MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The YAK-130D training aircraft (D stands for demonstrator) is running tests of future avionics to be installed in various other aircraft.
"The flight tests of new avionics integrated into the YAK- 130D are conducted not only under the YAK-130 program, but also for the sake of the Russian combat aviation as a whole. For instance, the equipment tested in the YAK-130D is likely to be installed into serial aircraft of the Sukhoi design bureau," a participant in the test program from the Russian aircraft building industry told Interfax-Military News Agency.
According to him, the YAK-130D will test the laser platform- free gyro-vertical (platform-free inertial navigation system), developed by the Moscow Institute for Electromechanics and Automatics.
"Recently, the aircraft completed tests, equipped with the airborne oxygen system, developed by the Zvezda scientific and production enterprise headquartered in Tomilino, Moscow region, at the request of and funded by the Yakovlev design bureau," he added.
He also said that the new oxygen system weighs about 20 kg, while the one currently in service is 32 kg, and SU-fighters are equipped with even heavier 58-kg oxygen systems.
"This oxygen system will become Russia's first 'organic' one when integrated into serial YAK-130 combat-trainers," said he.