The Lavi is a Mirage deviate? man, you gotta get glasses 😀

Sorry !!! I know that the Arye and the Kfir are not Mirage-deviates … I meant the Mirage-deviates (Nesher, Kfir, …) then the indigenous Arye-project and final the Lavi !!

The Lavi was the last fighter plane that was designed in Israel.
A word about a new plane, called the “Shachal” has been heard in the early 90s, but it was never confirmed.

Any thoughts about the layout ???? …. single or twin engine ??, delta-canard-configuration, …. more related to air-to-air or air-to-ground ????

A new Mirage deviate is the Nammer, that took off in 91.

Any pictures !?! …. I thought the Nammer was a proposed improved Kfir with a GE F-404 !!! (like Your Kfir-2000)

BTW, I talked to the reporter that wrote the article about the Arye, and he sent me a few pictures of two Arye designs, one is an enlarged two-engined Kfir and the other is the one you saw in the computer generated picture I uploaded here. The rest of the Arye concepts (about 40) remained classified, and the only other Arye concept we know of is the Lavi 😉

Sounds very interesting !!! The only picture I know is the one below …. can You PLEASE post the other one !!??
Was the twin-engined Kfir powered by two J-79 or even two PW1120 ?

Thanks in advance and best regards, Deino 😉

Very nice !!! :p Thanks for sharing !

But does anyone know the very different development configurations !!???

Here they are !

I never knew that the IDF development was gone tru so much different configurations … and that it was recorded as detailed as I found it here !!!

http://www.afwing.com/intro/idf-1.htm

http://www.afwing.com/intro/idf-2.htm

Here’s the “story-board”:

Enjoy them, Deino 😎

Originally posted by Arthur
I think Deino has a number of those drawings. At least he’s the resident might-have-been design sketches collector.

Sorry to disappoint You … but these pictures are completely new to me ! 😉

But I had a strange idea some time ago – exactly tree years ago – to start a model of a a “what-if” Hornet 2000 Configuration V based on the drawing below !!!!

Here’s the link to the “in progress-report”:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index.php?showtopic=1433&st=0

.. and these are some pictures of my model …. 😀

Have some fun, Deino 🙂

Originally posted by Hyperwarp
MCA-1, MCA-2??

Sorry … a maybe silly question again !

Is the MCA still “running” a project or has it been replaced by the jouint Russian / Indian PAK-FA ???

Regarding theis different main focus on air-to-air (PAK-FA) and / or air-to-ground (MCA) I can’t believe that India can afford two programmes of such complexity !!

Deino 😉

Originally posted by Hyperwarp
PL-7
PL-8
PL-9

Regarding this scale-drawing – it’s maybe a silly question !!?? – it looks like that the PL-9 is based on the PL-8 ????