The INSANE Largest Aircraft Ever Designed - Lockheed CL-1201 

Where is the count down video from

The Star Trek add was really annoying through the video just put it in one section

make a vedio about TU-160

@@davisdelp8131 What was annoying was that it's clear he's never watched Star Trek... He has no idea what he is saying, they are just words to him. Really poor choice for a sponsor. Look in the sky, it's the Star Trek Enterprise!! 🙄

@@BirdOPrey5 It made sense with the video and you need to respect the fact that he needs to make money to make thies videos

If you built them in orbit and reentried them into the sky there's no limit to how big they could get

@@smorrow You think it would be easier to build them in orbit and re-enter them than build them on the ground?

@@jamescarter8311 If you already had industry in space, then yeah? I mean he says in the video there's no runway big enough for them

this comment wins

Its so massive another airliner could use its wings as a landing strip.

yes

lol i saw you everywhere. So you decided to go from splatoon to ace combat now?

🤣🤣🤣

Wasn't expecting to see you here, Monika, but ok

Where are the yo mama jokes

Everyone in the comments: Man, this would be so COOL! Me, an intellectual: Ah yes, the CL-1201 Giant Target

@@sethb3090 Me a Strategiest: Ah yess that's why we deploy the fighters outside the combat zone. Its a flying aircraft carrier not a bomber. There's a reason why B-52s can now be fitted with a crap ton of cruise missiles these days.

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Me an recursive absurdist: It is a giant bomber that bombs battlefield with normal sized bombers which bomb battlefield with bombs! I'm sure we could put drones and cluster bombs somewhere in this idiotic chain of overcomplicated mass murders.

@@SroedingerCat war is war. 10000 years of human civilization doesn't change that fact that war is part of your species. However I do know that attrition wise. There would be less death if your able to turn the tide of war quickly resulting in a fast victory. Besides the bloodshed in war now is far less than that of the past with spear and sword. These days it's fairly quick. Course I'm referring to actual war not occupation. Regardless of your views I see a upside to a giant craft like this. Both for war and peace.

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent I don't see why war has to be inevitable. Slavery was a fact of life for all of history, until it wasn't.

You mean The Moby Dick?

​@Sagitta98 that's the Aigion from AC6

The Arsenal Bird isn't the only flying Aircraft carrier in the Ace Combat franchise, There are multiple designs in Strangereal Universe alone.

This flying carrier would be more akin to the Aigaion from AC6

Not quite. They are both about 1100 wide. For this plane, that is feet. For the Arsenal bird, that is meters.

Obligatory "bUt aCtuAlLy iT's cAlLeD tHe aRsEnaL bIrD🤓" comment

Its the fricking Arsenal Bird on steroids

Even we know Strangereal are riddled by conflicts like every 5 years, I rather life on there than this earth.

I wish they would do a game in the 60s in the strangeworld universe. This is screaming Belkan Wunderwaffen

@@MrPetarted86 i second this

And they are still almost ready, just like the last 30 years

@@HappyBeezerStudios Lasers are ready once fusion power is ready.

Even the Soviets already built 3 types of laser vehicles in the 80's using the Shilka, BMP-3, and T-72 chassis

@@thenasiudk1337 don't forget the airborne laser project to shoot down enemy missiles.

If you really read the fringe accounts of energy weapons tech, you will learn that by the end of WWII, most major powers already had radio/microwave frequency weapons already. Lasers are a retarded distraction, as most of the damage is heating, unlike microwaves and radio, which can penetrate beyond a centimeter...

Wow. Another sick Conservative cheering on murder.

A plane so big, it doesn't throw bombs, it throws other planes that throw bombs.

Yeah they don't imagine, life already suck you don't need to make it harder

It would be like the movie Avatar, in a sense!

You made me chuckle hard :)

It was probably based on this very aircraft.

But how were the pilots supposed to enter the cockpit?

@@strudl32456 i think they would enter it before the jets were attached to the 1201 not sure tho

as far as there is anything awesome on war

@@ruipires7630 I bet that the pylons in reality would have covered the cockpit when attached, and acted as a covered access. That way the crews could go from muster to their jets and back, also allowing for the jet to be refueled while docked. Really the biggest hurdles here is how do you re-arm an F-4 in the air with this, and also docking in the first place. If the jets are there just as a one-time use, then there's always the argument of simply building more aircraft carriers. Already nuclear powered, and have solved all the other logistical issues with operating aircraft.

And how would you rearm the under wing pylons?

Honestly the main things I see computers reducing are mainly the docking complications with the aircraft, and some of the engineering/navigation crew requirements. However with such a large, and expensive aircraft you would still want a sizable crew aboard for general maintenance, or in the event of emergency. Back when Qantas Flight 32 (an Airbus A380) had an engine explode, the two man crew was bombarded with something like 50 error messages. With something as massive as the CL1201, you would definitely want extra crew to deal with that. Then of course with today's capabilities, you could probably expect that 41 day flight time to get a little longer so you'd want extra crew to ensure everyone is rested. Then there's also the argument that if you automate this thing so much, then why not just build a bunch of drones instead of a few massive jets? Honestly the biggest modern innovations I see for this project would be the massive engines engines we're able to produce now, lightweight composite materials, and the recent licensing of modular nuclear reactors or the breakthroughs with fusion reactor technology.

The Nuclear reactor would require a set crew of engineers to ensure safe operation. And in shifts. Beyond that, most of the functions now can probably be automated or reduced in crew

@Exodus I'd be willing to bet that just because of the sheer mass of this jet that it would take quite a bit to bring down. Not to mention that this would be deployed with it's own sort of "task force" just like a super carrier is so it wouldn't just be derping around in a circle by itself. It could also just stand off beyond the effective range of AA weapons. Who knows, maybe the USAF would have figured out some sort of reflective coating that reduces the effectiveness of energy weapons.

Cmon, this is utterly bollocky dumb idea This is not Ace Combat universe, you don't need those.

​@Exodus Iron dôme

Bartini designed a GEV for 5000 tons. Initially as a logistics carrier or even tourism ship, but he also designed it as a military aircraft carrier. More recently Beriev designed a GEV/airplane of 5000 tons, the Be-5000.

Basically the above made your comment false.

I wouldn't say that the Soviets even "hinted at" any interest in building any such thing. A few designs were floated around in design bureaus. No official interest, even in logistics and civil versions of such things.

Bigger? Da!

@@JFrazer4303 You misunderstood his comment. He was saying, in reaction to the soviets at the time 'possibly' building anything like this, america WOULD have built it. It was the time of the blank cheque- It would have been built for the same reasons the space race existed- competition between nations.

The Argo looks more like the B-2

Yea

The U.S.S. Argo is such a cool plane, although it'd be practically impossible for something of that size to actually fly lol By the way, those weren't helicopters it carried, they were V-22 Ospreys (VTOL rotating-prop planes) which actually do exist in real life, pretty neat aircraft. Also that was the second Godzilla movie, not the first :P

@@shadowscythes Bear in mind, people, that when it had to face the kaiju Rodan the Argo's only tactical option was to be elsewhere very, very quickly.

Those bastards!

Probably they're already inside their F-4 Phantoms, waiting for the signal to sortie.

A serious fatigue flaw

That's just it...they don't. It was definitely an oversight

@@chiefturion7134 pretty sure the original design had portholes that connected to hallways inside the wings kind of like emergency boats on ships, it makes sense that way, the wings were so large you could literally fit apartments inside them

Teleporters!!

Never give up on a good thing. Or a good design.

The C-5 Galaxy is strickly a cargo aircraft. the KC-135 replacement is the KC-10

USAF would have found a way. Gov't would have no qualm starving the people freeing up funds to keep this thing running.

And once again, something out of the Lockheed Martin vault. You can see Project Aces are Skunk Works fans.

I was not wrong. Great video! Kind of missed the square space intro though not going to lie. 😂 That was kind of a mind-blowing proposition at the end there. But if they did build a version of that plane and the tips were going supersonic in the engine, then it would make a hell of a lot more noise than the worrying sound that was heard in Phoenix. But that was a pretty mind-blowing way to end a video 👍👍👍

They die flying lol

I wondered the same thing

At one point in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, Thrawn's XO Palleaon bitterly reflects that when the Super Star Destroyer Executor was shot down it took a massive chunk of the Imperial Fleet's best and brightest with it. That was a crippling blow in and of itself -- don't get him started on the losses that went with both Death Stars ...

If I am correct, this is the reason that Japan didn't send its Yamato battleships to the front lines; the cost of losing the ship was too great to risk.

Right, the technology didn’t exist in 1969 but scary thought, it does today. Flying nuclear reactors (1950s)- check, Vertical lift (1970s) - check, Air launches aircraft l from a mothership (1940s)-check, Flying Laser weapon (2000s) - check. Now the only piece that hasn’t been demonstrated is the scale - 200m wingspan. But Starship is over a 100m tall so building at scale is now possible if not feasible.

​@@tedtomoyasu8438 Specially with a special composites + high-end metal alloys combo

Rumor as old as dirt in the Militaria community goes that the B-52 *was* on the drawing boards in the 30s.

thats even more insane

It would be like the loss of an ocean liner in WW2. The Queen Mary carried 16000 troops every cross Atlantic journey during WW2.

Thanks, sweetums. MuAh!

The stress of managing such a vessel is why Picard was bald and Kirk wasn't. But they never mentioned that on the show 🤣

The Galaxy Class (Picard) was designed for multi-generational missions. They had families and kids aboard in addition to the standard crew. Kirk's Enterprise towards its retirement was a military vessel, Picard's Starfleet was not a military in the first half of the 24th Century and thus during peacetime the Galaxy Class was king. However Starfleet went back to a war/military footing so smaller more aggressive vessels were built with the same mission profile as the Refit Constitution (Kirk's ship) such as the Enterprise-E

You just found out? Kirk's lady would fit quite snugly inside the saucer section of Picard's. (You can see this is the size comparison part of the video.)

The whole thing is absurd, and I love it.

It would actually take a significant bird strike to take out the engines. Having seen bird strike tests on current jet engines they can take damage and keep running.

@@tedtomoyasu8438 Current as in 2023 or current as in whenever this thing was conceptualized?

​@@Slay1337pl Well, this thing was basically impossible back when it was designed, but with today's advancements it's actually feasible. Not only that, but those engines wouldn't be normal jet engines, but likely electric engines, wich could be way more reinforced

@President Eden Nice to hear that. Thanks.

New plot for ace combat 8 just dropped

There's a plane named after Drachinifel?🤣🤣

There may actually be a modern solution for this. The potential for turbulence and uneven airflows is an issue for engine intakes too, such that one side of the blades would get hit with more force than the other. They have figured out that putting a bulbous section in front of the intake separates the boundary layer so that the air going into the engine is comparatively even, and thus putting less strain on the blades. Something similar could be set up so as to have a deployable folded thing that does this for an entire fighter.

the big engines are not powered by electric motors, they're powered by the heat produced by the reactors, the lift engines are also not for VTOL as you can tell by the fact that they would have nowhere near enough thrust

Where do you think they got the idea from.

@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Ace Combat, really.

Not a huge remake but a redo as the 3d has come a long way

I knew I had seen that video allready. But man, is that one heck of an awesome topic to explore.

I was thinking that too.

Pilots be like: *ARE WE THERE YET?*