The Israel Defense Forces’ Merkava series of main battle tanks, widely considered to be of the most lethal armored vehicles ...

NNA - Israeli enemy forces on Thursday carried out sweeping operations with machine guns from the southern Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras toward the city of Bint Jbeil.  The operatio ...

The 1973 war prompted Israel to start designing and building its own tanks. By 1979 the 61-ton Merkava entered service and 250 were built by 1983. That was the year the first of 580 62-ton Merkava 2s ...

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/. Fighters of Lebanon’s Shia group Hezbollah have destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank on the border between the two countries, the Al Mayadeen TV channel reported. According to it ...

ALBAWABA- In a significant development, Al-Qassam Brigades announced the successful downing of an Israeli Skylark-2 reconnaissance ... at five Israeli Merkava tanks east of the city of Khan ...

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.

Merkava Tanks (Hebrew ... Challenger, or Leopard 2 tanks. Therefore, to maximize the crew's protection, the new tank employs armor made from several layers of steel with different properties.