The evolution of Soviet VTOL aircraft tells a story of technological daring, strategic necessity, and Cold War rivalry.

The Yak-38 was intended to be an aircraft carrier fighter jet, which is where so much of the Soviet mind was fixated on: challenging the Americans on the High Seas with a carrier force of their own.

The Yak-38 was intended to be an aircraft... Brandon J. Weichert; July 24, 2024 Security; Yak-38: Russia’s Struggle to Match the Harrier was a Nightmare ...

The Yak-3 was one of the best combat aircraft during WWII, not only in the Soviet Union but worldwide as well. ... (Yak-36 and Yak-38), as well as its foreign counterparts (Harrier, ...

The result, the Yak-38, was introduced in 1976 — three years before the British navy's Sea Harrier entered service — as the Soviet Union's first fixed-wing aircraft for its first true aircraft ...

Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger National Air and Space Museum. Object Details. sova.nasm.2003.0028_ref5947 GUID ... See more items in Revista Aérea Collection Revista Aérea Collection / Series A: Aircraft / ...