Russia considering STOVL fighter

Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said on Jul. 17 that his ministry is in talks with the Russian aerospace industry on “the development of an aircraft with a short take-off and landing, possibly with a vertical take-off and landing.”

Yak-141 (141) at Central Air Force Museum pic1
By Alf van Beem (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Borisov added that this will be a “development of the Yak line.”