The roomy turret of the Merkava was probably inspired by the old British-designed and built Centurion tank, which was known to be quite roomy, and which was operated by the IDF in large numbers for several decades. While American tanks like the M60 and the M1 also gave the nod towards increased crew space, and the IDF also operated the M60 in large numbers, neither of these two tanks are particularly roomy. The bottom line is that a roomier turret allows for better overall ergonomics and a lot less crew fatigue, which is critical on the battlefield when the tank has been operating under closed hatches for 36-plus hours.
This tank is amazing, the crew is superbly trained and the tactics are some of the best in the world. This machine is designed with the crew in mind and thats why its the best. Very impressive!
If you want to keep ammo in bustle you have to increase the size of the turret. Thats why Abrams turret is so huge. And increasing turret for bustle gives "secondary effect": more space for the crew.
East Jerusalem was offered in Taba and Camp David. Gaza is far from concentration camp. Here infant mortality rate (death per 1000 births): Gaza Strip - 21.35 Lebanon --- 23.39 Syria ------ 26.78 Egypt ----- 28.36 Iran ------- 36.93 Turkey ---- 36.98 World ---- 42.64 Pakistan --- 63.75
@мαχαιя I’m talking about Gaza. Hamas never fires missiles, lots of this would never happen. Hamas even using children and babies as human shields to protect themselves and their weapons, munitions, and equipment
*To all the Kornet fanboys:* During the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in the summer of 2014, of the 15 anti-tank missiles which launched on Israeli tanks that were intercepted by the Israeli active protection system "Trophy", most were of the Kornet type. In some cases the Kornet launchers were destroyed after the "Trophy" system had detected the launch and directed the tank's main gun to the launcher position.
Palestinians didn't have cornets. They have fire crackers... I see your trying to make out Israel is fighting some sort of fair sided war, where both opponents have similar weaponry? The Palestinians don't have water let alone wire guided anti tank missiles. Who do u think your fooling?
@@hassasinali7979 Yeah, poor wittle palestinians. Give them some high grade weapons. That sounds like a GREAT plan for peace. lol, keep dreaming ahmad.
So, most researchers decide a tank with separate crew compartments is safer because of limiting the damage a shell can do once inside. This tank puts them all in the same room...
@Anvilforever ALL TANKS ARE DESTRCTIBAL but the merk dose have its nice point and the added ability to carry infantry I think will be a future feature in ALL modern tanks one day
So you mean, you wouldn't cry if you saw bullets fly over your head in war ? Perhaps your best friend just got his head blown away from a sniper ? I bet you are the ultimate soldier with no emotions.
That's the point: the chance of taking out a Merkava with russian 70s-equipment is significantly lowered by its defensive systems. They're scifi-crazy.
I have a young Israeli guy who found me on youtube...he's on one of these tanks so I hope that he and his mates will be able to remain safe and that they will be honorable soldiers...btw;, my grandson is with the army in Afghanistan and I have the same wishes for him and his mates as well...may these conflicts end...
If Jordan goes to war with Israel, they will use the RPG-32 that penetrated a meter of chobham-style multi-layer armor in testings. It was designed to even get through active protection systems such as Iron Fist, Trophy, Arena, Drozd1/2. Not trying to bag any tank, but anti-tank rounds are VERY powerful today. As for what tank is the best? I honestly doubt that T-90 or late versions of T-80 are in any way inferior to ANY NATO tank. With missiles and over 4km shot range its a VERY strong foe
Its Hezbollah that first claimed that only 69 were killed, later admited 250, but everyone knows that real number is 500-600. What day are you talking about by the way?
Merkava Mk4 uses German MB833 1500 hp diesel. It is considered the best tank engine and it is one of the smallest. There are no real alternatives Israel can get. Reducing hull will reduce the ammo. Plus it will make impossible to carry infantrly. All this does not worth 10 mm of additional side armor.
If in 1985 there was a US vs USSR war, USA would lose. At that time, US APFSDS were neutralised by ERA Kotankt 5, Flankers and Fulcrums outclassed F-15s and F-16s kinematically and in avionics, soviet SA-10 were more then capable of taking out B-1 and even B-2 thanks to low-freq radars that brought the missile close enough for SAM to see it. T-80 and T-72 were armed with ATGMs. Finally against the US navy, they use Backfire-Cs, Bears and Blackjacks with Supersonic anti-ship missiles
because israel wanted the capability to have troops in aswell. we also wanted it to be confortable for our guys. but we sacrificed stealth for comfort. we need a new and better tank soon
@@yy97-69 there have been testimonies from soldiers in haaretz on how the inside becomes an oven as the yaseen 105 hits the ammo storage. Most shots do
I dont know how many civlians killed, but surelly over 10 times less than Russia killed in Chechnya. Every army kills civilians, especially in urban warfare, but terrorist is one who deliberately targets civilians.
And we are talking about ungueded hand held weapons whitch cost only hundreds of dolars . Think about SPG , PTUR's (ATGM), electronic land mines, AT field artilery and so on ... all weapons that are cheaper and more plentiful than a milion dolars tank.
What exactly went wrong in 2006? (Don't waste my time by saying it was the lack of Trophy. I know that if 2006 was repeated today, Israeli tank losses would be much smaller). I thought the enemies of Israel had nothing to counter Merkavas with except Milan, AT-13 Metis, AT-14 Kornet and RPG-29 Vampir. All of those, are extremely formidable even for modern anti-tank weapons but I thought almost nothing could penetrate the modular/sloped composite armor of Merkava at least not from the front.
We all saw how well the merkava fended for itself in Lebanon 2006. It took quiet a beating. It's a cool tank, I like it but it is destructible. Why doesnt this guy make a future weapons video about the American Abrams tank. Was he a Israeli seal or us anavy seal.i know the answer us navy seal but he should show American weapons.
Rust bucket? Hardly. Secondly. If you ask men to perform a perfect strategy with equipment insufficient for task against a prepared enemy - they will lose. Third. I was referring to a conventional war. No one in their right mind would resort to a nuclear
no you are wrong only 121 soldiers killed-very different from troops. 49 tanks got hit: 47 from RPGs 2 from super powered land mines (a mine with about 100Kg of explosives in it). all the tanks destroyed were merkava 3. and the rockets did stopped. hizballah got their lebanes prisoners in a deal that signed in 2008 with the return of the 2 IDF soldiers bodies.
do you know a tank that cannot fail against 100Kg of explosives detonated 1 meter from the tank? merkava is the most safe tank ever made, but nothing is safe against that amount of explosives.
Wow, are you wrong or what? PTURs? You mean the PTRD, an obsolete antitank rifle that can't penetrate even an MRAP? An RPG7 can't pen a Chal2, nor an Abrams except a few very tiny (3in or less) weak spots. And no challenger 2 has been "disabled" and no crew member injured by a "300 dolar rpg round". It was an RPG29, which is expensive and similar to a US AT4, hit through a small weak spot in the lower hull, and it blew off two toes. And Chal2s have taken hundreds of RPGs w/o effect.
The Merkava held up its end in the '06 war. What sucked was the complete abandonment of any coherent tactics. They were sent stop-start, willy-nilly into a ridiculously narrow, twisting ravine. It was a war run by dickless politicians, not soldiers. Concentrated Vietnam on steroids. It's a wonder only a handful were knocked out. Watching those clips of them stumbling and bumbling about aimlessly in that shooting gallery made me embarrassed for them.
Making tank smaller is not just decreasing comfort, but also reducing ammo, gun elevation/depression angles and so on. Also if you reduce the size of the tank leaving it in same weight then cross-country ability will reduce. Finally the thickness of frontal armor is usually enough while making sides 10% more will hardly help - 100 mm or 110 mm. It wont save you against Kornet with 1000 mm of penetration.
@Greenvalve what do u imply actually its 500 meters look it up also the Kornet has a range of 5500 meters and its like from the late 70's im not saying that the merkava is a bad tank im saying its distructable
@lou funny how you say that you dont knw and then you say that you do. the fact is that only 2 Merkava 4 tanks were damaged beyond repair. one from an IED and one from korenet missiles. one merkava tank was hit by 25 missles before taking damage. so they are as solid as the best of tanks. that same missile has gone thought Abrams. and now they put the trophy system on the Merkava tanks which has already proven in battle against a Kornet missile. also the kornet missle is not old.
50 tanks were hit but only 5 destroyed. For example in Wadi Saluki 11 tanks were hit by modern Kornet missiles, but only 1 of them was destroyed. As for "Palestine", even if Israel dissapears it wont be "free". It will became a south Syria province. No one will even remember about so called "Palestinian nation". But Syria and Iran are too coward to fight Israel directly. They can only send Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, which can annoy Israel but dont posess any threat.
put it up against a Hezbollah fighter with a Kornet anti tank missile and it's reduced to a burning heap of scrap metal. What was it ? One quarter of all Merkava deployed in the 33 day defeat by Hezbollah destroyed
And that is why tanks never operate without infantry and vice versa, you anti-semitic dumbass! The Hezbollah terrorists got lucky, that the Israeli infantry didn't find them first and that they had a first-rate anti-tank missile provided for them by another anti-semitic people, the Russians. Other than that, it's the best tank in the world because Jews designed it. And that is why you hate the Merkava so much, it is a Jewish tank. Life is so much easier when you aren't filled with hate for yourself.
U cant say the Merkava can compete with the M1 the merk is a beast for israel no other nation will be interested in buying this tank since it is not very mobil for a MBT and the thing with the room for more troops is bad it just makes the tank have a larger profile
it seems that you didnt get the documentary,lol, when they said theyretreated , they meant only that the tank advance was stopped not that the israilis were stopped there
southern lebanon is in a part cities, villages, mountains ...merkava were haunted like rabits not inside the villages , but in open air regions...it failed&it's image is ripped off... nazdarovia
@Crazylalalalala don't know exactly how much, but enough to make Tsahal worry and revisit their tank. enough to make hundreds of israeli soldiers retreat and hide in a libanese base. enough to make a documentary about it. Many observers in the world consider the libanese war was not successfull for Israel and that's is mainly due to the Merkava. The missile used is wire-guided Like Kornet not some mines. but i want israel stay confident about their tank, they 'll loose war quicker :D
@@genericfakename8197 Yes, but the Merkava stores 38 rounds in the hull in armoured containers. The T-90M stores 22 rounds in the armoured carousel autoloader and a further 8 in armoured bins in the hull; 10 rounds are stored in the turret.
A tandem PG-29V granate for the RPG 29 cost around 300 dolars .And i was talking precisely about the incident in Amarah in 2006. "small weak spot" ?! - the small weak spot was the tank frontal glacis plate (one of strongest frontal armour spots) whit reactive armour on it (whit the tandem charge is design to deal whit).The result was one heavy ungured crew member and one lightly wooned - the tank was mission mission uncapable since the driver lost a large part of his leg.As for the M1A2 ...
@Dubaifreak no we wont, we simply will not have an Airforce, and some other stuff... which is a huge disatvantage i agree... but this Tank is from Israeli money, Israeli funding and Israeli engineering. the entire Idea of this tank is also as a weapon we can supply ourselves in a wartime scenario, and Hezbollah would be sticks and stones without Irans support. we can at least be a formidable guerilla without the US, Hezbollah would be less than trash without Iran.
49 tanks were hit in 1day man...))))) 120 tanks & armored vehicles were destroyed in 2006...those pigs take bck all destroyed tanks once they grill like shawarma...)))) nice meshwi it was...chachlik ..)))
Its not an entirley bad thing, i mean the centurion was a great tank, but it was develpoed in 1945. I mean its your opinion that the merkava should be No.2. I just disagree that its better then the challanger 2 or the leopard.
This failed in operations against Hezbalah in Southern Lebanon on 2006 against Russian made ATGM like Kornet missiles & several tankers have been killed during that war .
***** Don't talk about other religion , we discuss about this tank operations through out war , Israeli official admit their tank vulnerabilities against current threat and because that new counter measure adopted (Trophy System ) . The Merkava's composite armor consists of many thin spaced sandwich plates, which is a common design for protection against HEAT warheads. However the lack of a thick coverplate providing additional protection against KE, detonating warheads before they enter the composite armor and providing additional structural support causes some issues not found on other tanks. ## Please see this article about Merkava armor : below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.com/2016/04/merkava-4-damaged-during-training.html?m=1 By the way I don't have any problem with Jews & Israeli people ... Simply we're human
I mean knocking out 5 Main battle tanks in a war between a conventional military force and between a guerrilla military force is not a feat when guerilla warfare in CQB and mountainous area of lebanon will give the advantage to lebanon but it didn't , israel pushed to the litany river.
In fact in most of cases penetration did not led to death of any crewmen. This is due to Merkava's composition. On the other hand penetration of cramped Russian tanks leads to death of all the crew usualy.
They shoud becouse they did not do soo good against soviet time PTURs .You can make a tanks as armored and heavy as you like and fit it whit all kinds of counter measures, but thire will allways be cheaper infantry anti-tank weaponst to take them out (a lot cheaper than the tanks they are destroyng) . Hell a 300 dolar RPG round can pierce a 6,7 milion dolar Chalenger 2 tank front whit ERA (and it did disabling it and heavily injuring the driver ) scoring a mobility kill.
I just lol at all those who put down the Merkava and praise Hezbollah... the closest thing Hezbollah got to a tank is a Toyota pickup truck with garbage plates as armor... additional reactive armor would include babies, and wondering civilians.
No really, the Isrealies took their centurions, turned thema round and moved the engine bay to the front and called it the MErkava 1. If you dont belive me serch for any of the discovery channels/military channels top 10 tnaks and listien to Dr Nuasbacher from Sandhurst talking about it.
>these fake facts you have 120 tanks hit 49 destroyed and rest damaged. 49 destroyted tanks (with 4 crew in each) means 196 killed. Actual number of killed tankers was 30. >russia never had 100,000 tanks in ww2 the most tanks ever? built by ussr was95,000 USSR started war with 23,000 tanks, during the war were built 103,170 + 13,400 recieved through Land Lease. By the end of the war USSR had about 46,000 tanks. Go figure.
@parthsna Yeah. But hey, who isn't gonna vouch for their home country. I'd question why you wouldn't. Technology is a tool not a crutch. I'll take a well trained, well disciplined crew over the most high tech tank any day
I've heard, back in 2009, IDF tankers refer to the mk4 as "the hotel" due to it's roominess.
The roomy turret of the Merkava was probably inspired by the old British-designed and built Centurion tank, which was known to be quite roomy, and which was operated by the IDF in large numbers for several decades. While American tanks like the M60 and the M1 also gave the nod towards increased crew space, and the IDF also operated the M60 in large numbers, neither of these two tanks are particularly roomy.
The bottom line is that a roomier turret allows for better overall ergonomics and a lot less crew fatigue, which is critical on the battlefield when the tank has been operating under closed hatches for 36-plus hours.
The same goes for the T34 and T92.
"was operated by the IDF in large numbers"
Still is.
Combat engineers.
This tank is amazing, the crew is superbly trained and the tactics are some of the best in the world. This machine is designed with the crew in mind and thats why its the best. Very impressive!
It's by far, the Best ergonomics in tanks world. But it's designed to fight just with infantry together.
Israel, é um País que leva a sua segurança a sério. Shalom Jerusalém
If you want to keep ammo in bustle you have to increase the size of the turret. Thats why Abrams turret is so huge. And increasing turret for bustle gives "secondary effect": more space for the crew.
This tank's interior, has 10 times more space than my living room.
Thats wild to see how driver and crew can all talk and see each other 😂 like hey dont shout im right here man😂
Looks quite spacey inside actually. Very nice indeed.
East Jerusalem was offered in Taba and Camp David.
Gaza is far from concentration camp. Here infant mortality rate (death per 1000 births):
Gaza Strip - 21.35
Lebanon --- 23.39
Syria ------ 26.78
Egypt ----- 28.36
Iran ------- 36.93
Turkey ---- 36.98
World ---- 42.64
Pakistan --- 63.75
@мαχαιя can you tell me what he is talking about? I’m confused on what he says
@мαχαιя Blame Hamas
@мαχαιя I’m talking about Gaza. Hamas never fires missiles, lots of this would never happen. Hamas even using children and babies as human shields to protect themselves and their weapons, munitions, and equipment
*To all the Kornet fanboys:*
During the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in the summer of 2014, of the 15 anti-tank missiles which launched on Israeli tanks that were intercepted by the Israeli active protection system "Trophy", most were of the Kornet type. In some cases the Kornet launchers were destroyed after the "Trophy" system had detected the launch and directed the tank's main gun to the launcher position.
Palestinians don't have cornets. They have fireworks
Palestinians didn't have cornets. They have fire crackers...
I see your trying to make out Israel is fighting some sort of fair sided war, where both opponents have similar weaponry? The Palestinians don't have water let alone wire guided anti tank missiles. Who do u think your fooling?
@@hassasinali7979 Yeah, poor wittle palestinians. Give them some high grade weapons. That sounds like a GREAT plan for peace. lol, keep dreaming ahmad.
@@JudahMaccabee_ idiot, that wasn't my point. Re read my comment and don't reply untill you've understood it and then reply.
@@hassasinali7979 one should hope that in a battle with your enemy you'd have the upper hand.
now equipped with trophy(APS) it now has the ability to negates incoming missile,rpg and AT-rounds
Merkava Future Weapon very best 👍
Best tank in the world but not in gaza 😂
actually the merkava is here to stay for a very long time. tanks dont need stealth, they need low profiles.
Most of them... Usually there's a separate 2 or 3-man turret and then the drivers compartment in the hull...
Both designs have their pros and cons...
Rest in peace, Mack
😂
So, most researchers decide a tank with separate crew compartments is safer because of limiting the damage a shell can do once inside. This tank puts them all in the same room...
@Anvilforever ALL TANKS ARE DESTRCTIBAL but the merk dose have its nice point and the added ability to carry infantry I think will be a future feature in ALL modern tanks one day
not the Merkava mark 4, just the mark 3 was taken down in lebanon.
and today with the "trophy" system nothing can take out the merkava.
This is a very good tank.
The secret is the air conditioner inside the tank
This tanks was destroyed by Hezbollah
There were two cases of soldiers that heard about it. They did not see it with their own eyes.
So you mean, you wouldn't cry if you saw bullets fly over your head in war ? Perhaps your best friend just got his head blown away from a sniper ? I bet you are the ultimate soldier with no emotions.
Tanks reached Marhjayun and Ghajar that are well beyond 3.5 km from the border.
haha the irony. Imagine if our London was blitzed by Katyushas...
That's the point: the chance of taking out a Merkava with russian 70s-equipment is significantly lowered by its defensive systems. They're scifi-crazy.
Is the entire crew inside of the hull instead of having just the driver in the hull and everyone else in the turret?
Not just a tank, but an actual moving house, considering huge inner space it has
I have a young Israeli guy who found me on youtube...he's on one of these tanks so I hope that he and his mates will be able to remain safe and that they will be honorable soldiers...btw;, my grandson is with the army in Afghanistan and I have the same wishes for him and his mates as well...may these conflicts end...
by hiding in fully populated ereas and shooting rockets from buildings full of people isnt a CRIME?
If Jordan goes to war with Israel, they will use the RPG-32 that penetrated a meter of chobham-style multi-layer armor in testings. It was designed to even get through active protection systems such as Iron Fist, Trophy, Arena, Drozd1/2. Not trying to bag any tank, but anti-tank rounds are VERY powerful today.
As for what tank is the best? I honestly doubt that T-90 or late versions of T-80 are in any way inferior to ANY NATO tank. With missiles and over 4km shot range its a VERY strong foe
I don't know, maybe because of the "classified information" he talked about
Its Hezbollah that first claimed that only 69 were killed, later admited 250, but everyone knows that real number is 500-600.
What day are you talking about by the way?
Merkava Mk4 uses German MB833 1500 hp diesel. It is considered the best tank engine and it is one of the smallest. There are no real alternatives Israel can get.
Reducing hull will reduce the ammo. Plus it will make impossible to carry infantrly. All this does not worth 10 mm of additional side armor.
This is a hotel and holiday resort compared to a T-72.
Surveillance system which is strange. In the style of Steampunk.
@ScansRevelator lol,i doubt that ,now hamas is arming itself with even better weapons
If in 1985 there was a US vs USSR war, USA would lose. At that time, US APFSDS were neutralised by ERA Kotankt 5, Flankers and Fulcrums outclassed F-15s and F-16s kinematically and in avionics, soviet SA-10 were more then capable of taking out B-1 and even B-2 thanks to low-freq radars that brought the missile close enough for SAM to see it. T-80 and T-72 were armed with ATGMs. Finally against the US navy, they use Backfire-Cs, Bears and Blackjacks with Supersonic anti-ship missiles
because israel wanted the capability to have troops in aswell. we also wanted it to be confortable for our guys. but we sacrificed stealth for comfort. we need a new and better tank soon
такой бы танк да в личное пользование, отличный танк своего класса
Wish I could procure this tank, sadly its kind of too heavy for my soil so.... if it rained its gonna be quite the hell
Destroyed by a 800$ drone!!
Not destroyed
any drone can destroy a tank
@@yy97-69alyasin-105 RPG with 200$ has been destroyered every single day 3 or 5 tanks been destroyered
@Thesomali27 You only see the explosion of the yassin, but you don't see the video afterwards since the tank is fine
@@yy97-69 there have been testimonies from soldiers in haaretz on how the inside becomes an oven as the yaseen 105 hits the ammo storage. Most shots do
I dont know how many civlians killed, but surelly over 10 times less than Russia killed in Chechnya.
Every army kills civilians, especially in urban warfare, but terrorist is one who deliberately targets civilians.
And we are talking about ungueded hand held weapons whitch cost only hundreds of dolars . Think about SPG , PTUR's (ATGM), electronic land mines, AT field artilery and so on ... all weapons that are cheaper and more plentiful than a milion dolars tank.
R. I. P Mack
this guy speaks like there is someone sleeping next to him.
looks like more room on the inside than on the outside.
everything except an ejecter seat, ha ha
What exactly went wrong in 2006? (Don't waste my time by saying it was the lack of Trophy. I know that if 2006 was repeated today, Israeli tank losses would be much smaller). I thought the enemies of Israel had nothing to counter Merkavas with except Milan, AT-13 Metis, AT-14 Kornet and RPG-29 Vampir. All of those, are extremely formidable even for modern anti-tank weapons but I thought almost nothing could penetrate the modular/sloped composite armor of Merkava at least not from the front.
Despite the massive use of most modern anti tank missiles Hezbollah was unable to stop tanks single time. In Gaza not a single tank was penetrated.
We all saw how well the merkava fended for itself in Lebanon 2006. It took quiet a beating. It's a cool tank, I like it but it is destructible. Why doesnt this guy make a future weapons video about the American Abrams tank. Was he a Israeli seal or us anavy seal.i know the answer us navy seal but he should show American weapons.
راجل امام رائع بلاغ حسن معامل رسالة
Rust bucket? Hardly. Secondly. If you ask men to perform a perfect strategy with equipment insufficient for task against a prepared enemy - they will lose. Third. I was referring to a conventional war. No one in their right mind would resort to a nuclear
no you are wrong only 121 soldiers killed-very different from troops.
49 tanks got hit: 47 from RPGs 2 from super powered land mines (a mine with about 100Kg of explosives in it). all the tanks destroyed were merkava 3.
and the rockets did stopped.
hizballah got their lebanes prisoners in a deal that signed in 2008 with the return of the 2 IDF soldiers bodies.
do you know a tank that cannot fail against 100Kg of explosives detonated 1 meter from the tank?
merkava is the most safe tank ever made, but nothing is safe against that amount of explosives.
Wow, are you wrong or what?
PTURs? You mean the PTRD, an obsolete antitank rifle that can't penetrate even an MRAP?
An RPG7 can't pen a Chal2, nor an Abrams except a few very tiny (3in or less) weak spots. And no challenger 2 has been "disabled" and no crew member injured by a "300 dolar rpg round". It was an RPG29, which is expensive and similar to a US AT4, hit through a small weak spot in the lower hull, and it blew off two toes. And Chal2s have taken hundreds of RPGs w/o effect.
i dont remember babies with PRGs and AK47s, as shields i think i do...
The Merkava held up its end in the '06 war. What sucked was the complete abandonment of any coherent tactics. They were sent stop-start, willy-nilly into a ridiculously narrow, twisting ravine.
It was a war run by dickless politicians, not soldiers. Concentrated Vietnam on steroids. It's a wonder only a handful were knocked out. Watching those clips of them stumbling and bumbling about aimlessly in that shooting gallery made me embarrassed for them.
Making tank smaller is not just decreasing comfort, but also reducing ammo, gun elevation/depression angles and so on. Also if you reduce the size of the tank leaving it in same weight then cross-country ability will reduce. Finally the thickness of frontal armor is usually enough while making sides 10% more will hardly help - 100 mm or 110 mm. It wont save you against Kornet with 1000 mm of penetration.
i think angling this tank when it is about to get hit by an anti tank would make this tank survive somehow
This isn;t world of tanks
@@fartlord5000 u never know the possibility unless you try.
@@44thepistol Drive a tank and tell them you want to angle it. You’ll get laughed at.
@@fartlord5000 sure why not
il sont un systhème.
de protechtion éléctromagnéthique.
ils détrruit les rbg7.
avant quelle touche le char.
@Greenvalve what do u imply actually its 500 meters look it up also the Kornet has a range of 5500 meters and its like from the late 70's im not saying that the merkava is a bad tank im saying its distructable
@lou
funny how you say that you dont knw and then you say that you do.
the fact is that only 2 Merkava 4 tanks were damaged beyond repair. one from an IED and one from korenet missiles.
one merkava tank was hit by 25 missles before taking damage. so they are as solid as the best of tanks.
that same missile has gone thought Abrams.
and now they put the trophy system on the Merkava tanks which has already proven in battle against a Kornet missile.
also the kornet missle is not old.
Where's the toilet?
outside.
somewhere in there
50 tanks were hit but only 5 destroyed. For example in Wadi Saluki 11 tanks were hit by modern Kornet missiles, but only 1 of them was destroyed.
As for "Palestine", even if Israel dissapears it wont be "free". It will became a south Syria province. No one will even remember about so called "Palestinian nation".
But Syria and Iran are too coward to fight Israel directly. They can only send Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, which can annoy Israel but dont posess any threat.
simple: those who target civilians are terrorists.
this tank is one hot fighter,, it is just a little slow.
put it up against a Hezbollah fighter with a Kornet anti tank missile and it's reduced to a burning heap of scrap metal. What was it ? One quarter of all Merkava deployed in the 33 day defeat by Hezbollah destroyed
And that is why tanks never operate without infantry and vice versa, you anti-semitic dumbass!
The Hezbollah terrorists got lucky, that the Israeli infantry didn't find them first and that they had a first-rate anti-tank missile provided for them by another anti-semitic people, the Russians.
Other than that, it's the best tank in the world because Jews designed it. And that is why you hate the Merkava so much, it is a Jewish tank.
Life is so much easier when you aren't filled with hate for yourself.
Because Hisbullah hid under their wives skirt and shoot from there. Coward!!!
U cant say the Merkava can compete with the M1 the merk is a beast for israel no other nation will be interested in buying this tank since it is not very mobil for a MBT and the thing with the room for more troops is bad it just makes the tank have a larger profile
IFV equipped with a 120mm Gun turret.
You are aware that the Merkava is basicly a centurion thats been put the wrong way around right?
@AKun96
The onus of proof is on the one who made the claims, which wasn't me.
Learn to debate.
ابو عبيدة خلاها بتتباع فى سوق الخردة
it seems that you didnt get the documentary,lol, when they said theyretreated , they meant only that the tank advance was stopped not that the israilis were stopped there
🔻🔻🔻🔻
southern lebanon is in a part cities, villages, mountains ...merkava were haunted like rabits not inside the villages , but in open air regions...it failed&it's image is ripped off...
nazdarovia
true.
@Crazylalalalala don't know exactly how much, but enough to make Tsahal worry and revisit their tank. enough to make hundreds of israeli soldiers retreat and hide in a libanese base. enough to make a documentary about it. Many observers in the world consider the libanese war was not successfull for Israel and that's is mainly due to the Merkava. The missile used is wire-guided Like Kornet not some mines. but i want israel stay confident about their tank, they 'll loose war quicker :D
The reload on it is horrendous.. you have to wait for it too be pushed out, wat.
Watch a soviet tank turret launch into the upper atmosphere and you'll understand why storing ammo in the open in a bad idea.
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Yes, but the Merkava stores 38 rounds in the hull in armoured containers. The T-90M stores 22 rounds in the armoured carousel autoloader and a further 8 in armoured bins in the hull; 10 rounds are stored in the turret.
T90 will always be the T90.
A tandem PG-29V granate for the RPG 29 cost around 300 dolars .And i was talking precisely about the incident in Amarah in 2006. "small weak spot" ?! - the small weak spot was the tank frontal glacis plate (one of strongest frontal armour spots) whit reactive armour on it (whit the tandem charge is design to deal whit).The result was one heavy ungured crew member and one lightly wooned - the tank was mission mission uncapable since the driver lost a large part of his leg.As for the M1A2 ...
@Dubaifreak no we wont, we simply will not have an Airforce, and some other stuff... which is a huge disatvantage i agree... but this Tank is from Israeli money, Israeli funding and Israeli engineering. the entire Idea of this tank is also as a weapon we can supply ourselves in a wartime scenario, and Hezbollah would be sticks and stones without Irans support. we can at least be a formidable guerilla without the US, Hezbollah would be less than trash without Iran.
can u show us the diapers that thy said that thy us diapers so thy don't have to get out of the tank
49 tanks were hit in 1day man...)))))
120 tanks & armored vehicles were destroyed in 2006...those pigs take bck all destroyed tanks once they grill like shawarma...)))) nice meshwi it was...chachlik ..)))
Its not an entirley bad thing, i mean the centurion was a great tank, but it was develpoed in 1945. I mean its your opinion that the merkava should be No.2. I just disagree that its better then the challanger 2 or the leopard.
This failed in operations against Hezbalah in Southern Lebanon on 2006 against Russian made ATGM like Kornet missiles & several tankers have been killed during that war .
***** Don't talk about other religion , we discuss about this tank operations through out war , Israeli official admit their tank vulnerabilities against current threat and because that new counter measure adopted (Trophy System ) .
The Merkava's composite armor consists of many thin spaced sandwich plates, which is a common design for protection against HEAT warheads. However the lack of a thick coverplate providing additional protection against KE, detonating warheads before they enter the composite armor and providing additional structural support causes some issues not found on other tanks.
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Please see this article about Merkava armor :
below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.com/2016/04/merkava-4-damaged-during-training.html?m=1
By the way I don't have any problem with Jews & Israeli people ... Simply we're human
I mean knocking out 5 Main battle tanks in a war between a conventional military force
and between a guerrilla military force is not a feat when guerilla warfare in CQB and mountainous area of lebanon will give the advantage to lebanon but it didn't , israel pushed to the litany river.
isnt that the tank Hamas and Hezbollah blew up numerous times. Oh yes it is the merkava i remember.
@loumizhu
by many you mean like 3? cause thats how many were "blow up". and 2 more from mines.
In fact in most of cases penetration did not led to death of any crewmen. This is due to Merkava's composition. On the other hand penetration of cramped Russian tanks leads to death of all the crew usualy.
what abt cornet, metis, rpg29 rockets, seems u 4got that pal??? they tore ur merkava into pieces
@il76dt1 Так в Израильских ВС решается проблема безработицы. Надо содержать заряжающего!
Whats the point to use soldiers when you can kill him with 5 cent bullet?
They shoud becouse they did not do soo good against soviet time PTURs .You can make a tanks as armored and heavy as you like and fit it whit all kinds of counter measures, but thire will allways be cheaper infantry anti-tank weaponst to take them out (a lot cheaper than the tanks they are destroyng) . Hell a 300 dolar RPG round can pierce a 6,7 milion dolar Chalenger 2 tank front whit ERA (and it did disabling it and heavily injuring the driver ) scoring a mobility kill.
I just lol at all those who put down the Merkava and praise Hezbollah... the closest thing Hezbollah got to a tank is a Toyota pickup truck with garbage plates as armor... additional reactive armor would include babies, and wondering civilians.
No really, the Isrealies took their centurions, turned thema round and moved the engine bay to the front and called it the MErkava 1. If you dont belive me serch for any of the discovery channels/military channels top 10 tnaks and listien to Dr Nuasbacher from Sandhurst talking about it.
>these fake facts you have 120 tanks hit 49 destroyed and rest damaged.
49 destroyted tanks (with 4 crew in each) means 196 killed. Actual number of killed tankers was 30.
>russia never had 100,000 tanks in ww2 the most tanks ever? built by ussr was95,000
USSR started war with 23,000 tanks, during the war were built 103,170 + 13,400 recieved through Land Lease. By the end of the war USSR had about 46,000 tanks. Go figure.
They use APDS bullets!awesome!
and. south lebanon isnt a desert dude.
@parthsna Yeah. But hey, who isn't gonna vouch for their home country. I'd question why you wouldn't. Technology is a tool not a crutch. I'll take a well trained, well disciplined crew over the most high tech tank any day