How exactly does a tank not being designed to travel across the world make it bad?
Israel doesn’t fight WW2-style wars. Even if they did and we somehow miraculously had Merkava tanks in fighting similar to Ukraine, they would still outperform other vehicles due to their design. While it is true that a tank modeled for easy production was good years ago, infantry weapons have made that completely impossible to work with now. The only tanks fit to survive drone warfare are those built like the Merkava.
Spreading myths is not helpful.
There was no Rafale bug report whose source was a video.
The sources were documents, and a photograph of the HUD was another item to substantiate the documents.
Because most tank producing countries needs tanks that travel across the world… Israel is an anomaly. It’s a small country that only do defensive wars… usually this kinds of countries only buy tanks as they can’t make them by them selves…
So by force of majority merkava is a nich tank, and will not be suited for most wars.
As for what you say about drones… there are less drones in gaza… but yea I think that other MBT are starting to move in rhe dorection of the merkava with 360 degree protection… I believe that next generation tanks will have automatic autocannons or shutguns point to the sky
This is blatantly false. Very few countries can ship their forces to a distant country. Among European countries, only a handful can even do it.
Even if we take a tank like the T-72, which can be mass-produced and sent across the world, and compare it to Israel in an actual historical setting, Israel still won. When Merkava Mk.1 tanks faced off, admittedly uncommonly, against T-72 tanks, Israel found itself decisively victorious.
But it’s not false… Abrams travel everywhere leopards are the most exported tank in the world half the world has them… t72 is also everywhere and also russia is …huuuggee.
By the way britain germany france all of them are bound by NATO pact to follow the USA basically in it’s adventures hah
Maybe the k2 is a tank that stays in one country…but also not as small as Israel. You could make a point of selling merkavas to south korea. But they already made their own tank.
Again it’s a strong tank, I’m not contesting that…
But to be honest Israeli tankers would have destroyed those T 72 even in magach. The syrians were outclassed in every aspect
Actually one of the main reason why Israel won’t export the merkava… it’s actually very jealous of it… in comparison to other military tech that they sell to all
A piece of wisdom I learned from science.
“This is correct today, and it may be incorrect tomorrow.”
Many of my favorite vehicles are “correct” today [as according to all available information read prior to those vehicles release into the games I play]; it is probable that new information comes to prove them incorrect.
I could be annoyed, I could be livid, I could be stubborn in response to vehicles that I suspect or know are incorrect.
OR I could appreciate that I have the best, or among the best functional examples of said vehicles in software that I can enjoy right now.
And when I find a document proving my case, I’ll draft a bug report.
Until then, I will enjoy the vehicles; and I will support those that are actively looking for unrestricted documents.
Well yea… It’s all BS, secretive technology…
All I do is to try to understand the man that is standing behind the vehicle to design it, and the man sitting inside.
You’re confusing exports with deployment. Sure, the T-72 and Leopard have seen combat out of their own countries, but that’s not easy for them. The only country other than the US that can reliably ship its forces across the world within days is France.
Do you seriously think that those countries can still do that? European Tank readiness rates are extremely low.
Did you see how long it took to get a handful of them combat-ready and sent to Ukraine? Britain can barely field their tanks to begin with these days.
The K2 is in service with Poland.
That comparison doesn’t make any sense. The Merkava isn’t designed remotely close to the K2?
It would not change if that was a Russian crew or not.
Do not forget that all “modern” T series are just modified T72 at best, if rockets from Javelins and rpgs can disable them from the front they are definetely not the best at protecting, you could’ve notice the tendency to use “mangals” against these rockets and they have prooved some kind of effectiveness. Now take a glance at Merkava’s turret armor, it’s like a whole meter of composite materials