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| Russia Air Force buying 200-plus Yak-130 trainers |
| 2007-05-22 |
| The Russian Air Force will purchase over 200 Yakovlev-130 operational trainers. They will not buy the one-type MiG-AT aircraft, the AF new Commander-in-Chief Colonel-General Alexander Zelin said on Monday. “We need over 200 planes. The Air Force has chosen one type of plane - Yak-130,” the commander told journalists. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #12 Have pity on aging eyes that can't see that small, please, gentlemen. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-22 22:49 |
| #11 As the bent-over Nepalese woman said, hurrying back to her house, "Oh, my baking yak!" LOL Zenster! |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-22 21:01 |
| #10 Congratulations on inventing a late model F-5. Welcome to 1975. And when the time comes, we'll make As the bent-over Nepalese woman said, hurrying back to her house, "Oh, my baking yak!" |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-22 13:41 |
| #9 Yak-130 History GlobalSecurity.org |
| Posted by: Delphi 2007-05-22 10:44 |
| #8 Do 200 Yak-130s constitute a "herd" of Yaks? |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-05-22 10:00 |
| #7 The Yak trainers are just that, trainers for new pilots. They are easy to fly and forgiving. However, that many trainers means that Russia plans on pushing a butt-load of pilots out soon. I think mark is right. Shades of 39... Especially with western appeasement running rabid. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-22 09:30 |
| #6 Beats the hell out of the T-37, T-38 and T-45 (BAE Hawk) the US flies. Similar weight and thrust to an F-5E, doesn't require afterburner like the F-5E, and 1/3 the cost of the HAWK |
| Posted by: ed 2007-05-22 09:29 |
| #5 Dear Russian Air Force: Congratulations on inventing a late model F-5. Welcome to 1975. Love, The US Air Force |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-05-22 08:39 |
| #4 A Yakboy? nah, doesn't scan right. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-22 06:22 |
| #3 A "Yak Trainer"? Is that some sort of East Asian version of a cow puncher? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-22 04:26 |
| #2 Putin's Neo-Soviet 'energy' Empire continues training for a new war, as the bulk of Western leaders remain in their deep slumber. Shades of late 1938 & early 39. The pre-war era's threats from Berlin, is today's Moscow, the same nuclear power continues arming terrorist exporting Iran & Syria, along with the rest of America's & Israel's other enemies. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2007-05-22 02:38 |
| #1 With Teeth |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-22 02:28 |