Barrier-combat aircraft Yak-130 will continue to fly from August 1

Flights on the combat-combat aircraft of the Yak-130 will resume in Russia on August 1, at the opening of the international stage of the Aviadarts-2014 competition on July 22, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev. It is reported by ITAR-TASS .

According to Bondarev, management blocks are delivered to the State Flight Testing Center in Akhtubinsk. “Several flights have been completed, and I think that from August 1, the first aircraft will fly already in Borisoglebsk,” the Russian Air Force Glavkom emphasized.

Flights on the combat aircraft Yak-130 were temporarily suspended after the disaster, which occurred on April 15 near the Akhtubinsky Astrakhan region during a training flight. Then the plane collapsed when landing, and although both pilots managed to eject, one of them died, and the second received injuries.

In May 2014, it became known that the United Aircraft Building Company (UAC) will put Syria nine combat combat aircraft Yak-130 until the end of 2014. In 2015, it is planned to sell 12 aircraft of the Syrian army, in 2016 - another 15.