Israel Offers Merkava IV Tanks to Colombia

[500]

What always puzzled me was the step like layered armor of the Merkeva, what exactly is the reason for this? My knowledge regarding Tank designs is lacking so would like to know why the Merkeva turret is designed this way (benefits) and why the K2 design is not good.

Its just outer coating:

 

[United]

Its just outer coating:

If ur armour was such great and could do all that u claim i dont think "Trophy" would not have been implemented.

its a nice tank but has flaws and can be taken down which has been proven.

 

[Malik Alashter]

Everything possible.


Thats fact.


Russian tanks have slopped sides.


You are mistaken.

Well thats hardly enough to stop 12.5 mm bullets thats not realy armor!!!! now what you mean russian use slope even so those not really angled also they been there to stop 12.5 mm not more!!! the designer every where knows front of the tank gets the most action not the flanks.

 

[500]

If ur armour was such great and could do all that u claim i dont think "Trophy" would not have been implemented.

its a nice tank but has flaws and can be taken down which has been proven.

1) Nothing gives 100% results, the more protection layers you add the better results you get.
2) While turret or Merkava is well protected, hull sides and rear are vulnerable to ATGMs.

 

[Desert Fox]

Its just outer coating:

That's a very thick layer of coating. Is it like a add on armor and removable? What is its role?

 

[500]

Well thats hardly enough to stop 12.5 mm bullets thats not realy armor!!!!

No much more.

now what you mean russian use slope even so those not really angled also they been there to stop 12.5 mm not more!!! the designer every where knows front of the tank gets the most action not the flanks.

This is what I mean:

Slop is protecting sides of Russian tanks at angles up to +-30 grad.

That's a very thick layer of coating. Is it like a add on armor and removable? What is its role?

I was talking about "steps". As for thick coating its armor of course. Thats whats called a "modular armor".

 

[Desert Fox]

they wanted to make the tank as low as possible to make it hard to get hit and become a smaller target

Doesn't really look that low to me compared to the T-90. But it's width is small.

 

[Malik Alashter]

No much more.


This is what I mean:

Slop is protecting sides of Russian tanks at angles up to +-30 grad.


I was talking about "steps". As for thick coating its armor of course. Thats whats called a "modular armor".

from the pictures you post on merkava its look good against hollow charge grenade, atgm but I think it would be penetrated big time with apfsds projectile.

 

[cabatli_53]

I don't know Which design will be serial produced in following years but Our Altay is either evolving in accordance with Army's requirements, or the last one is Otokar's final design with/without Roketsan add-on armours. After Roketsan supplied add-on kits, Most probably, The final design will look like the first one (I hope)...

First

Second

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

^^

Soon in the futur “Altay Tank”...

K-2 Tank APS (Active Protection System)
3D search & track radar / thermal search & track

V5 43 - YouTube

Russia Metis-M1 interception slowly

V5 44 - YouTube



APS (Active Protection System) testing against RPG-7 and
Metis-M ATGM (Anti-tank guided missile) or also Kornet ATGM (Anti-tank guided missile)



V5 57.flv - YouTube


Explosive projectile interceptor (blast effect)

 

[bdslph]

Merkava IV is an excellent tank but during the war in 2006 it was defeated
i wonder if the Colombia buy will they have the trophy i am waiting to see another war merkava IV with trophy vs Anti Tank weapon

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

Merkava IV is an excellent tank but during the war in 2006 it was defeated
i wonder if the Colombia buy will they have the trophy i am waiting to see another war merkava IV with trophy vs Anti Tank weapon

Not need to wait a whole new war.

Merkava 4 Equipped with Trophy Defeats an RPG on the First Combat Engagement of an Active Protection System

By tamir_eshel on March 1, 2011 5:57 pm


With the deployment of Merkava Mk 4 tanks equipped with Rafael Defense Systems’ Trophy (ASPRO-A) Active Protection Systems (APS) along the Gaza border last month (January 2011), that followed a Merkava tank being hit by a Kornet anti-tank missile fired by the Palestinians, battle testing of the Trophy APS was only a matter of time. Today (1st March 2011), the system was baphtized in combat, proving its worth in a first combat engagement with a hostile RPG, fired by Palestinain anti-tank team from Gaza. The system and crew performed exactly as expected, integrating automatic response to neutralize an immediate threat, rapid situational understanding and decision and forcible response, effectively eliminating the threat.

Kornet ATGM (Anti-tank guided missile)




According to IDF sources, the Merkava tank was patrolling the border with Gaza, when a ‘missile launch’ was detected by the tank’s defensive system. Trophy uses the Elta System’s EL/M 2133 ‘WindGuard’ radar as the primary sensor detecting missiles and RPG threats. When such threat is classified by the system as ‘acute’ (aimeing directly at the protected vehicle), the system alerts the crew and tracks the missile closing-in on the tank. As the RPG enters the system’s kill-zone, Trophy automatically activates its hard kill countermeasure (Multiple Explosive Formed Penetrators – MEFP), destroying the threat at a safe distance from the tank. Some reports indicated the intercept was close enough to trigger the tank’s automatic fire ‘Spectronix’ protection, which have lead to Palestinian claims of actually hitting the tank. Shortly afterwards, IDF soldiers identified several terrorists in the launching area and fired in their direction, scoring a hit.

Such a procedure is inherently supported by the Trophy. Beside its role as the Trophy’s primary sensor, detecting the threat and calculating Time-to-Impact (TTI) and plotting the optimal intercept point, the Windguard radar also localizes the firing position of the missile being tracked, enabling the IDF troops to rapidly engage active enemy positions, eliminating follow-up attacks on its armor.

During the Second Lebanon War in 2006 more than 40 tanks were hit, most of them by anti-tank missiles, repeatedly fired by Hezbollah from hidden positions that were difficult to detect by IDF tank crews. Following this conflict, the IDF accelerated the development of Active Protection Systems (APS), and is currently fielding the system with tank battalions, being equipped with new armored vehicles. This includes new Merkava Mk4 tanks being equipped with APS and the new Namer Infantry Fighting Vehicles which will also mount the system.

A different version of Rafael’s Trophy has recently completed a six-weeks test evaluation series on a Stryker Armored Fighting Vehicle, withstanding numerous missiles and rockets attacks. The test was conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Office of Secretary of Defense and the U.S. ARMY at Aberdeen Proving Ground, as part of an evaluation of domestic U.S. and foreign APS solutions. Rafael is also developing a compact vesion of the system called Trophy Light, being evaluated for use with U.S. MRAP All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV). The system is also being evaluated for the protection of Israel Navy fast patrol boats, which, like the tanks, are exposed to RPG and missile attacks.


Defense-update

[2010] RAFAEL's Trophy (Active Protection System) / New Full Video Clip - YouTube

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[500]

Merkava IV is an excellent tank but during the war in 2006 it was defeated

This pic taken in Randuriyeh village:

Village was defended by Hezbollah men with Kornet missiles and attacked by 9th Merkava mk4 battalion. The village was taken and Hezbollah men fled leaving unused Kornet missiles.

Hezbollah does not want another meeting with Merkava tanks, thats why they dont fire a bullet towards Israel since 2006 war.

i wonder if the Colombia buy will they have the trophy i am waiting to see another war merkava IV with trophy vs Anti Tank weapon

Trophy is operational since 2009:

 

[United]

This pic taken in Randuriyeh village:

500 are u sure this Randuriyeh village is there in Lebanon?

or another fairy tail.....?

 

[Wright]

For all the people posting pics of downed Merkava's. I could find more of destroyed M1A2's.

Now don't tell me M1A2 is an incompetent tank, which btw also can be penetrated in places by the Kornet.