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Sukhoi Su-15 and Yakovlev Yak-38: Russia's Forgotten Fighters
Yakovlev is described by former Sunday Times ... A total of 1,290 airframes were built between 1965 and 1979. The Yak-38 (NATO reporting name “Forger”) made her maiden flight on January ...
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Yak-38: The Russia's Struggle to Match the Harrier was a Nightmare
Introducing the Yak-38 Eager to copy the United Kingdom’s Harrier design, Soviet engineers got to work on their own variant. The A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau sketched the first drawings of the ...