The 131-Foot Flying Mothership Carrying a Dark Secret
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- High above the Romanian countryside in August 1941, the night was still and foreboding, and the Soviet TB-3 bomber, an airborne giant, lumbered through the darkness.
Attached beneath its reinforced wings, two small Polikarpov I-16 fighters awaited their moment. The Zveno project, an audacious Soviet experiment, had turned this TB-3 into a flying aircraft carrier, ready to unleash its lethal cargo. In a few moments, these fighters would detach and fly back to base independently, striking targets too far beyond the reach of conventional fighters and too well-defended for bombers to be effective.
The bomber then approached the Ploiești oil refineries, a critical supply point for the Axis powers. Below, the sprawling complex glimmered faintly, unaware of the impending strike.
Suddenly, the TB-3’s signal lights blinked. The I-16 fighters detached and roared into action, diving toward the refineries. Releasing an aircraft from another in mid-air was a feat of engineering and precision. The fighters had to dive away and maneuver quickly as soon as they were released to avoid the massive bomber’s slipstream, which could tear them apart.
The I-16s deftly dodged the TB-3’s wake, their engines roaring as they descended upon the target. The sky erupted in flashes as bombs found their marks.
Anti-aircraft fire suddenly lit up the night, a lethal web of flak and tracer rounds. The TB-3, now vulnerable, shuddered as it took hits, and the crew inside held their breath as they trusted the metal skin of the boxy old bomber with their lives.
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Sliding off the wings?! Boy that’s bravery, I couldn’t see me doing that
5:06 Transitioned from BMW engines to Soviet engines for reliability...
Every BMW car owner....Yep.
You too? could not give me one, could not dump mine fast enough
Early German car models were not reliable or really very durable at all.
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5:41 What the hell is wrong with people from the past?!?
“Let’s sit OUTSIDE THE PLANE”
“Great idea Bob!”
i can not take this video serious with this music thats got me head boppin hah
06:00 That's NOT a supercharger it's a turbo....
It has retractable wheels!? !???!?
Are you sure about that?
Do you look at technical data about subject at all ????
He never does good research on the videos, reads almost copy and paste Wikipedia articles over stock footage, entire channel is a cash grab because he keeps getting huge view numbers.. Welcome to RUclips in 2024 I guess... Meanwhile there are other people doing much more in-depth well researched videos on aircraft that get a fraction of the views.
90% of this video is showing 3 different planes....
He was referring to the fighter carried under the wing. Watch again.
@@jamesatwell6446i just did, and i think you need to watch the video again, dang i have to stop replying to bots LOL
The development institute is TSAGI and is pronounced like it looks not in individual lettres.
At 05:39, are those men sitting on the top of that bomber in flight?
YUP
Yeah
Paratroopers, Soviets did it first and yeah they did it by having guys sit on the fuselage and out on the wings. They were wearing parachutes at least.
How informative!
Nice, I had no idea!
In some parts, he shows other bombers, even the the huge PE-3 at 15:11!! In the part about the battle with Finland, none of them were TB3s. And despite what he says, the TB3 never had retractable landing gear. At 4:56 he shows bomb bay doors open and says it had retractable landing gear!!
Soviet Russia had to wait until it had seized B-29s that were in distress after the bombings on Japan and that had landed in the Soviet Union to copy this plane, the top of the bomber in 1944-45, and thus have for the first time a strategic bomber. The Tu-4 was the basis of the Soviet bombing in 1945.
La Russie soviétique a dû attendre d'avoir saisi des B-29 qui était en perdition après les bombardements sur le Japon et qui se sont posé en union soviétique pour copier cet avion le top du bombardier en 1944-45 et ainsi avoir pour la première fois un bombardier stratégique.
Le Tu-4 fut la base du bombardement soviétique en 1945.
Thank you. I've always wanted to know more about this aircraft but information was scarce.
Seeing that monstrosity fly still doesn't convince me that, that behemoth could ever get off the ground. What a horrible piece of flying scrap metal it was. A true shock too the mind to comprehend such waste of perfectly good man hours. 😅 that horribly terrifying monster Stalin probably murdered a lot of innocent lives over this waste of good resources. What a horrible inhumane tyrant he was.
If the TB-3 had a retractable main landing gear, then why do you never see it retracted in any film of the bomber?
Because they keep showing the wrong plane..... SIGH
The TB3 did not have retractable landing gear. This is a blooper, they showed bomb bay doors opening.
@@edwardfletcher7790 I saw lots of still and film of the TB3. What you talking about?
Well, the TB3 entered service in 1932 (Well after WW1) and flew with the soviet airforce until 1945, which is definitely WW2. But the Polikarpov i16 entered service in 1935. So the absolute earliest this rig could be based on the aircraft themselves would be 1935. But I doubt they had this setup ready and waiting for the i16 to be introduced, so now it's at least late 30's. Since these were used against the Germans, that puts it at least June 1941, which was Germany's Operation Barbarossa, it's attack on the Soviet Union.
So, given the aircraft, and the date of Barbarossa, this rig may have been used in the very late 30' up to may 1941, but definitely in combat with Germany from june 1941 to VE day.
That thing is huge. 1st.
these background musics you give in all your videos like you used to
Song sounds like “one night in Bangkok”
Thanks for your excellent research.
Nothing new here. The U.S. Navy did this in the 1920’s with Airships
not sure about the 80s music !
a little strange isnt it 😂 😂
@@Swellington_ i suspect Mr Dark didn't review it before uploading ...
@@huwphotographer9389 evidently not
and russia has yet to repay the US for ww2.
The Soviets were among the first to pay off their debt and the rest was written off. Do you not know anything of history? And you say Russia/ as if there weren't millions of eastern European countries to sent soldiers to die to defeat fascism. What an ignorant comment. The UK was the last country to pay off it's debt which received the most aid bar none. Ignorant.
People are pretty ignorant. Honestly read books learn history not just make ignorant comments. The Soviets lost some 27 million of their young women and men. I would argue it was much more. I'm not a communist sympathiser but you cannot argue with what they did.
@@usa3526 stalin starved several million ukrainians and jews to death and murdered 12 million russians. i think "lost" is not the correct word.
now your cargo aircrafts can do same or better
Mostly its own pilots.
I own this thing in War Thunder
Yeah, just like I own Elle MacPherson
@@MartintheTinman I sure hope you don't own a human being
@@rickyvestal1760 the Bible gives me the right
@@MartintheTinman And Amendment Thirteen took that right away
@@rickyvestal1760 yes because the USA is the only country on Earth, FFS.
Typical late 1920s ,early 30s plane with fixed undercarriage. Was obsolete when WWII started and transitioned to cargo/troop transport missions for the most part.
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Not that advanced for 1931! Compare with Zeppelin Staakken E 20... All metal, 4 engines, in 1920!
Soviet Clown Car.
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
The music is horrible
F N CLICKBAIT!!!
Damn! Is this 80s cheap porno soundtrack a mistake?
Or plain lack os sense or epoch sensibility...
Just inappropriate music, how ridiculous.
Otherwise, the videos are very interesting.
That is not a ww2 plane . Its a ww1 bomber
That doesn't mean it wasn't used during WW2.
deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and used during the early years of World War II.
When exactly did WWI end?
Didn’t enter service for over a decade after ww1 ended lol
@robertcamble3543 why do you think that?
1931...
Non-sequitur. Your fact is uncoordinated...
Ridiculous documentary. Dark Skies needs to do better if wants to compete with the other history channels. I like the narrators voice but the footage is terrible. With better revenue this channel could go further in purchasing stock film that is an accurate representation and not mix in and repeat footage that is freely available.
Le titre est toialement stupide !
which plane took place of tb3 after it stopped production?