Key Points and Summary - Israel’s Merkava is a unique main battle tank, combining heavy firepower with the ability to act as an infantry carrier. Some experts even call this tank the best on Earth, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israeli Merkava tanks, some with "cope cage" style armor screens on top of their turrets, mass near Gaza. Israeli forces on the ...

In 1967, Israel used the American M48 and British Centurion tanks to storm the Sinai Peninsula in a pre-emptive strike, which led to the end of the Six-Day War. However, this didn't come without ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel launched operational tests this week of actively protected combat engineering versions of its locally-developed Namer, a heavy troop carrier based on the Merkava Mk4 main ...

The Merkava is protected by the Trophy active-protection system, which uses a combination of turret-mounted sensors and explosively formed projectiles to shoot down enemy tank gun rounds, rockets and ...

Tiny, explosives-laden drones are a serious threat to tanks and other armored vehicles. Grenade-dropping quadcopters and self-exploding first-person-view racing drones—both available off-the-shelf for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New video footage from the ongoing conflict in Gaza offers an especially good look at Israel's Trophy active protection system in ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Merkava’s unusual layout places the tank’s engine in the front. This means there is an extra block of armor between the tank’s crew and any incoming projectile.

Hezbollah has claimed a series of large-scale attacks targeting Israeli military positions, including multiple Merkava tanks, across southern Lebanon and areas along the northern Israeli border over a ...

Israel may be about to export its Merkava tank for the first time. One customer may be an Arab country. Another could be a European nation at odds with Turkey. For now, the details are cryptic. "There ...