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Yak-38: The Soviet’s Failed Attempt at a Harrier
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought its own answer to Britain’s revolutionary Harrier jump jet. The result was the Yakovlev Yak-38, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed for ...
Summary and Key Points: The Yak-41 (Yak-141) was a Soviet attempt at creating a supersonic VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, developed in the 1980s but ultimately shelved after the... The ...
Though not quite a household name like MiG (Mikoyan-Gurevich), Sukhoi and Yakovlev are nonetheless famous names in the annals of Soviet/Russian military aircraft production history. Sukhoi Design ...
The Soviets wanted a fighter that could fly from their first aircraft carriers. The carriers themselves were not conventional. They lacked a longer, flat-top take-off and landing deck. These hybrid ...
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