Soviet Yakovlev's

rare footage of soviet VTOL aircraft

The Yak-38 Forger

Originally known as the Yak-36MP in the West, the Yak-38 was the first production vertical takeoff/landing aircraft built by the Soviet Union. Similar to the British Harrier, the Yak-38 was built to operate from the Soviet medium-sized Kiev class aircraft carriers. It was due to be replaced by the advanced Yak-141 until government funding for that project was cancelled. A total of about 230 aircraft were built.

Yak-141 Freestyle

Developed to replace the Yak-38 for Soviet aircraft carrier use, the Yak-41 (later redesignated Yak-141) was the world's first supersonic vertical/short-takeoff and landing aircraft. Though a very advanced and capable design, Yakovlev has been frustrated by shrinking funding from the Russian government and has sought international partners to continue development of the design. Yakovlev engineers have also been consulted by Lockheed in designing its V/STOL version of the Joint Strike Fighter.

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[sonicboom2885]

yak-38? no.... yak-141 freestyler. Nato - check it.

[Yak38]

Err...this video shows footage of the Yak 141 Freestyle then a short clip of a Yak 38 Forger. Watch again and see that they are clearly labelled as such.

[AkshayPendharkar]

The landing on this iarcraft seems to be more gentle than that on the harrier

[weirdguy7]

Yak 141 is an average plane. It still makes the same mistake that all bad VTOL aircraft designs have. Vertical lift engines. It has one big engine to push the plane and lift the back end, but behind the cockpit are more engines that only get used in VTOL mode. That is just extra weight.

The JSF F-35 has a fan that is powered by the one engine, so that arangement is lighter, but everyone admits the swiveling engine at the back is copied from the Yak 141.

[binaway]

@unsobill Worls first VTOL airplane was the US X14 (February 1957). X14 was also the first plane to use vector thrust nozzles for lift with air bled from the engines to small nozzles at the extremities for balance during hovering. First jet thrust flying machine with balance nozzles was the Rolls Royce flying bedstead, but with no wings conventional flight was impossible. It could also be argued the x13 ( a tail sitter) was the first but it never worked properly.

[FreestylaBoy]

Reminds me of F-14

[emancoy]

@cpnstav at the time it was made, yes it did.

Its a good thing it didn't had a chance to square off with the harrier and American jets. Because if if the Yak won, it would be very embarrassing

[emancoy]

@LucasFerrariAdriano yeah, now I know where they copied F35

[malakius]

Looks like a MIG-31 with the two D30-F6s swapped by a big single engine.

[binaway]

Looks like a VSTOL phantom to me.

[nanodrone93]

my surname is yakovlev xD

[LucasFerrariAdriano]

Hmm... looks a lot like the sooo original F-35, eh?

[auro1986]

looks like the F-15

[GLR26591]

older than the UK and US plane