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Its very hard for Merkava to compete with these tanks:I am curious to know one fact:
Has Israel attempted to export Merkava MBTs?
I mean openly. I am sure there would be buyers in the international market for a tank that has so much combat experience.
This would mean challenging the 3 Dominant MBTs exported world over:
1- Leopard 2: Germany
2- M1 Abrams: USA
3- T-90: Russia
Abrams is sold to US satellites with very strong lobbying.
Leopard-2 has large number of tanks in stocks that Germany does not need and they are sold for cheap prices (sometimes even gifted).
T-90 is cheap and its closely related to T-72 which many countries have. Thats why countries with T-72 prefer to buy T-90.
Many markets are closed to Merkava for political reasons. So Israelis did not even bother to offer Merkavas. Instead Israel exported lots of Merkava technologies. But recently Merkava was offered to Colombia.