The TU-4 was such a good copy that they even copied a hole in the wing which was the result of a manufacturing error on the captured B-29s. It was never fixed on any TU-4.
Connoissuer_Of_Classieness yep that’s war production for you cause those bombers don’t have enough time to fix some issues others they could but some slipped by
They also fixed the multi ten thousand silver lion repair cost after gayjin nerfed the american version into the ground Edit: changed gaijin to gayjin cause funny
Supposedly, the pre-production version even had "Boeing" printed on the rudder pedals. Comrade Stalin said he wants an exact copy, Comrade Stalin gets an exact copy.
I didn’t even realise fortnightly was a british thing, also I found out the other day that custard isn’t widely known in America... Also, thanks for the link to my video in the description! Looking forward to more of these :D
I'm from America, and we do know what custard is. Every water ice and desert place worth their salt in Pennsylvania has custard. I don't know about other states, but it is popular here.
Late 1952, something tells me Joseph Kerman wont be an issue for much longer. You never know he may have a terrible stroke and die lying in a puddle of his own making.
I applaud the progress of the Kommunist Space Program! Two notes about landing X-Planes... you can set up your airlaunch so you are heading towards your KSC at a appropriate range. Also, the KSP Wheels mod makes landing with FAR so so much easier.
I've been loving this series so far! One thing that I think would be cool is if at the end of yours and N9's videos there was a visual time line of both of your launches so it's easier to see how they line up
3:20 I believe the Tu-4 had 23mm cannons on the turrets, 2 cannons replacing the 4 american 12.7mm MGs on each turret. No need for an essay, just needed to put my OCD at ease after a stressful weekend. Thanks for another beautifully crafted video!
Early models of the B-29 did carry 20 mm cannons in the tail gunner position, however the guns used were unreliable and were replaced with cal .50s. the Russians however made no use of 20 mm produced by the capitalists at Hispano and instead used their own NS-23 cannon which was chambered in 23mm.
Fun fact about those shotguns, I believe they could also be used as axes, they were given to pilots because they were meant to land in Siberia, because they didn't have control of any consistently large and wet enough area for landing, and you don't want cosmonauts eaten by all those bears and wolves and tigers
Most landings were in the Kazakh SSR (same place as Baikonur Cosmodrome), but it wasn't uncommon to overshoot by a bit and end up in Siberia, hence the survival gun (and other tools).
@@thewingedporpoise Yeah, exactly. NASA went for water landings because they had an abundance of open ocean that was also in warm areas. None of the seas near the Soviets are warm, and most of them are fairly close to other countries, which can be politically a bit awkward.
I will never judge your reluctance to try to land a rocket plane. My usual tactic for them is to make the cockpit detachable and put parachutes on that -- and expend the rest of the machine like a rocket booster. Then again, I launch them vertically *on* a rocket booster...
3:30 actually yes it has a massive payload compared to normal b-29 with 12 tons of conventional bombs also 23mm cannons instead of 12.7s not 20mm shvaks
Great video as always Beardy! Josef Kerman would be proud. Also, fortnight is not just a British thing, it's well-understood in Australia (probably because of colonisation).
Hi beardy nice a new ksp video. I hope you can get over your burnout with the beyond kerbol series. But I don't want to be a choosing beggar any ksp content is loved and appreciated.
What I think might be cool (and helpful!) is a timeline of sorts at the start/end of each episode, might be a neat idea and useful so one doesn't have to flip back and forth between the two videos if one is trying to keep track of who is doing what first.
I don't think there is only 2 or 3 Russians... I think there is much more, they are just shy to talk in comments :D. Btw, Hello from Russia! P.S. It is fine to say "kha" without "k" in craft name, but actual letter sounds more like "khh" without "k". But that's fine, no Russian can say any English word without butchering it.
so downloaded some of the mods btw some dont work together period but when ig et to the point where i can hey the vab it doesnt? its like its not there and im stuck @TheBeardyPenguin
Hey I'm really sorry to bother you but I have been trying to fix this for more than a month and couldn't How did you place the control surface on the wing using angle snap,I get you have to use the WASDQE keys ,but even when I do it the control surface isn't properly attached to the wing,it's off to the side,I try anything but it doesn't work,it just doesn't place itself correctly Can you please tell me what exactly did you do while placing the control surface on that angled wing on the Kha-1 X-plane
To say it wasn't a "free state" is a bit of an oversimplification. They lacked some freedoms we take for granted, but had some that we don't (like the ability for the workers at a workplace to fire their boss, and for their boss to have to find them another job if they wanted to get rid of one worker, as well as a right to housing).
The only other difference was a russian engine, which I believe had better performance, but everything else was exactly the same according to all available records
From the outside, the Soviet copy, the Tupolev Tu-4 looked virtually identical to the B-29. The length of the fuselage and the wingspan were the same. The speed was the same. The Soviet version had a higher ceiling, but that came at a price: the aluminum used by the Soviets was thinner and cheaper. The payload was virtually identical as were the placement and number of defensive armaments, though the Soviets added air-to-air missiles to their later models. They used 23mm guns instead of .50s.
Beardy I get its probably to late to edit the mod list but you should look into the History of Spaceflight contracts mod. It relatively follows accurate "historical" events/contracts for many country's space programs.
As an American, I can tell you that it isn't that fortnights are British, it's that modern Americans tend to be rather ignorant, and the only fortnight they know is the game. I may be a millennial, but at least I'm a fairly knowledgeable one.
18:13 huh... is it bad that im british and didnt know why a fortnight was 2 weeks? i mean i knew it was 2 weeks, i just didnt know why, i mean for all i knew it was some random number someone decided one day and called it a fortnight
I hope this is more common. Vaos just quit and a mass exodus has just started. Solar nations is now up in the air. Id take it up myself if I was good at ksp.
I may just be being an idiot, but couldn't you have landed the rocket that failed with the parachute? Or was it the communication thing that failed on it?
@@TheBeardyPenguin how did you get those plumes on the engines? I know there us real plume but thats makes it look all fuzy, is there another mod or something?
I think for your next glorious aircraft you should make Jet that can launch small satellites (bombs as well) based off the Tu-14T and have its nick name be Kubinka
What mod(s) are thoose cockpits from. Specifically the babushka cockpit would be nice to use on some of my planes. Btw: Speedunitchanger is a nice mod that would fit well into that mod list, it allows you to change to kp/h, mp/h, kts, mach and of course m/s
as a war thunder addict for more than 4 years, I can say that the only things the tu4 has over the b29 is the 23mm guns and a lower rep cost fight me also maybe bombs Other than that, i think it’s literally the same
Yeah, Fortnight is not a common expression in the US. Older viewers among you are more inclined to know what it is, but young people not so much. We tend to say Bi-weekly which annoys me. Since Bi-weekly can be twice a week or once every two weeks. We should use Semi-Monthly instead as it is IMO clearer. However, Bi-weekly for most people relates to pay and that is done twice a month(mostly for hourly employees) so most people just roll with it, either out of ignorance or laziness.
The TU-4 was such a good copy that they even copied a hole in the wing which was the result of a manufacturing error on the captured B-29s. It was never fixed on any TU-4.
Connoissuer_Of_Classieness yep that’s war production for you cause those bombers don’t have enough time to fix some issues others they could but some slipped by
One of the planes was also modified by the pilots to have an ashtray
Appreantly the TU4's do too
They also fixed the multi ten thousand silver lion repair cost after gayjin nerfed the american version into the ground
Edit: changed gaijin to gayjin cause funny
Supposedly, the pre-production version even had "Boeing" printed on the rudder pedals. Comrade Stalin said he wants an exact copy, Comrade Stalin gets an exact copy.
It's a fun story, but there's no reliable source that says anything of the sort.
Beardy “I guess fortnight is a British term” me “oh that’s why people give me weird looks when I say it”
Woah there you're watching the video before it's even been published!
Guess that's on me for sticking it in the playlist while it's unlisted..
@@TheBeardyPenguin he's too powerful to be kept alive!
@@theeasternspy266 No! He must stand trial!
It's not exactly unheard of in the US but something or other has made using it a potential cause of misunderstanding..
@@TheBeardyPenguin The true "first"
"I guess it was worth him suffocating for about a minute."
Very Soviet of you comrade.
Which is kinda horrific when you consider that Hypoxia can leave you brain dead pretty quick...
Morgan Eclipse Da, Comrade.
“Only da Soviet can go without air, Comrade true Soviet” - Sone Soviet probably
4:00 *me, a war thunder player who hates the Tu-4 with a passion* “it’s free real estate”
Surprise package trips to Siberia! Although Joseph Kermin isn't paying for the trip back... Or providing them at all
Me: oh!, that's so nice of him!
Oh wait....
Oh.
OH!
O H B O I H E R E I G O S T A R V I N G A G A I N !
@@joshgambrell4095 god i am SOO glad i was not alone in that reaction.
I teach Russian, and the way I usually explain Х is that it's like h, but you have ants in your throat
Eh
I don't know when the next "For all kerbalkind" will come out: That failed rocket situation could mean Siberia for Beardy.
thinkfully not he was WAY to low in the command chain to get the siberia treatment.
Beardys fans are so dedicated they comment before the video comes out
I didn’t even realise fortnightly was a british thing, also I found out the other day that custard isn’t widely known in America...
Also, thanks for the link to my video in the description! Looking forward to more of these :D
Wait what they don't have CUSTARD!?
Savages..
TheBeardyPenguin I was truly appalled when I found out.
What’s custard?
What? I've never met anyone that doesn't know what custard is.
Edit: I've just asked all three people in Wyoming and two of them knew what it was.
I'm from America, and we do know what custard is. Every water ice and desert place worth their salt in Pennsylvania has custard. I don't know about other states, but it is popular here.
Late 1952, something tells me Joseph Kerman wont be an issue for much longer. You never know he may have a terrible stroke and die lying in a puddle of his own making.
You probably need some holidays in Siberia
@@antaresmc4407 or some gifts.. to the back of the head.
@@Swan_River_Cowboy or even a free working experience that'll change your life!
I applaud the progress of the Kommunist Space Program!
Two notes about landing X-Planes... you can set up your airlaunch so you are heading towards your KSC at a appropriate range. Also, the KSP Wheels mod makes landing with FAR so so much easier.
Yess! I’ve been waiting for this!
I've been loving this series so far! One thing that I think would be cool is if at the end of yours and N9's videos there was a visual time line of both of your launches so it's easier to see how they line up
Also, YES, Use the Ground effect mod, and make an ekranoplan! DEWIT
If only Ground Effect worked with Ferram Aerospace!
3:20 I believe the Tu-4 had 23mm cannons on the turrets, 2 cannons replacing the 4 american 12.7mm MGs on each turret. No need for an essay, just needed to put my OCD at ease after a stressful weekend. Thanks for another beautifully crafted video!
As to not landing on the runway, there's a reason why IRL the X-Plane program used a dry lake bed.... practically unlimited runway
Make sure you guys are all watching and liking N9's half of the series as well! There's a big discrepancy between the two sides of this space race!
7:53 Glorious Leader? GLORIES!
*kills the biological samples*
Beardy: I see this as an absolute win!
The Soviets would be turning theirs graves to the sight of your agency.
and in pure rage at that too
Ah, yes, the noted generosity of Comrade Premier Iosif Vessarionich.
Dvorak 12 is 👌
Also ironic because the informal subtitle for that piece is "American Quartet."
"the soviet union didn't value human life like america"
*stares at centuries of slavery and segregation*
Early models of the B-29 did carry 20 mm cannons in the tail gunner position, however the guns used were unreliable and were replaced with cal .50s. the Russians however made no use of 20 mm produced by the capitalists at Hispano and instead used their own NS-23 cannon which was chambered in 23mm.
Fun fact about those shotguns, I believe they could also be used as axes, they were given to pilots because they were meant to land in Siberia, because they didn't have control of any consistently large and wet enough area for landing, and you don't want cosmonauts eaten by all those bears and wolves and tigers
Most landings were in the Kazakh SSR (same place as Baikonur Cosmodrome), but it wasn't uncommon to overshoot by a bit and end up in Siberia, hence the survival gun (and other tools).
@@danielkorladis7869 that makes more sense, a big open desert is better, and also very isolated
@@thewingedporpoise Yeah, exactly. NASA went for water landings because they had an abundance of open ocean that was also in warm areas. None of the seas near the Soviets are warm, and most of them are fairly close to other countries, which can be politically a bit awkward.
@@danielkorladis7869 I think it was more the fact that the US had a massive navy and tons of bases in the Pacific
@@danielkorladis7869 Kazakhstan is big enough that "same place" is not a very approtriate expression
okay, this SOVIET AF kerbal series is quite funny, keep on doing that, mate
Beardy is British Defector who does not want to have vacation on siberia. it is too cold for him
X in Russian is like you saying "ha" without "a"
h
it's more like of a "kh", like the missile Kh-29 which in russian is called X-29
@@OfficialVoluntary It's "ha". Don't know why they put a "k" in front...
I thought it was pronounced like the "ch" is Scottish "loch" or German "Bach".
I sure hope that the increase in employee benefits will lead to more productivity. Those lazy cosmonauts dont deserve the benevolent Joseph Kerman.
I will never judge your reluctance to try to land a rocket plane. My usual tactic for them is to make the cockpit detachable and put parachutes on that -- and expend the rest of the machine like a rocket booster. Then again, I launch them vertically *on* a rocket booster...
Love the videos keep up the space race comrade
3:30 actually yes it has a massive payload compared to normal b-29 with 12 tons of conventional bombs also 23mm cannons instead of 12.7s not 20mm shvaks
Great video as always Beardy! Josef Kerman would be proud.
Also, fortnight is not just a British thing, it's well-understood in Australia (probably because of colonisation).
Are you still under rule of the emus? If so, I think that might be what caused the fires two years ago.
i was today years old when i found out that fortnight is mainly a British and Australian saying
8:54 is when I realized that the aircraft you were flying looks a little like the Me 163.
Which makes some sense as a lot of German equipment was tested and iterated upon behind both sides of iron curtain
Favourite series on UA-cam or TV at the moment
I was waiting for the epoides, beardy when do you think the next Beyond kerbal will be?
I'll get working on it over the next week
Both episodes as well, you're spoiling us!
Oh have I been waiting
magnificent choice of intro music beardy!
Hi beardy nice a new ksp video. I hope you can get over your burnout with the beyond kerbol series. But I don't want to be a choosing beggar any ksp content is loved and appreciated.
“Kha is X in Russian”
Ah yes, I like my Khaperimental planes.
Prety cool that History doesn't Influence the outcome of the Series, I thaut for sure that that was the Case.
What I think might be cool (and helpful!) is a timeline of sorts at the start/end of each episode, might be a neat idea and useful so one doesn't have to flip back and forth between the two videos if one is trying to keep track of who is doing what first.
Beards:gets sent to Siberia
Stalin:first time
So hyped for Sunday
I've just reverted to 1.8.1 and am working on downloading the mod list. I cant wait to try my own playthough and compare to this series. =D
YAY I WAITED IN MY NOTIFICATIONS
I have been waiting for so long for this!
"Kha! John F Kerman has been kicked to Siberia!"
Wow I just found your channel and I love the idea of his as a series this is great content keep it up!
I don't think there is only 2 or 3 Russians... I think there is much more, they are just shy to talk in comments :D. Btw, Hello from Russia!
P.S. It is fine to say "kha" without "k" in craft name, but actual letter sounds more like "khh" without "k". But that's fine, no Russian can say any English word without butchering it.
Fortnight isn’t just British but it is an obsolete term in America
IM SO BEHIND, I have soooooooooo much to catch-up on
so downloaded some of the mods btw some dont work together period but when ig et to the point where i can hey the vab it doesnt? its like its not there and im stuck @TheBeardyPenguin
Finally episode two 🥳
I love your content continue the great work.
Instead of "scraping" a aircraft you should put in in glorious museum in Moscow
Hey I'm really sorry to bother you but I have been trying to fix this for more than a month and couldn't
How did you place the control surface on the wing using angle snap,I get you have to use the WASDQE keys ,but even when I do it the control surface isn't properly attached to the wing,it's off to the side,I try anything but it doesn't work,it just doesn't place itself correctly
Can you please tell me what exactly did you do while placing the control surface on that angled wing on the Kha-1 X-plane
love the series! subbed :)
Welcome aboard!
Papa joesif kemin
13:20 actually had me laughing 😂👌
To say it wasn't a "free state" is a bit of an oversimplification. They lacked some freedoms we take for granted, but had some that we don't (like the ability for the workers at a workplace to fire their boss, and for their boss to have to find them another job if they wanted to get rid of one worker, as well as a right to housing).
The Russian b-29 was called the tu-4 pretty much had more turrets and I’m pretty sure had a better payload
The only other difference was a russian engine, which I believe had better performance, but everything else was exactly the same according to all available records
From the outside, the Soviet copy, the Tupolev Tu-4 looked virtually identical to the B-29. The length of the fuselage and the wingspan were the same. The speed was the same. The Soviet version had a higher ceiling, but that came at a price: the aluminum used by the Soviets was thinner and cheaper. The payload was virtually identical as were the placement and number of defensive armaments, though the Soviets added air-to-air missiles to their later models. They used 23mm guns instead of .50s.
Pretty sure the tu-2 could hold more bombs than the b-29
@@theohedd289 it had 23mm turrets indstade 12.7
@@monkeyboy4744 It's rated payload is 6 × 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombs. Rated payload of a B29 is 9,100 kg (20,000lbs)
Beardy mate love your stuff keep it up
I WAS SO READY FOR BED GOD DAMN IT
The Russian name for the «Javelin» could be «Drotik». A little bit funny in Russian, but Russians love funny names for their killing machines :)
when I saw you put gears on i was like "why do you need gear your air launching?"
Surprise holidays days to siberia? Do you mean G O O L A G?
Are you stopping once you get to the moon? Or are we going to see a few probes to other planets?
He said it depends on the stability of the save file after they land, most RP-1 saves are glitchy then and few parts exist beyond that point.
@@ethanjacobson4141 With 1.8.1 and recent post-apollo part additions, RP-1 is actually just fine to play up until the 2000s usually.
Capkirk Oh really? Might have to make a new save then.
Beardy I get its probably to late to edit the mod list but you should look into the History of Spaceflight contracts mod. It relatively follows accurate "historical" events/contracts for many country's space programs.
As an American, I can tell you that it isn't that fortnights are British, it's that modern Americans tend to be rather ignorant, and the only fortnight they know is the game. I may be a millennial, but at least I'm a fairly knowledgeable one.
nice
18:13 huh... is it bad that im british and didnt know why a fortnight was 2 weeks? i mean i knew it was 2 weeks, i just didnt know why, i mean for all i knew it was some random number someone decided one day and called it a fortnight
8:37 Yeah, I noticed :)
I hope this is more common. Vaos just quit and a mass exodus has just started. Solar nations is now up in the air. Id take it up myself if I was good at ksp.
Finally!
I may just be being an idiot, but couldn't you have landed the rocket that failed with the parachute? Or was it the communication thing that failed on it?
The parachute was configured to land the payload at the top safely. It wouldn't have landed a fully fuelled rocket at a reasonable speed.
@@TheBeardyPenguin ah thanks, was just wondering.
@@TheBeardyPenguin how did you get those plumes on the engines? I know there us real plume but thats makes it look all fuzy, is there another mod or something?
I think for your next glorious aircraft you should make Jet that can launch small satellites (bombs as well) based off the Tu-14T and have its nick name be Kubinka
How are you resizing the procedural wings without using the "Press J" menu? That looks like a huge time saver haha
You can hold T, G and B as a shortcut to resize them
@@TheBeardyPenguin Fantastic, thanks!
It's an Aussie thing too to say fortnight(ly)
I don’t know what launch failure you’re on about. Mother Russia never fails!!
Glorrrious Komunism!
What mod(s) are thoose cockpits from.
Specifically the babushka cockpit would be nice to use on some of my planes.
Btw: Speedunitchanger is a nice mod that would fit well into that mod list, it allows you to change to kp/h, mp/h, kts, mach and of course m/s
RO Capsules I believe
25 G is not a big deal for fruit flies and a minor inconvenience for mice. Scale law.
Finally!!!!!
Also: Joseph is gona Die soon, r you gona celabrate it in the next Video?
I just saw this, and I finished watching the first one a couple minutes ago...
Fortnight is very archaic and obsolete in American English.
the russian word "X" actually means h, and is called "kha" like you spelled it, so in essence you are calling your aircraft "h-1"
The... uh... helpful planes?
@@Iamlurking504 Yes for example The HC in HC-130 stands for Help Cargo so you are right
@@peggygawel7244 💀
he went mach2
Soo shiny...
9:18 but but caspian is in the middle of desert.
0:20 *Kiberia
I was just about to to correct you in saying they used 23mm cannons, not 20mms, then you said the War Thunder comment and that hurt emotionally.
as a war thunder addict for more than 4 years,
I can say that the only things the tu4 has over the b29 is the 23mm guns
and a lower rep cost
fight me
also maybe bombs
Other than that, i think it’s literally the same
Which mod gives you airlaunch?
Yay finally!!
Yeah, Fortnight is not a common expression in the US. Older viewers among you are more inclined to know what it is, but young people not so much. We tend to say Bi-weekly which annoys me. Since Bi-weekly can be twice a week or once every two weeks. We should use Semi-Monthly instead as it is IMO clearer. However, Bi-weekly for most people relates to pay and that is done twice a month(mostly for hourly employees) so most people just roll with it, either out of ignorance or laziness.
EY FINALLY
Are you still planning on finishing Beyond Kerbol?