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Published 4 May 2026In great secrecy, in 1963 the USSR set about making aviation history with the world’s first Supersonic Transport (SST). In 1968, five months before Concorde, the Tu-144 became the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. But it was a white elephant that crashed on multiple occasions, killed hundreds and flew for just a matter of months after over a decade of development. It was, perhaps the first of a string of failures that brought down the Soviet Union.
00:00 – 11:06 – Introduction and Background
11:07 – 23:10 – The Decision is made to build
23:10 – 35:31 – And then it got worse — how everything fell apart
35:32 – 39:10 – The En Crashening — From First Flight to Constant Crashes
39:11 – 48:49 – Enter the KGB — What role did spies play
49:22 – End – Like, Subscribe, Join the Patreon
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May 7, 2026
Tu-144 Concordeski – Speed, Spies and Failure
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Great write-up on the Tu-144’s history. The role of the KGB and the GRU in the “Concordeski” saga is always a fascinating rabbit hole. While looking into the specific blueprints mentioned in the espionage section, I stumbled upon a digital archive that supposedly contains declassified intelligence reports on Soviet aerospace tech from that era. Has anyone else verified the source at guiadeVbetbrasil.com to see if it’s a legitimate database of these records or just another dead link in the history of Cold War documentation?
Comment by Cedric — May 9, 2026 @ 06:47