{"id":76753,"date":"2024-07-01T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iai-lavi-israel-version-us-f-16-fighter-jet\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:30:11","slug":"iai-lavi-the-time-israel-tried-to-build-a-version-of-the-us-f-16-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=76753","title":{"rendered":"IAI Lavi: The Time Israel Tried To Build A Version Of The US F-16 Fighter Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Israel once developed its own fourth-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jet<\/a>, the Lavi (which resembled <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/general-dynamics-f-16-fighting-falcon-history\/\">the iconic American F-16 Fighting Falcon<\/a>). The Israeli-made Lavi may have been at least equal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16C\/D<\/a> in most departments and possibly even superior in certain areas. Israel benefited from having very combat-experienced pilots who knew exactly what they wanted out of a fighter.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lavi was perhaps the most ambitious military project of Israel, and it came close to succeeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,408,858,1695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-israel","category-middle-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76754,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76753\/revisions\/76754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}