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Miragedriver
Brigadier
I was looking through some of my old Cold War pictures and came across these. The almost useless Yak-38:
This one is for Popeye:
Back to bottling my Grenache
This one is for Popeye:
Back to bottling my Grenache
Yep...the good old Yak-38.I was looking through some of my old Cold War pictures and came across these. The almost useless Yak-38:
Back to bottling my Grenache
They certainly gave the Soviets some organic fixed wing capability at sea, and experience working with them on the four Kiev class vessels. Usually up to 12 Yak-38 VTOL aircraft on one of those carriers.
However, if they ever had to go up against US/Western aircraft...they were toast.
US Naval Aviators had a nickname for them. Thye called them FUGSD..."Fly Up, Get Shot Down."
b787
Captain
The Yak-38s were an interim design, the real goal was the Yak-141
The Yak-38 was also deployed to Afghanistan, contrary what is usually thought, the Russians knew how to make a pure swiveling nozzles aircraft without lift engines, the Yak-36 is an example
If you watch this program, they say Yak-38 was not that different from Harrier in tech specifications, however they knew yak-38 was inferior to most land based aircraft
Jura The idiot
General
there're funny names in Russian wiki article
and let me add one more (I read it in a Russian book): on Soviet ships, it was politely called
(the point was it was hardly a secret Як-38 had limited capabilities in both its fighter and surface-attack roles)
Jura The idiot
General
I didn't, but Russian wiki is pretty critical to Як-38 as compared to the Harrier; mid paragraph in
(and you can check my preceding post
b787
Captain
While interesting you can not base your opinion upon a single source, specially upon one like wikipedia
In order to solve the problem of radical back in the 50s, several countries have begun work on the creation of aircraft vertical or short takeoff and landing (VTOL / STOL).On the first Soviet apparatus GDP - "Turbolete" and Yak-36 are sufficiently described in detail in a number of recent publications, including in my article "vertikalka" published in the brochure "Wings over the sea."But the famous Yak-38 - the first and only entered service domestic airplane GDP - despite the popularity of the journalists, has not received so far adequately assessed in the press.Undeservedly forgotten there were not only many positive qualities of the Yak-38, but also people - designers, pilots and technicians whose work is inscribed this page in the history of our aviation.As a long time customer representative at OKB Yakovlev and lead engineer on the VTOL, I took an active part in the course of events, the participants personally know and feel obliged to fill in the gaps of previous publications............................I would like to emphasize that during the flight tests of the Yak-36M was not lost none prototype, while in England crashed 3 of 6 experienced "Harrier". Much credit for the success of the CIO Yak-36M belongs to the first deputy. General Designer K.B.Bekirbaevu, Deputy. General Designer S.G.Mordovinu, chief flight test facility (LIC) O.S.Dolgih leading engineers and mechanics.
The third prototype after the program was transferred to VVIA them. Zhukovsky for testing tap hot gases of the engine, and the Yak-36M No.04 serves as a visual aid for students MAI. Thank God, they did not go to the smelter.
List of sources:
Aviation and time. Yuri Lunev. Yak-38 - a thorny path pioneer
Aerospace. Yefim Gordon. The aircraft vertical takeoff and landing
Wings of the Motherland. Stanislav Mordovin. Deck-based aircraft began with the Yak-38
Wings of the Motherland. Vadim Abidin. Unforgettable Yak-38
Nikolay Yakubovich. Combat jets Yakovlev
Wings over the sea. Anatoly Artemyev. Taking off from the ship
Aerospace. Michael Levine. Aircraft VTOL
Roman Astakhov. Russian Power. Deck attack aircraft GDP Yak-38
Source in Russian
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