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In a special meeting in the Hebrew cabinet in August 1987, the goverment presided by Yitzhak Shamir decided to stop the development of the IAI Lavi after defense budget had sikyrocketed. But in a twist of fate, almost at the end of the meeting a urgent message arrived trough diplomatic channels. Japan and Argentina will help to fund the IAI Lavi in exchange for techincal help and the permissions to build the plane in country. At this genereous offer, Shamir soon made a press conference presenting the country with the new situation and letting IAI enginners and pilots to continue the flight tests then underway.

5 years after that the plane was considered a huge succes with export orders to several countries as well as being a plane that meets all the old and new requirements being made by the IAF.

Here we see the plane in a punitive strike in 1994 against Gaza strip.

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Model by AngelP, it need some work on skins, basicly weathering and stencils, if anyone wanto to help with that...

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11 hours ago, dtmdragon said:

Awesome! Reminds me of playing Jane's IAF

This one was one of my favorites planes in that sim, good old times...

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I gave up faith that we'd ever see a Lavi in SF2 a loooooong time ago. Glad I was wrong! Can't wait to fly it.

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