice steel mill. At first he's really impressed with the sight of workers running around with wheelbarrows, but he quickly notices that all the wheelbarrows are empty. He calls one of the workers and asks him: "Comrade, why are you running around with an empty wheelbarrow?" "Because the rush is so f***ing hard that there's no time to load them!"
Even in western countries it is always the same problem - Bosses do not care how hard you work, they only care about how hard you 'appear' to work. Because heaven forbid any boss take the time to understand what is actually going on beyond the passing glance.
It turns out that office workers actually do about two to three hours productive work in a day. Which is a major factor in the "back to the office" idea is when "working from home" is that most people will just do their work and not bother with about five hours of pretending to work. (Those who were spending the entire day pretending to work may have no idea how to pretend to work.)
@@markevans2294 Working from home would make it harder to pretend to work because bosses will be forced to find more tangible ways of figuring out how much work you are doing.... But that would require actually understanding the work that your staff are doing, and no boss wants to do that, so "back to the office" becomes very desirable.
In 1983, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, many officers in the Iranian air defense were replaced by a new crew that did not have enough knowledge of how to operate radar. There have been many reports that, since the new crew was not familiar with the equipment, they caused catastrophic mistakes by targeting Iranian-owned aircraft. The problem still exists, as recently, a crew of a Russian-made Tor air defense system mistakenly downed an Iranian F14 in southern Iran. Additionally, another Russian-made Tor system downed a Ukrainian passenger aircraft over Tehran. In both incidents, it is reported that the air defense officers made mistakes in defining target altitude, the flight path, and many other errors.
As a historian and content creator, your transition of this unit’s history into the memory of the unit… what they’re remembered for… is absolutely superb!
I’m absolutely loving your channel. I also grew up in the last decade of the USSR in Ukraine and my father, and his friends, also served in the Air Force (far East Long Range Aviation). Your narrative is wonderful, it is as if I’m hearing these stories around a dinner table with “stopochki” of vodka with my dad.
I had to look at the date halfway through to see if it was April Fool's Day. When they triggered the electronic countermeasures just as they were about to be shot down, I exclaimed "oh come on!", checked the date a second time. Really? Halfway through the video, I was expecting "The pilot suddenly felt turbulence. He looked out the window and saw his navigator jump out of the plane. No parachute. From that moment on, he felt something was wrong." "...and while he was landing, the two fighters that were supposed to escort him were chasing themselves because one of them had tuned the IFF wrong." If there are an infinite number of pararelle universes, our reality that night chose the craziest one.
These stories, especially this one in particular, bring me hope that, as often as I make colossal mistakes, I am not creating international incidents when I do so. It could always be worse! The truth is stranger than fiction!
A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent: "You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No." He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No." "Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No." "But ya fuck one goat.."
This story is so comical that you couldn't make it up. A comedy of errors wonderfully narrated in a lovely sardonic and self-deprecating way. I love your videos and your narration and you are gifted story teller. Thank you.
I was like: "They probably got lost somewhere above Caspian Sea and wound up in Iran instead of Uzbekistan or something" Video: "(...) instead of Belarus" Me: "Soviet Russia wouldn't be the Soviet Russia if it was understandable error"
5:05 😂 ....I feel like that guy was thinking to himself: "I don't have many turns left before this bolt is set! I wish they would get the camera off me! Calm down, Ivan....think....wait, know! I'll just fake tightening the bolt for a bit. Nobody will see that! блестящий!" *camera guy zooms in on his hands right then* *_Ivan:_* "well......дерьмо."
Pretty interesting to hear about what he thought about his time in elementary and high school as well. I'm not exactly sure how old he was when the soviet union fell though
Another fun one that could be done was that RN Sea Harrier which was on an exercise to find an "enemy" carrier under combat conditions. The pilot got lost on the way back and was running low on fuel so decided to land on a passing cargo ship!
I'm sure it exists everywhere in the world, not just in military... when your boss is somewhere near you, you will definitely pretend to do something important even if you don't 😃
As much as I like “бля”, judging by the numbers in analytics it was the worst performing thumbnail ever. I want to see if “neutral” hello will perform differently.
Quite funny indeed. And I have a story, too. Back in the mid '70s, I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. Our company was doing a Survival, Escape and Evasion exercise. The group I was with got hot and tired (it was summer) and did not want to evade -- just go to towards the rally point and see if they make it. Chason and I got a map and a Lensatic compass from the team as we wanted to run the exercise realistically. Well, there was mostly forest with small patches of open terrain and the compass wasn't working, so we eventually navigated by map. We saw some hills to our right, and a graveyard to the left with a little dirt road running by it. We looked at the map and, yes! We knew where we were and headed out towards the rally point. After walking a LONG ways, I decided to put a stick in the ground and see what direction the shadow indicated. We had been walking 90 degrees off from what we should have been. Looking at the corner of the map, it showed a printing date of 1950 . . .Obviously we had seen some other graveyard and hills. After going in the correct direction, we got to the rally point. We were almost the last to arrive. True story.
@@whitemouse2460 With military exercises, they often use things with just a veneer of plausibility. In the US's interwar Naval Problems, they regularly had various islands that were in US control stand in for things like the Japanese home islands and various other points of interest that were decidedly not under US control - often islands that are very different from the islands in question, but the whole idea was to practice naval warfare in archipelagos so you know what effect they have on strategy and tactics. So here, it's a carrier group in water...that's all it really needs to be. And it's in a body of water that is mostly controlled by the Soviet Union and is landlocked, so it definitely doesn't have an actual American carrier group in it sneaking around where they can be extremely alarmed by the arrival of a squadron of heavy bombers and overreact. The implausibility of that specific location is actually a plus. Do that training mission in the Pacific and the flight might actually find one of the several US carrier groups that are poking around and then at best we have the enemy observing the quality of a squadron on a training exercise, which is free intel. At worst, they overreact, shoot the heavy bombers down, and launch a counterattack and then the Soviets drop a tactical nuke on the carrier group in response to that counterattack and then everyone launches their ICBMs. So yeah...let's not risk that option and just pretend there can be a carrier group in the Caspian Sea.
The black & white animation and explanation of what happened is FANTASTIC! In 1968, I was flying a helicopter in South Vietnam in broad daylight. We got disorientated for about 15 minutes. When I saw two mountain peaks I recognized on my map, I realized we were about 2 miles inside Cambodia. I yelled to the crew.... We're The Fukarwi !
I don't know how UA-cam put this video up for me to choose as to whether I wanted to watch it or not,, but, I am so glad they did. This commentator did an excellent job. This video is well worth watching, very funny.
If i only had a shred of the confidence of this guy... He thought he was not only so good at it, but that everyone else turning the other direction were wrong.
How is possible during taxing the rogue Tu22 didn't realise all the others are taking off in opposite direction? And how the navi sys really worked? The explanation is missing some points, if the navi anyway was pointing the original destination, the fake north was in the opposite direction anyway.
I was a kid during the Iran-Iraq war, so this story is really interesting for me-thank you! A couple of notes: I remember Iraqi bomb raids that started those years, and remember hearing once about red alarm going off in Mashhad with no air strike, which made a lot of people wonder 1) how could Iraqis reach that far and 2) why on earth they would target a holy city (which they themselves declared as sacred and off limit). Not sure if there is a connection between these stories. Also, the Iranian air defence those day was virtually nonexistent according to documentaries on the topic. They did have stronger presence with the F14s near the west, but an aircraft coming from the soviet airspace could easily fly through. Anyway, awesome video!
It was a simulated attack during an exercise. So dudes on whatever barge they were "attacking" may not even notice they have been "sunk" (as ASM launches are usually conducted from stand-off distances)
With all the stories that I’ve been, I’d had the impression that the Tu-22 was immediately thrown into the garbage, paving way for the Tu-22M, but apparently not as it would seem.
@@MsZeeZed tu-22 and tu-22m are two different aircraft and no its not 55 m3 is 40 y/o and is a newly build air frame m3m is 3 y/o aircraft and is moded m3 the whole story of th 22m and how it comes to existence is very interesting and some of it is because of kruschev ICBMs love and I quote " ICBMs would render the bomber obsolete " why do you think that tu-22/22m are rocket carrier's
Hindsight is always 20/20 and harsh. As someone who grew up flying archaic nav systems and is now spoiled by GPS/INS systems flying heavy cargo all over the world I completely feel for this crew! The whole comedy of errors in this event is just uncanny though!
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Im not sure if you love tu-22 or Mari more naw tell us the story about the lost tu-22 movie and ho it was about to be movie star by the way your channel is the best English speaking channel about soviet/Russian aviation
I dont understand your channel, like you only have 192K subs. You deserve millions! The production quality, the time and effort that is put into your videos and the information are all absolutely top tier. Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
(Also thanks for introducing Brilliant, its great for understanding calculus!)
Hi there, I love your videos, and I wanted to use the type of music you use from epidemic sounds in my videos. Would you mind sharing the playlist of the type of music you use?
There's a great joke, the punch line of which is "but you f*** one goat..." about how you can do all these various fantastic things in life - build magnificent houses, scale mountains, rescue people from burning buildings - but none of these matters, because if you "f*** one goat" you will forever be known as the "goat-f***er" - and not the house-builder, the mountain climber, the fire rescuer...
Same thing here.
Hey. One thing to correct- at the beggining you say it is Danzig. That is partially correct. It original name is Gdansk. Danzig is german wordfor that city.
The three stooges join the Air Force.
Such a fun story. Thanks for sharing
I love that the Soviets had a word for that thing you do when your boss walks by your desk.
We had one in the US Military, “sham”.
@@yourwifesboyfriend6081We all love the E-4 Mafia
@@ConnorRK-nk8rg- I carried the lessons I learned as a member of the E4 Mafia 20+ years ago into my current career!
In the 80's, some computer games had a Bosskey, it brought up a simulated spreadsheet when you hit it!
@@cambridgemart2075That’s awesome.
12:27 I heard that as "located their exercise target, which appeared to be some random shit in the Sea of Azov"
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The entire sequence of events is so crazy that two fighters, who took off from the same airfield, chasing each other thinking they're enemies ended up being a footnote
That seems to be standard operating procedure for Russia. Look at their aerial friendly fire numbers for the war in Ukraine.
@@squalosus223
& the twice self-bombed Belgorod.
@@squalosus223 I would still differentiate between Russia and the Soviet Union, while there were a lot of cases of gross negligence and stupidity during Soviet times, but they still operated a much more functioning military than Russia does today.
@@spyran5839 How would you know? Most of the soviet exercises were highly scripted to have a positive outcome
I bet multiple instanced of Bylat! were uttered!
3:25 Carrier group in the Caspian sea xd
General: "the US carrier group has been spotted... in the Caspian sea"
Flight commander: "AND HOW IN THE NAME OF LENIN DID THEY GET THERE"
Submarine carrier 🤫
lil trick we learnt from the IJN in WWII
‘Chronosphere ready’
Teleported probably ;)
Or they were never there to BEGIN WITH!!!!!!!!😲😧😱
😂 yes, that was also a bit of absurdity...
Boy, that really puts Wrong Way Corrigan in the shade!
Never explain by incompetence what can be explained by _sovietness._
14:00 my jaw dropped when I heard this part
That navigation system sounds INCREDIBLY convoluted. Changing 0 from real north to "our target = north" sounds like it'll just add a TON of room for error and confusion.
@1:20 "you f&$%one goat!"
Paul Crickmore is recognized as the world authority on the SR-71. He is remembered for his observation that, "You've never been lost until you've been lost at mach 3 at 80,000 feet.
Kind of like our Astronaut who was on the Mir space station for a year(?) He said "you have never heard silence until you have been on a space station that is having a total power failure".
@@natehill8069That must be absolutely terrifying. I’d shit my pants and prepare to meet my maker.
"I still remember how to disassemble and clean an AK-47, but I don't remember much from the math classes," is, perhaps ironically, one of the most American sentences I've ever heard.
He's not American
@@chaosXP3RT And?
I lost it at the part where they accidentally evaded interception as part of their pre-programmed maneuvers hahaha
I assume that the flight plan said that somewhere around that area they'd get locked up by radar and would have to evade interception of a fake missile. Which would make sense, but also when getting locked up by radar, the RWR will scream bloody hell at you to warn you're being locked. so my guess is the crew knew somewhere in that point they'd get locked, which they did, but for different reason, but they were none the wiser to these reasons, and just deployed CMS as expected.
I did too. That's the point when it turned into Mr. Magoo or the pink panther or even inspector clousseau obliviously avoiding all the attempts to thwart him by pure accident. The musical choice really punched up the comedy factor, too.
That was the absolute highlight of the event. The whole thing felt like a mix between an Adam Sandler and a Leslie Nielsen movie.
I am still surprised that there was no warning issued over the radio
its literally like watching a soviet comedy movie. the chain of coincidences are too funny
03:44 this guy's face (on the left), by itself is worth the video.
You seem to have found my stash of stories! 😅
The funny thing is that controllers requesting takeoffs in the opposite direction was so common, that Tu-22 navigation computer had a special "correct course 180°" switch, that would mirror the route automatically. The only thing that Lt. Drozdetsky had to do is TO FLIP A SINGLE SWITCH!
Holy crap, that's somehow even worse! Thank you very much for sharing! Did you used to work on or fly the Tu-22?
No, I'm too young for that. My friend was a Soviet Strategic Aviation engineer. He told me a LOT of these stories.
@@volo870 Did he ever steal the alcohol for the Tu-22's AC system?
@@TheMemeDynamics He worked on Tu-95. I don't know why he was in Baranavichy for some time.
He said that drinking gets boring quickly. Nevertheless, every member of ground engineering personnel had a 10L canister of pure ethanol, "just in case".
TO FLIP A SINGLE SWITCH along with dozens of other switches, buttons, and other controls.
Others call it an oopsie. Soviets call it Tuesday.
5:05 Dude is literally waving a too-large wrench around that nut, accomplishing no work at all while appearing to be very busy. Someone give this man a medal and promote him immediately!
...the fact that paper skies found that video was incredible....too funny - during the cold war, there were so many screw up on both sides that it's no wonder we all did not get blown to smithereens...
😃😃
bro really spent two and a half hours on that nut, give em' a promotion
@@wokewokerman5280 Well, it might still yet happen.
My coworker, who was in the US Army, says to walk around with a broom or a clipboard.
I really love that slow build to the ad at the end, really a great sales pitch there.
I've spent much of my life pretending to look busy in front of important people. I'm glad this exists across times across nations.
@PerilOS That's a far more detailed response than I deserve. I really hope that your job has improved, or you've found something better. Life is far too short for 12 hours of nonsense per day. Also the German spirit of efficiency and skill made me laugh because those are exactly the values I was raised on.
@PerilOS Oh man, I'm in the legal field, and I could apply that expression to the kind of work I do. "One draft, one sip". But hold on to that hope. It's all we've got sometimes.
In the Army we call it “shamming”. It’s an art form.
@PerilOS Don't ever give up your ideas nor your dreams.
I you feel like creating your own business, please go for it. It will be tough, but at least you should be able to create and maintain the environment you seek, where personal commitment is valued. (If I understood well)
Just remember to not put all your hopes on anyone all at once, people are all different and some differences might disappoint you ;p Every person can shine if put in the right place, and encouraged to.
(And I'm not talking only for you but for myself too. I find it hard to renounce the comfort of a part-time salary job where I bore out, but with which I have the time to work on half of my projects. The other half implying that I quit the damn part-time job.
So... I need courage.)
I find it amusing that the Swiss also do this! Source: I work in a huge warehouse owned by a Swiss company.
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AYO
Danzig??
Maybe he sucked at aerial navigation, but he was pretty good at political navigation. And I think we can all agree that it's an important skill to master
We here have a old saying for that : Rectal Alpinist.
Or maybe it’s the Dilbert principle in practice
Haha remind me of bush he also suck as flying but have political connection.
"political navigation" VERY, very popular all over in 2023+ Sry' WORLD - it ANI'T just Russia 😞
@@jerryle379 OLD BUSH?
Pro Tip:
Grab a clipboard and start inspecting things, and making checkmarks. Walk briskly.
"In the olden days, if an agent did something _that_ embarrassing, he'd have the good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold War."
-M, _Casino Royale_
i was quite shocked when i first saw elementary school had AK disassemble-reassemble training, the documentary said they train for hunting
As an Iranian I must mentioned 3 points: 1- on 25 march 1983, about 14:30 (middle of the day) we have an small earthquake near Tehran, 5.4 magnitude, that killed 30 peoples, so the earthquake not related to this incident 2-last week of March is our national holiday for the new year (Nowruz) so the readiness were low 3- I heard many years ago that Tehran air defence system that consist first generation MIM-23 hawks tried to get a radar locked but it's jammed then the tu-22 turned to East toward Afghanistan (which in those days actually considered as Soviet land) so Iranian control do nothing and guessed it is a Soviet commercial/transport aircraft that got lost, the tu-22 never exceed mach 1 at all time and simply we not know it's a bomber with kh-22 on it.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa they were on good terms not like what west makes up to be
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa heard they attacked on soviet ships during iran iraq war.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa 7:41
@Aria Azari Thank you for the correction. While gathering all the information, at least 2 accounts indeed mentioned the "holiday" (not Nowruz but Ramadan) as a possible cause. General Alexander Tarakanov, the commander of the 46th Air Army, specifically mentioned it. However, all those accounts referred as a holiday to Ramadan and as ... ... hard to explain ... as if they wanted to throw in Ramadan not as an actual reason but as something that everybody would know about Islamic culture. On top of that according to my research, in 1983 Ramadan was in June. All in all, Ramadan didn't seem convincing, so I decided to exclude the holiday as a reason. Thank you again for the correction.
@@PaperSkiesAviation Please note that Ramadan and Nowruz are not the same holiday.
Nowruz is the Iranian or Persian New Year celebrated by various ethnicities worldwide. It is a festival based on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar, on the spring equinox-on or around 21 March on the Gregorian calendar.
4:26 - My country has mandatory military service. The same phenomenon happens here: Every time a high ranking officer was scheduled to visit, we would pretend to be busy maintaining our equipment and vehicles. There was times where I applied oil to the same vehicle for over 20 minutes, a job that normally takes around 2 minutes, just to look busy.
The best one was when the 3rd highest in command of the army visited us. We sat down to eat but were not allowed to start eating until he arrived, just so we would be busy eating when he saw us. However it seems like the guy knew the trick and was purposely for almost 1.5 hours. Seeing as the time was getting late, it would be suspicious if we were still eating, so we were allowed to eat and then went back to pretending to be busy with maintenance.
The fact that this story would barely make it as a B-movie plot, and yet happened in the CCCP is both amazing and appalling. What is truly excellent is your story telling and where you apply it :) Keep it up !!
"Fiction has to be believable. Reality has no such constraints"
That as a political thriller. With lots of scenes of generals in command room on the telephone looking stressed.
If you want to know of the US version of this pilot, just google for "Wrong Way Corrigan". In the 1930s he started near New York City and was supposed to fly to the US west coast, and somehow ended up near Dublin, Ireland.
4:44 I have to imagine that this is a universal concept in all militaries, worldwide.
Of course the USSR would lie and punish the guy ordered out of the control tower by a general by accusing him of ordering the general out of the control tower. I just...wow. Everything about this incident is just mind-blowing, including the USSR's ability to take a miraculously happy ending to a potential catastrophe and make it tragic and needlessly cruel regardless.
Comrade, your videos always ensure great entertainment. Thank you for the awesome content!
@@jaymouton9165 Wrong comrade..
Making things needlessly cruel was all the USSR was good for, and at.
And yet tankies still praise the USSR like it was some glorious thing.
the soviet union wouldn't be the soviet union if....
@@thedungeondelver wdym Chernobil wasn't glorious? The cleanup was a huge success! Glory to comrade Gorbachov!
The way the musical score changes when the tone changes 😂🤌
23:46 That has to be one of longest seque into brilliant I've ever watched.
Now we need a video of you disassembling and cleaning an AK-74.
Thank you for sharing all these fascinating stories from behind the iron curtain, which most of us otherwise may never have heard of.
You could say that segway was Brilliant.
The bomber deploying jammers right when they were being locked on by actual fighters is a priceless coincidence, if it was the captain who pressed the button it explains why he run out of luck.
=))).
The military controller: Why didn't you tell us about the change of course on your civilian airliner?
Just imagine the hilarious conversation between them=)), when in fact the one asking was the one who lost his bomber over the civilian controlled airspace=))).
Man with the amount of coincidences of that flight it's amazing they didn't actually end up defecting.
Also I do feel the pain of having to do dull math over and over again while learning how to take apart rifles.
You dont defect to theocratic Iran
There ia a long list of countries that would make sense to defect to as a Soviet pilot, but the post revolutionary Islamic republic of Iran, ruled by brutal mullahs, in the middle of a long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is not at top of that list, lol.
@@heisenheisen9483 It wasn't "theocratic" then. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was still in power.
@@n4gix This happened in 1983, the Shah was overthrown in 1979. It also says the Iran-Iraq war was going on while the plane flew over.
I'm surprised they weren't taken prisoner and forced to help Iran counter all the Soviet planes that Iraq had at the time
This story is insane
4:48 - I feel that.
My schoolhouse barracks was so crowded with guys waiting for school, we could clean the entire building in an hour...which was bad because we had to clean it for 8.
At first, I found a group who ""cleaned"" the laundry room every day and we established 30 minute duty rotations for cleaning the hallway window. If duty happened to notice someone important coming he'd very kindly remind all of us to "hey, don't forget to check the lint traps" because we-uh...we were so forgetful in cleaning out those lint traps 25 times a day.
When they got us, we disbanded and I found a single spot at a convenient sitting height on a particular door that would never come off and scrubbed it for the whole day every day for weeks.
Absolutely love the graphics
When I was in the US Army in the seventies, 'looking busy' was a required skill.
Also during a Reforger exercise, my section of 2 M114s were doing a relocation movement. The E6 section leader wasn't the brightest guy in the platoon, but it was a simple maneuver so the TC of my track decided to get a nap, there is nearly the same floor space as the M113 and we ran with 2 or 3 man crews, and gave me a chance to run the track for a while. After going around some woods we turned left instead of right as briefed. I had my driver go off road to get along side of the other track to try and get their attention, we were on radio silence, but I could not get the attention of either the section leader or his driver, normally the company commander's jeep driver, to stop.
Not knowing what else to do I fell in line behind him until we ran into an opposing tank battalion and got swatted while crossing an open field. Sat there for several hours waiting for the platoon Sgt to come pick us up. Since we were in such an open area a passing jet took the opportunity to use us for a bombing run.
I never got any grief for this, everyone knew the section leader's capabilities, but it was quite a while before I had a chance to TC again.
Lmao, looking busy is still required in the Army 🤣
It's funny how universal it is. Like 60's soviet aircrew had similar experiences to US army grunts today lol
@@baronvonslambert same in healthcare dude, boss gets mad if he sees me sit but doesnt see that ive been running forr hours nonstop working my ass off
@@baronvonslambert - Ah, yes. It was the constant threat of getting your own job done early, then being forced to do some other slacker's job for them just because you got yours done in good time. Gotta learn to be scarce or, at worst, look busy when discovered. Otherwise they'll start expecting you to always be done early and start shifting more work onto you. Which, in turn, could make you appear to be an underachiever after being appointed with more to do.
@@baronvonslambert I work in a warehouse too. I understand your predicament PERFECTLY. Have the same mentality from my bosses: they will rope me and some other poor bastard in my section into extra work if they catch me just standing still...
What is the name of the music at 18:40
This crew was so lucky on each and every single phase of the event, that's truly funny, this story deserves to be a movie and the two airplanes taking off from the same airbase chasing each other would be the icing on the cake. 🤣
Incredible story! thanks a lot for sharing it.
Movie could be titled "Top Fun" with maybe Tom Cruise starring in it!
@@bigmotter001 in the role of the Soviet Navigator.
22:30 “he suddenly died from a heart attack “
KGB agent: “Comrade, was the mission successful?”
KGB agent 2: “Da!”
I have never felt so sad about the death of a captain, may his soul rest in peace.
Yes that hit me as well. Those were infamously difficult planes to fly by all accounts and he was apparently a brilliant pilot. His blind spot was trusting his navigator.
@@bradleyfried5157 The navigator probably was under pressure too, if he told that something was off he would have been reprimanded, and in the soviet system i wouldn't blame him. The navigator was reassured when the pilot told him that he was indeed seeing the "expected" cities. The whole incident is the escalation of small mistakes that normally would have been corrected quite easy.
Finally, a sponsor that actually makes me want to purchase.
In WW2, there was an RAF bomber returning from a mission deep into Germany from England who set off east after dropping his bombs, and it was around 20 minutes before one of the gunners noticed that they were still heading east. They got back, eventually.
Thank goodness!
bro finally stops edging at 2:11
203rd heavy bomber regiment of the USSR: "We messed up by flying into the completely wrong direction"
7th Bomb Wing of the USAF: "Well at least you didn't accidentally dropped a nuke on yourself"
twice
once in south carolina another time in new mexico
@@theq4602 that’s beyond accidental 😹
"Comrade! Hold my vodka......"
That’s the problem though. We learned about the American accidental nuke drops decades after it happened because the documents were declassified. However, according to the few declassified ussr documents that exist, no accidental nuke drops ever happened. Which is massively suspect. No way is that possible when you hear about the number and insanity of shenanigans that happened in the ussr’s air force, which somehow beats the ridiculousness of the us air force
@@SmackcrackIV To be fair air deployable nuclear weapons are a much much larger part of the US triad than the soviet one. We had a few incidents, but we flew probably 10x more than the soviets did, at least when it comes to nuclear arms.
There's a joke from the 1970s in Poland, which captures the essence of IBD.
The First Secretary Gierek visits the construction site of Katowice steel mill. At first he's really impressed with the sight of workers running around with wheelbarrows, but he quickly notices that all the wheelbarrows are empty. He calls one of the workers and asks him:
"Comrade, why are you running around with an empty wheelbarrow?"
"Because the rush is so f***ing hard that there's no time to load them!"
Even in western countries it is always the same problem - Bosses do not care how hard you work, they only care about how hard you 'appear' to work. Because heaven forbid any boss take the time to understand what is actually going on beyond the passing glance.
It turns out that office workers actually do about two to three hours productive work in a day.
Which is a major factor in the "back to the office" idea is when "working from home" is that most people will just do their work and not bother with about five hours of pretending to work. (Those who were spending the entire day pretending to work may have no idea how to pretend to work.)
@@markevans2294 Working from home would make it harder to pretend to work because bosses will be forced to find more tangible ways of figuring out how much work you are doing.... But that would require actually understanding the work that your staff are doing, and no boss wants to do that, so "back to the office" becomes very desirable.
In 1983, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, many officers in the Iranian air defense were replaced by a new crew that did not have enough knowledge of how to operate radar. There have been many reports that, since the new crew was not familiar with the equipment, they caused catastrophic mistakes by targeting Iranian-owned aircraft.
The problem still exists, as recently, a crew of a Russian-made Tor air defense system mistakenly downed an Iranian F14 in southern Iran. Additionally, another Russian-made Tor system downed a Ukrainian passenger aircraft over Tehran. In both incidents, it is reported that the air defense officers made mistakes in defining target altitude, the flight path, and many other errors.
As a historian and content creator, your transition of this unit’s history into the memory of the unit… what they’re remembered for… is absolutely superb!
I’m absolutely loving your channel. I also grew up in the last decade of the USSR in Ukraine and my father, and his friends, also served in the Air Force (far East Long Range Aviation).
Your narrative is wonderful, it is as if I’m hearing these stories around a dinner table with “stopochki” of vodka with my dad.
Hell of a story. 😂 Looking forward to hear your story about pilotless Mig-23 that took off from Poland and crashed in Belgium.
kiedy to było?
MiG-23 takes off
Air traffic control : “You are not cleared to take off”
*Pilot busts into the control room*
Air traffic controllers: 👁️ 👄 👁️
Excellent.
@@hubert9841 4 lipiec 1989
He should cover it
I had to look at the date halfway through to see if it was April Fool's Day. When they triggered the electronic countermeasures just as they were about to be shot down, I exclaimed "oh come on!", checked the date a second time.
Really? Halfway through the video, I was expecting "The pilot suddenly felt turbulence. He looked out the window and saw his navigator jump out of the plane. No parachute. From that moment on, he felt something was wrong."
"...and while he was landing, the two fighters that were supposed to escort him were chasing themselves because one of them had tuned the IFF wrong."
If there are an infinite number of pararelle universes, our reality that night chose the craziest one.
Thanks! This was original and super funny. I can't wait for the next.
3:23 '...an enemy aircraft-carrier group [...] in the _Caspian sea_ .' we sooner discover unicorns than this chimera
These stories, especially this one in particular, bring me hope that, as often as I make colossal mistakes, I am not creating international incidents when I do so. It could always be worse!
The truth is stranger than fiction!
This is pure comedy! 😂
A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent:
"You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No."
He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No."
"Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No."
"But ya fuck one goat.."
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an oldie but a goodie
What do women and the mafia have in common?
One slip of the tongue and you're in deep shit!
What do women and the mafia have in common?
One slip of the tongue and you're in deep shit!
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'The enemy aircraft carrier is in the Caspian Sea!'
You sure? Not in the Aral Sea?
The whole group 😂
This story is so comical that you couldn't make it up. A comedy of errors wonderfully narrated in a lovely sardonic and self-deprecating way. I love your videos and your narration and you are gifted story teller. Thank you.
Especially about 2 soviet jets chasing each other after taking off from the same airbase, I lost it there 😅😅😅
What an absolutely briliant way to introduce the sponsor!!!!
No doubt the video itself is excellent.
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I was like: "They probably got lost somewhere above Caspian Sea and wound up in Iran instead of Uzbekistan or something"
Video: "(...) instead of Belarus"
Me: "Soviet Russia wouldn't be the Soviet Russia if it was understandable error"
The Belorussians have overnight turned muslim!
@@u.v.s.5583 And grew mountains by the sheer willpower of the people.
@@090giver090 All hail the willpower of the socialistic proletariat!
5:05 😂 ....I feel like that guy was thinking to himself: "I don't have many turns left before this bolt is set! I wish they would get the camera off me! Calm down, Ivan....think....wait, know! I'll just fake tightening the bolt for a bit. Nobody will see that! блестящий!"
*camera guy zooms in on his hands right then*
*_Ivan:_* "well......дерьмо."
it may not be related to aviation, but a video on what a classical soviet school was like would be REALLY interesting
Pretty interesting to hear about what he thought about his time in elementary and high school as well. I'm not exactly sure how old he was when the soviet union fell though
@@kennan6176 he is old enough I would tell you that!
I am pretty sure he was joking about the NATO tanks, but I can’t quite decide if he was serious about the AK-47s…
@@TinLeadHammer I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it. I just can’t tell if he was serious about learning it in school, that’s all.
@@amykathleen2 We still learned rifle shooting in the 00's in Ukraine. Holdover from the Soviet times, now with an entirely new meaning behind it.
Really a good story.
Thank You!
This whole story is just crazy. Amount of coincidences is mind boggling. Thank you! Graphics and illustrations are also top notch
This epic! never would have expected this story today. Wow
Another fun one that could be done was that RN Sea Harrier which was on an exercise to find an "enemy" carrier under combat conditions. The pilot got lost on the way back and was running low on fuel so decided to land on a passing cargo ship!
One of the best videos on the internet
As a russian myself i laughed out loud at "ибд". Its such an accurate description that i wouldnt do it better
I'm sure it exists everywhere in the world, not just in military... when your boss is somewhere near you, you will definitely pretend to do something important even if you don't 😃
Where did "Бля!" from the preview go? It was so hilarious and appropriate. :)
As much as I like “бля”, judging by the numbers in analytics it was the worst performing thumbnail ever. I want to see if “neutral” hello will perform differently.
@@PaperSkiesAviation Let's hope so :)
My favorite part of this video is the SEAMLESS shift from narration to the Brilliant sales pitch. Kudos.
Best intro for a sponsor 24:20
Quite funny indeed. And I have a story, too. Back in the mid '70s, I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. Our company was doing a Survival, Escape and Evasion exercise. The group I was with got hot and tired (it was summer) and did not want to evade -- just go to towards the rally point and see if they make it. Chason and I got a map and a Lensatic compass from the team as we wanted to run the exercise realistically. Well, there was mostly forest with small patches of open terrain and the compass wasn't working, so we eventually navigated by map. We saw some hills to our right, and a graveyard to the left with a little dirt road running by it. We looked at the map and, yes! We knew where we were and headed out towards the rally point. After walking a LONG ways, I decided to put a stick in the ground and see what direction the shadow indicated. We had been walking 90 degrees off from what we should have been. Looking at the corner of the map, it showed a printing date of 1950 . . .Obviously we had seen some other graveyard and hills. After going in the correct direction, we got to the rally point. We were almost the last to arrive. True story.
Great video, thank you 👏👏👏👏👏👏
3:35 Wait, how exactly did a carrier group ended up in a Caspian Sea, which is a landlocked lake?
It was exercise, so it was a mock "carrier group" probably comprised by a bunch of random ships.
@@090giver090 I'm aware it was an exercise, obviously. I was making a joke off the impossibility of its conditions.
See the Volga - Don Canal which can take ships up to 460 x 55 feet. The Caspian is a lake but it has saline water which possibly makes it a sea.
‘Chronosphere ready’
@@whitemouse2460 With military exercises, they often use things with just a veneer of plausibility. In the US's interwar Naval Problems, they regularly had various islands that were in US control stand in for things like the Japanese home islands and various other points of interest that were decidedly not under US control - often islands that are very different from the islands in question, but the whole idea was to practice naval warfare in archipelagos so you know what effect they have on strategy and tactics.
So here, it's a carrier group in water...that's all it really needs to be. And it's in a body of water that is mostly controlled by the Soviet Union and is landlocked, so it definitely doesn't have an actual American carrier group in it sneaking around where they can be extremely alarmed by the arrival of a squadron of heavy bombers and overreact.
The implausibility of that specific location is actually a plus. Do that training mission in the Pacific and the flight might actually find one of the several US carrier groups that are poking around and then at best we have the enemy observing the quality of a squadron on a training exercise, which is free intel. At worst, they overreact, shoot the heavy bombers down, and launch a counterattack and then the Soviets drop a tactical nuke on the carrier group in response to that counterattack and then everyone launches their ICBMs. So yeah...let's not risk that option and just pretend there can be a carrier group in the Caspian Sea.
"died from a heart attack" during the days of the USSR is usually more a case of acute KGB
The black & white animation and explanation of what happened is FANTASTIC! In 1968, I was flying a helicopter in South Vietnam in broad daylight. We got disorientated for about 15 minutes. When I saw two mountain peaks I recognized on my map, I realized we were about 2 miles inside Cambodia. I yelled to the crew.... We're The Fukarwi !
Great F Troop reference. Thx
I don't know how UA-cam put this video up for me to choose as to whether I wanted to watch it or not,, but, I am so glad they did. This commentator did an excellent job. This video is well worth watching, very funny.
Just discovered this channel 👍 "imitation of restless activity" perfectly describes how I did some of my previous jobs 😂
Sounds like a plot plot from a carry on film. Great narration. Subscribed 👍
If i only had a shred of the confidence of this guy... He thought he was not only so good at it, but that everyone else turning the other direction were wrong.
How is possible during taxing the rogue Tu22 didn't realise all the others are taking off in opposite direction? And how the navi sys really worked? The explanation is missing some points, if the navi anyway was pointing the original destination, the fake north was in the opposite direction anyway.
As a pilot who has experienced similar navigational confusion at night, this story is a bit painful to listen to...😵💫
That Tu-22 is absolutely gorgeous.
I was a kid during the Iran-Iraq war, so this story is really interesting for me-thank you! A couple of notes: I remember Iraqi bomb raids that started those years, and remember hearing once about red alarm going off in Mashhad with no air strike, which made a lot of people wonder 1) how could Iraqis reach that far and 2) why on earth they would target a holy city (which they themselves declared as sacred and off limit). Not sure if there is a connection between these stories.
Also, the Iranian air defence those day was virtually nonexistent according to documentaries on the topic. They did have stronger presence with the F14s near the west, but an aircraft coming from the soviet airspace could easily fly through. Anyway, awesome video!
جالب بود... احتمالا همین بمبر بوده
5:08 the hell you doing there Max.
Thanks a lot for that thumbnail. My four babushkas accidentally saw it and gave me a two-hour talk about swear words being bad.
That insight into your Soviet schooling was interesting
I love how casually it was mentioned that they missiled some random-ass boat in the black sea
It was a simulated attack during an exercise. So dudes on whatever barge they were "attacking" may not even notice they have been "sunk" (as ASM launches are usually conducted from stand-off distances)
Beautifull story!!!! Thanks a lot!
With all the stories that I’ve been, I’d had the impression that the Tu-22 was immediately thrown into the garbage, paving way for the Tu-22M, but apparently not as it would seem.
Tu-22 has to have an extra letter because otherwise its an 60 year old aircraft, not the sprightly 55 year old aircraft it is.
@@MsZeeZed tu-22 and tu-22m are two different aircraft and no its not 55 m3 is 40 y/o and is a newly build air frame m3m is 3 y/o aircraft and is moded m3 the whole story of th 22m and how it comes to existence is very interesting and some of it is because of kruschev ICBMs love and I quote " ICBMs would render the bomber obsolete " why do you think that tu-22/22m are rocket carrier's
Very interesting video! Thanks for making it!
Hindsight is always 20/20 and harsh. As someone who grew up flying archaic nav systems and is now spoiled by GPS/INS systems flying heavy cargo all over the world I completely feel for this crew! The whole comedy of errors in this event is just uncanny though!