in a manner that resulted in it naturally directing air into the engine intake and to avoid inlet blanking while flown at a sideslip condition. Avionics According to Eine, the Lavi's main area of advancement over its contemporaries was the level of integration of avionics and onboard electronics; it was claimed that the Lavi was "more computerised than any other system in the world". A key innovation was the use of a quadruplex-redundant digital fly-by-wire flight control system, which was co-developed by Lear Siegler and IAI. If it had been brought into service, the Lavi may have become the first operational aircraft to employ fully digital flight controls. IAI subsidiary Elta held responsibility for the electronic warfare self-protection systems. These are claimed to have been capable of rapid threat identification and automated response, incorporating a suite of active and passive countermeasures, such as power-managed noise and deception jamming systems. Both podded and internal countermeasures were to be used. Elta also developed the EL/M-2032 Doppler multi-mode radar for the Lavi, which was equipped with a programmable signal processor and was capable of various air-to-air and air-to-ground modes, including high-resolution mapping, terrain avoidance, and look-down/shoot-down functionality. Operators Israeli Air Force Specifications (Lavi) See also References Citations Bibliography Farley, John. Vision of the Future. Flight International, 29 January 1991. pp. 22–25. Fleming, Charles. "IAI Lavi: custom-built for Israel." Flight International, 30 July 1983. pp. 236-. Haglund, David G. The Defence Industrial Base and the West. Routledge, 1989. . Hunter, Jane. Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America. South End Press, 1987. . Rabinovich, Itamar and Haim Shaked. Middle East Contemporary Survey: Volume XI – 1987. Westview Press, 1989. . Senor, Dan and Singer, Saul. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle. Hachette Book Group, 2009. . Van Creveld, Martin. The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force. PublicAffairs, 2008. . Wilson, Stewart. Combat Aircraft since 1945. Fyshwick, Australia: Aerospace Publications, 2000. . External links "The United States and the LAVI" by Col James DeLoughry, USAF, Federation of American Scientists "Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Lavi" by Ruud Deurenberg, Jewish Virtual Library “Killing the Lavi: Tracing the unintended consequences of the fateful 1987 cancellation of Israel’s largest single weapons development program” by John W. Golan, Tablet Lavi Canard aircraft Cancelled military aircraft projects of Israel Delta-wing aircraft 1980s Israeli fighter aircraft Science and technology in Israel Single-engined jet