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This video is not about our failures in the field of aircraft manufacturing, but it is not about successes either, although there could have been success. Today we will talk about the plane of Pavel Vladimirovich Tsybin, a scientist, designer, and the author of the first in the USSR project of a winged reusable manned spacecraft-cosmoplane with the funny name "Lapotok", the author and developer of the reconnaissance satellite "Zenit", and much more. So, Pavel Vladimirovich could also have gone down in the history of world aviation, but with his own supersonic reconnaissance jet. Initially, this plane was developed as an ultra-high-altitude and ultra-high-speed carrier of nuclear weapons. However, the top people of the USSR decided that ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads were much better than any plane - they changed the shoes of the project on the fly and gave the task to build a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, which conceptually became the prototype of the American reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Since advertising revenue is no longer available, you can support my channel . It's completely voluntary, but THANK YOU in advance! Card number: 5536 9141 7953 7604 (Tinkoff).