IAI Kfir

The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir (Hebrew: כפיר‎, "Lion Cub") is an Israeli-built all-weather, multi-role combat aircraft based on a modified Dassault Mirage 5 airframe, with Israeli avionics and an Israeli-made version of the General Electric J79 turbojet engine.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• IAI
• Kfir
• Israel
• Aircraft
• Industries
• fighter

[davidds0]

@VERGIS92 theres no price for creativity :)

[VERGIS92]

@davidds0 they always copy, bear in mind that large aircraft makers, and large projects lack innovation, they just employ 100,000 engineers and designers where no one is allowed to innovate, and no one has a good full picture, if a small Israeli firm makes a weapon /aircraft, it employs very few, trusted designers that have full view of the project, and they can innovate. Inventiveness is a one man thing.

[djomercohen]

ummm, also but it is more like the Israeli "Lavi" that was developed as an alternative to the F-16 back in the 80's and ended up being superior to it by:

it could carry heavier bombs, it could make sharper turns, it was more advanced technologically and it was cheaper to manufacture.

these were the reasons why the US canceled its funding and made Israel sign on an agreement that it will not produce any more jet fighters while they will be given from the US in exchange for Israeli technology.

[djomercohen]

@davidds0 the lavi has a very similar structure and cockpit to the eurofighter, it is annoying that the people who made this aircraft stole it from the first original Israeli aircraft.

[davidds0]

@djomercohen how do you know eurofighter is based on the lavi? can you show me the source of info? i hope it is cus it proves how good the lavi could have been, but i never heard about it. i did heard that israel sold the blueprints to china that used this as a base for their J-10 program

[djomercohen]

@davidds0 actually the euro-fighter is based on the Israeli "Lavi" that was developed in the 80's and was sold to china that changed its name to "J-10" and continue its developement.

[djomercohen]

@davidds0 the "Lavi" was more than competitive to the F-16, it was superior to it by:

it could carry heavier bombs, it could make sharper turns, it was more advanced technologically and it was cheaper to manufacture.

these were the reasons why the US canceled its funding and made Israel sign on an agreement that it will not produce any more jet fighters while they will be given from the US in exchange for Israeli technology.

[moahoah]

Airplanes are just airplanes. It doesn't matter what countries they come from. Hell, I'd fly all of them as long as they're well built.

[fitte6]

Israel possessed neither the technology nor the capital required to pull of such a project at its own. US contractors built approximately 40 percent of the aircraft, and the prosject as a whole was largely based on US funding and technology transfer. The cost became increasly prohibitive for the relative small IAF order and it required extraordinary concessions, such as permission to market the plane to third countries in direct competition with U.S.-built fighters. In the end it killed it.

[fitte6]

@VERGIS92

The notion of the "tail first" or "canard" aircraft goes back to the dawn of flight (The Wright Flyer was a canard biplane), A number of prototypes of canard combat aircraft were built during WW2 by a number of combatants. Saab Viggen was the first operational fighter aircraft with a canard configuration: a conventional delta wing with small, high-set front wings. Construction started in 1964 with first operational squadron delivered in 1972.