This was a practical effect, they blew up a large RC model and slowed the film then added effects. Good work. RIP Major Anderson. The only KIA of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In reality first missile shot at u2 from c75 destroyed it. They shoot two so if one chance in 100 it misses, the second missile is a guarantee. Plus u don't have to hit the plane itself . It's not a kinetic energy weapon. It explodes close to the target and penetrates it by a rain of shrapnel
@BossHossGT500 im just saying. The missiles have its own homing radar and they have thrust vectoring these days . Can do almost 90 degree turns in the mid air.
why is everybody talking as if the cuban missile crisis is the only time a U-2 was shot down? one was shot down over Russia itself. 5 of them were shot down by the PRC, " During the squadron's 14 years of existence, five U-2s were shot down by PRC air defenses (using SA-2 missiles), with three pilots killed and two captured. Another pilot was killed while performing an operational mission off the Chinese coast, while seven other Black Cat U-2s were lost during training missions, killing six pilots. " seems like the Black cat squadron was having some bad luck....
Lodewijk Vrije Well of course, "2 year comment", U-2 couldn't defense no combat defense missile, didn't you hear? they even said U-2 was taking a risk, they never said it can block or defend any missile system, they created the plane to spy over the Soviet union during the cold war, no battle was started, just a race of weapons, space, etc. It spyed over Cuba, China, Vietnam, Soviet union, during the cold war, it flew over 60,000-70,000 feet, even the Soviet union had better technology, Both had the best technology till other countries took over or invented more technology, which US made better technology, today Japan, US, Etc have the best technology, and now the U-2 is now even more advanced and probably more silent and upgraded, even probably more stealth, (Not quite) but is probably more advanced like i said.
U2 plane cannot do a too steep manuver like going right and left in 1 second so its make sense that it cannot dodge a missile when the missile is 1 to 500 meter kilometer radius Edit: And black cat is symbol of bad luck and its does, can't they just name it blackbird instead of black cat
@@strong6574 At mission operation altitude, 65,000-72,000 feet, with fuel and equipment, the envelope between Velocity Never Exceed (Vne) and stall speed is 10 knots.
SAMs don't strike the aircraft. They explode next to or near it, sending thousands of bits of supersonic shrapnel into the aircraft's sensitive and delicate systems, like engines or avionics (single chunk of metal sucked into a turbine can do serious damage).
I forget the altitude the U2 was flying at, but it was max altitude; as high as a fixed wing plan could fly. That the Soviets could shoot it down at that altitude came as a big surprise to U.S. military planners.
SR-71, AHUAHUAHUAH Soviets never even touched it. The U2 was not really fast it just flew high. The SR-71 flew high and it was hella fast, Brian Chul claimed he reached Mach 3.5 with it.
To the people calling a America a pig: 1. I've never met one person who has fully agreed with what the US has done/is doing. 2. That's a pilot following orders, the only choice he made was signing up. 3. Your country would do the same exact thing America did: spy and deny. 4. Grow up. Instead of hating on other countries and pointing out what's wrong with them you should focus on how to make your country better. 5. Most people agree Communism is bad. Why? You're the real "imperialist pigs" because you're the ones trying to expand into other countries (for example, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuba, nearby countries to Russia) 6. Don't get butthurt. Every citizen of every country experiences nationalism. Just because one person disagrees with your view, you think your world is going to end. 7. EVERYONE but North Korea, hates North Korea, like come on, seriously??
1. I don't agree either. 2. Exactly, he knew what he getting himself into. To be fair the US underestimated the Soviet missile capabilities, hence why Francis Gary Powers was shot down. And they were horrified to discover the Soviets were tracking the U-2 during the first flight over Soviet territory. 3. Who didn't? Would be bad if they admitted what they had done. 4. Agreed. 5. And to be frank, Communism killed a lot of people, Communism does not work, period. If you went back in history, the Governments actually forced the people to join their Party, for example the GDR, you had to be a member of the SED(The ruling party) to even get in university, if you weren't a member of the Party you were nothing. Vietnam War was mostly the US getting their nose in it, too bad it didn't work out like they had hoped. 6. I'm not really nationalist. 7. Yeah dude, hell with North Korea, if it wasn't for the Chinese we wouldn't have a North Korea.
Dan Bertucci Lmao american bands are shit Queens, Beatles, Stones are all not american. Levi jeans are fucking shit and overpriced, but yeah fk the Goverment because they're both capitalist
I feel the need to toss this out there for anyone curious. The Lockheed U-2 was designed in the early 1950s for a C.I.A request to build a high altitude spy aircraft that would be impossible to intercept. This request was made after the RAF attempted to use an English electric Canberra bomber to make an overflight at Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union. While successful the Canberra was nearly shot down by a MiG-15 and did sustain some damage. For that reason the CIA believed high altitude was the way to go. The U-2 got its designation to hide its real purpose and it was claimed to be a high altitude weather research aircraft. Kelly Johnson who designed it used an F-104 fuselage and he added the long thin sailplane wings. In testing it climbed like it was nobody’s business and topped out around 60,000 feet. Any higher and the non afterburning GE-J57 turbojet was having trouble producing power ( there was also a chemical system fitted to disapate the contrail) Johnson told the CIA that it would only be interception proof for approximately 5 years. It’s first overflight of the Soviet Union was fully tracked but they lacked the capability to intercept it. Later versions of it could go higher snd carry more weight but it still tops out around 75,000. Johnson had been designing the U-2s replacement the SR-71 for some time prior to the powers shoot down. The U-2s success was what lead to the design of the S-75 Divana or the SA-2. The SR-71s biggest advantage was its speed, a U-2 can’t go 10 knots faster or it will break apart, 10 knots slower and it falls out of the sky unable to produce lift. The SR-71 at Mach 3 plus was nigh on impossible to catch, if an SR got in trouble the pilot simply pushed the throttle forward and left his problem in the dust
No. In order to fly that high up U-2 carries the minimum payload possible and back then the US Air Force believed that their U-2 could fly above anything the Soviet Union had to offer.
When I was a Boom Operator on the KC-10 we’d sometimes get these briefings about missiles hear and there but if you ever asked a real question like “how close does it need to be for the proximity fuse” or “what’s the lethal blast radius against the KC-10” they didn’t know.
Typical range for a proximity fuse depends on the missile. The bigger the missile the larger the proximity. Most are designed for hard maneuvering fighter jets. If you can dodge the missile your best chance is after its booster motor cuts out. Typical time is 5 to 7 seconds. They can’t turn 180 is the best thing I can say
Ну как-то так всё и произошло. Лётчик Фрэнсис Гэри Пауэрс на самолёте У-2 был сбит ракетой ЗРК С-75 где-то под Свердловском (сейчас Екатеринбург). Вот только всё было менее драматично. Летел - летел... вдруг... БАХ! Удар! Самолёт начал разваливаться в воздухе.... Огня не было... На высоте в 20 и более км. над землёй даже топливо плохо горит - мало кислорода... У пилота было время подумать - хочет он умереть или хочет жить... Пауэрс предпочёл позорную жизнь, героической смерти...
А далее было приземление на колхозном поле, пленение, публичный суд, почти 2 года отдыха в тюрьме, обмен на Абеля, возвращение в штаты, холодный приём (лишен всех званий и должностей) и последующие подработки в мелких авиакомпаниях, до своей кончины.
Well, somehow it all happened. The pilot Francis Gary Powers on the U-2 plane was hit by a S-75 missile system somewhere near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). But it was all less dramatic. Flew - flew ... suddenly ... BACH! Hit! The plane began to fall apart in the air .... There was no fire ... At an altitude of 20 km or more. above the ground, even the fuel burns badly - there is little oxygen ... The pilot had time to think - he wants to die or wants to live ... Powers chose a shameful life, a heroic death ...
in the 60's the french company dassault had made a mirage aircraft ( a normal mirage 3 but with a rocket under it able to reach the altitude of this U-2 and with a higher speed during some minutes. It was able to stop the flight of the U-2 above france . the american secret service had seen that france was able to shoot the U-2. It has served 1 time vs a U-2 (i have seen the tv report ) . The pilot of U-2 had seen the mirage just near his cokpit and said it to the US airforce, it was the end of spying above france for this aircraft U-2 ... the dassault company is still laughing about this story ! The us airforce had been so surprised .
***** It was really a mirage 3 E modified with a rocket . the pilot could start it during 80 secondes 2 time . : aviateurs.e-monsite.com/pages/1946-et-annees-suivantes/mirage-vs-u2.html translation google : The mission was under very specialized guide controllers DE, to come to the tropo (between 35 and 45,000 ft) then accelerate to 1.8 M, light the rocket SEPR (2 possible ignitions 80 sec in total) and mount high angle iso-mach 1.6 / 1.7 up off the engine rocket to 62 / 65,000 ft. usually, and altitude when flying U-2, trying to hang on to the U-2 radar, invisible at this altitude. It reminded me of a flight can be record, I did the 2 EC, Dijon Mirage 3 E equipped with motor-booster rocket, which ... I went up to 67,000 feet altimeter by splendid weather (... and a very favorable tropopose high becaufe). Vertical Dijon Corsica and I could see the curvature of the very dark horizon. It was in June 1967 when it was absolutely necessary to try to intercept and above photograph the US U-2 photographed with impunity our nuclear sites and officially contradicted these flights on our territory (... not seen, not taken. In fact well were seen on radar) 'I had the chance to bring the first image (with a commercial apparatus vulguaire which we were endowed) of a U-2 ... that I almost "mentor" arriving from the rear M 1, 7.alors he was flying at about 0.9 million, and I was holding the camera with your left hand while trying to put the U-2 in a small optical viewfinder! I believe that the pilot of the U-2 must have had a big shock in every sense, the first sonic wave and then the vision of what Mirage flush with his mustache, emerged from his back even if its detectors had probably warned of the approaching hostile. I learned much later that this episode of the interception photo was much impressed and alarmed the Americans, who have also suspended their U-2 flights over pirates of France .... to resume later RH-71 to M 3 at 75,000 ft and over ... but that's another story!
+Matthew Caughey No way of making it a proper combat aircraft either. Available computers couldn't conduct operations fast enough to compensate for potential closing speeds in excess of mach 6 (one mach 3 aircraft potentially facing another). Hence, the interceptor that the SR71 was 'supposed' to be was abandoned, and it was redeveloped as an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft.
@Matthew Caughey SR-71 was intercepted by Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. The Soviet SA-5 could shoot down the SR-71 even in its early modification (1967). Russians later created the MiG-31 high-altitude interceptor, but they never shot down the SR-71, cuz SR-71 never flew over the USSR (US banned reconnaissance flights after the U-2 incident).
@@basargaloran7998 There were over 1000 SAM missiles fired at SR-71s during the programs service life...not a single one was ever verified as hitting/shooting down a single SR-71. That is a record that will never be broken.
Huh ? This one is completely fake, those missiles are proximity based and not target based, and cannot be maneuver dodged by U2 Bridge of spies scene was 100% accurate. This one is 100% fake
i like this film! best scene from in THIRTEEN DAYS starring kevin costner. RIP Maj. Rudolf Anderson U2 spyplane pilot that was shot down over cuba by a soviet made S-75 Dvina.
There was a human being in that thing, doing whats was right. How about showing some damn respect for both the pilot And his family. I dare say that man had more balls than most of the people in here with their idiotic disgusting comments. Lest We Forget.
Politicians decide it all. And 95% of the time outside of the 'specialist community' the politicians are the only ones remembered by the public. Lets be fair here. 99% of all of these guys will be footnotes to history.
So you're aware of the capable stress forces the air frame of a U2 can endure and you fully know the maneuverability capabilities of that plane to know how many g's the air frame can withstand to begin with? You did research those facts before posting or did you just assume and went ahead and proclaimed what you think is true as fact? Unlike you I researched my information, the plane had a limited turn radius usually held at less than 30 degrees, the air frame itself was pretty strong and rated at 5.5G meaning what you see on screen here pretty much fits the bill of a less than 30 degree turn (far less). What you say is bullshit which usually happens if you decide to grab stuff out of your ass and throw it online. Source: www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/unlimited-horizons.pdf
@@flybeep1661 no ur wrong lolz It wouldnt break its wings i dont think BUT at that altitude it cant make big movements at all, it would fall out of the sky
Bill Purkayastha i don’t think this is a film I think this was made to show what happened to the u-2 over Cuba and not the Soviet Union as the pilot is actually different
@@ionhunter what would that be in the case of Cuba? Cuba asked for the Soviet help to DEFEND ourselves from the US imperialist aggressiveness. We have the right to invite to our home who ever we want. It's our home, not yours. And the US military and CIA are not welcome. Yankee go f. home.
@@ionhunter first, we've never said it's a utopia. So, you start with a manipulation from the beginning. Second, Cuba does not block US economy, it is the US who chases down every single Cuban transaction and bussiness every where in the world. Find out what the Helms Burton act is and all the harms it produces on top of what the US government calls embargo and we call BLOCKADE. To argue, you need arguments, knowledge, and not to lie.
@@ionhunter some of you, US right winged people, think the US has the right to intervention and invation of other countries. You don't have it. You do it by force, by killing millions, but sometimes, even killing three million persons, you get kicked out like in Vietnam. And that's damned good.
@@Kauppi2 no idiot he finds beauty in how it works and how its engineered to do its job almost flawlessly, stop attacking random people in the comments
The SR 71 max speed is 3,540km/hr, ceiling 26km. The SA2 missile max speed is Mach 3.5 (4300km/hr), ceiling 25km, The S200 missile speed is Mach 4 (4900km/hr), ceiling 40km; The S300V missile max speed >8640km/hr, flight ceiling 30km, S400 missile max speed is 7200km/hr, service ceiling 60km. So yeah, the SR 71 cd be shot down.
To cover this humiliation, Americans came up with a propaganda called SR71 Blackbird (like their manned Moon landing). That imaginary SR 71 is said to have conducted several reconnaissance missions over USSR undetected. SR 71 was so stealthy that even US Air Force never saw it 😆😆
The missile base was 25 miles from my house as a kid i was scared to death .The US now my Homeland was going to bomb this place into oblivion .Nuclear war is never a win win .Everyone loses.
I don't know what movie this was from but U-2's were SUPPOSED to FLY BEYOND the reach of conventional missiles and STILL make clear air-ground photosnap shots. He should have been flying HIGHER! 😎
In that time U2 didnt had radar or missile warning systems.. Anderson probably didnt even knew he had been fired upon until the missile detonated and snaprel puntured his pressure suit.. he almost surelly died before crashing into the ground.. Also Anderson's plane (U-2F 56-6676) was dark blue with big iUSAF nsignias
With the real story the pilot of the u2 is called "Gray Powers he actually didn't know it happened but then the missile exploded just behind the u2 blowing the tail off the u2 starts to pitch up and down but eventually the plane goes in a roll Powers didn't have enough time to destroy the top secret camera and blew the canopy off and bailed but it fail with him getting halfway stuck out the plane with the barrage of air slamming him into the fuselage he managed to dissconnect it and pull his Parachute with him landing on a farm and getting captured the USA was very embarrassed and attempted to cover it up by saying a weather plane went off corse and ended up in the soviet union.
U2 shot down by Soviet SR71 was locked on by Swiss pilots. F22 Raptor could not lose RAFALE during the dogfight. Grass is not always green on the other side.
You should also talk about how SR-71 beat 1000+ Soviet made missiles, or how German pilots describe the F-22 as being extremely difficult to beat even with doing everything right.
You should be happy--it's showing your missiles as massively more capable than they were. They would've been way out of boost phase at this point and had one shot at intercept.
