Yakovlev Yak-130

The Yakovlev Yak-130, with the NATO reporting name Mitten, is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft. It began as the Yak/AEM-130, a joint project of Yakovlev and the Italian company Aermacchi, with development starting in 1991 and a first flight in April 1996. The companies ended the partnership in 2000 and Yakovlev continued alone. The first prototype was built at Sokol in Nizhny Novgorod and made its first flight on 25 April 1996 at Zhukovsky. In 2002 the type won a Russian government tender for training aircraft, and in 2010 it entered service with the Russian Air Force. It is powered by two Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25 turbofans and has been ordered by several foreign air forces, including Bangladesh, which ordered 24 and later reduced the order to 16.