I know basically nothing about tanks. Is the Merkava a good tank? What do you think of these comments?
The Merkava does not seem like a well built tank. It looks like they made it entirely of the exhaust port from the Death Star. Every Hamas video involving the Merkava is just a completely unescorted tank getting reverse 360 windmilled dunked. How many of these things have they lost?
If you tandem fire rpgs you can get a mobility kill on almost any tank. The US Army isn't stupid enough to fight like this.
It seems like a really basic strategy to not do this exact thing
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Ninja edit
I just had an obvious realization considering who the account belongs to. I don't know if either of them know anything about tanks either. Maybe they don't and their "knowledge" comes from video games. It's not criticism. It's just funny.
The tank itself is probably as well built as any country's Main Battle Tank (MBT), however the Israeli military likes to claim it has much better survivability than other MBTs which is false and is just propaganda for the domestic audience.
The main thing is, like the tweet thread says, the IOF just sends their MBTs into urban combat with literally no infantry support. Like typically in urban combat you surround your tank with infantry so the enemy can't sneak up to you on foot and blast your MBT, like the Hamas guys are doing. Like no tank, no matter how well build can survive that. However the IOF knows it can't take a lot of casualties or else the Israelis will start to revolt, so it isn't willing to risk sending a bunch of infantry becuase they will get sniped by Hamas. As a result you get daily videos of Hamas guys in cargo shorts running up to tanks and physically planting explosives on them.
Of course, when they hit a tank its not garenteed that everyone inside is dead, but I don't think anyone is walking away uninjured, plus the vehicle is inoperable and will need to be dragged back from the front lines (or abandon it).