Merkava 4 armor is long overdue to be buffed

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1143

by the gods…they have fixed it YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

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1144

Wonder what are we gonna pay for this mercy? Another amour nerf?

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1145

Haha lmao

1146

Next dev data mine:

  • Merkava 4 weight: 65.5 → 80 tons

  • Merkava 4 composite array → structural steel

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1147

Many people here believe that if they increase the tank weight they also get more armor buff. Bc gaijin has some weird calculator of weight - armor value

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1148
  • Merkava 4 weight: 65.5 → 80tons
  • Merkava 4 composite array → Air
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1149

Both steel and air are an upgrade over current composite, so where issue

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1150

gaijin did state they would buff the armor if it had a higher weight. trust me I don’t understand it either, but it is a fact they said that.

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Honestly at this point I feel they might just remove the Merkava with how little they care about it

1152

Nah

1153

Merkava is usabale just not great namer tho…

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1154

merkava mk4/3 need an armor rework badly, especially the namer. I can’t imagine a 65 TON IFV having air for armor. gaijin needs to really give the merks its own edge, not another F%#$ING COPY PASTE LEOPARD AND T SERIES TANK

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Then why dont the Namers have better armor when they weigh almost the same as the Merkava 4 but dont have the massive turret? where is all the weight going to? Gaijin isn’t buffing the armor because they dont want to for some internal reasons we dont know, it clearly has nothing to do with them trying to realistically estimate the armor.

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1156

Also imagine having so much space but only carry 2 spikes in the hull lmao

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1157

Israel has anti bias thats why
Israel isnt allowed to be good nation cuz it will make some ppl mad

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1158

it could be a possibility that we could potentially see an armor buff for the Merkava’s and or the namer when Israel gets rank 1-3. or I’m just probably coping with false hopes of an armor rework. I’m at least at peace with trophy working again but that’s the least of the problems of what’s wrong with the armor profiling on these mbts and ifvs

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1159

Gaijin has never once stated that they would improve armor based on mass.

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Does trophy even do anything meaningful at top tier? can it stop things like LMUR and JAGM?

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yes, they did. during the dev server for the merkava mk4 lic when it had more realistic armor

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not sure yet because I haven’t died to those munitions in it yet. I have had plenty of interceptions finally with the working trophy though.