[Netz]

The Israelis always ‘modify” every weapons system they get. They manufacture many of the stuff themselves and they are always INNOVATING!!! Go Israel!

[doorgunner69]

I recall reading years ago about the Israelis refitting F-4 Phantoms with newer engines. Supposedly the old warhorse could suddenly do some amazing things aerobatically.

Never heard anymore about it. Guess a new engine does not make an aging airframe capable of dealing with new capabilities.

[kvanbrunt2]

They could put wings on a trash can and somehow use it to kill their enemies.

[Robert A Cook PE]

In the end, the Baz 2000 initiative gobbled up an incredible 8,000 man hours per jet and ran from 1995 to 2005. Israeli technicians found that many jets was built slightly differently, so they could not just replace one black box with another, each jet had to be worked on in a one by one basis. The whole process was said to be a grueling one.

Disappointed that we (the US) are still hand-building jets one screw and rivet hole at a time. Like in WWII, it took Ford to make B-24’s on an assembly line to “commercial” standards. California and Seattle were drilling holes.