Russia Chooses A New Basic Jet Trainer

MiG-UTS

The MiG-UTS two-seat trainer will be powered by a single Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25 turbofan  engine.

Credit: United Aircraft Corp. concept
After struggling for three decades to begin a new basic training aircraft program, the Russian Aerospace Forces have finally assigned that task to Mikoyan, a division of United Aircraft Corp. The aircraft, preliminarily named MiG-UTS, resembles a twin-engine version of the aircraft that lost a prior...

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