Re: The Merkava 4 MBT
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A firing hatch and observation window was also opened in the rear access door, where a sniper or sharpshooter can operate, from a protected position.
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I think that this rear door must be a really good to fire at for a RPG bearer, it musst be quite unarmored...
I'm not a specialist but the turret seems to be a good "shell trap", I mean when a shell did hit the tank on the top hull or end of the turret, he can slide and hit at the jointing point of the turret and the hull. That's not good, german had this problem with the Panther A during WW2 and added in D a little steel protection over the hull. This is the same problem with Leopard, but Challenger and M1A2 don't have this problem...
just an edit for Jam:
go there to see the M1A2 SEP armor:
http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/abrams.htm
it is given tree times depending on the year and version...
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"On 17 January, I started with 39 tanks. After 38 days of aerial attacks, I had 32, but in less than 20 minutes with the M1A1,1 had zero." an Iraqi
battalion commander, after being captured by the 2nd Armored Cav Regiment, speeking to Col Don Holder.
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