I know basically nothing about tanks. Is the Merkava a good tank? What do you think of these comments?

The Merkava does not seem like a well built tank. It looks like they made it entirely of the exhaust port from the Death Star. Every Hamas video involving the Merkava is just a completely unescorted tank getting reverse 360 windmilled dunked. How many of these things have they lost?

If you tandem fire rpgs you can get a mobility kill on almost any tank. The US Army isn’t stupid enough to fight like this.

It seems like a really basic strategy to not do this exact thing

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Ninja edit

I just had an obvious realization considering who the account belongs to. I don’t know if either of them know anything about tanks either. Maybe they don’t and their “knowledge” comes from video games. It’s not criticism. It’s just funny.

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I feel like the main point of discussion here isn’t whether the Merkava is a good tank, but about the way the IOF is using them, rolling slowly around in ones and twos with no infantry around so people can just run up and idf-destroyer them

    • BidensGranddaughter [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      My (admittedly very armchair, probably learned from other comments on this site) understanding of the Merkava not having infantry support is due to how its Trophy countermeasure system uses shotgun-like blasts to counter missiles. They would shred any infantry standing around the tank.

      The system utilizes small EFPs which are projected towards the incoming threat, energy, debris and explosive pressure waves disintegrate the incoming projectile. As such, the system has a risk to dismounted infantry, and this system impact traditional infantry supported mechanized warfare tactics.

      This is also why resistance fighters will fire 2 missiles in quick succession; the first one to activate the Trophy, and then second to actually hit the tank once the Trophy is spent. Or yeah they just run up to it with the idf-destroyer

      I’m no tactical genius, but it sure seems like the incapability to have infantry support is not worth the tradeoff of having a countermeasure that is so easily worked around very-smart