Irkut Corporation prepared documents related to development of a light strike-fighter derived from Yak-130 operational trainer for Russian Ministry of Defense, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Senior Vice-President of Irkut Corporation, Vitaly Borodich.
“We have prepared documentation and we are going to submit it to the Ministry of Defense. The rest is up to the customer,” Borodich said at Aero India 2015 airshow.
Information about the possibility of developing this jet was first unveiled in 2013, it was stated that Yakovlev design bureau is considering the matter. At that Russian Ministry of Defense said earlier that a decision to abandon the project was made.
Yak-130 is an operational trainer developed by Yakovlev design bureau. It is fitted with integrated digital control system, which provides manual and automatic flight control. The jet is also equipped with active flight safety system, which allows changing parameters of the jet’s stability and controllability during training. Yak-130 is designed for training of future pilots of fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft.











