Merkava being a cardboard

Found these in a book about Merkavas:
Der Kampfpanger der Israelischen Armee.Author: Gelbart M.
Merkava. The Merkava Project A History of Israel’s Main Battle Tank - Gelbart M. - 2005

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Thats some pure ludicrousy, unless those are armor value gainst HEAT rounds. Unless physics dosen’t exist that ufp is not protecting it from ~800mm of KN penetration

well, there’s still the engine

This is great. What page is it?

125, 126

Thank you, will add it to my article on Merk 4 armor. Pretty much confirms the hypothesis I´m presenting.

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There’s also much stuff on the Merkava 3.
Author says the armor is comparable to Chobham and its successors.

description of the armor:

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yet it performs way worse than chobham in-game, such a magical model.

my last hopes that gaijin will fix merkava armor when they add ranks 1-3. that way you cant just have the best tank in the game off the rip

fingers crossed

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It’s a 400mm Explosive armor block. :/

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A bit off topic but someone with the name here can test if they fixed the turret ammorack bug?

what bug

it was a bug causing the ammorack to track you for no reason whatsoever

On the Merkava or Namer? I have been racked a few times in the Namer since the patch and it no longer just blows both tracks off if that is what you are wondering

Namer, and that’s great k so its not only the PUMA, they fixed It for both