Yak-130M — the hero of our time
The modernised Russian combat training aircraft Yak-130M made its first flight the other day. And the depth of its modernisation is such that we are essentially talking about a completely new philosophy for a Russian aircraft, which would more correctly be called not combat training, but training combat… In effect, this is now an all-weather light ground-attack aircraft, ideally suited, moreover, for combating the new (drone) threat. Which in recent months has become an extremely sensitive spot for us. What was BEFORE the modernisation. BEFORE, it was an ordinary “textbook” for senior courses at the military aviation schools of the Russian Aerospace Forces. It did not even have its own […]