SANTIAGO (Chile) (Sputnik) — Russia hopes to successfully promote its Yak-130 (NATO reporting name: Mitten) combat training aircraft in Latin America's markets, the deputy director of the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation said.
"We hope that the countries of Latin America that have plans to replace their fleets of flight equipment, will pay close attention to the Yak-130. We hope that the Yak-130 will appear in the near future in the sky over Latin America," Anatoly Punchuk, who is leading the Russian delegation at the FIDAE-2016 arms exhibition in Chile, told RIA Novosti in an interview.
The Yak-130 aircraft is the world's only training aircraft with the aerodynamic configuration and subsonic flight performance characteristics of modern jet fighters. The two-seat reconnaissance and light attack jet has a combat load of up to 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds).
