March 20, 2008. a Merkava tank during a training day held in the Golan Heights for the 188th Armored Brigade. Photography by Neil Cohen, IDF Spokesperson’s Film Unit.
Israel is in talks to sell hundreds of its used Merkava main battle tanks to two countries, including one in Europe, head of the International Defense Cooperation Directorate in the Israeli Ministry of Defense revealed on June 15.
Yair Kulas told the Calcalist financial paper that his directorate, also known as SIBAT, was advancing more sales of surplus equipment from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
“There is a potential of several hundred million shekels there. The world is chasing systems, and production processes require time, and not everyone has the time to wait,” Kulas said.
The defense official noted that many European countries want to quickly replenish their stockpiles after donating billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for use against the Russian military.
The Merkava is a series of main battle tanks used by the IDF and the backbone of its armored corps. The tank began development in 1970, and its first generation, the Merkava Mark I, entered official service in 1979. Four main variants of the tank have been developed as of 2023.
“There are two potential countries with which we are holding advanced negotiations [on a sale of the Merkava tanks],” he said. “I am barred from naming them, but one is on the European continent.”
Kulas said that the potential sales would likely include the older Merkava Mark 2, that entered service with the IDF in 1983, and some of the Merkava Mark 3 tanks, which were introduced in 1989.
Merkava Mark 2 and 3 tanks took part in several IDF operations in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, where they suffered losses as a result of improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles.
“European countries are helping Ukraine and supplying it with systems. The stocks in those countries are being emptied, they are renewing them by purchasing more modern and up-to-date systems, and this is where Israeli industries come into the picture,” Kulas told Calcalist.
It is still unknown which European country is going to purchase the Merkava. The deal is likely meant to allow the transfer of more NATO main battle tanks to Ukraine, like German-made Leopard 2s. The other customer may be Colombia. The Latin American country showed interest in the Merkava in the past.
After the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, Israel sided with the Kiev regime. However, Tel Aviv limited its aid to the Ukrainian forces to non-lethal military equipment and prevented the re-export of Israeli-made weapons to the country.
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these tanks are excellent for kicking stupid ruzzian asses…hehehehe
these tanks may be effective against armed civilians. however they won’t do so well against a proper army with proper equipment, as is the case with the stuff sent to ukraine so far. the biggest success of the ukrainian junta is blowing up the dam, which is a war crime. war crimes seem to be a thing with this junta.
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is that all you can post ahmed? it’s getting a bit old.
vidjelo se kako gore 2006 u libanu,kornet je penicilin
i can’t read what you wrote but i think you said the markava will be russian kornet food.
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dear wojciech, that’s just your wishful thinking for the future. today, however, it is certain that standard russian tanks are enough to successfully kick the asses of misguided polish mercenaries in the service of the ukrainian nazis.
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these tanks are so crap they make leopards and abrams look good!
your name looks polish, do they still smear shit on the walls at polish weddings to keep the flies off the brides?
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hezbollah took out 49 of them in 2006. they will be the new russian snack.
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every attempt to defeat russia by military means was a failure because the country simply has enough resources to continue a war indefinitely. everyone like you will slowly end up with shrapnel in his brain until nobody is making such statements anymore
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can do guns with out serial liksom isreal shout out to dubay and drake hadidai
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șenilele lor sunt gandite pt bolovani nu pt a intra in namol…. probabil ca le testeaza elementele optice in conditii reale de lupta.
the depopulation of ukrainians is proceeding successfully, the lands for relocation are freed up thanks to kolomoisky, valtsman, zelensky according to the plan. i’m happy for israel. what can go wrong? :)
you are talking about ruzzia…
khazar empire 2.0
that’s why it will be interesting to see what happens when the fighting comes near dnepr.
russia didn’t get the memo?
the irony of it all even the khazar abomination, nested like vipers in apartheid, occupied palestine, will dump its useless scrap onto the rump ukrapper khazar slash slumvillain neocohen dumpster fire. get rid of the obsolete garbage and wait for the captive ussan tax cattle to “donate” more overpriced pentacon garbage as is the plan with the euro peons in the eussr gulag of natostan now that their garbage is already smelted. lol
if there is one thing to be learnt from the conflict in 404 it is that there is nothing that the ukronazis can put in the battlefield that the russian armed forces, navy and aerospace forces cannot destroy. any meerkats the israelis might sell the desperate kiev regime will end up in the tank graveyard along with the leopards, bradley’s and 10,000 other tanks and armoured vehicles that the rf have destroyed since the smo began
ahahahaha…talking about ruzzian losses, fuckhead!!
you laughing even though heart cries.
tak, že zase nejaký ten pokus dostať na ukrajinu pre banderovské fašistické zvery židovskú bojovú techniku? žid asi už zabudol čo bolo len pred nedávnom v európe? už zabudli na koncentračné tábory?
joo’s podobne ako íri sú veľmi dobrí v rozprávaní príbehov.
the merkava will burn and find it’s way to the wonderweapon graveyard to be recycled into something more useful to the human race than the ambitions of fools.
you scum need to get a life.
russia should transfer any surrendered merkava tanks to hezbollah, and train hezbollah troops on russian drones and attack helicopters. they should also study the merkava’s defenses and design new weapons to destroy them
hezbollah were already familiar with merkavas having destroyed them and captured them from the zionist state, a rothschild project.
that is a gamechanger. no one in the russian elite would want to make their jewish oligarch friends look bad for delivering bad technologie so they will give the order to not shoot at jewish made things. if ukraine manages to get enough jewish made weapons they will perhaps be able to charge untouched right to the kremlin. the only hope may be khadirov who has the advantage of not beeing a christian who seem to all cater to jewish oligarch interests nowadays.
dont hang with jooo they sing in the court room
with bad eyes it is difficult to “see” the big picture. glasses will hardly help you
merkava? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! o hezbollah no líbano em 2006 destruiu facilmente dezenas de markavas israelenses! que piada, burrice, idiotice achar que merkavas servem para defender algum país ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! sem falar que outros 49 merkavas foram capturados pelo hezbollah!
i guess hat whay drake kussner von isreal rat out my joo gunb facktory
fekk zionazistan to hell where they belong
altri 200 carri armati occidentali cioè israeliani venduti agli ucraini nazisti finiranno distrutti subito !
si israel vende tanques a un pais europeo, y lo autoriza a venderlos a ucrania, rusia transferirá a iran misiles con carga atómica. así que… que israel no se equivoque.
tienes razon
perfino i civili mussulmani libanesi durante l” invasione del libano da parte di israele hanno distrutto o danneggiato un centinaio di questi carri armati israeliani usando vecchi razzi rpg 9 sovietici che erano delle copie di fabbricazione iraniana ed erano stati leggermente migliorati dagli iraniani !
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the khazar cancer goes full circle as the squatters and thugs in apartheid occupied palestine chuck their obsolete scrap onto the rump ukrapper dumpster fire. hey as long as ussan tax cattle insist on funding the welfare warfare juice abomination and the neochen scum in washing town orchestrate the slaughter….. z is the cure and we all know it