The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday -Israeli Merkava - Main Battle Tank - Mar 23rd, 2004

www.israeli-weapons.com ^

[Professional Engineer]

She's doing well, thanks. The challenge right now is to reach her mom, aunt and uncle, all of whom are on a cruise ship until saturday. Apparently a phone number exists to call the ship, at $8 per minute. Yikes!

A lot of the stuff is proceding since the family has had funeral plans in place for some time. I need to remind her to contact the VA/Navy for an Honor Gaurd.

[Professional Engineer]

Dig the back of the t-shirt. Heh heh

[Johnny Gage]

Good Even'n M'am.

Been busy in the garage.. "upgrading" my truck with some new 'hardware'.

I think this upgrade will help keep the locals and the naughty spectators in line.

What do y'all think?

[The Mayor]

Good evening snippy

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Fascinating read. It never occurred to me the IDF would developed it's own tanks. Of course with Israel it only makes sense. Great pics illustrating the development of the various Merkavas.

Hey you guys are good! ;^)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Snippy.

[PhilDragoo]

Gee, it hardly seems fair that Israel mobilizes these brutal machines against "militants".

A scumbag who sneaks into an Israeli home and kills a five-year-old girl in her bed is a "militant" to AP, AFP, BBC, Reuters, ABCNNBCBS.

And that "spiritual leader of Hamas"--how "spiritual" is a body count of 500 civilians murdered by homicide bombers?

Hamas now being absorbed by Hezbollah a wholly-owned subsidiary of IranoWhacko one of the foreign leaders on the Kerry Magic Slate_TM of flea-bitten clowns "who look at you and say, 'You've got to beat Bush or we'll all be in spider holes by Ramadan, Dude.'"

Oh, my Rant-O-Meter's pinged. Load images. Images loading.

3dcenter.ru/blueprints

Merkava Mk4 Detailed

merkava.defense-update.com

The innovative plastic-geared transmission was discontinued as unsuitable for desert operations.

Shown with dual wheelchair-crushing devices.

High resolution

Merkava wheels

Merkava Munitions

10P Revolving Magazine of the Merkava Mk 4

Merkava Mk 4

Merkava Mk3 being drawn up into mother ship by emf

Merkava Mk 3

120mm version of the Lahat Laser Guided missiles designed for 120mm tank guns

[Valin]

Gee, it hardly seems fair that Israel mobilizes these brutal machines against "militants".

Fair? As in State Fair? Bus Fare, Fair to partly cloudy, Fare thee well?

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out
where your enemy is. Get at him as soon
as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and
as often as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant

[Valin]

Looks like someone TRYING to get a group of freepers to do something.

[PhilDragoo]

I was kidding about the fair remark.

The anti-Israel media template is "stone-throwing children crushed by brutal Israeli armor".

The reality is those children are raised to bomb busloads of civilians.

I favor the Arafat's-head-in-a-jar-this-week approach to the "Road Map".

He is, after all, the Munich '72 murderer and leads a society universally devoted to the same relentless murder.

I do like the ten-round revolving loader.

"Seeing as how this is the Merkava Mk4 120mm the most powerful tank gun in the world and can blow your turret clean off, you have to ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?'"

"Well, do you, Bashir?"

[SAMWolf]

Evening Snippy. Long day today, I'm beat, too much exercise.
I'm getting too used to sitting at the computer.

[SAMWolf]

Evening E.G.C.

[SAMWolf]

Evening aeronaut. Looks like some of Snippy's bicycle SpankenFlieger.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Mayor. I don't think even your coffee is going to help keep me awake this evening.

[SAMWolf]

Evening aomagrat. No rear main gun turret?

[Valin]

I was kidding about the fair remark

I know, :-)

Now I've never been called the brightest bulb on the tree, but even I know it's not a good idea to throw rocks at a tank. I mean it's not like you're gonna hurt hurt one with a rock or anything.

Well it's time for this little buck-a-roo to head for the old bunkhouse.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Archy. Thanks for all the current pictures of the Merkava in use.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Feather!

[SAMWolf]

1912 Werner von Braun Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown.
"Ha, Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun.

Tom Lehrer