Combat Trainer Jet

The Yak-130 two-seater is designed for basic and advanced training of fighter pilots to fly and employ top-of-the-line fighter jets. This aircraft features enhanced maneuverability and advanced avionics suite typical for top-of-the-line fighter jets, as well as high reliability and long service life.

Compliant with the rigorous requirements of the Russian Air Force, the Yak-130 also perfectly matches the contemporary and prospective demands of foreign customers.

The Yak-130 is the only trainer with aerodynamic layout and subsonic flight performance similar to those of modern fighter jets. Its adjustable integrated flight control system enables the trainees to develop and master in a short time their skills in flying Russian or foreign made forth and fifth generation fighter jets.

Moreover, the Yak-130 can be successfully used for realistic combat training with simulated and live employment of air-to-air / air-to-ground weaponry.

The Yak-130 covers up to 80% of the entire training programme. The Yak-130 constitutes a core element of a flight-and-mission training system, which also includes an integrated control unit, computer-aided classrooms, and flight-and-mission simulators.

By the request of a customer and according to its technical requirements a customized light combat version could be developed on the basis of the Yak-130 platform with level of unification of light combat and training version up to 90%.

Weaponry

The Yak-130 can carry up to 3,000 kg of combat load at nine hardpoints (rockets, guns, missiles, guided and unguided bombs, etc.).

Open avionics architecture allows integration of various air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry available at the international market.

Distinctive features

The Yak-130 efficiently operates in a wide flight envelope due to:
- perfect aerodynamics;
- excellent maneuverability;
- high angle-of-attack flight capability;
- high rate of climb.

Featuring perfect aerodynamics configuration, the Yak-130 is a moderately swept-wing monoplane with all-moving low mounted stabilizer. The effective wing with high-lift devices and forward-hinged airbrake on spine ensures steady controllable flight at up to 35-deg angle of attack.

The aircraft is fitted with a retractable tricycle landing gear, which ensures take-off from short unpaved airfields.

The aircraft is powered by two AI-222-25 turbojet bypass engines, each rated at 2,500 kgf of thrust. The high thrust-to-weight ratio ensures high sustained-maneuver g-load and impressive take-off characteristics. The dedicated air intake shutters are activated when aircraft operates from unpaved airfield, to prevent suction of foreign objects into engines during take-off and landing. The Yak-130 is equipped with an in-flight refueling system, thus enhancing training and combat capabilities. The TA-14 airborne auxiliary power unit ensures autonomous operations from remote airfields, and can be started up in the air in case of emergency.

The “inform-and-control” field comprising three multifunctional 6” x 8” LCDs in each cockpit and HUD in the front cockpit ensures representation of all essential information to the pilots. The quadruple redundant fly-by-wire system can be reprogrammed to modify stability / controllability parameters depending on the fighter jet simulated.

Each cabin accommodates an ejection seat with the through-canopy ejection capability to ensure safe emergency escape.

Contact Information

Mr. Vladimir Efremof, Director, Directorate of the Yak-130 programme
phone / fax: +7 (495) 777-21-01
e-mail: inbox@irkut.com
address: Building 1, 68, Leningradsky prospekt, Moscow, Russia, 125315