Lao armed forces on a commercial basis received four combat-training aircraft Yak-130. The aircraft were delivered under an agreement signed between the countries in 2017. In addition, armored and lightly armored vehicles, as well as other Russian-made weapons, are also supplied to this country.
Recall that the contract was signed on August 26, 2017 by the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, and the Prime Minister of Laos, Thonglun Sisulit, in Gorki, near Moscow. And on January 22, 2019 at the airport of Vientiane - the capital of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic - an official ceremony was held to transfer four Yak-130 combat training aircraft.
According to Kommersant, about ten such machines are planned to be delivered to Laos. The estimated cost for all the Yak-130 was about 300 million dollars.
By the way, Laos became the fifth foreign recipient of the Yak-130 aircraft produced by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of PJSC "Irkut Corporation". Previously, these aircraft were delivered to Algeria, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Belarus.
Specify, the Yak-130 is designed for training and combat training of pilots, as well as the use of air and ground targets. It allows you to train pilots of combat aircraft of the generations "4+" and "5". For the first time the car took to the air in 1996, and in 2002 was chosen as the main aircraft for the training of pilots of the Russian Air Force.
