Yakovlev Yak-141 (Yak-41M) supersonic V/STOL fighter ("Freestyle")

Is it the book by M.J. Hirschberg (1997)? The content looks really interesting, however, I'm wondering how you were able to get the preview by books.google, as I cannot find any "readable" version.
 
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Came across this in Jane's Intelligence Review in a 1991 volume, a two-seat Yak 41 from an article on the Yak 38 and 41 based on a visit to the OKB and discussions about trying to get sales to keep the programme alive.

I presume this drawing was done from an official plan the artist saw, I'd say its Grade 2 quality (though details like the AAMs without room for nose radar rankle slightly).
 

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Hood said:
Came across this in Jane's Intelligence Review in a 1991 volume, a two-seat Yak 41 from an article on the Yak 38 and 41 based on a visit to the OKB and discussions about trying to get sales to keep the programme alive.

I presume this drawing was done from an official plan the artist saw, I'd say its Grade 2 quality (though details like the AAMs without room for nose radar rankle slightly).
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I think the R-27s are IR guided, so it is plausible.
 
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Though details like the AAMs without room for nose radar rankle slightly.
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Personally, I'm not shocked, because these are R-27Ts, the infrared-guided variant of the Alamo, and R-3S/K-13M "Atoll", which does not require radar guidance.
 
Nothing unusual, Su-15UT/UM did carry R-8T/R-98T imitators or possibly real missiles for training (and presumably wartime emergency), and i think same applies to MiG-25PU for instance (R-40T, and i think i've seen R-60s on APU-60-2 launchers on them too).

So this Yak-41UT (which btw looks very cartoonish, the nose especially is very weird, though perhaps not far from Yakovlev as they did created such "beauties " like the Yak-38U, probably the ugliest thing to fly) could carry R-27T imitators or real missiles, plus R-60 or R-73s (again the R-3S like missile might just be generic/cartoonish)
 
Thanks folks for confirming those are IR-guided R-27Ts.
 
Former Volunteers of the Air Force Museum in Monino, Russia, are refurbishing the front section of a wooden model (mock-up).
It seems to be the trainer project Yakovlev Yak-41UT. :cool:
Source / Link (Russian):

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fightingirish said:
Volunteers of the Air Force Museum in Monino, Russia, are refurbishing the front section of a wooden model (mock-up).
It seems to be the trainer project Yakovlev Yak-41UT. :cool:
Source / Link (Russian):

VK.com | VK

vk.com vk.com
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Great find !!! This is the first time the existence of a Yak-41UT has been unveiled, if I'm not mistaken ?
Until then, the other drawings were Western suppositions.
 

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