>vids of dozens if not hundreds of hits by various AT weapons
>not 1 confirmed destruction inside Gaza
How is she so survivable? Russian tanks seem to turn into balls of fire if the wind grazes it
>vids of dozens if not hundreds of hits by various AT weapons. >not 1 confirmed destruction inside Gaza
Because any decent tank is 99.9% survivable if there's no a drone/sapper/arty to finish it.
Only tanks with carousel are prone to go nuclear after a single penetration.
>Only tanks with carousel
not only - any propellant storage inside hull without blowout panels will have this effect - t series are turret toss champions due to comparatively small turrets and carousel being directly below - but there were pictures of turretless leos and if im correct chally with detached turret also...
The T series always has at least the carousel (that doesn't have any protection/flammability reduction for each round). Internal ammo is always is a problem.
Ukes aren’t firing homebrew rpgs to be fair. Also merkava is optimized for survivability and repair due to unique lessons from the 1973 war. Plus active and passive protection that is actually real and widespread
There are also fighter jets, artillery, other tanks, riflemen, mortars, etc on standby for literally any ATGM attack. In Ukraine you see ATGM crews casually plinking away at tanks 2 km or more in the distance because they know nothing except tanks or artillery can reach that far, in Gaza/Lebanon using an ATGM on the IDF is suicide.
>unique lessons from the 1973 war
what lessons led to this design,
high losses
a lot of which to ATGMs
built different
there are probably a few that have been written off
the mussies can't get them to go out with a bang and don't get to inspect the hit from up close
the israelies get to recover their lost vehicles
So with no wreck left for the musies to make propaganda out of and the israelies not going to do their work for them.
So it gets recovered, goes to he depo, they asses it isn't worth fixing and use it for parts
Hamas aren't firing NLAWs and Javelins
Their RPGs are mostly homebrew
They have kornets and rpg's from Iran
If Israel was using Challies instead of Merkava's would the result still be the same?
The general rule of the Merkava is "sacrifice the vehicle to save the crew" The frontal engine may be more likely to be knocked out and result in a lost vehicle, but it puts more metal/space between and incoming shot and the crew.
They are also far more reparable than other comparably sized tanks. Hard to lose a merkava permanently
There’s a video of one being knocked out by a drone and the wounded (dieing?) crew being dragged out by Palis.
That’s from October 7th and wasn’t inside but yeah it’s the only merk knockout, though it was later recovered and repaired
Anyone can suckerpunch a tank if the overall foce has been lacking alertness/were on holidays/wasn't expecting something, once they entered in warfoot pulling that one became much harder and more often than not ended in plastered terrorists than dead israelites.
Yeah that was the good stuff
>blah blah blah stupid israelite noises
Shut up retard
>inside Gaza
this is a very critical and purposeful detail
Not really given outside of 1 day a month ago all ground engagements have been inside Gaza
2 got destroyed during that one day
>destroyed
eh. i don't think that's what that word means
1 disabled is on video. Haven’t seen anything else
>you
I’m not Israeli so false
Anyway given how many Hamas attempts there has been inside Gaza to destroy it it’s impressive known have been destroyed