Russia is preparing to showcase its newest airplane at the upcoming Army-2015 expo, which is scheduled to take place between Tuesday and Friday in the town of Kubinka, about 39 miles west of Moscow, ...

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 ...

The Yakovlev Yak-130 is Russia’s newest trainer aircraft, capable of being programmed to recreate a range of different flight conditions for trainee pilots as well as functioning as a ground-attack ...

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, ...

A YAK-130 military plane performs during the opening of the MAKS-2009 international air show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 18, 2009. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Russia is considering plans to ...

This Yakovlev aircraft is capable of being programmed to recreate a range of different flight conditions for trainee pilots as well as functioning as a ground-attack craft. Within the next two or ...

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 ...

Two Yak-130 Jets Have Crashed Simultaneously in Armavir and Borisoglebsk Last Month. And Here’s An Investigation On The Root Causes. According to several reports, two Russian Air Force Yak-130 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 ...

The Yak-130 is a twin-engine, subsonic advanced trainer and light attack aircraft. It is powered by either the ZMKB Progress AI-222-25 turbofan engine or Soyuz RD-2500 turbofan (prototypes have been ...