Chapter 1091： Improved Merkava

Israel, 7th Armoured Brigade.

Because it mainly relies on the air force, the Israeli armored forces are very small, basically, they are all organized at the brigade level.

Among all the armored brigades, the Seventh Armored Brigade was the most capable of fighting tough battles, especially in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which was the closest to the collapse since the founding of Israel, from the Sinai Peninsula to Gothic The land between the Ram Heights was trembling under the north and south of the Egyptian-Syrian coalition, and Israel was in danger.

But just a week later, tanks painted with the Great Satellite Emblem drove the road to Cairo and Damascus, a week in which heroic Israeli armor saved the country and the nation.

Among them, the **** battle of the Seventh Armored Brigade in the Valley of Tears can be said to have saved the entire battle.

The development of Israel's armored forces is also quite tortuous. After years of being controlled by others, Israel decided to rely on its own strength to develop its own equipment.

Among them, the Merkava tank is the masterpiece of the Israeli defense industry's autonomy!

In the last war, the Merkava tank showed low-grade combat capabilities. Its armor could not block the blow of the Soviet t-72 tank, and its tank gun could not tear up the armor of the t-72!

Therefore, the Merkava tank is also undergoing rapid upgrades, drawing on experience from the war, and then transforming it, which is what Israel is most accustomed to doing.

Since the protection is not enough, continue to increase the protection of the Merkava tank! They have the latest composite armor on the outside of the Merkava! The material of this armor is completely secret, but people who know the inside story are full of praise for it.

This is armor using the same technology as Chobham armor! This technology is not obtained from the UK, but the US! At first, the United Kingdom handed over the full set of Chobham armor technology to the Americans! The United States has been using Chobham armor before the invention of depleted uranium armor.

At the same time, a special armored partition was added behind the engine to improve the frontal protection of the tank body.

The front upper sloping armor plate of the car body has been extended upwards, higher than the turret seat ring, and has a protective effect on the joint part of the turret and the car body.

At the same time, in order to avoid secondary effects, all projectiles, including the projectiles to be fired, are stored in fiberglass magazines with isolation linings. It is easy to be hit, and the bomb storage tank has a certain heat insulation ability. Even if a high temperature is formed in the car, the shells in the bomb storage tank will not self-explode in a short time.

And these measures also made the tank's own weight soar! The dead weight of the Merkava tank is as high as 65 tons!

In order to drive it, the original engine is far from good, so Israel has introduced the German mtu833 internal combustion engine, which is the power of the Leopard 2 tank, with a maximum power of 1500 horsepower!

Of course, Germany did not sell this engine technology to Israel, which was licensed by the ground systems division of General Dynamics in the United States. Due to the smaller size of the mtu833, this gave the Merkava's body a flat appearance on the front of the hood, which is very suitable for Improving the visibility of the tank crew is very beneficial.

At the same time, the 105mm tank gun cannot penetrate the main armor of the t-72 tank no matter how it is improved. Therefore, they improved their tank gun to 120mm. The technology is also provided by the United States. At the same time, it is too late to develop advanced The armor-piercing ammunition, they simply directly introduced armor-piercing ammunition from the United States, including depleted uranium armor-piercing ammunition!

A few days ago, the 7th Armored Brigade had already entered Jericho. Since the Iraqi army wanted to attack across the Jordan River, only a few bridges could be used, and they were responsible for defending the bridge in Jericho!

If the Iraqis want to cross the river, they have to pass through the bridge here, and the bridge limits the number of tanks of the Iraqi army. They cannot form a fighting formation, they can only drive over one by one, so that they just destroy the Iraqi tanks for their own side. Troops create conditions!

Colonel Mel, the brigade commander of the 7th Armored Brigade, was sitting in a Merkava tank and observed the opposite side with his sights. It could be seen that there were already many tanks gathered on the opposite side!

The battle is about to start!

"Attention, Iraqi troops, the river crossing is about to begin!" Colonel Meyer shouted over the radio. "Let them come over and let them kill them after they cross the bridge!"

Let them come! It takes a bold commander to dare to do this, and Colonel Mel, with years of experience, feels that this is the most correct plan.

However, the opponent's tank, just waiting on the opposite side, it seems, there is no sign of attacking?

After five minutes of waiting, Colonel Mel felt that something was wrong, until the roar of the engine was heard in the air.

Oops!

If it's just a battle of ground troops Their 7th Tank Brigade can completely defend here, but the problem now is, not only the ground, but also the sky!

In every Middle East war, the Israeli Air Force can master the air superiority of the battlefield, and the ground troops can easily win, but now, just a few hours ago, all their air bases were killed by penetrating nuclear bombs! Now, no one can enter those radiation areas, and there is no way to have planes to support them!

However, the Iraqi planes were unscathed, so they could fly into Israel's airspace calmly!

At this time, the Su-25 attack plane was flying at an altitude of several hundred meters. The pilot flipped the switch calmly to provide target guidance for the anti-tank missile mounted under his wing. In the advanced attack system, the target displayed Clearly.

Fighting tanks, the best in the United States is the A-10, while the best in the Soviet Union is the Su-25! This sturdy and sturdy attack aircraft, the battlefield survivability is quite strong!

However, these Su-25s did not take off from Iraqi bases. After all, this kind of aircraft using turbojet engines has a short range, so they all took off from neighboring Syrian bases, and these aircrafts took a few days. Before, I came from the Turkestan Military Region!

The fighters above are Soviet pilots!

emission!

A puff of white smoke rose from under the wing, and at this moment, the pilot closed his eyes to prevent being briefly blinded by the missile's flames.

attack! Anti-tank missiles, heading for Israeli tanks in the West Bank! No matter how improved the Merkava tank is, it can't stop the attack!

Moreover, the most terrifying thing is that the Israeli armored forces have no anti-aircraft weapons at all!