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      Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger 
      
        
        
        
      
        
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          Origin: | 
          
          USSR | 
         
        
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          Type: | 
          
          carrierborne 
          V/STOL combat aircraft | 
         
        
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          Max Speed: | 
          
          545 kt / 627 
          mph | 
         
        
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          Max Range | 
          
          14,765 ft / 
          4,500 m | 
         
        
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          Dimensions: | 
          
          span 7.32 m / 
          24 ft 0.2 in 
          length 15.50 m / 50 ft 10.2 in 
          height 4.37 m / 14 ft 4 in | 
         
        
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          Weight: | 
          
          empty 7,485 kg 
          / 16,502 lb 
          max. take-off 11,700 kg / 
          25,795 lb | 
         
        
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          Powerplant: | 
          
          one 6950-kg 
          (15,322-lb) dry thrust Tumanskii R-27V-300 vectored-thrust turbojet, 
          and two 3050-kg (6,724-lb) dry thrust Rybinsk RD-36-35VFR lift 
          turboJ'ets | 
         
        
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          Armament: | 
          
          provision for 
          2000 kg (4,409 Ib) of disposable stores, including AAMs, ASMs, bombs, 
          rocket-launcher pods, cannon pods and drop tanks, carried on four 
          external hardpoints 
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