Adding the 15 tons to the tanks weight would allow it to have better armor since one of the main reasons gaijin claims it’s armor is so thin is because the merkava is too big for the 65 tons of armor to have any thickness.
Secondly the video is only one source for its weight there is also a article on the Israeli news site named ynet that says the tank weighs 80 tons
Not in Gaijin’s eyes, look at the case of the Strv 122s and the 2a7, with the latter having restricted mobility and higher weight while offering less frontal protection (this is a bug though and needs to be fixed), a higher weight doesn’t necessitate higher armour values
That’s the photo where you can see “the armor”
Usually, a HEAT munition makes a small hole. A similar-sized hole in Abrams’ armor was left by AGM -65 Maverick with 50kg of explosives . This means that the merkava’s side armor consists of a pair of thin steel plates and air (maybe ceramics)
Nothing special.
The only thing a merkava can see in battle today is heat warheads and IEDs but usually IEDs will be used on the bottom of the tank and not on the side
So it’s probably a atgm ore rpg
Secondly, the difference between the Mk.1 and the Mk.4 is not 4 tons like Gaijin thinks. Every Merkava has the wrong weight and wrong armor modifiers.
The image you’ve shared shows the armor damaged a lot, yes, but the typical impact from weapons like the RPG-29, which seems to be what this was hit by based on other comments, is significant. If a Merkava didn’t get completely demolished and only had a block of armor destroyed, that’s actually impressive.
Especially since the armor is meant to detonate like ERA.
underneath that i dont know if it has any armour
seems like a stupid decision because theres nothing under there you would wanna protect with that armour or SLERA
