hope the crew dont have piles it's gonny hurt when it lands if they do!

That's what the IDF and Mossad would like you to think! The real thing is that those tracks are not essential. Yep! You 'eard it firs' from me, folks! Them Merkava Mk. 3s and Mk. 4s are really HOVER tanks! Yep! Yessiree! From time-to-time they show photos such as these to make people think that these tanks are conventional powered ones with a high power-to-weight ratio. But in fact (and don't tell anyone you 'eard it from me, 'kay?) these tanks have a sooooooooper seeeeeeeeeeekret fusion core system that even the geee-willickers of Star Trek can't imagine! These exotic powerplants give the latest Merkavas (particularly the Mk. 4s) hover ability (they need it to conduct high speed cavalry charges over the rough terrain of the Golan Heights). And that gun you see sticking out of the turret? It ain't a 120mm gun - that's really a Particle beam Projection Cannon (PPC - remember BattleTech?), which can melt depleted uranium armor like a hot knife goin' thru butter! All ten inches of armor punched thru with a PPC shot at half-power! Want proof? Easy! Find pictures of the Merkava Mk.4s. Notice the turret of the Mk. 4s - shaped like a clam sucking through a straw right? I see it as a saucer - yep a SAUCER! It's a hot-dang UFO! #:-)

If it is a PPC - where are all the heat sinks? hehe

yea I remember Battle Tech - cool game

Jeff

I wonder how long it will take them to replace all the broken torsion bars?

I bet someone couldn't sit down for a week. I wonder houw that felt on their arse's. WOW! That must of been a hell of a jolt when they came down!

~Chip :-)

In a word "OUCH" thats going leave a mark!!!!
Wolfsix

every so often at full speed over a bump or depression you will get airborne. Irermember one TC who cracked his head on the MAg.

Jjosh Weingarten

To quote the phrase we use in chat WWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!Yep I bet that hurt when they landed #:-)
(P.S. If you ain't breaking something, you ain't tankin' )

Would that quailify as the Israelis trying to get the jump on the Palestinians on the "Road To Peace"?

That is exactly how tankers lose their teeth. lol Nice pic.

Big jump! #:-)
I hope they have a good shocks-absorber
ciao

The Russians do the same thing with their T-80s and T-90s. In one, it even shows the T-80 firing whilst in mid-air. There's also a picture of an M1A2 doing the same thing (yep - a 70 ton M1A2 - I'm not jokiing!) also firing its gun whilst in the air.

The Thais often drive their Stingray tanks in full speed over rough terrain - the high power-to-weight ration makes the Stingray accelerate fast. Unfortunately, due to such rough handling, I hear many of their Stingrays have damaged suspension - thus costing the Thai Army quite a tidy sum of money to maintain.

Here's the T-80 pic:



And here's what happened to the Merkava posted earlier after it made its jump:



Hehehehe

AND WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! p.s. if you don't know where the heck this comes from check here


crunch*

Well just to prove that 19 Kilos are airborne qualified
WWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - OUCH!!!!

there aren't no torsion bars in a Merkava.
it uses spring type shock absorbers like those found on Centurion tanks.

How about the poor schmucks who ride the BMD's down inside when they are airdropped!?!?

Pics in the Concord book show the thing leaving the back of the transport and perpendicular to the ground as the chutes deploy. Later pics show the thing after landing, burried up to the mid-roadwheel in dry earth.

ouch...

Mike