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2020-01-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Merkava Tank Is Why No Army Wants To Mess With Israel
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-12 07:46|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Merkava is frequently translated as 'chariot' in the first chapter of Ezekiel
Posted by lord garth 2020-01-12 08:06||   2020-01-12 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Reportedly an excellent piece of equipment, but it's more than just weaponry. For Israel, failure on the battlefield equates to extinction. They have no intention of going there.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-12 08:22||   2020-01-12 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 nice low profile turret and anti-RPG screening
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-12 08:48||   2020-01-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Something about the turret reminds me of a rattlesnake's head... not the worst look.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-12 09:05||   2020-01-12 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 They continue to make improvements on it. Some borrowed and / or exchanged with the US on the down low. Hand sets located where the infantry can use them without being cooked by the exhaust. Small auxiliary diesel generators that can be use to power the electronics with the main engine shut down and etc.
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-01-12 09:39||   2020-01-12 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6  nice low profile turret

That's the first thing that jumped out at me; that and the slight raised angles of the turret, like it's designed to have shit deflect off of it instead of straight on hits. Nice...
Posted by Raj 2020-01-12 09:43||   2020-01-12 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't wait til they come up with a stealth version.
Posted by jpal 2020-01-12 10:37||   2020-01-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The problem with creating a domestic military-industrial complex is that it demands constant wars to feed itself.

Something we in America know, to our grief.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-12 10:43||   2020-01-12 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Herb doesn't understands (among other things) scale?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-12 10:50||   2020-01-12 10:50|| Front Page Top

#10 The genneves are in the restroom, above the commode.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-12 10:50||   2020-01-12 10:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, Herb, why would we ever keep domestic production of defense instruments? What a tool
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-12 11:14||   2020-01-12 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12 I always loved that it has AC and a water fountain in the turret. Oh and if you remove like 40 rounds of ammo, it can carry stretcher casualties. Let's not forget the 60mm mortar it can use to flush infantry as well.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-01-12 11:30||   2020-01-12 11:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Uh-Oh! Did someone wake up Herb?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-01-12 11:35||   2020-01-12 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Didn't think they paid him for weekends.
Maybe he had a snow day.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-12 11:57||   2020-01-12 11:57|| Front Page Top

#15  The problem with creating a domestic military-industrial complex is that it demands constant wars to feed itself.

Or is a response to it when foreign manufacturers decide to boycott because of societal Jew hatred and/or surrender to the boycott threats from the Muslim world. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is sometimes true.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-12 12:34||   2020-01-12 12:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe he had a snow day.

Skid wins this one!

... when foreign manufacturers decide to boycott because of societal Jew hatred and/or surrender to the boycott threats from the Muslim world.

When one is surrounded by enemies sworn to your destruction, and means of defense are denied to you via normal channels of commerce, it makes sense to beat some of your plowshares into rolled homogeneous armor. To not do so is simply suicidal - something Mr Darwin tells us is a not a viable long-term strategy.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-12 13:03||   2020-01-12 13:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Herb is a nice leftist example... Military Industrial Complex only exists in West, they never talk of Russian, Soviet, Chinese Military Industrial complex...
Posted by Spanky Whuter1088 2020-01-12 13:40||   2020-01-12 13:40|| Front Page Top

#18 Our tour in Israel recently stopped at a rest area that had a display of old tanks. Our guide, former IDF pointed out the entire engine is to the front of the unit, offering protection in the event of a hit. The Russian tank was actually a bbq when it was struck. He said in the Russian mindset, no shortage of tank crew, it’s next man up. The IDF mindset was it to Ames 18 years to “grow” a replacement crew, plus 2 years of training.
Posted by Capsu 78 2020-01-12 19:25||   2020-01-12 19:25|| Front Page Top

#19 It takes...
Posted by Capsu 78 2020-01-12 19:27||   2020-01-12 19:27|| Front Page Top

#20 Beautiful machine.

"Scandinavian countries are the best, we should be more like them."

"Finland and Sweden have a military industrial complex."

*error*error*error*
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-12 19:50||   2020-01-12 19:50|| Front Page Top

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