Following World War II, the Soviet Union began to experiment with more aircraft, and the Yakovlev Yak-28 has become one of their more famous examples. Due to its ability to wear several hats, it was ...

A 1986 Yakovlev Yak-52 aerobatic trainer is the featured aircraft for sale, priced at $77,500. The Yak-52 boasts 1,207 airframe hours, recent engine and propeller overhauls, and updated avionics. This ...

A light trainer aircraft crashed in the Kolomna district of Moscow region on Saturday (June 28), killing all four people on board, including crew and trainees, according to a statement from Russia’s ...

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 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 ...

For all the yelling and shouting over the Department of Defense’s much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, there’s an unusual, often overlooked footnote in the trillion-dollar project’s ...

Yak-130M with new equipment and weapons at the Army 2024 defense show. Credit: Yakovlev Russia’s Yakovlev aims to start flight trials of its Yak-130M light combat jet in the first half of 2025, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Yak 18 was the primary trainer ...

As with many of the military projects that survived the Soviet collapse, the Yak-130 has a tortured and winding development history. In the 1980s, the Soviet government launched a procurement ...