Group : Training Jets
Status : Active
Also Known As : Mitten, Yak-133 (fighter version), Yak-133IB (fighter bomber), Yak-133PP (jammer aircrat version), Yak-133R (reconnaissance aircraft)
Origin : Russia
Contractors : IRKUT Corporation, Sokol, Yakovlev JSC
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : August 21, 2009
First Flight : April 25, 1996
Total Production : 358
Unitary Cost : USD $15.3 million

The Russian Air Force Yak-130/133 aircraft family will be powered by two NPO Saturn Al-222-25 turbojet engines rated at 5,510 pounds each. Coupled with the aircraft aerodynamics will allow Yak-130 to maneuver duplicating all modes of modern and advanced combat aircraft. Angles of attack of up to 40 degrees can be attained thanks to this. The engines have been designed to enable high sustained maneuver g-load, fast take off and climbing performance.

The Yak-130 can carry up to 3,000 kg of payload in nine external hard points; six under wing, one under inner fuselage and two wingtips. Bombs, missiles, targeting pods, external fuel tanks, surveillance equipment and countermeasures can be loaded onto the aircraft. The air intakes can be closed with doors when the aircraft is running on the ground allowing to take off from unprepared/dirty airfields like the Mig-29 Fulcrum. The pilot features a helmet-mounted target designation system.

From early in the 1990s, Yakovlev's Yak-130 and MAPO-MIG Mig-AT were in close competition to replace the Russian Air Force L-29/39 fleet. In 2002, the Russian Air Force selected the Yak-130 aircraft with roughly 300 aircraft to be produced through 2015. The first Yak-130 was expected to achieve initial operational capability by 2006. The next generation trainer requirement issued by the Russian Air Force calls for an airframe with more than 10,000 flight hours or over 30 years of service life.

In August 2005 Svezda company announced that the BKDU-130 oxygen generator system development was completed on the Mig-29M aircraft. The new oxygen generator system was meant to remove the oxygen bottles from Russian manufactured fighter aircraft such as the Mig-29M. Mig-29K, Mig-29KUB, Mig-AT, and Yak-130. Moreover, Svezda stated that there was an agreement between the Russian Air Force and the design bureaus Mig, Yakovlev and Sukhoi on this issue.

Group : Close Air Support Aircrafts
Status : Under Development
Origin : Russia
Contractors : IRKUT Corporation, Yakovlev JSC
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2027
First Flight : 2025
Total Production : ?

The Yak-130M is a derivative of the Yak-130 trainer with expanded combat capabilities requested by export operators of the Yak-130 aircraft. The new aircraft features air-to-air and air-to-surface combat capabilities including drone hunting missions. Yakovlev unveiled the Yak-130 light combat aircraft in August 2024 during Army Exhibition in Russia. The new aircraft is intended for the export market with the Russian Aerospace Forces expected to upgrade 60 existing Yak-130 to the Yak-130M standard.

Yakovlev started assembling three Yak-130M prototypes in February 2025. The new aircraft is expected to receive the BRLS-130R AESA radar, R-77-1 air-to-air missiles with a maximum range of 100 kilometers, Kh-39M and Kh-38MA tactical air-to-ground missiles as well as S-8L laser-guided 80mm rockets. The aircraft may be powered by two SM-100 turbofan engines.