Far from flashy, Israel’s first domestically built tank, the Merkava Mk1, was forged out of war-driven necessity. After devastating tank losses in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli engineers ...

Tanks of 1973 The tanks that Israel used in 1973 would not have been out of place in 1943. The British-made Centurion was designed during World War II, while the US-made M48 Patton went into ...

Developed after the Yom Kippur War, the Merkava Mk1 was Israel’s response to tank losses that devastated its armored corps. With a unique design focused on crew survival, it used diesel as armor ...