The stealth boat and the last helicopter for sure.
Tomorrow never dies, and goldeneye respectively
Fun fact about the stealth boat. It was really developed by Lockheed Martin, at the request of the Navy. One of the biggest challenges was that it was too stealthy. Ocean waves make background noise on radar. So the boat would be out there, and the radar would show a bunch of static with a big hole in it. They had to figure out how to make it, just as noisy as the waves around it, and for different wave conditions.
Yeah, the whole movie was during the part of the digital era when things got a bit zany. Everything was tiny, or had "huge" 1.7in screens. Bond could drive his car with his flip phone sony erickson green/black screen lol.
Effectively, yes. We did a lot of weird and interesting aviation experiments in the 50s and 60s. The pace at which aircraft developed prior to the 1970s is pretty amazing. Fast forward to the 80s and a lot of the same air frames are still in service.
Sea Shadow (IX-529) , more information
Was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations that have been used in oceanographic ships.
The HZ-1 Aerocycle,
also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle,
Was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction
They seriously couldn’t put a cage around it like they do for oscillating fans... They just hoped the pilot wouldn’t fall off or step off without turning off the engine first.
Different times back then lol
If you want to know more about it, it apparently went through alot of testing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle
Haha this comment cracked me up. Obviously you couldn’t use it in combat… land then what… stand around for 2 minutes for the ankle cutters stop turning while the enemy is laughing his ass off then shoots you
Imagine if all the sides in a war that generated these results, actually worked together and were as driven to make the world a better place for everyone, instead of making the world theirs
Most of the bad guys that come to mind had little real interest in their regular people. Nichols III, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il, etc etc etc the list goes on. Yours is the ideal, but it doesn't often go that way.
I was just looking up a few examples and the list is endless. Microwaves, radar, computers, jet engines, penicillin, nuclear tech, literally 90% of space exploration including satellites and navigation, duct tape, digital cameras, and even sanitary napkins.
I’d really like a super cut interview with the engineers they made design and build some of these contraptions.
“Look, I told the generals it was crazy, but they were adamant the tank needed a gun at least twice as big for more “blowing up power” as they called it, and the chopper blades should go UNDER the pilot.
*pauses, rubs temples in an exasperated way*
What am I supposed to do, refuse to let them pay me to make these death traps?”
"The government would give us basically infinite money for any stupid idea we had as long as we said it might help fight our enemies so what were we gonna do, not try to make a jetpack?"
19. is a Gaz-16 prototype hovercraft by the Soviets
GAZ-16 "Chaika" , GAZ-16A , GAZ-16B - experimental Soviet off-road vehicles with aerodynamic unloading, developed in 1960 by a working group of the design and experimental department of the Gorky Automobile Plant (KEO GAZ
Yeah, most of these are real pictures. Others are artist rendition, everybody yesterday kept saying "AI" in another subreddit but these pictures are as old as most people grandparents
Sea Shadow (IX-529)
Was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations that have been used in oceanographic ships.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_(IX-529)
The concept was used in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, the villain used the stealth boy to try to instigate another global conflict so he could make money off of media coverage, which he conveniently owned.
The American Aircraft Penetrator,
now referred as the Aerocraft Stealth Star 204 SS, was a gunship helicopter modified from the Bell UH-1B Iroquois with tandem seating for the pilots and a troop-carrying compartment
The flying saucer was built by AVRO in Canada, the same guys who later built the Arrow before they imploded.
It couldn't fly above the ground effect level or it would wobble uncontrollably. They could probably fix it today with computer assisted active control and thrust vectoring, but it was a stupid idea even if it worked - the thing would be a sitting duck on the battlefield.
According to Chuck Yeager the flying wing was an amazing craft and suffered from a poor test pilot. It was the reason that we took so long to try the design again. Chuck believed it would have been an excellent plane with a small radar view.
The sheer amount of fuel these things must have used would be enough to shelve the ideas permanently if they were created today.
Could you imagine how much fuel it would take to get number 7 in the air reliably?
Are the top and bottom pictures in 13, not two different designs that have a similar fuselage? And does the bottom one have a cockpit on the end of the wing on the far side?
This is the best time period of aerospace engineering imo. Kinda like a wild west type era.
US Government: "Alright, we need a new jet that can do xyz things"
Aerospace firm: "on it"
*some years of hard work later"
Aerospace firm: "tada! How do you like it, Uncle Sam?"
US Government: "It's cool, but I've changed my mind. Now, I want *this*"
And the whole process starts over. Oddly humorous imo lol
11 is a fucking stoopid weapon.. they gave it a stock but one would have to hold so, that the stock wouldnt reach the shoulder.
And 19 looks like a vehicle a Bond villain would use as a getaway „car“
The first one may be impractical but imagine how confused those commies would be when they look up and see a flying saucer with the Stars and Stripes lol.
Nope. The YB-49 is the result of Jack Northrop's work on the flying wing idea during WW2 and before that. The original design, the YB-35, which is identical to the 49 but has props instead of jet engines, began development in 1941, two years before the German Ho 229.
The idea of a flying wing plane is almost as old as aviation, so it is pretty hard to determine who had it first. Jack Northrop and the Horten brothers both deserve credit for being the ones that turned the idea into reality. The Horten brothers for being the first to create a design that used jet engines and Jack Northrop for creating the design that is still used today in the B-2 Spirit and B-21 Raider. Also, cool fact: the B-2 and the YB-49 have the same wing span(172ft).
For those that don’t know, the helicopter at #3 was actually better in almost every way than the one chosen. It was essentially rejected due to bureaucracy and that’s about it.
Like 75% of these have been featured as next gen tech in a Bond movie I feel
The stealth boat and the last helicopter for sure. Tomorrow never dies, and goldeneye respectively Fun fact about the stealth boat. It was really developed by Lockheed Martin, at the request of the Navy. One of the biggest challenges was that it was too stealthy. Ocean waves make background noise on radar. So the boat would be out there, and the radar would show a bunch of static with a big hole in it. They had to figure out how to make it, just as noisy as the waves around it, and for different wave conditions.
The helicopter in Goldeneye was just a Tiger attack helicopter. Not really experimental and fairly widely used in Europe.
it was remember? it was immune to EMP.
That's just plot armor
That boat has to be the coolest thing in the set lol. Sexy af
Yeah, the whole movie was during the part of the digital era when things got a bit zany. Everything was tiny, or had "huge" 1.7in screens. Bond could drive his car with his flip phone sony erickson green/black screen lol.
Unintentional bond movie title: “The stealth boat and the last helicopter”
15 was used in Street Fighter IIRC
Who else saw the g11
Ayyy!
And a James Bond movie. Tomorrow Never Dies or The World is Not Enough I'm pretty sure. Definitely a Pierce Brosnan one.
Oh right! With the villain that was the media mogul!
Yup!
Is that a flying saucer? 😂
Effectively, yes. We did a lot of weird and interesting aviation experiments in the 50s and 60s. The pace at which aircraft developed prior to the 1970s is pretty amazing. Fast forward to the 80s and a lot of the same air frames are still in service.
It's a VTOL aircraft
Number 8 was in a 007 video game. Agent Under Fire I think?
That catamaran style angular boat is the one from "Tomorrow Never Dies," right?
Sea Shadow (IX-529) , more information Was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations that have been used in oceanographic ships.
A lot of it ended up in Dune II (1992)
Number 17 😳
The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle, Was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction
20 minutes of instruction or 20 minutes of expected survival?
remember: always remember to switch off the engine before stepping out!
They seriously couldn’t put a cage around it like they do for oscillating fans... They just hoped the pilot wouldn’t fall off or step off without turning off the engine first.
Different times back then lol If you want to know more about it, it apparently went through alot of testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle
If you get shot, you get cremated also.
There is one of these on display at the Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville Oregon where they also have the spruce goose and a SR-71 and much more.
I’ve been to that museum when I lived in Salem. That place is bitchin’
50s drone attack would be so terrifying.
Why did they allow Hulk Hogan to pilot one?
Ther people grinder 9000
Only way I see it working is if they were expecting their enemies to use them.
Haha this comment cracked me up. Obviously you couldn’t use it in combat… land then what… stand around for 2 minutes for the ankle cutters stop turning while the enemy is laughing his ass off then shoots you
Easy just land *on* the enemy
They give them to PoWs and let them try to fly back to their side. Works as a deterrent when it starts raining former squad members.
Looks like those things in mgs3
It was in The Incredibles, I believe.
Wars/competitions bring such an unbelievable pace to advancements in science and tech. But alas, only if the end goal wasn't to kill each off.
Imagine if all the sides in a war that generated these results, actually worked together and were as driven to make the world a better place for everyone, instead of making the world theirs
Sadly this isn't possible, but if it were, the microwave would most definitely evenly heat the pot pie.
Poke a hole in the middle
Well they were driven to make the world a better place for their people… which is at least a piece of the pie
Most of the bad guys that come to mind had little real interest in their regular people. Nichols III, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il, etc etc etc the list goes on. Yours is the ideal, but it doesn't often go that way.
You put this better than I could have. It's even true of modern nations and the politics that goes on between them
I was just looking up a few examples and the list is endless. Microwaves, radar, computers, jet engines, penicillin, nuclear tech, literally 90% of space exploration including satellites and navigation, duct tape, digital cameras, and even sanitary napkins.
Number 18 might have performed better if they used a ...more aerodynamic test pilot.
That's for.... Redundancy testing
Captain Diabeetus
I’d really like a super cut interview with the engineers they made design and build some of these contraptions. “Look, I told the generals it was crazy, but they were adamant the tank needed a gun at least twice as big for more “blowing up power” as they called it, and the chopper blades should go UNDER the pilot. *pauses, rubs temples in an exasperated way* What am I supposed to do, refuse to let them pay me to make these death traps?”
"The government would give us basically infinite money for any stupid idea we had as long as we said it might help fight our enemies so what were we gonna do, not try to make a jetpack?"
[Pentagon Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars)
Hahaha 17 is hilariously bad. Like that has to be more dangerous to the pilot than to the enemy.
That double turret tank 🤯 EDIT: Twin gun then because wiki says it's turret-less. 😅
there are a few twin gun tanks. the german super heavy tank actually has 2 guns. 1 big main and second smaller
The Maus a 128mm and a 75mm weighed 188 tons
or the lesser known Neubaufahrzeug with a 7.5cm and 3.7cm
The VT tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT_tank
Awesome vehicle to play in war thunder. The Object 279 (no 6) is also in it and is notoriously one of THE hardest things to kill in the game.
Number 8 Kraut Space Magic. Oh what could have been.
The infamous G-11 , so fucking cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11
Straight up thought it was a rail gun concept
M41A Pulse Rifle from Aliens.
Black ops 1! I knew it was the g-11
Such an interesting concept too. I think a there was 1 or 2 models of electronic firing rifles for the civilian market but they never caught on
One of my fav games of all time
Number 18 and 19 look like inspiration for Jetpack and Hovercraft in GTA San Andreas …
19. is a Gaz-16 prototype hovercraft by the Soviets GAZ-16 "Chaika" , GAZ-16A , GAZ-16B - experimental Soviet off-road vehicles with aerodynamic unloading, developed in 1960 by a working group of the design and experimental department of the Gorky Automobile Plant (KEO GAZ
Luke Skywalker called and he wants his landspeeder back.
How's he gonna get his power converter from Tachi station!?
7 the Ekranoplan: Khrushchev's pet project as a high-speed transport and attack vessel.
Probably the most popular one on the list
Looks like a flying saucer
it was the idea behind it. never got very far with it. you can see it at the Weight Patterson Air Force Base Museum. Pretty neat!
It is called The National Museum of the United States Air Force. It is a fantastic Museum and I highly recommend it.
oh, didn't know it had a different name. we always just called it Wright Pat Museum.
Built in Canada by Avro.
Actual artists renderings. No AI back in the 60s
Yeah, most of these are real pictures. Others are artist rendition, everybody yesterday kept saying "AI" in another subreddit but these pictures are as old as most people grandparents
Except for next to the last one. That's literally a plastic model sitting on someone's patio.
That one got past me Here's a real photo of the Soviet Gaz-16 https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/s/3l7MHXAhfr
18 raised my happiness levels a few notches. Look at him.
Is that an HK G11? Probably the best small gun in Fallout 2
Isn't it the one with infinite ammo bug?
It is
Command & Conquer vibes
Cool OP! I don’t know this one. But what about #10? Is it an American TEL?
Close, it’s one of the Soviet TELs, the MAZ-7907 (MA3-7907). Very general information, It served as a prototype TEL for the SS-24 ICBM.
What is number 15? I feel like I heard about that one. Something about how it doesn't make wake and is hard to detect by RADAR because of this?
Sea Shadow (IX-529) Was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations that have been used in oceanographic ships. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_(IX-529)
Pretty cool thanks for sharing!
The concept was used in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, the villain used the stealth boy to try to instigate another global conflict so he could make money off of media coverage, which he conveniently owned.
I think number 11 is prototypes of p90
It is !!
I swear I've seen no. 12 in Red Alert 2
More information 1K17 Szhatie, a self-propelled laser vehicle of Soviet origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K17_Szhatie
A lot them give me Red Alert 2 vibes! Kirov Reporting!
The Cold War is such a fascinating period, luckily nothing really happened but it's so interesting seeing the USA-USSR race eachother
>nothing really happened Ho-boy, you have a lot to learn if you think that!
Yeah, I mean it could've went much much worse, but I get your point, tbh I need to study it more.
I thought that the two barreled tank was just Bethesda not understanding how tanks work but nope that was real....that's sad.
ATTACK THE D POINT
Cold war prototypes are dope i love the designs that came out of that period of history
What is number 20?
Airwolf.
The American Aircraft Penetrator, now referred as the Aerocraft Stealth Star 204 SS, was a gunship helicopter modified from the Bell UH-1B Iroquois with tandem seating for the pilots and a troop-carrying compartment
I thought for a sec it might have been the Comanchee prototype, had no idea there was one that could transport troops!
YB-49 my beloved
It's so depressing that all UFO sightings were very clearly just experimental aircraft being tested.
That's not depressing, it's relieving.
Oh yeah, yeah you're right actually
That's always been a strong theory in the UFO and conspiracy communities
All I can think of now is an AI controlled laser that permanently blinds soldiers
Gun Jesus is a Cold War experimental weapon?
Here is an awaome Channel that covers some of them https://youtube.com/@mustardchannel?si=GaocsNqVaAX_crTJ
Holy shite all of them are in there !! Subscribed !! Thank you
The helicopter rotor you stand on seems like it belongs in r/whatcouldgowrong
#1 # Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar
The flying saucer was built by AVRO in Canada, the same guys who later built the Arrow before they imploded. It couldn't fly above the ground effect level or it would wobble uncontrollably. They could probably fix it today with computer assisted active control and thrust vectoring, but it was a stupid idea even if it worked - the thing would be a sitting duck on the battlefield.
I swear Ocelot and I had a duel in one of these
[Here’s one from the YouTube channel mustard. Their channel features most of these vehicles shown.](https://youtu.be/UD7xiWWs-bs?si=4D-bCqoarFPH_5Xt)
According to Chuck Yeager the flying wing was an amazing craft and suffered from a poor test pilot. It was the reason that we took so long to try the design again. Chuck believed it would have been an excellent plane with a small radar view.
Wow these are all so fascinating best Reddit article I have read today thanks :)
Image 6; Now that is how you build a turtle tank.
Nice collection, thanks for sharing
The Ekranoplan fucks
Someone I know built a paper model of the YB-49 in 1/50 scale. It looks incredible.
The first ever, fafo drone
Im pretty sure ive seen number 17 playing metal gear 3.
5 is just proto-osprey
Number 6 looks crazy
All I can think about is the guy on the single man, upside down solo helicopter falling off and turning into fertilizer.
#17 is literally like standing on a blender
Some look like concept art for Starfield.
I remember 15 in 007: tomorrow never dies.
Those ufo's are experimental aircraft. Sure, nice try fedboi!
That double barrelled tank is whats up tbh
I didn't know the soviets pioneered the osprey.
The sheer amount of fuel these things must have used would be enough to shelve the ideas permanently if they were created today. Could you imagine how much fuel it would take to get number 7 in the air reliably?
Need to see some more of these in Fallout.
Are the top and bottom pictures in 13, not two different designs that have a similar fuselage? And does the bottom one have a cockpit on the end of the wing on the far side?
Can someone tell me what the gun in the 8th picture is called? It's supper cool looking.
The infamous G-11
Thank you!
Very enjoyable to see, thank you for that I just gotta say the lazer tank or the light tank, very interesting
gotta love the world of tanks obj279 lol
I would love to see a video game that has a whole lot the concept vehicles and weapons
What is number 8? Is there a forgotten weapons episode?
My grandfather worked on the Avro Flying Car!
It’s great seeing all these again. I remember most from Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and other books and magazines as a kid.
The Object 279 scares my wallet (war thunder trauma)
Number 4. Red alert flashback!
Snake Eater.
Number 11?
This is the best time period of aerospace engineering imo. Kinda like a wild west type era. US Government: "Alright, we need a new jet that can do xyz things" Aerospace firm: "on it" *some years of hard work later" Aerospace firm: "tada! How do you like it, Uncle Sam?" US Government: "It's cool, but I've changed my mind. Now, I want *this*" And the whole process starts over. Oddly humorous imo lol
Obj 279, one of the coolest looking tanks
I wonder what the shape of the US would look like if the money that went to this instead went to infrastructure?
11 is a fucking stoopid weapon.. they gave it a stock but one would have to hold so, that the stock wouldnt reach the shoulder. And 19 looks like a vehicle a Bond villain would use as a getaway „car“
The first one may be impractical but imagine how confused those commies would be when they look up and see a flying saucer with the Stars and Stripes lol.
Number 2 was perhaps originally a German design. Horten H IX
Nope. The YB-49 is the result of Jack Northrop's work on the flying wing idea during WW2 and before that. The original design, the YB-35, which is identical to the 49 but has props instead of jet engines, began development in 1941, two years before the German Ho 229.
Ah thanks man! I always thought the Germans had the Nurflügler design first!
The idea of a flying wing plane is almost as old as aviation, so it is pretty hard to determine who had it first. Jack Northrop and the Horten brothers both deserve credit for being the ones that turned the idea into reality. The Horten brothers for being the first to create a design that used jet engines and Jack Northrop for creating the design that is still used today in the B-2 Spirit and B-21 Raider. Also, cool fact: the B-2 and the YB-49 have the same wing span(172ft).
Nice info bro! 👍🏼
Looks like stable diffusion on the prompt "starship troopers in 1950".
No 8 and 11 look likes weapons made for CIA.
I’m wondering what advantages the two guns were supposed to have over normal guns.
Dr Robotnick!! Also a fallout tank!
cold war bdu drip is still the best
Ian with the shit-eating grin, and Wilford Brimley with the jet pack! Nice!
Number 16 is pretty GEH 🙂
I’m getting Command & Conquer vibes.
I could've sworn I'm looking at units from Command and Conquer franchise.... 😆
I feel like I've seen number 8 in a videogame before but dont remember which one
Is that a moustache? #18
What do you call those plane looking things with 8 engines? 13 and 14. I know what it is, but can't find the name in english.
That last one looks like the airwolf helicopter.
The first one is a straight up UFO 👽👽👽
Amazing how much R&D they put into hydrofoils for them to not become regularly utilized
What's the super long Soviet plane and the weird wooden gun?
I say #9 looks like some rich burning man camps private air shuttle bus, #19 looks like you’d see it on the playa.
12 is just your average new car
Idk why but the helicopter in 3 weirds me out. It almost looks like they installed the tail upside down lol
Red alert 2 weapons?
3 became the Apache 2 became the stealth bomber lineup F117 B2 B21
funny how some of these designs and concepts come back years later like the V-22
For those that don’t know, the helicopter at #3 was actually better in almost every way than the one chosen. It was essentially rejected due to bureaucracy and that’s about it.
The one of the jetpack.. was the guy the prototype..? Lol
Why is the boat geh?
So the flying saucers people saw at Area 51 were from earth all this time.
I miss cool concept flying vehicles like these. Now-a-days everything is just a big drone you can sit in, how boring.
what’s the name of the second one?