military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) (08/23/90)
From: att!utzoo!henry >From: macko@police.rutgers.edu (Peter C. Macko) > 6. Another that point that the Pentagon seems to be keeping >very low key is that every carrier also has a submarine escort of >at least one or two sub. The exact mix of attack subs to ballistic > subs is in fact, they won't say... I'd be extremely surprised to see ballistic-missile subs used as escorts at all. They're not built for it. Their job is to get lost somewhere, and *that* they do well. Escorts would be attack subs; that is one of their missions. (Even if nuclear weaponry were being seriously considered -- and the ballistic missiles aren't good for much else -- there should be little problem hitting Iraq from more normal patrol stations a long way away.) >Israel's plan to build a state of the art fighter called the Lahvi?? >... Does anybody on the net know its current status? The Lavi project is dead, killed by some combination of excessive cost and US pressure to Buy American instead. Opinions vary on the relative importance of these factors; building a modern fighter *was* a major financial challenge for a small nation with a strained economy, but it's also true that the US ended up supplying a good bit of the money and wasn't happy about subsidizing a competitor for US-build aircraft. The Israelis are thought to have plans to use Lavi-developed electronics for updates of existing aircraft, notably their Phantoms. Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
amoss%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) (08/28/90)
From: Amos Shapira <amoss%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> In sci.military you write: >From: att!utzoo!henry >The Israelis are thought to have plans to use Lavi-developed electronics >for updates of existing aircraft, notably their Phantoms. > Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology > henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry I've read that the Merkava III (yes, the MBT), have some electronics developed for the Lavi, specifically the "dashboard" and displays, maybe other parts too. Amos Shapira, amoss@batata.huji.ac.il