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Russia's Armavir air base took delivery of second batch of Yak-130 trainer aircraft
 
The second batch of Yak-130 operational trainers scheduled for 2015 was delivered to Russian Air Force's Armavir air base, the third one is being prepared for delivery, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representative of the press-service of Russian Ministry of Defense on Air Forces, Colonel Igor Klimov.
     
The second batch of Yak-130 operational trainers scheduled for 2015 was delivered to Russian Air Force's Armavir air base, the third one is being prepared for delivery, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representative of the press-service of Russian Ministry of Defense on Air Forces, Colonel Igor Klimov.
Russia's Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft
     
The first batch of five Yak-130 jets arrived at the air base in late January. Armavir's crews can now count on a fleet of 13 combat trainer aircraft.

Pilots of the air forces ferried five new Yak-130 operational trainers from Irkutsk Aviation Plant to Armavir air base. During the long flight the aircraft demonstrated their best characteristics – excellent controllability and reliability of aircraft systems under any temperature and weather conditions. The acceptance of four more jets of the type is being carried out by specialists of the air base at the Irkutsk-based enterprise,” Klimov said.

Klimov noted that the temperature in Irkutsk was -20 Celsius at the time of departure, while temperature in Armavir was +15 Celsius. Throughout the flight the jets encountered dense clouds, abundant rainfall, strong front and cross wind.

The pilots covered a distance of over 5,5 thousand kilometers and made three intermediate stops in Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and Borisoglebsk in order to refuel the aircraft. All the systems functioned normally, pilots managed to perform instrumental landing and reach the airfield without any faults,” he added.

Yak-130 is the two-seat next-generation operational trainer designed for pilot training and combat missions performed under normal and severe weather conditions. The jet is capable of destroying ground and air targets.

The Yak-130 features design simplicity, high reliability of its airframe, powerplant and aircraft systems, a long lifetime, independent basing capability, as well as high maintainability ensured by its automated onboard diagnostics and monitoring system. The potentialities invested in the Yak-130 design and layout concept will enable its designers to develop a light combat aircraft and other modifications.