In the end, the variety of pressures took their toll, and the Lavi program was canceled after only a handful of prototypes ...

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But the J-10 is not the F-16 – they are more like distant cousins. In 1988, The Sunday Times reported that Israel and China had agreed to develop a fighter derived from the Lavi. Israel’s ...

single-engine design bearing a striking resemblance to the F-16. With a new lease on life, the renamed Lavi (another word for “lion”) fighter program, which began in 1980, reached the flying ...

Defense Ministry officials assert that meetings here this week with a United States Defense Department official who is responsible for the American cost estimates on the Lavi fighter jet ...

On August 30, 1987, a cabinet resolution passed by only one vote that canceled the first and thus far only attempt at producing an Israeli-made fighter jet, the Lavi. Ordered by the government at ...

as the Chinese jet was built with Israeli assistance from Israel’s F-16-based Lavi fighter. However, in some technological respects, China's plane is about fifteen years behind the F-16 platform ...

the U.S. partnered with Israel to develop a new combat aircraft based on the General Dynamics F-16. But as costs rose, the U.S. pulled out of the deal, leaving Israel’s “Lavi” fighter ...

It required assistance from US companies and ended up making the IAI Lavi, a fighter that heavily resembled the F-16. After it was discovered that up to $1.3 billion of US aid to Israel was spent ...

Opposition to the Lavi fighter jet grew as the State Department officially urged its termination. That followed the identical request from two major Knesset committees. Foreign Minister Shimon ...

Developed in the 1980s and 90s, the J-10 was similar in concept to the lightweight but high-performing F-16 jet fighter, and incorporated DNA from Israel’s cancelled Lavi fighter as well.