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unidentified armor?

Discussion in 'The US Marine Corps Forum' started by Trooper1450, Jul 5, 2006.

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  1. Jul 5, 2006 #1
    Trooper1450

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    Being a former tanker, I'm pretty well up on armor vehicles around the world - except for this one.

    This is a pic of an Israeli vehicle, off an A.P. News story today. Does anyone have a clue what it is? It looks as though it started life as one thing, then morphed into a bizzare command vehicle.

    Just curious.
     
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  3. Jul 8, 2006 #2
    wokmaster1

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    According to one of my coworkers, it looks like a Merkava specially modified for policing the territories. he was formerly IDF, that's all he would tell me.....;)
     
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  5. Jul 10, 2006 #3
    Marine8541

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    The US military calls them Chariots (I'm assumeing Merkava means Chariot in hebrew) they are made by Isreal. I do believe they stopped making them when the US started selling them the Abrahms.
     
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