Yak-28IM Soviet bomber

Yak-28I was adopted in 1962. The aircraft was equipped with the integrated system of the armament control consisting of a radar station 'Initiative 2', an optical sight OPB116 and an automatic pilot AP-28K. With it's help the crew could retrieve and attack pin-point mobile targets at any time of a day an in hard meteorological conditions. In all 223 aircraft of this modification were built. In order to extend the fighting capacities of fighter-bomber Yak-28, in 1969 Yakovlev's design bureau has produced a new modification Yak-28IM with two pylons for additional armament.