RUSSIAN AIR FORCE COMMANDER TO TEST NEW YAK 130
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Head of the Russian Air Force press service Alexander Drobyshevsky announced Friday that the Russian Air Force Commander would personally test pilot the Yak 130 new combat trainer.
Russian Air Force Commander Army General Vladimir Mikhailov is now in Nizhny Novgorod, at Sokol aircraft factory, to oversee the final stage of the new warplane's state trial program.
The Yak 130 was designed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau with Sokol as a trainer that, if needed, could be converted into a light strike fighter.
The Yak 130 fighter version can carry up to three tons of the most sophisticated weapons systems to raise battlefield efficiency.
The Yak 130 is the first Russian fighter jet to have a fully digital multiplex-channel flight control system, a "glass" cockpit, a backed-up, digital, fly-by-wire system, a rescue system, an electronically controlled power source and many other state-of-the-art elements, all of them of Russian design. Yak 130's performance places it on the verge of the fifth generation of combat aircraft.
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