CONVERTING YAK-130 INTO A LIGHT ATTACK AIRCRAFT

Converting YAK-130 into a Light Attack Aircraft

According to a company spokesperson of the JSC IRKUT Corporation ”Yak-130 New generation Combat Trainer provides top-class pilots training to handle Russian and foreign-made combat aircraft of the “4+” and “5” generations.

Currently IRKUT Corp. is working on improvements to Yakovlev Yak-130 combat jet trainer that may turn it into a light attack aircraft. The first stage of modernization includes the installation of an inflight refueling system and optronic pod. In the next stage, designers plan to equip the aircraft with radar. The radar installation will provide the Yak-130 with target detection for air-to-ground missiles.

Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who was recently in Delhi, said, “Equipping the Air Force with Yak-130 aircraft allow achieving a desired level of pilot’s trainings to handle new generation combat fighters, which are to be mass procured by the Military Department.”

 

Source : SPAviation