As far as I know, the Lavi project was first funded by the US. Then they realized with the creation of Lavi, Israel would not buy US fighter jets, instead the US stopped funding lavi as well as the technical transfer.
Now IF China has learned anything from Lavi is a mystery and will most likely remain to be a mystery until Israel becomes an ally of PRC, very unlikely! However, let’s say China did indeed get help from Israel on J-10, it really would not be more than using a few israli designers (they might have used Russian engineers as well), since J-10 finally rolled out with different engine, different radar, different weapon systems and supposed to be used for a different role. I am just wondering, by looking at the two planes from outside, how could u draw the concluding that one is based on the other, just because it’s rumored so? How else would a 4th generation(actually 3.5) figher with canards and air-intake under the fuselage look like?
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