Construction
The airframe had a semi-monocoque fuselage with bicycle-type landing gear, short cropped delta wings of 37° leading edge sweep, with 5° anhedral, attached to the fuselage in a mid position. The fuselage was rather portly forward of the wing trailing, due to accommodating the engines, cockpit, fuel tanks and equipment bays as close to the c. of g. as possible, tapering sharply to the swept tail surfaces with a high set tailplane. Control of the aircraft was by conventional rudder, ailerons and elevators in normal flight and by compressed engine bleed air blown from control nozzles at the wing-tips, rear fuselage tip and at the end of a long boom extending forwards from the top lip of the air intakes.
Two under-wing hard-points could carry bombs, podded machine guns or rocket pods, but the Yak-36 had insufficient excess thrust and range for effective use as a combat aircraft.
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