Imagine a house. Put it on the tracks, install engine and armor…
You can find a photo of what the Russian ATGM did when he got on side the merkava. A huge hole appeared in the workplace of the driver.
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
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/ryceiszyc
Also I don’t think the idf has many benefits to make clickbaity titles but even if so to most people even 60 tons for a tank would sound crazy heavy
Edit: also in the video from the idf it clearly states that the tank is 80 tons so it’s probably not a clickbait title
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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
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Show me a tank that can take a Kornet to the side without damage… That doesn’t mean it has no armor
Bro this is such a cool image where did you find this
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
That’s a problem with gaijin not with me
Any source stating that this was a Kornet? I’ve seen it stated that it was a RPG-29:
Spoiler
Maybe it’s another merkava. I’ve seen the photo from inside.
I seem to have misunderstood. I thought someone was claiming that photo showed a Merkava tanking a Kornet to the side.
A house is not 61 tons, believe it or not.
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.
And this is very wrong.
That is an external SLERA block. It straight up says “Explosive” in Hebrew on it.
So no, the Merkava’s side does not consist of “Thin Steel Plates and Air/Ceramics”.
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bro thats the UFP…
isnt he standing in the engine bay?
Are you aware the Merkava has armor here?
It’s the label for that chunk of armor. You don’t put that on the outside.
i would count that as part of the UFP.
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
do you see how these two images kind of both look like cardboard in construction? That’s because they’re the same armor type. SLERA.
The armor internally has braces, which are typically found on more aggressive armor types which are not NERA.
170mm angled 74º = 617mm LOS
617mm LOS of an advanced self-limiting explosive reactive armour.
Yeah, I would say it should be able to take 3BM42.