The IDF’s Merkava series of main battle tanks, widely considered to be of the most lethal armored vehicles in service across the globe, has remained the centerpiece of Israel’s armored corps for more ...

Notably, this homegrown system improves the tank’s ability to target enemy MBTs and therefore increases the crew’s survivability. The IDF introduced its fifth-generation “Barak” variant in ...

Since 2004, the IDF has relied on the Merkava IV as its primary battle tank. Features of the fourth-generation vehicle ...

and crew-friendly Merkava is exaggerated. Could the critics of the Israeli tank be right? Nothing could be more wrong. Yom Kippur War, during which in 1973, Israel was unexpectedly attacked from ...