Russia’s Yakovlev Design Bureau Ready to Resume Development of Vertical Take-Off Jets

The Moscow-based design bureau developed the USSR’s first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) enabled fighter jet, the Yak-38, in the 1970s. The Yak-38’s successor, the Yak-141 program, reached an advanced stage of development, but was cancelled on the eve of the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991.