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During the Yom Kippur war, the T-62 was an effective adversary for Israeli Patton and Centurion main battle tanks armed with 105 mm tank guns. The T-62 had an advantage in its better night-fighting capability, but Syrian losses were heavy.
Some feel the reason that Israeli Centurions defeated the Arab T-55's and even T-62's is because the Centurion has good sights and the Arab tanks were downgrades of the original design, as the T-55 used by the Soviet and Warsaw pact Armies had 200mm armor thickness while T-55's sold to the Arabs had only 120mm frontal armor and mediocre side ...
Israeli Merkava tank of Captain Tzur Maor passing two T-62 tanks which he destroyed, near Jezzine, a few minutes before Maor was killed when the tank was ambushed. The 460th Armor Brigade, under Colonel Hagai Cohen's command, had crossed the Litani River on the Hardele Bridge on Monday, June 8. It was supposed to follow the column headed for ...
The outdoor display includes 110 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, both Israeli and captured enemy examples including the Merkava and T-34, T-54, T-55, T-62 tanks, as well as vehicles obtained or purchased from allied nations specifically for diversifying the collection like the German Leopard tank or the only T-72 on display in Israel.
500+ vehicles (260–300 T-55 and T-62 tanks) The Valley of Tears ( Hebrew : עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא , Emek HaBakha ) is the name given to an area in the Golan Heights after it became the site of a major battle in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War , known as the Valley (or Vale) of Tears Battle , which was fought from 6 October to 9 October.
The tank outperformed contemporary Syrian tanks (mostly T-62s), and its front proved largely immune to the anti-tank weapons of the time (the AT-3 Sagger and RPG-7) that were used against it. It was judged to be a significant improvement over Israel's formerly most effective main battle tank, the Centurion . [ 41 ]
The Israeli D9R bulldozers weigh roughly 62 tonnes and are four metres tall and wide, and eight metres long. In 2015, they were upgraded with “slat armour”, also known as cage or bar armour ...
Main battle tank Israel: Merkava Mark 3: Main battle tank Israel ~700 stored. [12] Armoured personnel carriers (1,360) M113: Armored personnel carrier: 500 active [13] 5,000 in storage [13] United States Israel: Was used until the Battle of Shuja'iyya incident IDF Achzarit: Heavy armored personnel carrier ~100 [12] Israel: Based on the T-54 ...