TSAMTO, November 15. On November 13, the first batch of six Yak-130 combat training aircraft arrived at the Phu Cat airbase (Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam), according to the Defense Studies blog.
According to reports, in 2019, a contract was signed for the supply of at least 12 Yak-130 combat training aircraft to the Vietnamese Air Force in the amount of over $ 350 million.
The squadron of Russian aircraft being acquired by the Vietnamese Air Force is to replace the outdated Czechoslovak L-39s that have been supplied to the country since the early 1980s.
Probably, the Yak-130 will be transferred to the 940th training aviation regiment. The camouflage of the Yak-130 of the Vietnamese Air Force is similar to the color scheme of the existing Su-30MK2.
