The Giant Helicopter America Refused to Build

The Soviets built the biggest helicopters on Earth. America deliberately didn't. The Mi-26 can lift twenty tons, carried a frozen mammoth and rescued a US Chinook from Afghanistan. Yet the US Marines spent sixty years improving one smaller helicopter instead of building a giant. In this documentary we break down the Mi-26, the Mil V-12, the CH-53 family from Sea Stallion to King Stallion, and the one limit that decided everything: the ship. -------- Subscribe for the strangest aircraft ever built. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:53 The Biggest Helicopter in Service 1:55 The Monster Before It 2:47 Side by Side 3:28 The Marines Are Different 4:07 The Sea Stallion 4:54 The Super Stallion 6:04 America Tried Too 6:54 The Real Limit: The Ship 7:49 A Floating Airfield 8:56 The King Stallion 9:59 The Art of the Sling Load 10:48 Dangerous Giants #AirframeDecoded #Aviation #Helicopter #CH53 #Mi26