The Yakovlev Yak-38 (Russian: Яковлев Як-38; NATO reporting name: "Forger") was Soviet Naval Aviation's only operational VTOL strike fighter aircraft...
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takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev. Intended as a replacement for the Yak-38, it was designed as a supersonic fleet defence fighter...
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The Yakovlev Yak-201 was a planned Russian vertical takeoff and landing stealth fighter/interceptor aircraft for the Russian Navy, as a follow-up to the...
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The Yakovlev Yak-36, also known as Izdeliye V, (NATO reporting name "Freehand") is a Soviet technology demonstrator for a VTOL combat aircraft. From 1960...
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The Yakovlev Yak-40 (Russian: Яковлев Як-40; NATO reporting name: Codling) is a regional jet designed by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966...
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The Yakovlev Yak-42 (Russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid...
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The Yakovlev Yak-27 (NATO reporting name "Flashlight-C") is a family of Soviet supersonic aircraft developed in 1958 from the Yak-121 prototype. The most...
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The Yakovlev Yak-12 (Russian: Яковлев Як-12, also transcribed as Jak-12, NATO reporting name: "Creek") is a light multirole STOL aircraft used by the Soviet...
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The Yakovlev Yak-9 (Russian: Яковлев Як-9; NATO reporting name: Frank) is a single-engine, single-seat multipurpose fighter aircraft used by the Soviet...
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The Yakovlev Yak-46 was a proposed aircraft design based on the Yak-42 with two contra-rotating propellers on the propfan located at the rear. The specification...
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The Yakovlev Yak-30 was an experimental Soviet interceptor from the late 1940s. Derived from the Yak-25, from which it differed primarily in having wings...
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The Yakovlev Yak-30 (NATO reporting name Magnum), originally designated Yakovlev 104, was Yakovlev's entry in a competition for the first military jet...
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Yakovlev Yak-45 was the designation for a series of design studies in 1973-1974 for a single-seat fighter. It lost to the Mikoyan MiG-29. In the early...
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The Yakovlev Yak-32 (NATO reporting name Mantis) is a single-seat version of the Yakovlev Yak-30 (1960), and was claimed by the OKB to be the world's...
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Minsk in 1979. On September 8, 1980, he was killed in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on the Minsk. The carrier was retired, and decommissioned...
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was the same as the other Kievs, consisting of a squadron of twelve Yakovlev Yak-38 ('Forger') V/STOL strike fighter aircraft (until they were retired...
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on 20 July 2001. Instead of using separate lift engines, like the Yakovlev Yak-38, or rotating nozzles for engine bypass air, like the Harrier, the "LiftSystem"...
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The Yakovlev Yak-1000 was a Soviet supersonic technology demonstrator intended to evaluate the aerodynamic layout and field performance of the cropped...
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approach, as used by aircraft such as the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and Yakovlev Yak-38. A tail-sitter sits vertically on its tail for takeoff and landing...
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the Yakovlev Yak-36 experimental aircraft in the 1970s. Before the Soviet Union broke up, a supersonic VTOL aircraft was developed as the Yak-38's successor...
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operational military aircraft which used lift engines was the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-38, a VTOL fighter used by the AVMF's small aircraft carriers, which were...
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commercial passenger, developed from Yak-40) Yak-58 (1993 - light utility) Yak-112 (1993 - light general purpose utility) Yakovlev R-12 (1940 - prototype photographic...
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a Yakovlev Yak-40 in Rostov-on-Don: 1 killed". B3A Archives. Accident description for CCCP-87579 at the Aviation Safety Network "Crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40...
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Severomorsk-3. During the 1970s, the airfield was designated as a Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger base for the Murmansk area whenever its parent Kiev-class aircraft...
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Yakovlev Yak-15/Yak-17 Felon Sukhoi Su-57 Fencer Sukhoi Su-24 Fiddler Tupolev Tu-28/Tu-128 Fin Lavochkin La-7 Finback Shenyang J-8 Firebar Yakovlev Yak-28P...
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platform which would work in coordination with VTOL jets, such as Yakovlev's Yak-38. Among the many functions envisioned for this line of vehicles was...
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Rybinsk RD-36-35 (redirect from Rybinsk RD-38)
(izdeliye 28) 29.9 kN (6,722 lbf) Yakovlev Yak-38 Yakovlev Yak-38U RD-36-35K Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 Data from OKB Yakovlev Type: Lift turbojet Length: Diameter:...
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Aeroflot Flight 1080 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Yakovlev Yak-40)
worst in the history of the Yakovlev Yak-40, which had entered operational service with Aeroflot just ten years prior. The Yak-40 involved in the accident...
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Flora Replaced by MiG-15. Yakovlev Yak-25 480 1955–1967 Flashlight Yakovlev Yak-28P ~1,700 1967–1980s Firebar Yakovlev Yak-38 231 1976–1991 Forger VTOL...
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Siddeley P.1127 Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II VFW VAK 191B Yakovlev Yak-38 Yakovlev Yak-141 McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD (experimental) Lockheed Martin...
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