There were never bigger enemies in the history of the world than the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The two nations held knives at each others’ throats for decades, and came to the brink of war on several ...

The year 1942 represented the beginning of the end for the German Army in Europe. With supply lines extended beyond their limits, and a leadership that had to blindly follow Hitler’s at times erratic ...

The Yakovlev Bureau was among the most fruitful aviation design companies in the Soviet Union, and they had one particular ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developed in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Yakovlev Yak 130 is one of the best advanced trainer and light combat aircraft available on the international defense ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The plane was originally conceived as a training aircraft, but Yakovlev later rebranded it as a light-attack plane – a role into which it continues to perform well.

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 ...

A Russian drone operator's view of the Ukrainian Yak-52 and its back-seat gunner. Russians are getting really fed up with the Ukrainian crew of that Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane that has been ...

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 ...

Yakovlev hopes to revive the Yak-48 business jet project, with a critical design review early next year. The company says it has experience of business aircraft, having performed design work in the ...