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I feel like the main point of discussion here isn't whether the Merkava is a good tank, but about the way the IOF is using them, rolling slowly around in ones and twos with no infantry around so people can just run up and them
IOF conscripts so afraid of being outside the tanks that it's making being in the tank a death trap
My (admittedly very armchair, probably learned from other comments on this site) understanding of the Merkava not having infantry support is due to how its Trophy countermeasure system uses shotgun-like blasts to counter missiles. They would shred any infantry standing around the tank.
This is also why resistance fighters will fire 2 missiles in quick succession; the first one to activate the Trophy, and then second to actually hit the tank once the Trophy is spent. Or yeah they just run up to it with the
I'm no tactical genius, but it sure seems like the incapability to have infantry support is not worth the tradeoff of having a countermeasure that is so easily worked around
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