You sound like you don’t know what you want.. what kind of capabilities are you looking for, because the Yak-130 is first and foremost a TRAINER with NO BVR capability.. to suggest an air force to adopt the Yak-130 to replace their MiG-21/F-5/etc is absurd.. especially when the FC-1 (which is about the same weight as the T-50), offers a BVR advantage, not to mention what the MiG-29 can do.
The Yak-130 is a good plane, yes.. and a trainer able to fill a market that lacks advance aircraft with high AOA.. but it does not mean it’ll make a good light multi role aircraft that can compete with other light combat aircraft with out extensive modifications of the structure that you want..which would involve costs and time.
Furthermore aircraft such as the Hawk 200 which is a combat aircraft derived from an advance trainer, hasn’t been selling very well..with the two sole users preferring to adopt REAL combat aircraft. While the AMX, also a smaller subsonic aircraft designed for combat, isn’t selling that well either, with the cost per unit being greater than the MiG-29 and as much as an F-16 from Italian reports.
further more I suggest you come down from the “what-ifs” mode, because one can certainly see the potential if you changed a little of this, add a little of that.. but in reality it is much different.
now some questions for you if you don’t mind..
how much do you think the Yak-130 will cost, and how much do you think it will cost after extensive modification to make it into the aircraft you want.
how much do you think the FC-1 and the F-50 will cost
and what kind of capabilities do you want.
Dude, are you reading what I said above? I said that it needs alot of changes to be able to compete with T/F/A-50 stuff like. read:
-single seat
-more powerful engines
-few more hardpoints
-perhaps a larger wing
-stretched fuselage for more fuel
-allow it to carry wide array of Russia Air to surface and air to air weapons as well as some more Western weapons
-arm is with at least a good radar to allow it to fire R-77 and other weapons
However Yak-130 would need some structural changes, maybe different wing, stronger engines, and as soon as you remove the second seat and make space for more fuel you got more range, and probably you can even stretch the fuselage a little more. Maybe add 2 more hardpoints somewhere under the fuselage and you got 2 wingtip pylons for R-73 and you got the rest of the hardpoints for other weapons.
If Yakovlev ever developed a light fighter out of it, a single seat and etc then it could be very good.
It should be single seat, by removing the second seat would create a lot more space for fuel, give it stronger engines or give it just one strong engine instead of two, give it the necessary avionics like much better radar with BVR capability to fire R-77 and other Russian ASMs, also possibly make some other structural changes to the wing or something to allow it to fly supersonically and maybe add some more hardpoints under the fuselage/under the wings and there you got yourself a very nice light single seat cheap multirole fighter all under 20mn probably that can also be bought with not only Russian weapons and avionics but Western stuff too.
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