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Yak-15
Yak-15 with RD-10 engine
Type	Fighter
Manufacturer	Yakovlev
Maiden flight	24 April 1946
Introduction	1947
Retired	Early 1950s
Primary user	Soviet Air Force
Produced	1946 – 1947
Number built	280
Developed from	Yakovlev Yak-3

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About 280 were built.

1 Variants
2 Users
3 Specifications (Yak-15)
4 External links
5 See also

Variants

Yak-15 : Single-seat jet fighter aircraft.
Yak-21 : Two-seat training aircraft.
Yak-15U : Experimental version fitted with a tricycle landing gear.

Users

Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Soviet Air Force. The Soviet Air Force, also known under the abbreviation VVS, transliterated from Russian: ВВС, Военно-воздушные силы ( Voenno-Vozdushnye

Specifications (Yak-15)

General characteristics

Crew: one, pilot
Length: 8. 70 m (28 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 9. The wingspan (or just span) of an airplane or a Bird, is the distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip 20 m (30 ft 2 in)
Height: 2. 27 m (7 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 14. 9 m² (160 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,852 kg (4,074 lb)
Loaded weight: 2,742 kg (6,032 lb)
Max takeoff weight: kg (lb)
Powerplant: 1× Tumansky RD-10 turbojet, 8. The Maximum Takeoff Weight or Maximum Takeoff Mass of an Aircraft is the maximum weight at which the pilot of the aircraft is allowed to attempt to take off TurboJET (噴射飛航 is the brand name for the operations of the Hong Kong -based Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited (信德中旅船務管理有限公司 9 kN (2,000 lbf)

Performance

Maximum speed: 700 km/h (438 mph)
Range: 510 km (319 miles)
Service ceiling 13,350 m (43,788 ft)
Rate of climb: m/s (ft/min)
Wing loading: 184 kg/m² (38 lb/ft²)
Thrust/weight: 0. In Aviation, V-speeds or Velocity-speeds are standard terms used to define Airspeeds important or useful to the operation of Aircraft, such The maximal total range is the distance an Aircraft can fly between Takeoff and Landing, as limited by fuel capacity in powered aircraft or cross-country In Aeronautics, a ceiling is the maximum Density altitude an aircraft can reach under a set of conditions In Aerodynamics, the rate of climb RoC is the speed at which an Aircraft increases its Altitude. In Aerodynamics, wing loading is the loaded weight of the aircraft divided by the area of the wing Thrust-to-weight ratio is as its name suggests the ratio of instantaneous Thrust to Weight (where weight means weight at the Earth ’s surface 36

Armament

Guns: 2× 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 cannons with 60 rounds each

External links

Description page on aviation.ru

Contents

Variants

Users

Specifications (Yak-15)

External links

See also