In 1986, israel flew their first F-16 knock-off fighter jet. The project was cancelled and the US sold israel 90+ F-16s instead. israel shared the project with china and the plane became the basis for the chinese Chengdu J-10 fighter. The whole project was a ruse to gain more US technology.

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In 1986, israel flew their first F-16 knock-off fighter jet. The project was cancelled and the US sold israel 90+ F-16s instead. israel shared the project with china and the plane became the basis for the chinese Chengdu J-10 fighter. The whole project was a ruse to gain more US technology. (archive.ph)

The IAI Lavi (Hebrew: לביא, "Young Lion") was a single-engined fourth-generation multirole jet fighter developed in Israel, by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), during the 1980s. The decision to develop the Lavi was controversial, both with the Israeli public, due to the enormous associated costs, and particularly with the U.S. government due to competition with American jets on the export market. By 1984 Israel, with a population of 4 million, had the world's highest military expenditure as a proportion of GDP, at 24%,[citation needed] a rate of spending considered unsustainable.[by whom?] These issues contributed to the ultimate cancellation of the aircraft, by the Israeli government, during the flight-test phase of development in August 1987.

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They are also why the F22 program was cancelled. We only have a handful of the best air superiority fighter because we would have had to offer them to the jews. Some congressmen were rightly concerned they'd just sell the thing to China they just gutted the whole program instead.

Not only are they NOT our "greatest ally", they actually make the US less safe due to their greedy nature. Not even counting all the internal subversion.

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asians are about as bad as jews, no idea why most people on poal love them so much. chink and vietnamese are jews with a different skin

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