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Lavis for Israel's air force
may exceed $8 billion —
nearly all of it in U.S. aid
money.

The Pentagon was now required to ap-
prove the technology transfers, but it
didn't have to accept Israeli cost figures
blindly. In May 1985 a team of experts led
by Dov Zakheim, a U.S. deputy under sec-
retary of defense, went to Tel Aviv to work
up its own cost profile on the Lavi.
Zakheim was aware that Weinberger's
resistance to the Lavi might be assumed
to color the judgment of a Pentagon team.
So he expanded his group to include
members of the Office of Management and
Budget, the State Department, and the
National Security Council. Last January
Zakheim's team returned to Tel Aviv to
present its results. According to Klemov,
the Americans said that development
costs had been underestimated by at least
15 per cent, and that the price per aircraft,
as delivered to the Israeli air force, would
be at least $22 million — half again as
much as the original. figure.
The Zakheim report remains secret, at
Israel's request, but Israelis have been
busy attacking it anyway. They insist that
labor costs were incorrectly figured at $47

per hour rather than at a more realistic $24
thereby adding $2 million in false costs
to each Lavi. But the Israelis appear to
have accepted Zakheim's implicit message
— that under Gramm-Rudman future U.S.
funding for the Lavi may well be par-
simonious. Indeed, the Israelis have
already written a $77 million check to the
U.S. Treasury, representing the Gramm-
Rudman shrinkage in funds already in
hand for fiscal year 1986. The Israelis are
hoping to cut the unit cost dramatically by
exporting Lavis after they build 300 for
themselves. Their best hope is to team up
with an American fighter manufacturer,
allying their combat experience with U.S.
prestige. Informal talks have already been
held with several firms, including Grum-
man and Mcdonnell Douglas.
Since December three shifts of workers
have swarmed over the Lavi prototype,
readying it for its first test flight. In its
vast hangar, the little fighter looks like a
miniature. In January the first set of
Grumman-built wings arrived from Mill-
edgeville, Ga. aboard an El Al Cargo jet.
They fitted perfectly. In March the Pratt
& Whitney 1120 engine was installed in
the aircraft's slender fuselage. If all goes
well, the Lavi will roar into the sky one day
late this year, Israel Aircraft's chief pilot
in its cockpit. If it were to head eastward,
it would be over Jordan in 90 seconds. If
it turned north, it would be over Syria in
six minutes. So for its first test flight the
Lavi will head westward over the Mediter-
ranean. It will carry with it not only
Israel's hopes for air superiority in any
future war — and few Israelis seriously
doubt that another war will come — but
also the country's aspirations of scaling
the technological heights.
Some might call the obsession with the
Lavi hightech chutzpah. But for Israelis
like the Iraqi-born Eini, it's the vision of
a lifetime. "Here in Israel we have the
chance to be a technological power — it's
our only chance to be self-supporting," he
says. "But it doesn't just happen. You
have to earn your place by doing big pro-
jects — bigger than anyone thinks you can
do. And so we are building the Lavi. For
us, it's the ticket to a show to which we
will eventually be able to pay our own
way."
But the price of admission will be ex-
tremely high, and Eini and the Lavi's
other supporters will have to match the
plane's extraordinary maneuverability
with all they can muster of their own if the
plane is to survive the heavy fire from its
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While the Lavi has broad support on
Capitol Hill, it has considerably fewer
friends at the Pentagon. Defense Secre-
tary Caspar . Weinberger at first blocked
the technology transfer licenses required
by the American companies bidding for
Lavi contracts. One April 13, 1983, a five-
hour meeting chaired by Arens was held
in Jerusalem to discuss how to get the
licenses unblocked.
That evening Arens called Secretary of
State George Shultz to ask for his help.
Within 48 hours, the licenses were ap-
proved. Just how this came about hasn't
been revealed, but Israeli officials assume
the President broke the impasse. That
could make Ronald Reagan the most im-
portant figure in the birth of the Lavi.

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