Re: Merkava.
Kevin. I have dial up and because of that anything on YouTube I avoid at all costs. The last Video I attempted to watch, which was, incidentally, one you posted a link to, took 50 minutes to get me 60 seconds of video and I have better things to do that wait 3 hours for a video to load
As much as I sympathize with the Israelis I am also aware they are quite adept at propaganda. They have to be because their "opponents" are adept at it as well. What I want to know is this..... is there a video, shot in one continuous shot, ( NOT edited for camera angles NOT photos of four guys ready to emerge and the other four out of camera range ) of 8 troops emerging from the back of a Merkava ?
My rough calculations indicate you would need a space roughly 7 .5 feet long and 5.5 feet wide to put 8 troops. ( they would really have to like each other.....) Given the hull is nearly 25 feet long and just over 12 feet wide that would be around 14 % of the available interior hull volumn so it's not a stretch to believe this is possible even though no other tank in the world has that capability.
BTW, we have tested the things as Gun APC's and they don't do anything radically weird in an AI advance
Don
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