The Yak-130 is a versatile and formidable trainer aircraft that manages to punch above its weight, extending into carrier-based, reconnaissance, and even strike roles. As with many of the military ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Yak-130’s versatility and cost-effectiveness made it an export hit across the post-Soviet sphere and developing world, with dozens of orders being placed by ...

During a media briefing held at Farnborough, Irkut‘s vice-president Konstantin Popovich recounted a funny episode that had occurred during the Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainer first flight at the ...

The Yak-130 is a subsonic advanced trainer and light attack aircraft powered by two 5,512-lb.-thrust ZMKB Progress AI-222-25 or Soyuz RD-2500 turbofan engines. A Yak-130 prototype first flew in 1996, ...

Sokol has rolled out the first production Yakovlev Yak-130 advanced trainer, with a first flight planned for November. Two more flight-test aircraft and a structural-test airframe are in assembly.

Yakovlev is modifying the Yak-130 advanced trainer demonstrator to carry Russian-built weapons following the split from Italy's Aermacchi, which is separately developing the aircraft with Western ...

The project is targeting the export market in the first instance and the configuration of the aircraft was formed with consideration of comments made by current operators of Yak-130 trainers, the ...

Among the many military trainers exhibited here at Le Bourget, the Russian Yakovlev Yak-130 light twinjet can justly claim to represent a totally new gener Fans inside the wings and a turboprop engine ...

A Russian Yakovlev Yak-130 trainer sits on the flight line at Dubai Airshow on Nov. 19, 2019. (Jeff Martin/Staff) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Training aircraft took center stage at the 2019 Dubai ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has released dramatic footage showing an aerial interception in which an Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet shoots down an Iranian Yakovlev Yak-130 aircraft.

MOSCOW, September 16. /TASS/. During a training flight near the Borisoglebsk aerodrome a Yak-130 aircraft crashed; the crew is safe, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "On September 16, ...

The Yak-130 is a subsonic advanced trainer and light attack aircraft powered by two 5,512-lb.-thrust ZMKB Progress AI-222-25 or Soyuz RD-2500 turbofans (prototypes used Klimov RD-35 engines). First ...