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    THE I-400 CLASS SUBMARINE By: Abhijay Bhosale Welcome to 4th edition of the Unknown Off-Ground Series. This week's edition will show... something different. Normally, I show different types of planes, but this time, let's talk about a submarine. The last edition was about a flying aircraft carrier, so it only makes sense that this one's about an aircraft carrier... underwater. Armed with 3 planes each, these I-400s were being planned to be built tenfold. These could have been a super weapon. It could travel to the United States, empty its load, and then go all the way back to Japan again. Though this technology was already tested with smaller, less capable planes, these submarines would be able to carry full on attack ones. This is, the I-400. Isoroku Yamamoto Isoroku Yamamoto was a very prominent man in the Japanese navy. Getting his education from Harvard in the United States, he rose the ranks back in Japan through his skill and knowledge on sea warfare. Yamamoto loo...

    THE BOEING 747 AAC By: Abhijay Bhosale Welcome to 3rd edition of the Unknown Off-Ground Series. This week's edition will show the Boeing 747-Airborne Aircraft Carrier. When the 747 was first made, it was unlike the world had ever seen before. With 4 enormous engines, it could travel distances previously unimaginable for its size. It revolutionized civilian travel, but the Air Force had other ideas. Sure they could have thought of any normal cargo plane, but they already had plenty of those. One day, Boeing saw potential for a plane that would captivate the Air Force. An airborne aircraft carrier. Sure they had ships which could carry squadrons around the coasts, but a fighter's limited range meant they couldn't penetrate deep into enemy territory without an airfield. But with this new inter-continental plane, this was now possible. This is, the Boeing 747-AAC. Why Was The Boeing 747-AAC Made The origins of the Boeing 747-AAC are shrouded in mystery. Even the inventor is...

THE VVA-14 By: Abhijay Bhosale Welcome to 2nd edition of the Unknown Off-Ground Series. This week's edition will show the VVA-14, a plane so bizarre, it's arguable to not even call it a plane. This behemoth weighed 25 tons, could carry another 15, and it was all managed by a crew of 3. It could go a little less than 400 miles per hour and had VTOL capabilities. I don't want to reveal too much before this gets started, so I'll leave the suspense at that. The plane was truly amazing, but to understand the product, we need to understand its maker. Who Was Robert Bartini? Robert Bartini was a Soviet designer who's often dubbed as the most mysterious aircraft designer. He made designed many aircraft, plans so ambitious that the USSR couldn't help but notice him. He created the Bartini A-57, a bomber so impressive that it's painful it's not in this series, a plane with a max speed of 260 mph while the USSR record for fastest flight was 160 mph, and of course,...

  THE MIKOYAN 1.44 By: Abhijay Bhosale Welcome to the Unknown Off-Ground Series. Over the course of the next 5 editions, we'll be talking about forgotten ideas and prototypes of things that could have altered history, all operating off the ground, and sometimes out of the Earth. This week's edition will show the Mikoyan 1.44, the plane that almost destroyed the west. With 2 Saturn AL-41 engines, a top speed 300 mph more than the F-35, and capacity to carry 12 missiles without a bomb bay, this fighter truly could have once and for all outmatched American aviation. The Need For A Plane Like This The Mig 1.44 was a plane drawn up by Soviet engineers to outmatch the west, mainly American Aviation. When word got out about the development of the F-22, still the most fearsome fighter at the time of writing, the Soviets needed one that could not only match, but decimate this new plane. A fighter squadron could take off from an airbase in Alaska, airfields in Europe, and even from the s...