April 4, 2021: Israel is the smallest nation in the world to design and build its own tanks. This was the result of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which took Israel by surprise and inflicted heavy losses ...

As part of the $1.5 billion deal, the Israeli government is boosting production of the Merkava tank. The face of Israel’s armored corps is undoubtedly the Merkava main battle tank (MBT). The ...

The Merkava has been the IDF’s main battle tank since the 1980s. In recent years, the Armored Corps replaced most of its Merkava Mark 3 models with the more modern Mark 4. The potential sales would ...

The Israeli government says that it is in very active talks with two countries about what could be the first confirmed international sales of variants of the country's unique Merkava main battle tank.

Israel may be about to export its workhorse Merkava tank for the first time. Reports say Israel is in talks to sell the tank to a European and a Middle Eastern country. If exported widely, the tank ...

November 10, 2010: Israel announced that its Merkava (Chariot) 4 tank and Nemer (Tiger) APC (armored personnel carrier) were available for export sale. But only to nations that could be trusted to not ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a heavily armored, but unarmed, tank was stolen from a military training zone after finding it discarded in a junkyard. The Israeli ...

Occupied Jerusalem: Hezbollah fighters destroyed more than 50 Merkava tanks among 400 used by Israel in the war on Lebanon. The tanks were hit by anti-armoured missiles, which can penetrate the layers ...

The Elbit enhancement contract will surely make upcoming Merkava iterations even more lethal. Israeli tank manufacturer Elbit Systems will upgrade the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Merkava tanks as ...

Israel intends to sell tanks of its own production to two European countries with the agreement of the United States of America, because these weapons used American components. This is reported by the ...

The Merkava has a number of other unusual design elements designed to improve crew survivability. For example, the engine is mounted in front of the crew compartment so as to absorb some of the force ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities are ...