the merkava is an overrated money-pit of junk. the new generation of asymmetric warfare is laying them to waste with the use of toy drones carrying single rpg warheads.  it was never a decent mbt to begin with but always good enough to obliterate sand-niggers, now it can't even do that. for the price of almost an m1a1 abrams, this thing is way too easily annihilated, with or without cope-cage. it would be better to use 8 t-72 tanks instead of 1 merkava.
Germany