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Meet the ultimate bomber.

A secret Soviet project from the late 50s that could’ve been the fastest military aircraft ever built - so fast even the SR-71 wouldn’t catch it.

Flying at hypersonic speed, this plane would’ve been unstoppable and could bring destruction to any western city without them even realizing it.

Or blown apart an entire US carrier group before it even appeared on radar.

Was this russian design something completely crazy or a feasible design that would have changed the world forever?

Today we’re going over Mach 5 with DSB-LK bomber.
Let’s face it, late 50s and 60s are probably the coolest period in cold war aviation history.

Engineers on both sides of the iron curtain were being given a carte blanche to create the ultimate weapon which could carry nuclear bombs to the targets on the other side.

Everything from giant nuclear powerd flying tug boats, to top secret hypersonic submarines. Yes both of these are real ideas, and both are right here on the channel.

These bomber designs would bring both tactical and political advantage in any potential conflicts or proxy wars between america and the USSR.

But there was one major problem with many of these bomber projects. Interceptors.

Both the west and the east were in a constant game of rock paper scissors, each trying to develop a faster bomber, and, in turn a faster interceptor to beat it.

The United States would eventually turn their SR-71 into a interceptor called the YF-12, the fastest of its kind - but it would still struggle to catch what the soviets were cooking up.

A nuclear bomber that could fly as fast as the hypersonic nuclear missiles it carried.
Unlike many other Soviet projects which you’ve heard about so far on this channel, this one had a much weirder origin. It was started by Leningrad military aviation engineer academy and led by Alexander Moskalyov - not the big engineering firms famous for aircraft such as MIG or Sukhoi.

Moskalyov was an interesting figure, an aerospace engineer who designed his first aircraft when he was only 26, and his first flying prototype when he was 29. Truely a engineer prodigy.

By his 40s he was a prominent aerospace engineer and started working on new concepts for a supersonic seaplane bomber aircraft, some of which you can see here and are quite frankly ludicrous.

Various different shapes were used, from the duck design to the tailless and of course, the flying wing.

Its this last design that held the most potential.

Hearing of the constant one upping between the home soviet bureaus and the capitalist americans, he thought it was time to end the fight once and for all.

And thus the design of the DSB-LK was born. But it was also the wrong place at the wrong time.