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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Russian Air Force to receive 65 Yak-130 jet trainers by 2017

Yak-130The Russian Defense Ministry will sign a contract with aircraft construction company Irkut on the delivery of 65 YakovlevYak-130 advanced jet trainers within the next two weeks, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin, said on Tuesday.

The contract is expected to be fulfilled by 2017, he said, without elaborating on the contract price of the jets.

The Yak-130 Mitten jet trainer/light attack aircraft is a subsonic two-seat aircraft developed by the Yakovlev design bureau. The first planes were put into service with the Russian Air Force in 2009.

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