Israel's Lavi Fighter Program

It still looks like an F-16 in a delta/canard disguise to me.

I have a question – considering all new material that have come up recently on the topic of Lavi, has anyone come across any recent technical drawings of this marvelous plane? It was a huge disappointment for me that mr. Golan did not attach any detailed 3-views in his book. I know that some of the original drawings were made available to Bekim, who was a poster on this forum some time ago. He was making a custom model of Lavi https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=13162 (he stopped making updates some time ago, anybody knows what happened to his project?). Unfortunately, he posted only a fragmentary pictures, like the one below:
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Despite the fact that I have been looking for accurate Lavi drawings for a few years now, the best thing I’ve found is an old drawing from some Russian source (unfortunately it is only a side view), about which accuracy I’m a bit suspicious :
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If anybody has something better, I would be grateful. It is quite surprising to me that 30 years after cancellation of the project, even as basic thing as technical drawing is still impossible to find.

See slide 6 of the earlier slide-pack:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PAxPH8yY9bb28yVklvOG16czA/view

The Lavi had one centerline hardpoint (which was used in the prototypes to loft telemetry), and three tandem hard points arranged on either side of the fuselage (as shown in the illustration on slide 6).

Thank you Fltgshdw. The 2 central semi-confomal hardpoints that are in between 2 landing gear bays seem to be not in line with the forward and the rear ones.

Thank you for sharing Fltgshdw.

I read that Lavi had 7 semi-conformal hardpoints under fusalage. Do you have pictures show how their positions are?

See slide 6 of the earlier slide-pack:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PAxPH8yY9bb28yVklvOG16czA/view

The Lavi had one centerline hardpoint (which was used in the prototypes to loft telemetry), and three tandem hard points arranged on either side of the fuselage (as shown in the illustration on slide 6).

Interesting reading (the links). Does this book include anything on the China/J-10 angle?

There’s a small section discussing the J-10 – about two and a half pages worth.

Interesting reading (the links). Does this book include anything on the China/J-10 angle?

In case anyone missed it, there was a great book that came out this past month covering Israel’s cancelled Lavi fighter program – from its origins in 1970s concept studies, through its eventual cancelation in 1987:
http://www.amazon.com/Lavi-United-States-Controversial-Fighter/dp/1612347223

This is one of those development programs that has traditionally been neglected in the library of modern jet aviation. The book is divided between an historical survey with all the expected political intrigue, and the technological elements of the airplane’s design and operation.

Part of what makes this particular book unusual is that the author has also set up a blog-site that includes material that was omitted from the book for brevity:
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2015/12/lavi-lost-chapters-preface.html
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2015/12/lavi-lost-chapters-haunted.html
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2016/01/lavi-lost-chapters-future-and-hope.html

As well as full color copies of the book’s black-and-white illustrations:
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2016/01/lavi-book-illustrations.html
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2015/12/lavi-book-in-print-photographs.html

Thank you for sharing Fltgshdw.

I read that Lavi had 7 semi-conformal hardpoints under fusalage. Do you have pictures show how their positions are?

The author has added an historical survey, drawn from the material in the book, as a supplement to the technological survey released previously. It was added as a web blog:
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2016/09/lavi-retrospective-journey.html

And as a slide show and video:
http://john-golan.blogspot.com/2016/09/lavi-retrospective-journey-video-and-pdf.html