@janytreal

8 months ago

Explanation: This is Tupolev Tu-95V aircraft is a Soviet large aircraft, it has 4 turboprop engine. So why is dangerous? well. This plane was an bomber. In 1961, they decided to test the nuclear bomb called "Tsar bomba", it drop the nuke with parachute in Novaya Zemlya Russia and it was the largest mushroom cloud and explosion, it has inside 50–58 megatons of TNT (210–240 PJ), is about 22-mile (35-kilometer), 200,000 feet (60 kilometers) and detonated about 13,000 feet (4 kilometers) over its target, this is one of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever built by Yuli Khariton. But thanfully nobody live in Novaya Zemlya and there is no fatal of Tsar Bomba.

Here is the list of people in plane and tester

Lead navigator of tests – Major Ivan Nikiforovich Kleshch
Second pilot – Captain Mikhail Konstantinovich Kondratenko
Navigator-operator of the radar – Lieutenant Anatoly Sergeevich Bobikov
Radar operator – Captain Alexander Filippovich Prokopenko
Flight engineer – Captain Grigory Mikhailovich Yevtushenko
Radio operator – Lieutenant Mikhail Petrovich Mashkin
Gunner / radio operator – Captain Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Snetkov
Gunner / radio operator – Corporal Vasily Yakovlevich Bolotov
Test pilot – Major Andrei Yegorovich Durnovtsev
Leading test pilot – Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Fyodorovich Martynenko
Second pilot – Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Ivanovich Mukhanov
Leading navigator – Major Semyon Artemievich Grigoryuk
Navigator-operator of the radar – Major Vasily Timofeevich Muzlanov
Gunner / radio operator – Senior Sergeant Mikhail Emelyanovich Shumilov

Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtCTzbh4mNQ

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