{"id":4849,"date":"2026-10-08T05:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/?post_type=aircraft&#038;p=4849"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:18:55","slug":"aeromacchi-leonardomb-346-master","status":"publish","type":"aircraft","link":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/aircraft\/aeromacchi-leonardomb-346-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeromacchi\/LeonardoMB-346 Master"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Leonardo M-346 Master<\/strong> is a family of military <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twinjet\">twin-engined<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transonic\">transonic<\/a>, advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jet_trainer\">jet trainers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light_combat_aircraft\">light combat aircraft<\/a>. Originally co-developed with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakovlev\">Yakovlev<\/a> as the <strong>Yak\/AEM-130<\/strong>, the partnership was dissolved in 2000 and then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alenia_Aermacchi\">Alenia Aermacchi<\/a> proceeded to separately develop the M-346 Master, while Yakovlev continued work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakovlev_Yak-130\">Yakovlev Yak-130<\/a>. The first flight of the M-346 was performed in 2004. The M-346 is currently in operation with the air forces of Italy, Israel, Singapore, Greece, Qatar, Turkmenistan, and Poland. In 2017, the manufacturer rebranded as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_S.p.A.\">Leonardo<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_M-346#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1992, Aermacchi signed a cooperation agreement with Yakovlev to provide financial and technical support for the new trainer that the firm had been developing since 1991 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Air_Force\">Russian Air Force<\/a> in competition with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikoyan_MiG-AT\">Mikoyan MiG-AT<\/a>. Aermacchi also gained the right to modify and market the aircraft for the Western market.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_M-346#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> The resulting aircraft first flew in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_in_aviation\">1996<\/a> and was brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italy\">Italy<\/a> the following year to replace the aging <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aermacchi_MB-339\">MB-339<\/a>. By this point, the aircraft was being marketed as the Yak\/AEM-130. In February 1996, Russia provided initial funding for the Yak\/AEM-130 and pledged to purchase up to 200 aircraft for the Russian Air Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leonardo M-346 Master is a family of military twin-engined, transonic, advanced jet trainers and light combat aircraft. Originally co-developed with Yakovlev as the Yak\/AEM-130, the partnership was dissolved in 2000 and then Alenia Aermacchi proceeded to separately develop the M-346 Master, while Yakovlev continued work on the Yakovlev Yak-130. The first flight of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acdb_brands_pos":"bottom","_acdb_special_pos":"after_links","footnotes":""},"aircraft_manufacturer":[500],"aircraft_category":[],"aircraft_country":[],"class_list":["post-4849","aircraft","type-aircraft","status-publish","hentry","aircraft_manufacturer-aeromacchi-leonardomb-346"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aircraft"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft\/4849\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aircraft_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft_manufacturer?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"aircraft_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft_category?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"aircraft_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfmwebsie.xyz\/my_website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aircraft_country?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}