Key point: The beginning of VTOL systems started with Russia. For all the yelling and shouting over the Department of Defense’s much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, there’s an unusual, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Yak-141 Freestyle may not technically count as a predecessor to the F-35, but the JSF does seem to have at least some Russian DNA floating around its engine design.

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 ...

During a media briefing held at Farnborough, Irkut‘s vice-president Konstantin Popovich recounted a funny episode that had occurred during the Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainer first flight at the ...

Yak-130M with new equipment and weapons at the Army 2024 defense show. Credit: Yakovlev Russia’s Yakovlev aims to start flight trials of its Yak-130M light combat jet in the first half of 2025, the ...