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Subject: What about the Merkava?
sabotup    6/13/2005 4:26:44 AM
I've been looking here for a while and have noticed that the Western MBT's, and the newer Russian/Chinese tanks get alot of press. What about the Merkava? I know it's cross country performance is less than the M1/Leopard series. How about it's protection/fcs, how does it stack up to the best of the west?
 
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Shirrush    RE: BrittleSteel   7/28/2005 3:47:06 PM
My apologies for this late response, but the boards have gone so quiet lately that I haven't felt a need to look them up more often than about once a week. BrittleSteel, I want you to know that we all stand behind you (after all, we can: your diesel exhausts from the side! :>), and wish you a safe and proud return home after you are done ridding our collective neckvein of the inflated tick of the Gaza settlements, and if you get to make good use of your main gun or your maqbil on a few Hama"s terrorists as well, so much the better... When there was all that talk about sending the IDF into Beth 'Hannun and Beth Lahyia two weeks ago after that poor girl in Netiv Ha'Assara got murdered, the TV showed tanks from a prestigious Cav brigade assembling somewhere south of Ashkelon in the lovely stabilized dune terrain there with all these Aussie Blue Wattle shrubs we are so grateful to for the shade (and the concealment). These were definitely the old Merk 2's, some of them fitted with the sloping turretside armor packs they got in S. Lebanon. So I guess you guys are the ones inside with the 3-Baz's doing the actual work on behalf of all of us, not the ones on the outside waiting for a good bloody reason to go kick ass.
 
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Shirrush    RE: BrittleSteel   7/28/2005 3:47:28 PM
My apologies for this late response, but the boards have gone so quiet lately that I haven't felt a need to look them up more often than about once a week. BrittleSteel, I want you to know that we all stand behind you (after all, we can: your diesel exhausts from the side! :>), and wish you a safe and proud return home after you are done ridding our collective neckvein of the inflated tick of the Gaza settlements, and if you get to make good use of your main gun or your maqbil on a few Hama"s terrorists as well, so much the better... When there was all that talk about sending the IDF into Beth 'Hannun and Beth Lahyia two weeks ago after that poor girl in Netiv Ha'Assara got murdered, the TV showed tanks from a prestigious Cav brigade assembling somewhere south of Ashkelon in the lovely stabilized dune terrain there with all these Aussie Blue Wattle shrubs we are so grateful to for the shade (and the concealment). These were definitely the old Merk 2's, some of them fitted with the sloping turretside armor packs they got in S. Lebanon. So I guess you guys are the ones inside with the 3-Baz's doing the actual work on behalf of all of us, not the ones on the outside waiting for a good bloody reason to go kick ass.
 
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Shirrush    RE: BrittleSteel   7/28/2005 3:47:59 PM
My apologies for this late response, but the boards have gone so quiet lately that I haven't felt a need to look them up more often than about once a week. BrittleSteel, I want you to know that we all stand behind you (after all, we can: your diesel exhausts from the side! :>), and wish you a safe and proud return home after you are done ridding our collective neckvein of the inflated tick of the Gaza settlements, and if you get to make good use of your main gun or your maqbil on a few Hama"s terrorists as well, so much the better... When there was all that talk about sending the IDF into Beth 'Hannun and Beth Lahyia two weeks ago after that poor girl in Netiv Ha'Assara got murdered, the TV showed tanks from a prestigious Cav brigade assembling somewhere south of Ashkelon in the lovely stabilized dune terrain there with all these Aussie Blue Wattle shrubs we are so grateful to for the shade (and the concealment). These were definitely the old Merk 2's, some of them fitted with the sloping turretside armor packs they got in S. Lebanon. So I guess you guys are the ones inside with the 3-Baz's doing the actual work on behalf of all of us, not the ones on the outside waiting for a good bloody reason to go kick ass.
 
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ambush    RE:What about the Merkava?   7/30/2005 6:41:01 PM
Does not the Merkava IV turrent design leave it with a nasty shell trap along the turrent ring?
 
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