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Russia's Mikoyan (MiG) design bureau is developing a new affordable jet trainer aircraft to be used by the country's aviation forces, the Rostec conglomerate announced on 28 December. An artist's rendering of the MiG-UTS shows it to be simil.
The Yak-38 had become a solution searching for a problem – a waste of money, time and effort. It was useless in aerial combat and close air support. Russia never built another jump jet.