ok, I am not an officer or military expert, I have only read about it in the net! Its of course impossible to win any battle on the ground without a good and reliable tank! Unfortunately that must be proven with every new weapon-type in the battlefield! Till then one can only speculate. Still I think its great to be able as a country to have your own developed tank, one can adapt it easier to his needs and make improvements. The technical and strategic know-how adds up!No, more specific data have I not, i assume only that theoretically, to be built it must be up-to-date with other tank systems!

we have almost 40 years of own tank R&D/building.
Merkava has unique weapon systems.
And the next generation of Merkava you will not be able (even theoretically) kick the jewish ass. It will be unmanned tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crGVfOrv78Y

are u israeli?
with the decline of the west your days are numbered! over the last decades of arrogance has made you nost hated to all muslim world, and muslim world is on the rise!this wiil be bad for us greeks too, but we have survived ca. 500 years under muslim rule, you won't survive 5 days!

Yes, I am israeli and I am jew.
We survived 2000 years under muslim and more atrocious christian rule and know how to survive.
We know muslim world not bad.

ha!ha!ha!
you even have neo-nazis in Israel that make the Hitlergruss yell Sieg-Heil and attack foreigners and orthodox-jews!!!!
let me see how you survive when all around you Syria, Jordan etc. become muslim states...

Please read history first and after get conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_involving_Israel

If you check military forces ratio you will not understand how we won , especially in 1948 .

you won backed by the english imperialists and later with the shield and arms of the american.
plus american funds and "reparations" from the german for the so-called 6 million dead. the arabs leaved in peace and were unorganized. they didnt like the english so the english punished them. they didn't have any oil bucks back then.
Now is a different world. All the region is against you. Only if you get Russia on your side you stand a chance. Very unlikely israel too unpopular in russia!
bye,bye israel!!!

Now I understand you did not read history and don't want to read history.
So let's stop this discussion.

What has history to do with the future wars GK7?
Different times,Arabs armed to the teeth.
Seen your link and if you are a rational thinking person you know they will do some real damage(the arab countries if war).
Andy please not so called,it happend for real(6 milion dead jews).

6,000,000 DEAD....
ok, then read "the hall report"