Mikoyan MiG-AT

MiG-AT
MiG-AT "81" and "83"
Role	Advanced trainer / light attack
Manufacturer	Mikoyan
First flight	March 21, 1996
Status	Cancelled
Number built	2

The Mikoyan MiG-AT is a Russian trainer aircraft that first flew in 1996, designed to replace Aero L-29 and L-39 for the Russian Air Force. The MiG-AT is the first joint aircraft development programme between Russia and France and the first military collaborative project between Russia and the West to reach first flight. Besides the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Forces, Mikoyan sought to export the trainer to India, South Africa, Greece, France and Commonwealth of Independent States such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

The MiG-AT is more conventional than the competing Yak-130. It has a low-set, straight wing, engines mounted on either side of the fuselage and a mid-mounted tail. Two prototypes have been built. The first flight took place between 16 and 22 March 1996 in Zhukovsky and lasted seven minutes.

Flight tests Equipped the AL-55I engine are succeed in 2008.

The software suite of the MiG-AT allowed the aircraft to adopt the characteristics of third- and fourth-generation jet fighters.

In March 2002, Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Mikhailov said that the Yak-130 and the MiG-AT had been chosen as the Russian Air Force's new trainers. The Yak-130, however, was said to be superior as it could serve the dual role of a trainer and combat jet. Despite that, on 10 April 2002, it was announced that Yak-130 had been chosen as the winner of the tender for trainer aircraft for basic and advanced pilot training, beating the MiG-AT. By then, the two prototypes had amassed 750 flights.

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004

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