What Happened to the Soviet Supersonic Jump Jets?

https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Back on the 70's and 80's the Soviet Union developed a series of VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft that culminated in the supersonic Yak-141, something that the west wouldn't achieve until the arrival of the F-35B in 2010 some 20 years later. This is the story of the Soviet supersonic jets. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Hawker Siddeley, Lockheed Martin, PCW8256, OKB Yakovlev, Fred Tulloch Thank you also goes to all our Patreons Alan Johns Allan Versaevel Alok G Singh Andrew SMITH Bobby Up Cody Belichesky Collin Copfer Damien Pasche Daniele Noacco David Stevens Giacomo Catenazzi Henri Saussure Jared Swanson Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Juerg Hurni Kai Spuhler Kevin Hinnen Lorne Diebel Loyd Hamilton Lászlà Antal Mark Koontz Matthew MacKenzie P.S. Peter Barber Prashanth Ruthala Pyloric SHAMIR Sk1er stefan hufenbach Thomas Branch Vincent Walt Dennig Music from the Youtube library Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake Hello 6am by Mylar Melodies I Can't Remmber I Can't Recall by The 129ers Incoming Transition by The Whole Other Oceans, Rivers, Canyons by ELPHNT Timelapsed Tides by Asher Fulero