10% of Israeli tanks destroyed or disabled by Hizbollah
Maybe the Zionists will sue Hezbollah for also damaging their international arms market?!
Update: As expected, Israel don’t want Israelis to see this video, so they forced YouTube to remove it. But don’t worry, there are plenty of these clips. Check links below.
Captured Israeli merkava Army tank in South Lebanon Rockets:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0t-RAcgpI7I
Merkava taking hits (from Israel TV):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltCxHIWj658
Israeli Merkava near Bint Jbeil:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yzNBk-2bbK0
Hezbollah vs the Merkava Tank!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EHik4m1siuc
Merkava 4:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oyMc2NkDt5U
You want more? Here is Israel:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XXSek_KAaZo
The Merkava tank is one of the few weapons that Israel manufactures itself and doesn’t receive as a gift from the US taxpayers. The pride and joy of the Israel Arms Industry, the Israelis, no doubt, hoped to sell it on the international market and Lebanon gave them an opportunity to showcase it. Now, one can expect to find them on Ebay along with a used prime minister, a used defense minister and a used chief of staff. [Hat tip: ASK]
Tanks take stock
One-tenth of the Israeli tanks that took part in the Lebanon war were destroyed or disabled, a military study found.According to Armored Corps data published Thursday, Hezbollah anti-armor missiles penetrated 20 Israeli tanks during the monthlong war, killing 17 crewmen. Another 13 crewmen were killed when land mines destroyed or disabled their tanks. The number of tank crewmen wounded was in the double digits.
The high toll of the war on Israel�s Armored Corps was a shock to top military brass, especially given the fact that Hezbollah has no tanks.
Some experts said the tanks dispatched to Lebanon were older, less protected versions of the locally made Merkava. Two Israeli arms firms now have speeded up work on a tank anti-missile system.
Source: JTA
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6 Comments on “10% of Israeli tanks destroyed or disabled by Hizbollah”
“The Merkava tank is one of the few weapons that Israel manufactures itself and doesn?t receive as a gift from the US taxpayers.”
Haitham, Israel makes MANY more weapons than the Merkava. At one stage, it was the world’s THIRD largest exporter of arms (2002), accounting for some 10 - 12% of the world’s arms market (Zvi Lavi - Israeli Defense Ministry), which isn’t bad for a country of little over 6 million! It acheived this remarkable position using US taxpayers money.
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“ Israel’s military sector is made up of over 200 public and private companies, dominated by three state-owned ones: Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel’s biggest employer outside government), Israel Military Industries and Rafael. Private company Elbit Systems is also significant.
Israel is notorious for selling arms to some of the world’s most abhorrent regimes when other countries will not. It was the main arms supplier to apartheid South Africa, and supplied many Guatemala between 1977 and 1981 when tens of thousands were ‘disappeared’. More recently it has supplied the military junta in Burma.”
They have also supplied arms to the repressive regime in China:
Taking on Israel Over Arms Exports to China
US acts over Israeli arms sales to China
As Jesus once said “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them”.
Elbit systems is bidding for a contract to build the US border fence: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000124855&fid=1725
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