# Dark Skies: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-27, Dark Skies has 699,000 subscribers, 274,049,278 total views, and 650 videos. It ranks #108,133 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Dark Skies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Dark Skies is “Hitler's Poison-fueled Fighter”, a long-form video published Oct 22, 2026.
- These are Dark Skies’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Feb 27, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 128,864. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “How One Defection Exposed the Soviet Union's Biggest Lie” (1,525,768 views, Jun 11, 2026). Least viewed: “The Crew That Vanished: Doolittle's Most Mysterious Aircraft” (28,376 views, Jun 28, 2026).
- Median length: 24:02 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Dark Skies’s consecutive uploads were a median of 4 days apart (shortest gap 3 days, longest 8 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Hitler's Poison-fueled Fighter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/Zc5bKaxQ2Hc/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 35,955 | 22:37 | - |
| [The Weird Slow Jet That Terrified Soviet MiG Pilots](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/5MKf8zajBZs/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 178,394 | 20:09 | 1.53x |
| [WW2’s Perfect Fighter That Nobody Trusted](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/2JywPS_rAqM/) | 2026-10-08 | Long-form | 188,571 | 19:16 | 1.62x |
| [The Space Age Jet Terrorized by a Rust Bucket](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/ArbqgGMmIUY/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 92,778 | 20:05 | - |
| [The Widowmaker Was Too Fast to Fly](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/xRLRv8aZcWE/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 415,416 | 22:08 | 2.57x |
| [Russia Won't Risk Its Ultimate Fighter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/rHobGnO8bdA/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 456,401 | 21:59 | 2.82x |
| [The German Monster They Couldn’t See](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/Wel-pmIWdMU/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 125,087 | 23:59 | 1.03x |
| [The Jet That Kept Killing the Wrong Targets](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/uxP37mbMk10/) | 2026-09-03 | Long-form | 93,406 | 22:27 | - |
| [Japan's Most Important Plane in WW2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/CTFFrDGcjGo/) | 2026-08-27 | Long-form | 118,333 | 19:43 | 1.03x |
| [The Scariest Plane You've Never Heard Of](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/MYSJdJpXjuw/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 295,775 | 21:35 | 3.39x |
| [The Slowest Most Lethal Tiny Planes Doing What Jets Never Could](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/i9unT249o5s/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 35,666 | 24:00 | - |
| [America Wasn't Supposed to Have This Plane](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/wQceA-8Xq0I/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 203,464 | 22:30 | 2.45x |
| [The Fighter Plane that Could Never Land](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/Ndq11j3MnIo/) | 2026-07-30 | Long-form | 36,494 | 25:15 | - |
| [The Most Infamous Experimental Aircraft in History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/aiv-XZZ7C1A/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 198,218 | 27:32 | 2.02x |
| [The Mach 3 Aircraft That Simply Vanished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/At_QQQoT0ik/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 565,323 | 25:37 | 5.75x |
| [The 700MPH Bomber that Shook Itself Apart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/7apSky_WN8g/) | 2026-07-09 | Long-form | 112,343 | 23:50 | 1.14x |
| [The 400MPH Bomb-Killer They Kept Secret](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/8u9Cylgyv6w/) | 2026-07-05 | Long-form | 43,380 | 24:05 | - |
| [They Flew Directly at Enemy Missiles to Destroy Them](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/6mqql4L1hkw/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 62,342 | 23:39 | - |
| [The Crew That Vanished: Doolittle's Most Mysterious Aircraft](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/4uno3_CHwR4/) | 2026-06-28 | Long-form | 28,376 | 25:58 | - |
| [The Aircraft Too Radical to Ever Succeed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/Fv1w9Db1Sy8/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 36,475 | 23:35 | - |
| [America's Forbidden Doomsday Machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/sjx6xzPZxRc/) | 2026-06-21 | Long-form | 103,654 | 26:20 | 0.96x |
| [The US Air Force Canceled the Wrong Aircraft](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/K39Rr3aQNds/) | 2026-06-18 | Long-form | 92,892 | 24:53 | - |
| [The Strange Plane with an Absolutely Insane Top Speed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/dFYR1Js25NU/) | 2026-06-14 | Long-form | 237,369 | 30:06 | 2.34x |
| [How One Defection Exposed the Soviet Union's Biggest Lie](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/YmAimkXikWI/) | 2026-06-11 | Long-form | 1,525,768 | 23:12 | 15.06x |
| [The Deadliest Flying Killer America Accidentally Created](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/PAK5sKaGWA8/) | 2026-06-07 | Long-form | 239,957 | 28:38 | 2.37x |
| [The Useless German Plane Became Britain's Secret Weapon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/H9-jHOAEAEQ/) | 2026-06-04 | Long-form | 31,927 | 24:23 | - |
| [The Bomber Crew That Froze Alive at 35,000 Feet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/BSmjkHJES-I/) | 2026-05-31 | Long-form | 64,938 | 27:20 | - |
| [The Most Dangerous Plane America Ever Flew](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/La4TonqpJ2g/) | 2026-05-28 | Long-form | 90,751 | 28:18 | - |
| [Why The F-106 Delta Dart Is The Most Incredible Interceptor Ever](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/mSeJp2an2FQ/) | 2026-05-23 | Long-form | 224,628 | 22:24 | 1.52x |
| [The Jet That Broke Everything America Knew About Aviation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/51RllK2hLpA/) | 2026-05-20 | Long-form | 111,894 | 28:49 | 0.8x |
| [The Untouchable Plane Everyone is Practicing Killing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/DRyHP1CKC-0/) | 2026-05-16 | Long-form | 85,909 | 22:40 | - |
| [The Slowest Most Dangerous Plane Ever Built](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/bf80q-ELRcY/) | 2026-05-12 | Long-form | 62,729 | 25:46 | - |
| [The Weird Slow Little Plane America Used When Wars Got Nasty](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/uoKGjOI7TG0/) | 2026-05-08 | Long-form | 640,999 | 28:06 | 3.64x |
| [The Strange Bomber With a Sloped Glass Nose and a Fake Flag](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/0Joq-BZtcVk/) | 2026-05-04 | Long-form | 184,273 | 22:28 | 1.05x |
| [The B-2 Spirit Proved Everyone Wrong About Stealth Bombers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/JL6NArNxnww/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 51,785 | 25:20 | - |
| [Two Fighters Bolted Together - North American F-82 Twin Mustang](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/a4KIptkfpXs/) | 2026-04-25 | Long-form | 43,189 | 22:35 | - |
| [Why the A-6 Intruder Looked Terrible But Killed Everything](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/dUk6ddm7p-s/) | 2026-04-21 | Long-form | 672,888 | 29:56 | 3.67x |
| [Inside Germany's Most Dangerous Jet Aircraft](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/QsoS2L2AkYo/) | 2026-04-17 | Long-form | 252,575 | 25:26 | 1.38x |
| [The Plane the Taliban Never Should Have Had](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/V2MNyGSd-is/) | 2026-04-12 | Long-form | 168,018 | 24:16 | 0.92x |
| [The 63,668 Foot Plane That No One Would Acknowledge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/85HXDomYQWg/) | 2026-04-07 | Long-form | 198,354 | 26:05 | 0.99x |
| [You Were Going to Skip This Plane—That Would Be a Mistake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/lynXakjZWyI/) | 2026-04-03 | Long-form | 42,941 | 23:17 | - |
| [Ugly. Dangerous. Fascinating. And They Built 2,000 Anyway.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/0GRI5cVMO2Q/) | 2026-03-28 | Long-form | 149,644 | 29:28 | 0.85x |
| [The Absolutely Enormous 470mph Half Backwards Fighter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/qeMmgQzoanc/) | 2026-03-24 | Long-form | 228,030 | 24:21 | 1.37x |
| [The Fighter Built to Humiliate the F-15](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/OjTLcKttTLk/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 563,779 | 23:58 | 4.38x |
| [The Wrong Little 500mph Jet Fighter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/HKrfeg4fMQA/) | 2026-03-17 | Long-form | 126,808 | 25:56 | 1.16x |
| [Germany's Most Dangerous Secret Aircraft—Discovered After the War](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/Z4DL1xJu5UA/) | 2026-03-12 | Long-form | 130,919 | 25:58 | 1.56x |
| [The Get Highest the Fastest Fighter to Never Die](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/a2Vw7VVySDQ/) | 2026-03-04 | Long-form | 201,067 | 22:54 | 2.79x |
| [One Photograph Destroyed Russia's Most Secret Airplane](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@darkdocsskies/videos/THuFmXCm86s/) | 2026-02-27 | Long-form | 330,881 | 17:48 | 5.4x |

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