During its first operational exercise, the Iranian Yak-130 coordinated with two MiG-29s to intercept and destroy a target ...

The Yak-130 is now not only the most modern trainer, but the most current jet in the IRIAF inventory. Reports and observers say it could help to train Iranian pilots before the rumored arrival of ...

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. History: As with many of the ...

The Yak-130 is a twin-seat jet trainer, with the student pilot sitting in the front cockpit and the instructor behind. Both seats feature full glass displays, and the digital fly-by-wire (FBW ...

The Yak-130 is a proven lead-in fighter-trainer with combat capability that can also serve in the kind of counter-insurgency war that the U.S. Air Force has found itself fighting in Afghanistan, ...

The Yak-130 is able to fly safely at angles of attack of up to 40 degrees with a velocity varying from 125 to 500 miles per hour. There is by no other trainer aircraft today capable of ...

A Yak-130 costs just $15 million, while the average price of a fighter jet is more than $100 million. Yak-130 at the Farnborough Air Show in 2012 Wikicommons .

Russia has reportedly delivered Yak-130 “Mitten” trainer jets to Iran in the latest example of Moscow and Tehran's increasing military ties and the associated arms trades that have come with ...

The Yak-130 - the Russian air force's advanced flight and tactical combat trainer - prepares student pilots to fly and fight in the latest frontline fighter and fighter/bomber types, ...

A second Yak-130 prototype has joined the test program after making its first flight on Apr. 5. The Russian air force selected the twin-engine jet to replace aging L-39 trainers for its advanced ...

A Yak-130 jet of #Iran‘s Air Force, flew in tandem with two MiG-29 fighter jets, to intercept and shoot down a drone during a #military exercise in southeastern Iran.