Ok everyone calm down here dudes.
Lets put things into order shall we? ;D Yes it will be a bit long but at least everything will be clear after that.
As asnamara said before - Erez, we will start working on the Lavi soon - so relax, sit back and wait!!
As an Israeli I know a lot of people in the military business. My girlfriend's father was one of the Lavi designers so I know quite a lot about it! Her father told me that the shape of the plane was not meant to be a brakethrough, it was based on various Aerdynamics technologies. The real deal with the LAVI he said, was the avionics suit or basically the technology inside the plane that was supposed to be done with a joint effort with the very experienced top Israeli Military companies.
It is hard to tell wether the LAVI could have been better than this or that but I believe that with the super high aircraft technology that exist nowadays in Israel the LAVI could have had one of the best avionics suits in the world, it was also meant to carry the Israeli PYTH-4, the most advanced air to air missile that exists nowadays.
About the magazine Erez is reading :P - I read the same thing. Basically it says there that the F-2 is a great plane but no one is sure if the amount of money that was spent and will be spent is actually worth it. It was also said that F-16 block 60 Destert Falcon and The F-16I Suefa are going to be more advanced and cheaper by a half!!! Make your own conclusions . . .
About the J-10 stuff. From what I read and know I understood that Israel might have sold some aircraft technology to China to help with the J-10 production . . . TRUE Or NOT? what's for sure is that MAYBE! ;D ;D ;D
And last thing - to Wolf about the production of the LAVI.
Yes! The LAVI production was mainly stoped due to American pressure, the Americans wanted and still wants Israel to be dependent on them. Another reason is that the Americans did not want to have any competitors in the fighter jets market because after all the LAVI was supposed to be significantly cheaper than the F-16. It is unique to mention that right after Israel stopped the production of the LAVI the US supplied 100 F-16's to Israel at a low price . . . mmmmm . . . . Sounds very clear now.
Hope you liked my speech, and did not fell asleep in the middle of it . . . Any comments are more than welcome!! ;)
Please do not lock this topic, there is nothing wrong with it and it is actually very intresting, after all many users contribute to the argument
Cheers
Alonik
by Bonzonie » Sat Oct 19, 2002 3:57 am 
(cool too)
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, thanx for pointing it out.
