Название: Yakovlev's V/STOL Fighters Yak 36, Yak 38, Yak 41 and Yak 141: The Full Story of Russia's Rival to the Harrier
Автор: Piotr Butowski, John FrickerИздательство: Aerofax, Midland Publishing
Серия: Aerofax
ISBN: 1857800419
Год издания: 1995
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 45
Формат: PDF
Размер: 29,5 MB
For a long while, talk of vertical take-off and landing jet fighters meant only the world-beating Harrier. Then the Russian Yakovlev design bureau announced it was bringing its supersonic VTOL fighter, the Yak-141 "Freestyle" to the Farnborough air show in 1992. After all the rumours and scepticism, the world knew that Russian technology was a thing to wonder at. Yakovlev has been in the VTOL business since the early 1960s when they flew the experimental Yak-36 "Freehand" prototype. This was followed by the Yak-38 "Forger" which surprised the world by being deployed on the Soviet carrier "Kiev" from 1975.