Yakovlev stopped making the Yak-9 in 1948, but for some reason replicas started being made by the factory in the 1990s, using original equipment from the war, and Allison V-1710 engines.

YAK-3s could achieve a maximum speed of 646 kph (401 mph) and a maximum altitude of 10,400 m (34,100 ft). They were armed with cannons and machine guns.

-The Soviet Yakovlev Yak-38 struggled with difficult handling, while the MiG-23 proved both costly and ineffective in combat. -The U.S. Air Force’s Convair F-102 Delta Dagger suffered from ...

This 1986 Yak-52 has 1,207 hours on the airframe, 72 hours since overhaul on its 360 hp Vendeneyev M-14P Series 2 engine, and 72 hours on its Whirlwind carbon fiber W-530 propeller.

The new aircraft flew a year later, powered by a Shvetsov M-11 five-cylinder radial engine and featuring a retractable tailwheel landing gear. The design proved exceptionally easy to build and ...

Russia’s Yakovlev aims to start flight trials of its Yak-130M light combat jet in the first half of 2025, the CEO of the company’s Irkutsk aviation facility told journalists at the Army 2024 ...

PATRIOT PARK /Moscow Region/, August 12. /TASS/. Yakovlev company presents a project of the upgraded Yak-130M combat trainer with expanded fighting capabilities at the Army 2024 forum.

The wing has been strengthened and avionics upgraded for night and instrument flying. Yakovlev has also signed an agreement with Odessa-based Ukraviaremont to upgrade Ukrainian air force Yak-52s.

The Yak-130’s 9 hardpoints support Russia’s workhorse R-73 “Archer” short-range air-to-air missiles and Kh-25 ML laser-guided missiles, as well as the KAB-500Kr, guided bomb.

Russians Grow Frustrated With Ukraine’s Yak-52 Drone-Killer. A Yakovlev training plane has been dogfighting with, and shooting down, Russian surveillance drones—World War I-style.