Canberra Over Stalingrad - Penetrating Russia's Area 51 

think they are perfect in length. he has hit a sweet spot.

I get you, but I enjoy them so much that I hate for them to end. @@JeanLucCaptain

The Canberra held the world altitude record for a while in the 1950s, last one being 70,000ft in 1957

That could be the American version (B57) with the elongated wings for high altitude.

@@timothyirwin8974 And the really smoky engines for high visibility.

@@timothyirwin8974 the 70,000ft altitude was achieved by an RAF Canberra in 1957 with the help of a rocket booster strapped to the aircraft, with its own power alone it set a record of 65,900ft in 1955, the RB-57D had a maximum cruise altitude of 65,000ft with the longer wings.

Sadly in War Thunder you have no need to go to that altitude. Most players rush the bases, drop, and go back to land.

G'day Crashrr, Yes, you're right. It has truly beautiful lines and the overall design looks so right. And yes, again. It was an exremely stable aircraft and an exceptional camera platform. Our air force kept a few flying well into the late 70s at our research and development squadron after service in Vietnam. They were replaced by F-111s which, given their problems was, I think, a mistake. They cost our air force a fortune and never 'fired a shot in anger'. Many manitenance people got sick from working on their fuel tanks.That was an aircraft that never looked 'right' to me. Cheers, BH

@@BillHalliwell I won't argue the merits of the the F-111, however, the aircraft has seen combat including Viet Nam and more famously, the Libya raid in 1986.

@Wallace Yep, fitted with IR camera for tracking shots, it was very fenomenal aircraft. NASA operate 3 of them

@@jackoates6418 I thought RAF Marham had that honour...... They used to fly rings round me, and I was on a tractor !!!!!

It's the Ministry of DEFENCE (with a 'c'). UK = Ministry of DEFENCE; USA = Department of DEFENSE (i.e. 'Defence' spelled incorrectly).

The Cold War...with secrecy and weapons fire. Brave men and women who held the line, and sometimes crossed, the Iron Curtain. Mission success, but the awards were classified; however, the air crew know/knew about their secret accomplishment.

No that is not the case, they were awarded decorations . And they did wear them on parade .

@@johnalmason Credit Noah Webster (of dictionary fame) for the spelling differences.

@@johnalmason Thanks, corrected spelling

Military in airforce.

we don't have a government anymore they are EU lakis

cyka blyat! *fires cannon rounds*

HRM Buckingham Palace London!

I only answer to her majesty queen Elisabeth! God save the queen!!!

@@GI.Jared1984 Oh Winston, come back, we forgive you...

He associated with Rasputin Jar:)

sophrapsune That was the price paid for survival.

Like Belgium, and the Netherlands, Britain took one hell of a bashing from the Luftwaffe during WW2. Britain, and to a lesser extent Belgium, was not only subjected to Aircraft bombardment, but, by V1 & V2's rockets, too. From Britain's point of view, immediate post-war Britain was faced by enormous financial debt and food rationing, as well as the short supply of coal, gas and electricity. It had to rebuild the national infra-structure, re-settle a big chunk of the bombed out population in to new housing, and to organise the agricultural industry to feed the nation. To re-structure industry and the military, and to take an enormous national step in to the future, as far as the nation's health and social welfare was concerned, tied up the government in to enormous obligations not only to the people of Britain, but to its creditors for everything it purchased from overseas to help the war effort. An enormous amount of criticism has been said about Britain's position in WW2 and the decades that followed. How much we should feel grateful to the other nations who came to 'assist' us. Really? My heart goes out to the individual on all sides involved in WW2 pulled in to a conflict not of their own making. But it is when it comes to Nation's rather than ordinary people that one needs to be careful in the criticism and glamourising of an individual nation and its role played in WW2. Not every nation's military personnel were faced with the worry of what was going on back home - indeed was there a home and family to return to. Not every nation in the conflict fought the war on their own door step. There were one or two that supplied boots on the ground to overseas domains, but their homeland enjoyed blue skies and the freedom to build industrial might that the Europeans could only dream of - and profit by it at the same time. In the grand plan of things - World War Two was just that. A world war. Some nations opted to enter on the Allied side or with the Axis. Others remained neutral and kept themselves intact. No one came to Britain to 'assist' the British. They came to fortress Britain to join an amassed fighting force to rid Europe of the NAZI presence. One nation came to Britain's shores with a hidden agenda to see off the imperial might of Britain and France and put in place the instruments that allowed it to push ahead post-WW2 with its own ambitions of an imperial might based upon the monetary rather than the geographic - and a military dominance that dwarfed anything that had gone before. Post war Britain had a population in the mid 50 millions. To say that perhaps 30-35 million were tax payers, not a lot went in to the tax-collectors coffers to fork out for lesser priorities when it came to feeding and rebuilding a nation after participating in the full length periods of two World Wars within the timeframe of only 20 years between them. The feeling & mood of the majority of British people since WW2 has been, 'You can shove the Empire, you can shove the whole idea of global domination. Let the new kids on the block strut their stuff - the USA, Russia, China, India or whatever. The UK has risen above such shenanigans, let the old lion rest in peace without the hassle of bickering, Bears, Eagles, Pandas and Elephants treading on our grass.' We were on the winning side in WW2 - it's debatable whether we won anything, other than retaining our sovereignty, freedoms and flag. But even those three ideals are now threatened by a European ideology that is alien and sinister to what we British are about. Those three ideals represent our desire for a nationhood based upon law, order, racial and social harmony - and very few empires can truly operate under those same caveats. The British Empire could not. It chose those three ideals and dismantled its outdated imperial mandate - whereby, it lost its global dominance. Good riddance one might say - indeed, the same thoughts held by most of the ordinary British people.

William Rance. You don’t know as much as you think. Britain was enfeebled by its fascist trade union movement. (Note: fascism and socialism are the same). The unions were determined to destroy private British industry and by that way get their socialist utopia. They thought everything would have to be nationalised and capitalism and free enterprise destroyed. Practically everything was nationalised, production of cars, ships, iron and steel, transport, both rail and road, the utilities etc etc. Unfortunately governments can’t run anything efficiently and when faced with foreign competition practically everything collapsed. We forget now (or its kept secret from our young people) just how dramatic our fall from great industrial nation to our backwardness now. And we are backward. We can hardly make a cup of tea without asking foreigners to help and oversee. We invented the railways. Now every train is either completely foreign or as in the case of Bombardier in Derby much of the important stuff power plants, controls etc is made abroad. Britain was the greatest ship builder, now we only build war ships (they’re not competitive) and as in the case of those two aircraft carriers French designed and built under a French supervision. I could go on. After the war the unions had unlimited powers. They didn’t have to keep to contracts. Most workers had to be in a Union whether they wanted to or not. Had to pay money to the Union whether they wanted to or not and they often had to go on strike whether they wanted to or not. And the unions used private armies, very like Mussolini’s Black shirts of Hitler’s Brown shirts. They were called ‘Flying Pickets’. For example; hundreds of miners travelling the country to prevent workers in the photographic(!!)industry from getting to work. Workers from one industry were allowed to interfere with workers in another industry. As that’s before we mention the “who does what” disputes. British factories were closed for weeks as unions fought each other over who does what. If a component is made of wood and metal who drills a hole in it? Wood worker union member or metal worker union? The management was entirely helpless. Note, helpless. Customers simply went elsewhere. I had a small factory and knew many like me. Every so often I would meet an acquaintance with a huge smile on his face. He had found a foreign company who made the same stuff as him. Suddenly he could sack most of his union staff and simply import the goods to sell on. Suddenly he could have a normal life and return to sanity. When in my industry early computerisation began, the union insisted that if we used the new technology we had to use the old as well - which was then thrown away!! On top of all that taxation was insane. Up to ninety-eight percent. Even the well known communist sympathiser Peter Ustinov said in his first autobiography that when his accountant told him that he left the country, never to return as a tax payer. The above is a very short note on why what was once a great industrial nation has been reduced to asking foreigners to make our traffic lights. Also your account of the effects of the war are greatly exaggerated. It was bad. Lots of civilians killed. (My mother used to spend much of the day standing next to my school building. She wanted to be killed if my brother and I were killed by a V1 or V2.) However, compared with most of the rest of Europe we got off lightly, very lightly. I used to visit Germany on business a couple of times a year. Even by the early sixties, they were streets ahead of us. And they had been flattened, flattened absolutely flattened by the war.

Why would you invest in British technology when the British government will either give your invention to the Americans or allow it to be stolen by the Americans. TSR2 Invented built and flown successfully by us Brits destroyed literally by the British Labour party because it could carry a nuclear bomb. Well we still have nuclear bombs but all that technological innovation that went into that aircraft went up in smoke our enemies didn't need the nuclear bomb we had a Labour government. Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming pinched & modified and now sold as American with them collecting the royalties worldwide for every dose. Sound barrier technology We gave the Americans the technology to help Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier. Triumph motorcycles were whipping the asses off the Harleys in American races so the yanks allowed the Harleys to race with engines twice the size of the Triumphs hence the Triumphs having 650cc engines and the Harleys 1300cc engines and claimed that we the BRITS cheated by using OHV engines. And all the time the British Government sat on it's backside doing nothing. Why would you invest in British technology?

@Old Man Moron.

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

I think he should talk about all 3 V-Bombers

skytreker , capusta means cabbage

I would like to hear that story.

Sar Jim - True. The NASA RB-57s have been spotted operating out of Djibouti.

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It's also a good idea to reassess periodically. If we hadn't done that, we might have remembered who our enemies were in 1776 and 1812.

Russia is not our enemy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Enemy

@@pavolp.6527 For the UK Russia is certainly not put friend

@@pavolp.6527 The Russian people are not, and never should be, the USA's enemy. However, governments in place can chose actions that are antagonistic in nature. We (as people) should remember this distinction.

I don't think that even a Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier could host an RAF Vulcan bomber, let alone get it airborne without numerous takeoff aids.;)

@@Otokichi786 Probably not although I was working at Woodford when the Vulcans were being refurbished, the last test before being returned to the RAF was a QRA take-off, it really didn't take that long for the one I saw to get airborne :-D

Can't really say anything nice about the other Canberra, the Capital of Australia 🇦🇺. Filled with politicians and civil servants who tend to forget about the rest of Australia being the reason for their presence.

@@markfryer9880 Nooo, that's Cam Braa, a different thingy all together.

I know they did successful recce flights over Israel with Mig-25s during one of the middle east wars. No idea what went on elsewhere though

@@zxbzxbzxb1 that was the 67 war I think, over dimona (izzy nuke fascility just as it was coming online. they wanted to know if the iz had the capability and thus how much to restrain the arabs or not based on the risk of something going really wrong and escalating to a worldwide "event").

there has been a treaty between US and USSR/russia since I think the later 50's that allows each to overfly eachother's territory for recce purposes to a limited extent and to verify amrs treaties. recently the russians send a plate over a bunch of western USAF bases including Area 51. this event pre-dates that I believe which is why it was so risky and not repeated.

The US airspace wasn't closed like Russian airspace was. They could just use commercial airliners and happen to fly off course.

@@b.griffin317 Next, the Russians are going to send a toaster on the same flight path as the plate! LOL

angmoh777 , Bristol Brabazon has always mesmerised me , I have seen it on Static exposition near Birmingham

Do u know what nitpick means know one know what your talking about now add misspelling on top of that, really

"Cabbage Ravine."

I prefer Rasputin Yar.

J nevertheless the Test site's correct name is Kapustin Yar... it's the same like calling Britains capital Mondon instead of London, just annoying to hear this several times in the apart from this really interesting video

Yes that was the case , the USA later built them under licence .