The IAI Lavi (Hebrew: לביא, "Young Lion") was a single-engined fourth-generation multirole jet fighter developed in Israel in the 1980s. Developed by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), the choice 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 at the time, had the highest military expenditure as a proportion of GDP in the world, at 24% of the country's economy, a rate of spending considered unsustainable. These issues contributed to the ultimate cancellation of the aircraft during the flight testing phase of development by the Israeli government in August 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Lavi
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