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TSAMTO, January 10th. The channel LAOS ARMY CHANNEL on Youtube published a video about the arrival at the Vientiane airfield (capital of Laos) of three Russian-made Yak-130 combat training aircraft (bn 044, 045 and 046).
Recall that at the Singapore Airshow 2016 air show, a source in the Russian defense industry told Lenta.ru that the Lao Air Force is interested in acquiring Russian-made Yak-130 aircraft. Twin rocket combat training vehicles are supposed to be used for training pilots and performing combat missions.
“Laos is interested in this car, which will make it relatively inexpensive to close the gap formed after the cancellation of MiG-21 airplanes received from the USSR in the 1970s,” the source told Lenta.ru.
According to a source Lenta.ru, Laos can get 16-20 aircraft, and the contract will include the supply of additional equipment, weapons and spare parts, as well as services for organizing the training of pilots and technicians.
Currently, there are about 25 MiG-21 fighters in the Laotian Air Force, but most of them are unsuitable for flights.
The first combat-training aircraft Yak-130 (bn 044) arrived in Vientiane on December 20, 2018 on board the IL-76TD (bp RA-78765) aircraft of the Russian airline Aviakon Tsitotrans, as already reported by TSAMTO.
Source: www.armstrade.org
Source: Thomas Newdick
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