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 ...

Merkava Tanks (Hebrew: Chariot ... The armament also changed: the rifled 105-mm cannon in the Merkava Mk 1 was replaced with a smoothbore 120 mm cannon used from the Mk 3 version.

Al-Qassam Brigades announced early on Saturday that it had destroyed the tanks during operations in the eastern part of the city of Jabalia, using strong explosives. The group said it had targeted ...

TASS/. Members of the military wing of the Shiite Hezbollah party have hit an Israeli Merkava tank during a sortie they carried out from the border area in southern Lebanon, according to a ...

The Merkava family of tanks can be traced back to the 1960s when Israel’s journey to developing its own homegrown MBT series originated. Following the founding of the Jewish state, Israel was ...

BEIRUT, September 23. /TASS/. The Hezbollah militia attacked an Israeli mechanized patrol in the border area of El Marj, hitting a Merkava tank, the movement said on its Telegram channel.