Soviets Built German UFOs

On the summer morning of July 16, 1951 part of the La-11 1619-Northern Fleet out of Murmansk was on a routine patrol in the coastal territory. The first 30 minutes of the flight proceeded normally, and then lead Captain Peter Vusov, flying at an altitude of about 4000 meters above the sea, spotted a slowly moving object. "But, by getter closer, I saw a strange object-dark disc 20 meters in diameter and unmarked, but armed with powerful cannons below. I have never seen such a machine and immediately contacted the base and reported the craft. At that point the pilot of the unknown probably noticed our planes and dramatically changed course." The fighters on this patrol were armed and Vusov decided to attack the strange object. They fired 23mm shells, which apparently caused no damage so he went around for a second attack, but the results were the same. The commander then radio them, Vusov and lieutenant Ivanchenko who was piloting a second plane, were ordered to cease-fire and immediately return to base.

The pilots waited to be debriefed and to their surprise a stranger not in military uniform accompanied the senior officers. This man was obviously an important person who worked for the government. "I was scared", recalls Vusov. The pilots were told not to tell anyone about what they saw and that the matter was of national security. After the debriefing both pilots were transferred: Vusov to the Pacific fleet, and Ivanchenko to Khabarovsk. Both pilots were also promoted.

In the early 1930s, a young German, Oregon Irman Mayer designed an aircraft with an inverted shape with ringbolts in the center. Such a design would protect vital engineering components from possible enemy fire and the area was of sufficient size to accommodate the onboard weapons. However, it was only a theoretical design, and he was well aware of its shortcomings. Fortunately, the young and talented aircraft designer noticed the work of his colleague Heinrich Zimmermann, who was involved with unusual aircraft, of which the most promising was based on the so-called thin wings. Both designers created the Brian Zimmerman Mayer project to design new and innovative aircraft. Mayer proved to be an excellent collaborator and he generated ideas that were an important element of their future designs.

In 1942-1943 eyewitnesses claim to have seen what looked like a turned upside down disk. The centre was designed with a transparent cockpit. The disk was powered by turbojet engines (Jumo-004B) that could be steered and had a flying speed of about 700 km/h and a landing speed of 60 km/h.

This craft has been extremely unstable in flight. It was tested at concentration camp KT-4A, and one of the disks successfully took off, but because of strong wind overturned, crashed, caught fire and exploded.

From 1943 to 1945 the designer team solved the instability problems caused by the operation of the engine and built a larger version.

In the spring of 1945, with the project almost finished, the Allied forces defeated Germany. The German military ordered that all paper, models, designs be destroyed. They even ordered the executions of all of the engineers involved in the project. Fortunately, the designers managed to escape.

After the defeat of Germany, the allies did not find any evidence of the existence of this system. Soviet search teams were luckier. The Soviet Union not only discovered all of the documentation on the project, they found Irmana Mayer and his entire team of engineers who have taken refuge in a wine cellar on the outskirts of Berlin. They were then taken to the Soviet Union to continue their work.

In 1946, a talented graduate of Leningrad military engineering academy Mikhail Dubik received an unusual request. He was to be tested on his knowledge of the German language, which he passed, and to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Designer Mayer Mikhail Yuryevich Dubik had for more than half a century kept the secrets regarding the unusual craft. Only now, he agreed to share his memories and Mikhail was there to translate.

Originally the Jumo 004V1 engine was planned to be used by the German team to power the craft, which went into mass production under the symbol RD-10 at the on Ufimskom aircraft factory No. 26. But this engine proved to be too small and therefore they decided to use the new engine British Nene I, which went into production in 1947 in the USSR at the factory No. 45 under the symbol RD-45 with a thrust 2,040 kg.

The first flight took place in total secrecy at one of the northern airfields. The deafening roar of the three rocket engines easily propelled the craft from the ground and into the sky, recalls Mikhail Dubik. The disk had outstanding characteristics, notably the minimum cruising speed that could easily reach 100 km/h, and manoeuvre beautifully, which traditional fighters of the time could not. Mindful of the roots of the German machines, pilots called this craft Strausa, or simply strausom.

After so spectacular a demonstration, it was decided to design and build a craft suitable for combat. The development was a veritable masterpiece as the huge military craft had a diameter of 25 metres and a special pilot turret on top, radar equipment and four tank turret guns below. German engineers, with a depth of talent and wealth of experience on the development of these craft, made the entire dish into a flying wing. The craft had three directional turbojet engines and biased nozzles with variable vector control. This was complimented by a dynamic side bow, which provided sustainability and the fantastic manoeuvrable flying at low speeds.

The central purpose of the craft was to cause total destruction of American heavy bombers, the B-29s. One of the most likely paths for the Americans was considered to be by flying over the North Pole. It seemed logical to combat the enemy slightly farther from the frontiers of the Soviet Union, so they decided to put squadron at a point belonging to the Union, but based on the Line of America-North Pole-Moscow. This point was the Svalbard archipelago.

In 1948, the Soviet Union began work on the rehabilitation of coalmines on Svalbard. This seemed odd because of the minerals available on the mainland, but they proceeded with the development and transportation of coal from this remote island in the Arctic Ocean. It proved to be astronomically expensive. But what the commanders of the ships transporting the coal and others didn't know was that along with mining equipment on board was also a super secret weapon.

It was decided to use combat aircraft platforms so that in the event of an alarm a squadron could quickly be sent airborne and gain altitude of 10 km and with the assistance of on-board radar systems track B-29s, which potentially could drop atomic bombs on Moscow. After visual detection of the enemy the disks would rise above the bombers and shot 37-millimetrovykh AA down on the American bombers. In theory, a squadron of only six craft could easily wipe out up to hundreds of bombers in a single battle.

In total 12 disks were built and tested. The crew of each disk originally consisted of eight people: four artillery operators, the operator radar navigator, the co-pilot and commander. Tests were completed to determine maximum speed range and the maximum altitude ceiling. In order to maintain secrecy these disks did not display any identification or nationality. This was quickly changed and red stars were added after being almost shot down by their own aircraft.

By the fall of 1952, the flying "plates" had completed the testing program, according to available reports and documents.

On November 27, 1952, the North 1st squadron went active and captain Gregory Savichenko was assigned as chief of the new squadron.

But in March 1953, Stalin died, and the situation changed radically. Khrushchev came to power, and set about building missiles to launch nuclear bombs and anti-aircraft missiles capable of destroying hostile aircraft. Squadrons of MiG-15 fighters were deemed unnecessary and many were crashed and destroyed by bulldozers.

It is not surprising that the same fate befell the Soviet flying disks. All prototypes, equipment and valuable instruments were sunk off the coast of Svalbard where they lay at a depth of 300 metres waiting to be discovered.

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