The Mk IV Barak was clearly damaged beyond any hope of repair, suggesting the IED must have been enormous – possibly several dozen kilograms the Defence Blog suggested – and yet the tank's ...

The Merkava IV packs an IMI 120mm L44 main gun, an M2 Browning .50-caliber heavy machine gun, and a 7.62mm light machine gun. The tank can also take a Mark 19 40mm grenade launcher and hit targets ...

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 ...