Yak-130 warplane crashes in Russia

A Yak-130 military training aircraft has crashed on the administrative border between Kalmykia [a federal subject of the Russian Federation] and Volgograd Oblast.

Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti; Militarnyi, a Ukrainian online military news agency

Details: Russian media reported that the pilot of the Yak-130 was taken to hospital after ejecting.

Militarnyi notes that these warplanes are part of Russia's Aerospace Forces training regiments and are used for pilot training.

The Yak-130 is employed to train pilots in conditions that closely resemble combat scenarios, allowing for the simulated or actual use of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons.

Russia's Aerospace Forces currently have over a hundred Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft.

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