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Yak-38 on the deck. Battle alarm. |
Short take-off vertical landing aircraft.
For three decades Yakovlev design Bureau conacted the research-development-test-evaluation works connected with creation of VTOL aircraft. The experimental aircraft Yak-36 permitted to accumulate the valuble experience in that field, and create the unique research facilities for that new technology in aviation.
Many companies tried to solve the problems connected with this technology, but only two of the projects were carried to completion, serial production and operation: English "Harrier" and Russian Yak-38.
Russia has developed and tested the World first supersonic STOVL aircraft Yak-141.
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