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 ...

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Al-Qassam Brigades have dealt a major blow to the Israeli Defense Forces, destroying three of Israel’s prized Merkava tanks ...

Al-Qassam fighters have dealt a significant blow to Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza’s Al-Maslaba by destroying the IDF’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian propagandists have attempted to pass off footage circulating on social media of a Russian T-90M tank being blown up in the war in Ukraine as an Israeli Merkava tank being destroyed by Hamas ...

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 ...

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, ...