Meet the Yak-38: During the Cold War, the Royal Air Force developed the Harrier “Jump Jet,” an aircraft that went on to be a favorite of Hollywood. As Harrison Kass, writing in December of last year ...
Everyone’s heard about the Harrier jump jet. Arnold Schwarzenegger used one to blast terrorists in True Lies. The Royal Navy beat him to the punch when it used a few dozen to score twenty air-to-air ...
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Yak-38: The Soviet’s Failed Attempt at a Harrier
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought its own answer to Britain’s revolutionary Harrier jump jet. The result was the Yakovlev Yak-38, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed for ...
Though not quite a household name like MiG (Mikoyan-Gurevich), Sukhoi and Yakovlev are nonetheless famous names in the annals of Soviet/Russian military aircraft production history. Sukhoi Design ...
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