Marsh

I wonder why some of the Merkava turrets are blurred out and others not?

3 hours ago, SPARTAN ARMED said:

The american give us if we need !!!!!!! i like to see in idf vehicles like mantis mrap its futuristic.

I am not sure if you are real, a bot, someone who is a WUM, or just dim. Please think before you post. I know something about armoured vehicles, but try not to post here unless I have something to contribute. Just in case I look stupid. Perhaps you could do the same? 

7 minutes ago, SPARTAN ARMED said:

The new MRAP is very good an armored truck its better than sufa jeeps and more ergonomic but tzahal sould replace all jeeps and m113 with new ones soon.

Are you going to provide the money? What is preferable and what is possible are not necessarily the same. 

Marsh

Hi,

It's 120mm. There is a little information inside a book of commemoration for the designer of the suspension system. It's in Hebrew but very interesting nonetheless. I don't have the link to hand, however, I am sure Mighty Zuk does.

Hi Zuk,

The Centurion was obsolete and had already begun withdrawal from IDF front line service well before the M60. Hence ready availability of hulls. the M60 was obsolescent, but still upgradable, even though the intention was to replace them with the Merkava as they became available.

I thought the Pereh was based upon the M48?

I know of the light tank proof of concept vehicle. I don't think the intent was to use it on the Golan. 

The M60 was still considered an upgradable, if obsolescent, tank. The Centurion was considered obsolete and at the end of its service life.  On the other hand, the torsion bar suspension of the M60 was not as well liked as the Horstmann suspension of the Centurion which was seen as easier to repair and more suited to the rough terrain of the Golan. Given this, it was always more likely that the Centurion would be the vehicle likely to be retasked.

2 hours ago, Ramlaen said:

Is it too early to take this as a guarentee the Challenger 2 is getting a new gun?

Sadly... yes. Much too early. 

6 minutes ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

Nevermind @Marsh I managed to do it. Nice find!

 

I can't claim credit. It was a friend,  a Finnish soldier who served with UNIFIL. 

14 minutes ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

@Marsh Mind posting that photo from 2000 of the Merkava 3 with prototype APS here?

Hi I tried, but it wouldn't load. If you PM me your email address  I will send you it and you can try.

Cheers

Marsh

On 12/19/2018 at 11:44 AM, Militarysta said:

^{May be usefull:}

English version FragOut! whit my article Javelin vs Spike:

 

https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/1064315-frag-out-magazine-22/0?

 

page 48.

 

An excellent, detailed analysis. Thank you very much for providing an English version. Much appreciated! 

Cheers

Marsh

Will you horrible lot please stop mocking our magnificent, if archaic, tanks. I will have you know that British tanks have boiling vessels on board.  Our crews can make tea whenever they like! I bet the T-14 doesn't carry a samovar, so no mocking until it does! 

Marsh

It's a lunch box! (Or a snap tin, for those of us from the North of England).   

Hi, 

I am asuming that is the primary paint coat for the Eitan. It definitely isn't standard IDF olive grey. Although strangely , it has the basalt non-slip chips applied and that is done after the primer. Hmmm

2 hours ago, ZloyKrolik said:

 This one time, at the tank plant.....

Sorry, no. He was a "metal basher" on the Chieftain production line. (I am old....).   

Leeds, my home town. Used to have a friend who worked on the production line there.  

There was a discussion on Tanknet about this particular Centurion. I believe it to be one of the Jordanian Centurions knocked out in 1973. 

27 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

Crazy people after getting to internet have way more abilities to annoy normal humans.

Who has been talking about me?   

There is something almost comical, (if no doubt exasperating), when a nut job like Mike Sparks, has a go at someone like Jim Warford, with his proven service, knowledge and integrity. 

Not only can you find Namers with Merkava 3 tracks, some of the early production run of Namers, (I am not talking about prototypes) used modified Merkava 3 hulls rather than that of the Merkava 4.

Hi Adraste, 

No UN soldiers there. If you mean the bloke with the blue hat, shirt and grey trousers, based on previous experience, he is probably from MANTAK. 

14 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

@Marsh

Stupid ekranoplans money wasting go go!

Hi,

I didn't say I thought Ekranoplans were a spectacularly good weapon system, I just love their retro-futurist designs. 

39 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

those are projects that eat money and apparently they need more. They are priority in state program, I suspect that others are victims of reconsideration of where they want to spend more in situation of stagnant economy. Although for some reason they want to make ekranoplans now. 

Thanks for the update. Interesting.

re Ekranoplans Drool. I love them!

Hi,

At first it does look like a Carpet mine breaching system, but that is not the projectile usually associated with the system.

7 hours ago, Mighty_Zuk said:

https://www.google.co.il/amp/s/m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-gives-Jordan-an-IDF-Merkava-tank-for-a-museum-562330/amp

 

Jordan will receive a Merkava tank, probably Mark 1 as usual or at best a decommissioned early Mark 2.

 

Other than Jordan, there are now only 2 Merkava 1 tanks roaming free outside Israel. One in the Czech Republic, and another one travelling, being spotted at least in France and Russia.

 

This seems like a gesture of improving ties above all else. I believe 2-3 years ago Jordan took delivery of a squadron of AH-1Z Cobra helicopters free of charge.

The Merkava 1, (updated with elements of a Merk 2) in France, isn't "travelling". It is on permanent display at the excellent French tank museum at Saumur, which I have had the pleasure of visiting.

cheers

Marsh

Thanks for reloading the photo!