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The Yakovlev Yak-33 was a vertical take-off and landing supersonic multi-purpose aircraft family studied in the early 1960s with variants of a basic design used to fulfill different roles in a similar fashion to the Yak-25 Yak-27 Yak-28 family.Several configurations were studied including canard and tailless deltas however matching supersonic performance with VTOL ability seriously compromised the designs ability to carry out its primary missions.