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    first generation, the Merkava Mark 1, entered official service in 1979. Four main variants have been deployed. As of 2023, Merkava Mark 4 Barak is the latest...
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    abbreviation of "Nagmash" (APC) and "Merkava," is an Israeli armoured personnel carrier based on a Merkava Mark IV tank chassis. Namer was developed by...
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    Mark I Mark II Mark III Mark IV Mark V Mark VI Mark VII Mark VIII Mark IX Mark X Mark XI Mark XII Mark XIII Mark XIV Mark XV Mark XVI Mark XVII Mark XVIII...
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  • plutonium bomb Mark II, a variant of the British Mark I tank Merkava Mark II, a variant of the Israeli Merkava battle tank Supermarine Spitfire Mk II, a Spitfire...
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    first to adopt the Merkava mark-III main battle tank, phasing out its older Centurion tanks. The brigade is now[when?] phasing out the mark-III tanks and by...
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    and heavy armored fighting vehicles. The system is in active use on Merkava Mark 3 & 4 tanks and the Namer armored personnel carrier (APC). It is also...
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    The first Merkava Mk. 1 tanks were supplied to the IDF in April 1979, nearly nine years after the decision to produce the Merkava Mk. 1 tank was taken...
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    The Merkava tank program administration said five of the damaged tanks cannot be returned to service, including two Merkava Mark II and one Mark III Lessons...
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    system: M68A1E4 cannon Expeditionary Tank K1 Type 88: KM68A1 cannon Merkava: Mark I and Mark II models T-54/55: in some upgraded variants Tiran-4Sh: Israeli...
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    Leopard 1A4 for the Bundeswehr took place in 1976 and would mark the conclusion of Leopard 1 production for Germany. In 1980, a research program was undertaken...
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    T-62 (redirect from RO-115 Mark I)
    evaluated the vehicle and incorporated its upgrades in its RO-115 Mark I modernization. RO-115 Mark I: developed in the early 1980s. While retaining the Soviet...
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    weapons industry, which has developed weapons and vehicles such as the Merkava battle tank series, Nesher and Kfir fighter aircraft, and various small...
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    Scots Dragoon Guards, both equipped with 57 of the latest Mark 3 version of the Challenger 1. They were modified for desert operations by a REME team and...
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    third generation MBTs including the M1 Abrams, Challenger 2, Leopard 2, Merkava, Arjun MBT, and Type 99 have weights similar to those of 1950s heavy tanks...
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    equipped with a mortar, either outside or inside the cabin. The Israeli Merkava main battle tank carried a 60 mm mortar in the small troop compartment...
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    development was the Israel Defense Forces Merkava Mark IV tank which is the most recent upgrade of the Merkava tank and has been in development since 1999...
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    Vickers MBT (redirect from Vicker's Mk.1)
    range, such as the 120 mm L11 tank gun. The Mark 2 did not proceed beyond a mock-up although a Vickers Mark 1 MBT with four Swingfire missiles, two mounted...
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    the duration of the insurgency. By 1998, Hezbollah had destroyed three Merkava Mk 3 main battle tanks with these missiles. Hezbollah started seriously...
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    Ground Forces uses several technologies developed in Israel such as the Merkava main battle tank, Achzarit armoured personnel carrier, the Iron Dome missile...
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    Kornet launched from the Gaza strip penetrated the outer armour of a Merkava Mark III tank on the Israeli side of the border, but it caused no injuries...
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    Retrieved 2023-12-02. Keller-Lynn, Carrie (2023-10-19). "Government sets up NIS 1 billion fund to rehab shattered Gaza border region". Times of Israel. Retrieved...
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    trucks 7 months after it was destroyed by Hamas". Times of Israel. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 1 May 2024. "Ship with food aid leaves for war-torn Gaza; Israel...
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    the M-113 with crane attached Nemera – modern recovery vehicle based on Merkava tank chassis. Several prototypes have been built, but it never fielded...
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  • The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mark 7 was a main battle tank developed on the basis of a joint venture between Vickers Defence Systems in the United Kingdom...
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    Retrieved 5 December 2023. Krauss, Joseph (14 May 2024). "Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds...
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    M1 Abrams (redirect from M-1 Abrams MBT)
    Defensenews.com, 6 September 2016 Abramson, Mark, "ABVs ready to break Afghan ground", Stars and Stripes, 1 February 2010. Hunnicutt 2015, p. 253. "M1...
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    laser-guided hard-target penetration bomb M-85 cluster bomb CBU-58 cluster bomb Mark 84 bomb MPR500 penetration bomb Spice glide bomb GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb...
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    Mark 0 ("E" stands for Egyptian variant) - T-55 modernization fitted with a new Russian engine developing 580 hp. It came in two variants: T-55E Mark...
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    designs have more protection; the Israeli IDF Namer has as much armour as Merkava main battle tank. Armour is usually composed of steel or aluminium. They...
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  • experience gained on PT-91 project. The tank would be similar in its design to Merkava. This program was also known under the name Anders. The program was cancelled...
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