MI-28N
Video at source
MI-28N
Video at source
There are two examples of flying iron tub planes I can think of. The old P-47 Jug and the A-10 Warthog.
In America, test pilots try guns.
In Russia, guns test the pilots.
Why not put a dummy in the cockpit? or no one?
did it have to be tested during flight for some reason.
this makes no sense
Rumor has it, that was a CIA op.
The Russians aren’t stupid. They weren’t testing - they were demonstrating it. They already knew very well it could stop bullets when they put a person in it.
It was probably an old Soviet “marketing” video intended to get the approval of some high level apparatchiks, or show off what the factory had developed.
Geez. I hope the get double time (or double vodka).
Cool video. Actually, the “human in the cockpit” test looks like the final exam after a long series of successful empty cockpit tests.
Brass balls for sure. And our own men did the same things. Alan Shepard on that Mercury shot was a crapshoot of survival, rushed to the pad in a few weeks, to try to redeem us after Gagarin’s flight.
Yeager going mach 1 when it was well thought that the plane would likely disintegrate. Of course there was no reasonable way to bail. Some of the diving tests we did on navy men were just nuts.
We even had Marines in trenches way too close to atomic blasts to test them and their equipment afterwards.
The government will risk killing you to achieve a relatively mundane goal. It poses no serious moral dilemma for them. Every grunt has a day when they truly, deeply, realize this.
We tested the effects of radiation from nuclear bomb blast by putting navy ships near blasts... (yes, with sailors on the ships)
One nasty looking bug.
Do they have video of the unsuccessful tests?................ : )