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LOOKING IN
Jewelers
Why Israel Needs
The Lavi Fighter
The psychological effect of
abandonment, say some engineers,
would be almost as bad as losing a war
with the Arabs.
M
aking an inspection trip
through the Israel Air-
craft Industries factory
near Ben-Gurion Airport, sitting
in the cockpit of the Lavi fighter
as it is being prepared for its
trial flight in September, talking
with some of the several thou-
sand engineers and workers in-
volved in the multi-billion-dollar
project, one senses what a
tragedy it would be for Israel if
the Lavi were to be abandoned.
Even before the Lavi proto-
type is tried out in the air, there
are suggestions in both Wash-
ington and Jerusalem that be-
cause of the spiraling cost of
developing the plane, the pro-
gram should be halted.
However, some of the en-
gineers, in off-the-record inter-
views, went so far as to say that
the psychological effect of aban-
donment would be almost as bad
as losing a war with the Arabs.
Those who are proud of Isra-
el's transformation from a back-
ward, citrus-growing land into
one of the most technically-
sophisticated countries in the
world have looked on the
development of the Lavi as sen-
sational proof of Israel's ability
to compete with even the United
States and the USSR in techno-
logical fields.
They have boasted that the
Lavi (the word is Hebrew for
Young Lion) would be the best
war plane in the world, far
superior to anything the Rus-
sians have developed, and better,
in many respects, than the
American F-15 or F-16.
They tell anyone who will
listen that the Lavi is crammed
with Israeli-designed and Israeli-
developed technology.
While Syria and other enemy
countries have to depend on the
Soviet Union for whatever the
USSR is willing to give them,
Israel, with the Lavi, would have
the psychological and strategic
advantage of having her war-
planes coming off the assembly
line of Israel-owned, Israel-
controlled factories.
But if those who now advocate
abandonment were to have their
way, it would put Israel back at
the mercy of foreign suppliers —
eaning, of course, the United
States. An no one in Israel has
forgotten that at a critical mo-
ment in the Yom Kippur War the
flow of vitally-needed war
material to Israel from the
United States was halted, for
purely political reasons, by so-
meone in Washington. (There is
still controversy in Washington
over whether or not it was
Secretary of State Henry Kiss-
inger.) Fortunately for Israel the
U.S. air lift was resumed before
catastrophic damage had been
done, but it was a lesson that led
to the intense desire in Israel for
as much military self-sufficiency
as possible.
As a result, since 1973, more
and more Israeli weaponry is be-
ing manufactured in whole or in
part in Israeli factories.
Those who are not pessimistic
about the situation point out
that the Lavi is only one of the
many enterprises of the Israeli
Aircraft Industries, and that
even if the Lavi is permanently
grounded before it goes into pro-
duction, the IAI factories will
continue in operation.
rib prove it, they took us on a
tour of the extensive areas in
which American-supplied Phan-
torn Jets, once the backbone of
the Israeli Air Force, are being
upgraded by the installation of
The Lavi is proof of
Israel's ability to
compete with the
superpowers,
technologically.
Israeli-developed technology. We
saw more than 50 Phantoms in
the process of modernization,
with hundreds more awaiting
their turn. This work not only
makes the Phantom a more
sophisticated fighter, but the life
of each plane is prolonged for ten
or fifteen more years.
Then there is an area in which
IAI repairs or remodels planes
belonging to the commercial
airlines of foreign countries, and
another area in which they
manufacture an executive jet
called the Westwind, which IAI
claims is superior in some
respects to any executive jet
made in the United States.
Until the Lavi, the pride of
IAI was the Kfir. Two hundred
have already been manu-
factured. Some have been sold to
the U.S. Navy, which uses them
as so-called "aggressor planes."
The only foreign customer so far
has been Ecuador. Because the
Kfir engine is American-made,
the United States claims the
right to decide to which foreign
countries Israel may sell the
Kfir.
These other enterprises will
not be affected by how the Lavi
controversy is resolved, yet my
observation is that if, for
economic reasons, the Lavi dies
aborning, it will not only be a
blow to Israeli pride, but is like-
ly to result in several thousand
Israeli engineers leaving the
country for lucrative posts
abroad, which would be a serious
setback to Israel's technology.