From the mouth of Aristotle

[Arryn]

Boron said:
Well in a book which i have they write that knowledge Israel had about soviet tanks + new developments thanks to the mossad that this flew into the Design of the Merkava I tank as well .

Studying a Russian weapon (on testing grounds, or how the enemy has employed it) is not the same thing as using it operationally as a part of one's own equipment. You are using the knowledge gained from the weapon, not the weapon itself.

Boron said:
So knowing how well the Mossad works why shouldn't i believe this then when i read it in a book about tanks ?

No offense, but you seem to have trouble understanding what you read/see, in interpretation thereof, and/or in coming to conclusions. I don't think it's an issue of your being German, either, because I don't see this problem with other Germans I correspond with.

Boron said:
Furthermore as you said they used captured soviet tanks from the Arabs

As I said above, they studied them, not employed them. I think you are mistranslating the word "used" in the context being discussed.

Boron said:
With your further comments i guess you are just kidding or do you really work for the american government in a position with insight i as an european can never get ?

I was joking.

However, I did serve decades ago in the US Army (in an armored unit), and I stay current with things that are of interest to me, insofar as I can as a civilian. I am also active politically, and I voraciously read history and tech books (as well as SF/fantasy) and I'm pretty skilled at information research (which I first learned to do for science fair projects in high school, then later in college when I was majoring in physics). You'd be amazed at what you can learn on your own when you put your mind to it. The hard data on nukes I pulled from the web in a few seconds while I was replying to you. The rest was from my memory.