Yakovlev Yak-130

The Yakovlev Yak-130 (NATO reporting name: Mitten) is a subsonic two-seat advanced trainer aircraft originally developed by Yakovlev and Aermacchi. It has also been marketed as a potential light attack aircraft. Development of the plane began in 1991 and the maiden flight was conducted on April 25^th, 1996. In 2002, it won a Russian government tender for training aircraft and in 2009 the aircraft entered service with the Russian Air Force. As an advanced training aircraft, the Yak-130 is able to replicate the characteristics of several 4+ generation fighters as well as the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57. It can also perform light-attack and reconnaissance duties, carrying a combat load of 3,000 kg.

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Yak-130: Basic dual seat advanced trainer
- Yak-130IQ: Version of the Iraqi Air Force
Yak-131: Light attack aircraft for Su-25 replacement. This version will have cockpit and engine armour, a GSh-301 gun, and either the Phazotron Kopyo radar with mechanical or electronic beam scanning, or the Tikhomirov NIIP Osa passive phased array radar.
Yak-133: Light Strike Aircraft for LUS. The project was canceled in the early 1990.
- Yak-133IB: Fighter-bomber version
- Yak-133PP: Electronic Countermeasures platform
- Yak-133R: Tactical reconnaissance variant.
Yak-135: 4-seat VIP transport

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Algeria
- Algerian Air Force x 16
Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Air Force x 24
Belarus
- Belarusian Air Force x 8
Iraq
- Iraqi Air Force x 24
Laos
- Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force x 10
Libya
- Libyan Air Force x 6
Myanmar
- Myanmar Air Force x 12
Russia
- Russian Air Force x 120
- Russian Naval Aviation x 16
Syria
- Syrian Arab Air Force x 36
Vietnam
- Vietnam People's Air Force x 8

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