I thus suggest that Gaijin would remove most antennas on the Merkava Mk.4 tanks. They always use two in real life, not 7 or 5, and the huge antennas make it extremley annoying to play and spoil your vision.
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I completely agree.
In short - please change this ludicrous amount of antennas. It is non realistic and unbalanced.
As an ex merkava commander for the last 20 years, serving on all merkava varients,I have never seen a Merkava, nor any Israeli tank with more than 3 radio antennas, and that’s on a Brigade commander tank. There won’t even be a place to put more than 3 radio receivers inside the turret.
The normal setup would be 2 antenna for the Platoon CO tank - one thick white and one narrow - black - for communication with the Company and receiving the battalion comms. The NCO’s tank would have one white antenna for Company frequency.
Also, unless on a convoy or when staying put, the antennas would be folded back using a string mechanism And that’s especially for not being seen behind cover and in hull down positions.
for urban combat the antennas would be folded forward to avoid hitting power lines and obstacles.
I’m sure the 7th antenna is to communicate with life outside of earth
IIRC its supposed to be an anti-IED jammer or other ECM system.
My Googlefu was too weak today to find anything but pics of model kits with it shown.
Yes, they are obnoxious.
