Israel’s Merkava main battle tank series, conceived from the need for strategic self-sufficiency and lessons from the 1973 ...

Israel’s Merkava main battle tank, widely regarded as one of the world’s best, is designed with crew survivability as its ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel highlighted the growing use of drones in modern warfare, particularly against armored vehicles like main battle tanks (MBTs).

The IDF posted photos showing a pair of Merkava tanks entering Rafah last week, as part of what it called a "precise counterterrorism operation to eliminate Hamas terrorists" holed up in the city.

Israel’s homegrown Merkava family of main battle tanks (MBTs) arguably represents the best of its indigenous efforts. Since its introduction to service more than four decades ago, the Merkava ...

Russian propagandists attempted to pass off footage of a Russian T-90M tank being blown up in the war in Ukraine as an Israeli Merkava tank. More VASILY BATANOV/AFP/Getty Images In response ...

The first models of what the ministry called “5th generation Merkava battle tanks” were delivered to the 52nd Armored Battalion of the 401st Brigade. The Barak tank was developed jointly by ...

The origins of the Merkava – which means chariot in Hebrew – trace back to experiences from the Six-Day War in 1967 and a desire for a more advanced and better-protected main battle tank than ...

The fighting shows that the viability of tanks depends on how they're used and the forces they face. The recent images of an advanced Israeli Merkava tank blazing on the Gaza border evokes ...

JERUSALEM, June 15 (Reuters) - Israel is in talks to sell its Merkava tank to two countries, one of them in Europe, in what would be the first export of the flagship fighting vehicle, a Defence ...