Hugh Harkins

Yak-130 Hugh Harkins

Yak-130The Yak-130 entered service with the Russian Federation Air Force (Aerospace Forces from August 2015) in 2010, as a new generation training system for basic and advanced pilot training with a secondary light combat aircraft role. The intent of this volume is to detail the Yak-130 from s systems point of view with only a brief genesis/historic overview. All technical information regarding the aircraft, systems and weapons have been provided by the respective design houses/developers and experimental agencies, as has most of the graphic material, with technical and graphic input from other entities, such as the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus - the later nation operating the Yak-130 as a light combat aircraft.