“Here we present the beginning of the project for its deep modernization - we significantly expand its combat capabilities. It becomes not just a combat training aircraft, but to a large extent a combat aircraft, ”he said at the Dubai Airshow 2019 TASS exhibition.
Thus, the aircraft will be able to perform even more tasks depending on the requirements of the customer and the region of application.
“We have customized these increased combat capabilities specifically for those customers here in the Middle East, taking into account the tasks that they have to solve here,” Slyusar specified.
So, the Yak-130 aviation weapons are presented at a static exposition, among which are air-to-air guided missiles, blocks of unguided rockets of various calibers, electronic warfare containers and a hanging container with a 30 mm double-barreled air gun.
Earlier it was reported that Russia will first introduce the Yak-130 at the international air show in Dubai.