Crazy solo mission to an abandoned Soviet aircraft carrier
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Today I post the main mission of my trip to China: the massive abandoned Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk, the second aircraft carrier or 'heavy aviation cruiser' of the Kiev class. The Minsk was laid down in 1972 and got commissioned in 1978. The Minsk was saved from scrap in 1998 and opened as a theme park in 2000. The ship is abandoned since 2016, but reconversion started a few days after my visit.
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great job penetrating the Minsk. With the current witch hunt campaign on foreign spies what you did there is crazy. Hope you are out of China already as of now otherwise get out asap before the PSB pick this footage up. Good luck and Godspeed.
BTW, since you been to Fukushima i wonder if u still have a geiger counter with you, pull it out and just take a look at it once in a while as u explore China. Chances are there are places where the readings are higher than Fukushima inside some civilian buildings. My allegation is controversial but i would like you to find out for yourself what the media does not know.
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It was built in Soviet Ukraine, not Soviet Russia.
The 🎶 at the end .....i would of returned too....I guess next time you adventures a old ship bring a mask...the lead paint and of those old ships...be safe brother .... im a sailor...so yeah just b3 safe and keep the cool videos comming
😮I am a retired US submarine sonar tech and it was weird seeing many of the weapons systems that I studied and learned about sitting there. It's always fun to see the other side
My dad was also a sub sonar tech thanks for your service 👍
Wow.. must have been such an amazing time but also tough in such small spaces😍😍😍 thanks for checking out!
check out andrei martyanov! :) he is a former soviet mariner living in the US. quite outspoken, but very much respects the US navy.
I am a radio technician from such a ship; I have always dreamed of seeing radio equipment on American aircraft carriers. UT8EZ
RIP to the security guys after this video was uploaded
They died of natural causes a few days later
Yeah this stupid RUclipsr has endangered their lifes and their families with his sensationalism. Sad 😔
RUclips is blocked in China :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath😂中国可以用VPN😂😂😂
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Word on the street was he was executed at the command of Xi
Definitely a brave mission. The Mig in the ship is a Mig 27, a modified version of the Mig 23. The 23 was a powerful interceptor, while the 27 was a so-called air-to-ground support bomber. During my military service with the NVA in the late 80s, I worked as an aircraft mechanic on the MiG 23.
Thanks for checking 🙏☺️ Some “experts” said it’s a MiG 23-BN
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Hello I did some research and here is what I got. So the tip of the nose looks like the one that a MiG27M and MiG23BN have but judging from some of the panel placements near the air intake Id say it looks more like a MiG23BN or at least a ground attack version of a MiG23. What makes me really think that its a MiG23BN from at least the look of the plane is the fact that it looks like it has the 23mm GSh-23L cannon if this was a mig27 it would have come with the 30mm GSh-6-30 cannon so the belly of the plane would have looked a bit diffrent if it could house it. So Id say its a Ground attack configuration of a mig23.
Yes, you can tell by the big air intake splitter plates, it is a MiG-23.@@arthuroldsocks
You can also tell by the fact that China never had MiG-27s the planes didn't come from the soviets as they're not carrier capable. The Minsk operated with Yak-38Ms. These MiG-23s were actually bought from Egypt and the reason they're found in this 'abandoned' soviet ship is that it was a theme park called Minsk world. The aircraft and weapons were transfered there as an attraction. It was only moved to Zhousan 8 years ago with the theme park becoming unprofitable and the ship changing owners
noticed the same...
i was commanding the Minsk for severel years. Me and ma Crew had a day out on land and got so wasted ... we lost the ship. Thanks buddy for finding it!
Wow ! tell us more about this BS please 🤗🤗🤗
@@synhet84 This is what's called a joke.
In 1980 I was on the US Navy ship USS Merrill that trailed the Minsk on a voyage from Vladivostok to Vietnam. During the trip one of their YaK-38 aircraft attempted a straight on take-off from the deck without using it's vertical take-off engine. It went into the water and straight to the bottom. Pilot was lost.
Yak 38 forfader of the Yak 141 which was a father of F 35
@@altergreenhorn The Harrier was the daddy of the F-35. Yak-38 and -141 were the Harrier’s stoopid cousins.
@@andrewdeboer7435 dude they literally had factually the same specs who are you insulting lol
@@andrewdeboer7435 Yak sold their VTOL designs to Lockheed after the collapse of the soviet union. Look at the details like the rotating vectoring nozzle in the back on the yak141/F35. The harrier has a different design. Do you think Lockheed spends hundrets of millions for usless russian crap designs they can't use?
All this talk of Yaks and 35s. Good old British ingenuity was 50 years ahead of the F35 and at least 20 before the Yak and didn't suffer from energy bleed off in high G manoeuvrers.
Damn, dude ... this like an urbex holy grail. While I'm extremly jealous, I am so glad you uploaded this. Thank you!
I love his videos but they make me sad in a different way. I see those giant buildings or this ship filled with weapons and I know I will propably never see that in real life.
It hurts my Urbex Heart
On par with Bald and Bankrupt's mission to the abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles.
@@strangersoundbob was before bald, check it out
Thanks! Yes, guess we inspired him to go😅 wish I had better film equipment though!
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I am a retired Marine Engineer and I spent most of my life in Engine Rooms. Whenever I visit museum ships, my interest is mostly below decks where guys like me kept the lights on and the ship moving, however so many ships have had the engine rooms gutted for scrap - I reckon that is what happened to Minsk too. Joe Public is not interested in cramped machinery spaces , so the new owners can recoup some costs by scrapping them. RMS Queen Mary had (then) revolutionary design Yarrow boilers - all scrapped - and one Engine Room was sold too. Aircraft carrier Enterprise in New York - when I asked about the Engine Room was told "that's too dangerous to allow the public access" -bollocks - I reckon they gutted them for scrap. The man who knows everything about the ship and how she works is not the Captain ( Master) , but the Chief Engineer - despite the fiction of Hollywood, John Wayne and Captain James T Kirk.
Hey, at least Kirk knew the reliants pre-fix access code😂. Kahn didn’t even know that. Give a captain some credit😂
If you can, go visit USS Hornet then. I had a hard hat tour with a former engineer on a sistership, and he was glad to answer all my geeky questions about his job on the ship. Boilers and engines are still there. ❤
@@docthorr yes the Hornet's engine room is in fantastic shape. If you are ever in Bremerton visit the Turner Joy which also still has a well kept engine room and she is still functioning on regular old shore power connection.
Boop!
@@wysoftI'm from France, but noted for a future trip 😉
Man you are so wholesome it's almost adorable, risking your life to get this footage, and then thanking the people in the comments? Brilliant work, and brilliant man!
Haha! I am grateful for the comments☺️ Thanks Michella! Next up is a former secret military underground train workshop (hopefully tomorrow)
Bob and friends, you have BALLS OF STEEL for trying this one ... Chinese police don't mess around ... Absolutely outstanding!!!!
nah, they make u think of a unwanted junk is being surrounded by police so to get view from shills
BIG balls of steel!!
@charlescouncill bulky and heavy. A leathery sack, smells like English leather cologne. Shaved and shiny. Buttery smooth. Smooth as eggs.
@loganstroganoff1284 Sounds like your fantasy.
I've visited Minsk in 2014 when she was a Museums ship in Shenzhen. It's really nice to see the update of her. There were more aircraft on the flight deck back then, at least 2 Mi-24s and 2 MiG-23s, one of them is MiG-23UB. Her sister Kiev is currently in Tianjin as another museum. It is also worth a visit.
It is Mig-27, as it has a targeting device in the nose. Mig23B and especially Mig23UB (учебно-боевой uchebno boevoy - training-fighter) has different cone
@@artstep9661Wrong, it’s a MiG-23BN. It has variable intake ramps.
Outstanding! Really pushing the boundaries - thankfully you returned safely. Top man!
There are very few RUclips videos that I will both focus my entire attention to, and watch to the end. This is definitely one of them. Such a cool job preserving a piece of history.
I was a US carrier sailor on Enterprise and Truman, wild to see this side of an old soviet carrier. Im glad you tried to see the lower engineering sections but backed out. Thats where I lived, below decks. I recognize all those engineering spaces in comparison to my experience, really neat to see. The last two minutes of the actual tour before you leave, that seemed liked the second deck down, which on our ships and judging by what I saw the Minsk too, is where the majority of the ship lived. thats where the galleys (which we saw the last bits of), stores, offices, medical dental, all that general bulk of living was down there, which was gutted for infastructure, then it seemed you went down one more deck where a lot of our berthings were, and what appeared to me to be gutted berthings, around 49:51. Anyways, good shit, thank you for this. Irecognize all those engineering spaces in comparison to my experience.
The sailors lived from 2 to 5 decks. There is a phrase in the video that there was foreign equipment on board. It is not true. Most likely it got on the ship after its sale. (I served on this cruiser)
@@dmitrymal7380 do you know the reason why the Minsk was retired? The ships' Wiki page simply states it was an "unknown accident"
Also the Western equipment in the video at 41:39 looks to be a radio direction finder - I can barely make out the "ADF" (automatic direction finder) tag in the upper left hand corner. Not a bad piece of gear to have on a Soviet ship that may be operating in proximity of western nations where it could be utilized - even if you had to go through Western sources to get it.
This ADF looks a lot like JRC equipment of that era which was manufactured in Japan and probably would be easy to obtain.
My dad landed on the Enterprise a few times
A homage to your dad for creating the best explorer out there.
Haha good one! Appreciated🤩😎
His mother: 🌝
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Its hard to imagine the colossal amount of equipment installed in these huge carriers.
Thanks for video!! Thrilling experience to say the least!! It was stunning to see pictures of F15 and SR71 hanging in an old Soviet carrier.
Amazing Solo Mission! Wow! =)
One thing I do wonder is: there ins't room in the budget for a propper dry bag?
I was thinking the same thing. I think he could have done better job of keeping vital things dry when he had to swim. @@IrLosin
mwah, the video`s are taken with a drone, lol, high quality, so recorded recently.
Solo mission, but working with a team is not really called a solo mission, but who cares, it makes fun content, but don`t believe everything what is on the internet...🤣
Fun fact, as also seen in lots of movies, everything is wet, but look, the most important thing, my camera, wow, complete dry....😂
That the rest is wet, who cares, lol. Also, on the way to the Minsk it was raining and everything went wet.....uh.......he swim to the Minsk.....last time i checked is that water is still wet, haha.
Love the content, but such fun mistakes makes a channel fun to watch....
Yeah... Full of asbestos fresh air into a communist scrap-feast military ship!!! Kinda cool!!!
The guards are probably all fired. After this got out and the economic situation in China. It's so bad that they'll problem. Never have a stable job again
Great job on getting aboard that ship! As a current Dutch Navy chief petty officer, this was very interesting to see! Thanks for taking such risks to show us these abandoned gems 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for checking, it was a cool mission. I can tell only you that you can find even some more interesting ones in my new book ;)
As a current US Navy Chief Petty Officer I find this interesting as well 😃
wow, interesting. In italy we were about to have a museum ship too, the Huge cruiser Vittorio Veneto (C-550). Sadly l, due to the crisis and the cut to military expenses we didn’t manage to restore it but something like that would have been beautiful, however have you ever seen that ship or also an italian one?
I wanted to explore one, but first I explored a naval bunker in La Spezia and got in serious troubles afterwards. So I never went back for the ships😅
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath however i saw you in the journals at the time, now i am connecting everything😂
Thank you for the tour ! Glad you enjoyed and survived the death trap.
And my respect and admiration you took to swim to get to this abandoned relic. Can only imagine the staging that would have taken place to get there. Awesome!
When her sister ship Kiev first opened as a theme park in 2004 I was only 8. My dad took me to Tianjin to see Kiev as soon as it opened since she was only an hour away from where I lived. I vividly remember that even back then Kiev wasn't in a good shape. Iirc she was saved from the scrap yard by a private buyer, so it was expected for her internals to be a wreck. There weren't tours to the bridge or anything, just some make shift rails and security tapes hanging across some hallways where tourists weren't supposed to walk down. We were able to go into Kiev's bridge tho, and it was likewise a wreck. Navigation panels and screens were all shattered and there were some broken canvas maps, or something like that. There was a Yak-38M parked on the deck and some old Kamov choppers.
Good times
Cool stories to hear!! 😍epic that it was possible
The handrails are homemade, because when they were sold, most likely, they were cut down (since they were made of copper and brass).
The thing that gets me about these ships is all the wiring and plumbing the engineers had to figure out and route all throughout the ship, amazing!
And they did it all without computers! All designed with slide rules! 🤯
You realise that its basicly something humans have been improving for 10,000 years.
@@olivere5497wiring is like a little over a century old and modern plumbing is about the same. Lame comment dooder.
Yeah they had to figure out what to with all those turds and peepee from the sailors.
@@loganstroganoff1284 well you can look at cuniform clay tablets in museums and see magistrates notes discussing property boundary disputes and complex tax disputes.
Humans work out how to solve problems. Its nothing new.
This was an epic solo exploration and also extremely dangerous but I think it was well worth the risks to see what was there. I wonder if there are any active leaks or water intrusion on the very bottom levels. Thank you for taking us with you to see the inside of this vessel. Stay safe!
Blink twice if the CIA has contacted you
😄😀😄😀
The dog is in the bush
Dang Bob, nerves of steel buddy. I think this was probably top 5 ships you have explored. It really boggles my mind on the amount of security for this hulk, it's like it's still a navel ship in use. Thanks for taking such risks for us to see. Sorry for your loss of your dad, I just lost my wife of 20 years in Oct. Keep safe.
Sorry for your loss. It gets easier as time goes on, but, the pain will never go away. Hang in there.
Sorry for your loss amigo.
Damn dude that's rough
Sorry for your loss man, take care.
Wow. So sorry for your loss man. I hope you are well, and I hope you are able to find peace. Bless you.
Thank you Bob. Also. Our condolences on your father's passing.
Thanks 🙏 😇
I think that's the best lost place ever... thank you 🙏
I lived in Naval Base GTMO as a kid and I had this 3 foot black and white poster with silhouettes of Soviet Navy ships and class types. On the reverse side were illustrations of the missile systems, radars, and guns. I had a huge interest and curiousity about all things Russian, etc. To finally see the inside of the Minsk is wild!
Thanks for checking! Did you have the chance to see some US ships? I also have explored Soviet submarines (1 on my channel) and other ships on my channel🤩
I grew up reading the Jane's warship identification guides in my dad's office. That would have been right around the tail end of the USSR. I remember thinking how strange the Soviet ships looked in comparison to the others.
@@wysoft At the base library in GTMO I would nerd out to the Jane's Defense Encyclopedias and read technical comparisons and even the weapons and arms advertisements strewn in between. When we moved to Italy I was given a surplus one (those are expensive ass books) from my summer job at the base air terminal. The unit I was working for was a Navy aviation aircraft repair depot so I got all sorts of cool stuff! With regard to Soviet ships I was amazed at the amount of weapons they had compared to other ships but I hypothesized (as a 6th grader) that if the ships got hit the weapons magazines might cook off and destroy the ship!
Yes, GTMO is a Fleet Training Faciliity so back then I'd see different classes of destroyers, cruisers, frigates and other combatant craft. The USS Nimitz did a port call and several of us residents got to go for a cruise out in the bay where they demoed full on flight operations. I saw the F-14 which had downed a Libyan Su-22. I go to see and do things your average school kid back in the states could only imagine. In one case a bunch of got a "unsanctioned" ride on some Marine tanks heading to the firing range. Was a good 15 minutes loud but unforgettable shenanigans. @@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
@@rdr8147 That is a major weakness having so many weapon magazines. That is what happened when a Ukrainian Neptune missile hit the Slava class Moskva, it started a fire that caused the Magazine to blow up. This is the official Russian statement: "The Russian Ministry of Defence said a fire caused a munitions explosion, and the ship sank in stormy seas while being towed to port"
Мне как то грустно смотреть на это... ведь я там был, когда он был еще в строю... Спасибо автору, что дал снова повстречаться со старым Другом и Товарищем
Такая мощь, и титаническая работа конструкторов и производства, чтобы всё это было единым организмом. Видно, что восстановить до рабочего состояния не под силу никому - нет спецов, которые бы понимали что это всё такое. Но наше судостроение на подъёме, строятся новые корабли. Сволочи продали таких красавцев, ещё новых, за копейки. Они должны были бы теперь стоять музеями у нас, а не у китайцев.
@@a.p.2703, я бы с радостью, но тут это никому не интересно. Может Китай вдохните в него новую жизнь, но я сомневаюсь.
@@a.p.2703нет спецов у Китая😂 самая большая страна по судостроению как торговому так и военному, из него сделают снова музей и все, а то что его продали за 5лямов как и другие то да, но смешно про поднятие российского судостроения тоже конечно
Когда я служил, на Минске, в 90-м, уже тогда, если хорошо долбануть по переборке, то можно было пробить ржавый металл.... Но, Основные несущие, понятно, еще 50 лет прослужат.... Только вдумайтесь, он мог принимать самолеты, в шторм до 7 баллов. Подобного судна не было ни у одного государства в мире!!
Terima kasih kepada semua yang berkhidmat kepada negara anda
"Two is one, and one is none."
The fact that you had a second rope wasn't luck; it was proper planning.
AWAYS double up on mission-critical gear. Lose a tripod? Meh - carry on. Run out of rope? Mission over.
Bravely well done, Sir.
Bob, this is the best crazy video I have seen in a long time, you are a real explorer, thank you for sharing!
Эх , профукали мы все практически , и это печально😢, а особенно видеть как разберут этот авианосец , но зато благодаря каналу мы можем увидеть невероятные кадры, которые я считаю самыми уникальными из всех что я видел, спасибо за уникальную возможность в последний раз увидеть этот замечательный корабль, спасибо тебе Боб❤.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏 😀 It was an amazing ship
The concept of Soviet aircraft carrier cruisers was flawed already at the time of their creation. If the U.S. with its aircraftcarriers groups clearly set the task of bringing democracy to third countries from the sea, then our aircraft carriers really had no tasks at that time - there was simply no concept of their use, they were made on the principle of "like the enemy". If we wanted to bring developed socialism, say, in Central America, then such ships would make sense, and would really be cooler than the USA aircraft carriers, and so even if we imagine that all this very expensive junk would be afloat, it would be unclear why it floats. Especially now, with the advent of Russian hypersonics missiles when quietly and without noise ended the era of American aircraft carriers groups, which were invulnerable to the USSR Armed Forces at that time
Концепция авианесущих крейсеров была ущербна уже в момент их создания. Если США с их АУГ чётко ставили задачу нести демократию в третьи страны с моря, то наши авианесущие крейсеры реально не имели задач на тот момент - просто не было концепций их применения, делали их по принципу - "как у врага". Вот если бы мы хотели бы заносить развитой социализм, допустим, в центральной америке, то такие суда имели бы смысл, и реально были бы круче штатовских авианосцев, а так даже если представить, что весь этот очень дорогой хлам был бы на плаву, было бы непонятно зачем он плавает. Тем более сейчас, с появление гиперзвука тихо и без шума закончилась эпоха американских АУГ, которые были неуязвимы тогда для ВС СССР.
@@avetl Can you confidently say that the USA is a democracy? Especially when corporations and billionaires (western variant for oligarch) have alot of political influence ... Also most laws are against democratic opinion
"""""Эх , профукали мы все практически"""""----- что профукали та? Гавно на палке и в банке? Свое строить не хватало мозгов у немцев и американцев все пиздили. Профукали мы в 17 году .
@@avetlThe US is a plutocracy, not a democracy.
Very cool. One thing to be aware of, with that amount of corrosion ongoing, low oxygen concentration in confined spaces is a real risk. You were wise to avoid strange odours.
I was thinking possibly high levels of asbestos dust
@@redf7209 definitely a potential risk, but asbestos is typically more of a danger when demolishing/renovating structures - basically anything that damages/disturbs the asbestos too much. Just sitting still there shouldn't be too many fibres floating around to breathe in.
Definitely want to have a decent mask on at all times in any kind of urbex, though, you never know what's in there
I really wonder how those soviet systems worked, so many stations and old electronic hardware. Soviet hardware is pretty fascinating
Well, we know how one bit worked -the Japanese-made radio direction finder shown at 21:33
Room after room filled with old electromechanical systems. All this was build before the digital age.
stupidly, honestly
soviet ships tend to have 1 centralized damage control center, the problems of which, if not immediately obvious, i'll summarize:
what the fuck happens when the damage control center is hit
@@EE-dj7et
You're fucked. That's what happens.
@@EE-dj7etпомоему он в самом менее уязвимом месте, так что если ракета добралась туда - кораблю конец, и экипаж эвакуируется на корабли сопровождения
This is by far the most interesting video on this channel. Well done, Bob!
thank you for not playing too much background noise. it made it more realistic. enjoyable, thank you.
Man, you're brave! No way I could do that alone! No way! Thanks for this incredible experience!
The kiev class was designed specifically to bring a carrier through the bosporus strait.
Aircraft carriers are not allowed to go through the strait. But a heavy cruiser is. So it is limited by the treaty.
This is also the reason Kuznetsov has anti ship ballistic missiles and is classified as a heavy aircraft cruiser.
Nice mission man. Thanks for put this video here on youtube. i love your trips.
Thanks for the video. My stepfather served on this ship in the early 80s. Hopefully it will be available one day
First off Bob I'm sorry for your loss 😢
Secondly thanks for risking it and giving us an epic video.
I don't think any other youtuber would have gone swimming to explore a ship.
I never skipped any ads I hope this helps with some revenue.
Keep up the hard work and I'm always looking forward to Sunday's upload. Cheers
What loss?
@@madmanmechanic8847his book is in memory of his father.
@@madmanmechanic8847the loss of his father.
@@HippyRoss. I saw that in the later comments bummer thanks for the reply . I bet his Dad was proud of his Son
he didnt risk anything, theres no guards its all just acting bro how dont u realise it u fcking npc
It's good you turned back instead of exploring further; if left unattended for a long time, some ships can build up toxic gasses in certain rooms.
Thats awesome that you got to actually gain access let alone the amazing footage you've captured. A+
This is awesome! Thank you for your bravery and sharing such history!
Thank you Bob for being an urban exploler, and thank you for bringing us to all of these amazing places! You are the most inspiring exploler in the world! 🥷🏽🤩 The ship is epic! Such a beauty! Hugs from Hungary🙋🏽♀️
Haha soon an urban explorer again with somebody from Hungary hopefully😌Thanks a lot Andrea!
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath 2024 will be an exciting year😉
Unbelievable, you are a very brave man Bob! Another amazing video.
Thanks a million😄
That's wild how they have guards watching it 24/7, but they couldn't splurge on some basic security measures inside the ship.
Machtig mooi, Bob! En veel sterkte met het verlies van je vader 🍀
Jeetje Bob je hebt jezelf wel weer overtroffen! Het is zo onwerkelijk wat je allemaal doet om deze prachtige beelden te laten zien van een bijna surrealistische wereld voor ons westerlingen. Bedankt!
Dank je wel Martijn, er komen nog enkele gave avonturen online😊
Bro you are very brave and what you just filmed in there is GOLD 🌟 i enjoyed this video a lot and it gave me a lot of knowledge about air craft carriers so Thank you very much ♥️
Got to say man, I'm not partial to these videos typically but I'm thoroughly impressed and this was super interesting to watch. Stay safe out there.
You are crazy Bob! Your subscribers appreciate all the dangers you put yourself through 😁
Thanks Sarah! Unfortunately I cannot post all adventures 😁But this was a nice mission
No ski jump ramp on kiev class, it was design for yak38 VTOL aircraft.
I remember in the 80s we (the RN) used to harass Soviet ships, including this one. This one, I remember we had a Seaking flying off their bow taking photos of the bridge. The Yak 38s amused us as they were so unstable in the hover. The Soviets must have been in awe of the Harriers we had onboard. Strangely I never saw a 38 take off but we always hung around to see them recovered. I believe they gave up on their attempts to operate a safe VSToL at sea in the end.
OH my! Can you imagine how much asbestos is in that ship - I hope you are okay with being in such a dangerous but fascinating place. I pity the guys who will be dismantling all that mess. Keep safe.
Your exploring skills are second to none. Insane adventure.
Sorry for your loss Bob, this video was epic. I've seen a few videos abouth this ship but nothing like yours. Keep up the great work.
Visited MinskWorld back in 2006 a few times. Actually, the aircraft in the hangar is a Mig-27. It was a bit of a wreck even when it was a tourist attraction. Although this is China, you could just give the guards a couple of hundred RMB and they would have rowed you out there.
Not as a foreigner unfortunately 😊😁
Actually it's a MiG-23BN, the immediate predecessor to the MiG-27. It has the MiG-23 style intake ramps and 23mm GSH-23 gunpod, and would have had the same engine as the MiG-23 if it were installed.
@@larrythorn4715 Having looked at the video again, I think you are right. Freebird has it as a Mig-27, but in my notes, I wrote Mig-23UB. As you said, the intake is wrong.
@@darrellbrown2551 I think the 23BN and 27 probably get constantly confused.
I would be taking a trophy home lol
Condolences for dad, fantastic exploration, a more unique than rare case of finding an abandoned aircraft carrier
I love how at 35:30 it shows mainly all U.S. Military Aircraft in the bar of a Soviet/Russian Navy Warship! Such as the C-17s, KC-10 Air Tanker, F-117 Nighthawk, and the B-2 Spirit to name a few that I saw in case anyone was curious. That totally made me laugh when I saw that. :)
That caught me off guard too Lol
Bro, the content you are bringing to us here on RUclips is amazing. Word’s can’t really describe your determination to bring this kind of content. Brilliant stuff my friend keep it up. New subscriber!
You're a hero! Fantastic mission.
It is quite amazing, the things our Fathers teach us. From one Bob to another, we must celebrate their lives everyday!
Yes! It can change in a heartbeat😢
20 years ago, in Shenzhen, I boarded this warship that turned into a theme park. The remnants of the Red Navy.
This is mind blowing! The whole video!
MUCH BETTER than I expected!!! WOW!!!
Thanks! I am sure you’ll like this one too:
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A former secret military underground train workshop with a steam train and many lathes and other machines☺️
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I will definitely check it out!
I would have been crapping my pants when those guys came aboard and you had to hide out!
How the ship didn't sink from the weight of your balls is astounding!
What an amazing video, thx for taking such risks to bring this content, unreal!!
At night especially, a perfect example of the saying "You're not afraid of being alone in the dark. You're afraid of *not* being alone in the dark."
1999年左右明斯克号航母世界在深圳的时候我去参观过。I visited it which was a aircraft’s career theme park when it was in Shenzhen around 1999. Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories.
Wow must have been so impressive to see as a kid😁😁and sad to see it in this state
Great video, as always. I find Soviet tech fascinating from a historical and Cold War fiction fan perspective.
My condolences for your loss. My father passed in 2021.
It’s incredible how it was designed at all, everything worked, and even floats on water...
Really appreciate he did research into the layout of the ship and all the equipment a lot of explorers have no idea what they are looking at
Tip when near or on water while trying to be sneaky: be much quieter than you think you need to be. It will carry sound far.
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That took some big balls. What an epic adventure!
Watched with my husband who’s a Navy man! Great video 👍🏻😊👏🏻
What an amazing video. Thank you so much for documenting this before it's too late! Truly incredible!
Sorry about your father. Stay strong man. In future, be careful on big ships like this. Take an O2 meeter with. They could have CO2 pockets in the low levels of the ship. It's pretty dangerous.
Thanks mate! I have a gas and oxygen meter, but not a really expensive one. 😇
Thats my worry too, these ships have HVAC systems under power.
Definitely the most awesome video of this type I have ever seen. Well done.
I served on a super carrier in the 70s in CIC as well & it was interesting seeing the same era-type radar that we used back then.
I think we might be the only 2 people in this post who went on the deck of the Minsk. I was working in a shipping company in Nantong that this vessel is based on. Back in 2016 I saw the tug boats bringing it in that place and it was bought by the Citic business corporation and banking company. In 2018 I had the luck to be on board with a group of other people that worked in the near by big shipyards and I was so excited about it but as you can imagine we weren't allowed to go in all those places you did go. There were indeed many ambitious plans about this ship like bringing old retiring Chinese planes on deck and to be like a museum similar as the US Navy has in NY and SF. But then Covid came and many plans were abandoned probably because lack of funding. I also remember that smell of burning chemical all over the ship. One notice though, the plane in the hangar might be a Mig 27 because it was the bomber version without long radar cone that Mig 23 had. This was not just a youtube video but it was like a documentary and I enjoyed it so much, same as your previous ones! Keep up the good work!
I'm the third. I served on this heavy missile cruiser, as a sailor!!! The ship is grandiose... 273 meters in length!!!
@@dmitrymal7380 Wow ! Do you have any stories or pictures?
Amazing you had the oppertunity in 2018! It was already at the same spot where it is now. I guess this was before the fire? PS They say it's Mig23-CB
Great video!
I'm so jealous about your braveness to go on such a mission alone.
Greetings
Among other things, I am a naval weaponry enthusiast. I study all the Russian warships and submarines. Thank you for sharing your exciting adventure. You're very brave man to venture around inside this rotting monster. It makes me a bit sad to see everything trashed the way it was. It was the pride of Russia and now it's been turned into a floating junkyard. Even so, I enjoyed seeing everything that you filmed. I just can't imagine this thing being used as a theme park. What kind of a weird mind would imagine that that would be profitable?. It should have been preserved as a museum piece not left for trash like this. Anyway thank you again for filming this I look forward to seeing your next exploration and adventure adventure!
Least it got turned into amusement park and not scrapped right away. This way lots of relics got saved, instead scrapped, witch would been the normal way it goes. Also since soviets were bit hap hazard on selling it, lots of nice stuff was forgotten on the ship, where normally navy would gut it them selfs, then sell only the shell of a ship. I'm most curious how much active ordinances there are on that ship, cause if there was guns on board, there out to be some ammo left XD
@@Hellsong89 Why would they not remove the live ammo? While the Russians are probably not concerned about safety, they are concerned about the monetary value of live ammo. They probably sold it on the black market or put it on other warships.
35:23 "I end up in a bar". My life's story. 🙂
Hahaha😂🙏
Sorry for the loss of your Father. Great video God Bless.
@15:45-19:20, this is an obscure amount of unique Soviet tech. Just incredible.
Imagine seing all this lit up.
The map on the wall in the control room was a testament of what they were using to find out where they were and where they were going to end up at
Beyond epic, especially doing this solo! Loved it!
Thanks a million Reg 🙏🙏😄
Very cool. I would probably stay clear of China per awhile though. I bet you're waiting for you to come back
I was thinking the same thing
Interesting that at 21:33, they also show English language instruments eg. Koden "Radio Direction Finder". The contrast between some areas looking almost serviceable and the degradation on the engine room areas is remarkable. This was SURELY- an Unbeaten path!
I noticed that as well. I guess it was part of the conversion to tourist attraction process.
daring solo mission....waiting for more episodes like this one🔥🔥
the end got me :D :D :D
What an nice episode, holy moly! U did an Incredible job Bob!
I vistied this ship twice in Shenzhen, it was not in great condition ever since 2010s, but I do hope it would reopen again not getting scrapped.
Thank you so much for taking the challenge to sneak on board a great ship of the Soviet Navy. Its amazing the Russian made a multi mission ship. Where the US Navy uses other ships the DDGs & Cruiser to do some of the rolls as they surround the US carriers. MAN the manpower it must have taken to fill all these defenses 😊 you ROCK my friend
It would have been fun to be an observer on board her in her time, just watching her operate. Some of those spaces must have been for senior officers and Captain quarters 😊😊
Sad to see an Aircraft Carrier abandoned to rot.
Best Abandoned vlogs on the Interwebs! Thankyou for all you do! Much love from Australia 🥰
Thanks a million😍😎🤩 spread the word!😁
This was better then watching a movie!
What an amazing explore, you must have been on alert the whole time. Am sorry for the loss of your dad. Condolences. 😢
Im sorry to hear about you're dad, im sure you made him proud
What a crazy mission! Love these kind of videos. I mostly go alone it's another level of adrenaline, but this is sick.
Innige deelneming met je vader!