Crazy solo mission to an abandoned Soviet aircraft carrier 

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.

Hello, want to ask you is there any late BlackFriday or CyberMonday deal please? I have both 1 & 2 signed copy and want to support you with 3rd book but shipping its really high…

YES 😊❤😊 I definitely will buy your books. Thank you so much again for what you RISK to show us all😊❤😊

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

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

They died of natural causes a few days later

Yeah this stupid RU-vidr has endangered their lifes and their families with his sensationalism. Sad 😔

RU-vid 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

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...

Wow ! tell us more about this BS please 🤗🤗🤗

​@@synhet84 This is what's called a joke.

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.

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!

FALLOUT VIDEOGAMES MADE REAL!!!

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 😉

Haha! I am grateful for the comments☺️ Thanks Michella! Next up is a former secret military underground train workshop (hopefully tomorrow)

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.

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

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.

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

Haha good one! Appreciated🤩😎

His mother: 🌝

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).

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😂

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.

Thanks 🙏 😇

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.

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"

Haha soon an urban explorer again with somebody from Hungary hopefully😌Thanks a lot Andrea!

@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath 2024 will be an exciting year😉

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

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

This is also the reason Kuznetsov has anti ship ballistic missiles and is classified as a heavy aircraft cruiser.

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

Wow must have been so impressive to see as a kid😁😁and sad to see it in this state

Thanks Sarah! Unfortunately I cannot post all adventures 😁But this was a nice mission

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

Dank je wel Martijn, er komen nog enkele gave avonturen online😊

Thanks a million😄

Yes! It can change in a heartbeat😢

That caught me off guard too Lol

Thanks! I am sure you’ll like this one too: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QbDQdumtR3k.htmlsi=m_InemHS1DmUMOt_ 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!

🫡 Thanks for checking😌

😐

I noticed that as well. I guess it was part of the conversion to tourist attraction process.

Thanks for checking😍🤩

Thanks for joining the premiere bro

Thanks a million😍😎🤩 spread the word!😁

Thanks ! It’s in my top 5😁

It is a MiG-23BN. You can tell by the air intakes. The MiG-27 ground attack variant has the shorter intakes. The MiG-23BN ground attack variant used the same engine as the fighter variant MiG-23 hence the same intakes. Do an image search for MiG-23BN and then an image search for MiG-27. It causes confusion but the person filming is 100% correct when he identifies it as a MiG-23. It is a MiG-23BN.

​​@@Tomteeejaynever mind China did purchase mig 23BN. terribly sorry about that

@@jim4194 No problem. Thanks for the reply!

@@Tomteeejay yea my bad I thought the mig 23BN was sold to country's around Europe so I thought is was a mig 27 but China never bought mig 27s (I think so, but i could be wrong)

@@jim4194 No problem. Yes, China acquired various types of aircraft over the years from countries such as Egypt. Several other nations also did the same such as US and UK. Examples were obtained by private buyers and also the military for evaluation.

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.

Thanks a million Reg 🙏🙏😄