RE: [MV] new Merkava

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 09:50:26 PDT


At 12:15 PM -0400 10/20/04, Glenn Shaw wrote:
>Never mind the roof armor. I wonder if they incresed the bottom armor.

Yep. That got much thicker too.

>They recently had a brand new Merkava knocked out with ALL crewmembers
>killed by Hamas after they drove over a road bomb planted in the dirt road.

There's only so much you can do against a bottom attack. But I
suspect the Israelis have done quite a bit of what's possible.

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