Key Points and Summary – Israel’s Merkava is a unique main battle tank, combining heavy firepower with the ability to act as ...

New video footage from the ongoing conflict in Gaza offers an especially good look at Israel's Trophy active protection system in action helping to protect a Merkava tank under attack. The video in ...

As Israel prepares for a full-scale invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are expected to use their most advanced artillery and weaponry in the coming offensive ...

The Merkava series of tanks have been in service with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since the late 1970s, and it has been steadily upgraded and improved. The latest version, which entered service ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In an engagement where an attack is succeeding, the Merkava’s design makes sense, but for a European army expecting to hold against a Soviet or... Key Point: The ...

Israel has lost nearly two dozen tanks during fighting with Hamas since October 7. Those losses have come despite the sophistication of Israeli tanks and Israel's experience using them. The fighting ...

Social media users are claiming to show an Israeli Merkava tank in Gaza, modified into a fruit stand. One user wrote, “The Merkava tank is the most famous Israeli military industry. In Gaza, they made ...

The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they raided a gathering of Israeli army soldiers and vehicles yesterday, Monday, at the 'Rosary Sisters' school south of Gaza City, resulting in several ...

Israel’s Ministry of Defense’s Directorate of Production and Procurement (DOPP), in collaboration with the Ministry’s Tank and APC Administration and the IDF’s Technological and Logistics Directorate, ...

Israeli tanks massing near Gaza have been photographed with so-called “cope cages,” hastily fabricated metal armor designed to detonate anti-tank charges before they come into contact with the tank ...