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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 enemies at home and abroad. I=1 1. 0 F FURNITURE REPAIRS mid •••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••.* • ISRAEL OF WEST BLOOMFIELD • • • • 4200 WALNUT LAKE RD. • 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. 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