Israel’s Merkava tank was designed with crew survivability as its primary goal. This episode examines the vehicle’s armor ...

Key point: Active protection systems may very well steal the day. The Israeli Merkava (Chariot) main battle tank is an example of a sophisticated weapon system designed to deal with very specific ...

Israel may be about to export its workhorse Merkava tank for the first time. Reports say Israel is in talks to sell the tank to a European and a Middle Eastern country. If exported widely, the tank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israeli Merkava tanks, some with "cope cage" style armor screens on top of their turrets, mass near Gaza. Israeli forces on the ...

April 4, 2021: Israel is the smallest nation in the world to design and build its own tanks. This was the result of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which took Israel by surprise and inflicted heavy losses ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Merkava’s unusual layout places the tank’s engine in the front. This means there is an extra block of armor between the tank’s crew and any incoming projectile.

The change marks some of the main lessons learned by IDF officials after October 7 and during the war with Hamas in Gaza, ...

TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The Israeli government has decided to continue production of its main battle tank, the Merkava. Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon announced the decision to ...

July 30, 2023: Israel recently revealed that it is negotiating the sale of 200 older Merkava tanks. The sale value of these tanks is estimated to be more than $50 million. There are two potential ...

Israel is in talks with the Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus on selling it Merkava tanks, Israeli media reported. “A security source revealed that Israel is planning on selling hundreds ...

Israel has delivered two bridge-laying vehicles to the Philippines, these based on an Israeli Merkava tank hull. A pair of new armoured vehicle-launched bridges (AVLB) arrived by ship in Batangas in ...

It's a couple days late, but in case you missed it, Gen. Israel Tal who helped design what many believe is the world's best tank, died a couple days ago in Rehovot, Israel. Born in 1924, he held a ...