Italy's M-346 and Russia's Yak-130 thread

On the two most advance trainers and potentially light combat aircraft on the market today.

Same ancestor, different guts.

Yakovlev Yak-130 demo flight on the first day of MAKS-2009 airshow by RIN&RBI, on Flickr

Russia: 55 ordered (requirement for 200)
Algeria: 16 ordered
Vietnam: 8 ordered
Syria: 36 ordered (may not be fulfilled if Assad regime falls)

Total as of 2012: 115, or 79 sans Syria

Israel: 30 ordered
Italy: 15 ordered
Singapore: 12 ordered
UAE: 48 at one point, now status in question

Total as of 2012: 57 or 105 if UAE deal goes through.

not bad at all

Venezuela is also interested in a new trainer..but would Yak get it or Hongdu with their afterburner Yak-130, the L-15?

A rival of the M-346 and Yak-130 but lost to M-346 in Israel and Singapore, but defeated Yak-130 in Indonesia

Indonesia: 16 ordered
S.Korea: 102 ordered (of all variants)

Total as of 2012: 118 ordered