Yakovlev Yak-1 Belvedere Capabilities of gun and up-to-date

Capabilities of gun and up-to-date sighting complex 1A45T ‘Irtish‘ give possibility to destroy any enemy's most modern tank before it could approach at the distance of effective firing from its gun

- Stowage box and gun travel lock tooled on engine deck

This vehicle was proposed in early 1970s in Kharkov design bureau

thanks to the General Electric J79 turbojet engine

Yakovlev Yak-1 Belvedere Capabilities of gun and up-to-dateThe Yak 1 was the first fighter developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau and first flew on 13 January 1940. The aircraft had a mixed construction with wooden wing and tip, trussed fuselage made of steel tubes with canvas skin. The fighter was well armed with one 20 mm ShVAK cannon and two synchronised 7. 62 mm SHKAS machine guns mounted above the engine. The Yak 1 was the most successful of the new pre war generation of serial Soviet fighters (MiG 3,