Just a heads up, this video has been in the works for the last week, which started roughly on the 3rd and concluded on the 7th. It has no relation to the current world events. All I ask is that you be civil when making comments. Thank you :D
1:54 Yeah. That's what i've always felt in the Merkava, any of the 5 or 6 or however many there are. I get one-shotted more than i get to use the "troll" armor i've heard so much about. It feels so good to hunt mobile missile platforms though. Or simply blow up missiles incoming from KA. 50 or 52
There's a video of an RPG impacting the turret ring from the front and the trophy system did nothing. Speculation that it was due to the projectile coming from below.
@@ricktapio4834 Yes it did, look at the frames around .4 you see the directional Blast from the Trophy, Explosion before the Tank, The burning stuff is some remnants of the rocket. YT keeps deleting the link but anyone can find it on combatfootage
@@ricktapio4834 depends which video this guys talking about, a few destroyed merks have been filmed. I did see one were the APS did work but others were it didnt. some speculate the APS system wasnt active/on
APS doesn’t really work against drones dropping munitions vertically on top of it as we saw yesterday IRL, the problem is that in the modern world drones are more of a threat to tanks. So maybe we’ll see vertical APS systems??
xD, I was the Abrams in the Second "Get Flanked" Match that helped you repair at the beginning and was following you, sorry for not getting the Leopard, he was able to destroy my breach and I tried to rush to block out his shot on you but I just couldn't get there in time, too bad what happened to the rest of the match, we just got swamped by CAS. Love the Vid
Weird timing for the video :) Saw a video today of a large convoy consisting of semi-trailers that transported many Merkava Mk4s and reserve units that had already deployed with Merkava Mk3s. Israel's mobilization speed is insane.
Real talk, maybe IDF are going to have to consider cope nets. The video we saw Saturday couldn’t have been a mere grenade, but a mortar. I’m not certain how the Merkava 4M APS works against slow moving objects from directly above.
I wonder how a cope cage would work if it was made out of a proper armoured steel. With the regular turret roof ERA feet below it, and another layer of ERA on top of the cage.
i feel like the really need to buff the upper front plate on the merkavas makes no sense that one of the heavist armoured tanks in the world is like paper in war thunder
The most heavily armored tank in the world, and they made its armor feel like cardboard. They destroyed my desire to play these tanks when they nerfed the armor
@@VIT-ey8woIt was made to have the most survivable design, it's heavily armored but the main element of the design is to allow maximum crew survivability
Guess gaijin needs to add drones with explosives. Looks like modern tanks might have to start adding anti drone equipment maybe we will have all that in war thunder one day, would be crazy
@@syrez156 lol yeah, what’s better than sitting there in a good spot and hearing a buzzing that you can do nothing about then getting c4 dropped on you
i wished they added some more merkavas (like the mk1 early from american tech tree, the mk3d from the same tree, the mk3 d LIC and the mk3 early with those side skirts for the turret)
The turret on the merkava should be a lot stronger than it is, it would easily stop its own top dart in the real world. By that I mean the dart in game it probably wouldn't stop dm 63 for example
I fucking burst out laughing after you had said the round spalls really well on russian tanks and the first vehicle you saw in the video is russian tank and proceeded to shoot 7 or 8 rounds into his side without it spalling im fucking dead bruh 😂😂😂😂
Guess not many people play Russia top tier light. I think I've only really seen it once but I don't really judge people, it's got a 7.1 second like t72s and is decently large so people just play the t80s
i dont get it why does it have slower reload than other nato tanks even tho it has same turret first stage ammo set up and even more space inside turret than rest of mbts... makes no sense
To be honest, I started playing War Thunder again on Sunday and first thing I did was come to your channel. I watched the video before I knew wtf was goin on in the world events believe it or not. Cause I don't watch ANY news what so ever. Nor read about them. I think important things, like that, I will hear about them eventually. And after watching your stream 2 days ago I came back to see what is the fuss about. Cause I usually don't read any comments. I just watch the video and move on but damn..
@@JustinPlaysTV Oh damn, welp, not really surprising when it comes to Real World events. I was just kinda upset that all I could see was people comment being on side of the spectrum being left untouched.
@@Manaphy0882 Abrams and Leopard 2 5/6 have enough turret armor to resist some shot and cinese mbt look well armored to me. Merkava 4 have very few zone "strong zone".
yes you shoud make an video on the new F 16 in isral and i am grinding isral rn and ther is no that have comed latly on isral but then you come and now i am happy so i know how good it is at 11.7 isral :D thanks
It's great they got rid of these 2 shells that could get you destroyed easily so many times but a buff on the reload would make the Merkavas relevant again.
It really does feel like Gaijin hates Israel in game. Even besides the extra ammo thing, the fireproof containers don't work, poor reload, small ready rack, the horrible turret protection (including some glitches with the mk4 where it says upwards of 1000mm of protection, but can be pend by sub 300mm pen rounds), and how they model the engine, transmission, external fuel tank, external and internal armor as only around 400mm. The engine one in particular is infuriating. Just the engine is ~ 6 feet long, and about 3.75 feet tall (or about 2 meters by 1.1 meters). Assuming that an average engine is about 1/3 empty space for things like piston chambers and such, that makes just the CAST IRON engine block around 4 feet of protection. Now because cast iron is quite brittle we'll say that we can half that again to be really generous for protection against tank munitions. That still puts us at 2 feet of protection, or about 600mm of armored protection. Now take this and add the transmission which has very little open space and is made of aluminum and sits at around 3 feet using some basic deduction using size reference (i'll also cut this in half), the fuel tank, then about 70mm of extra external and internal armor, and you have close to 970mm of just metal in the way. Now assuming the fuel tank has gas in it, then we get into the complex nature of liquid compression, but just to make it easy, lets round it to 1000mm of protection.... This is a generous estimation on the average protection that the powerpack should give. Now in game, it can juuust about stop an m1 firing M774, which maxes out at around 372mm of pen. Anything higher and it goes through and will usually kill the whole crew. lets do some more rounding and say that its about 400mm needed to pen the powerpack and get the shot. That is less than half of the generous estimation. Oh, and surprise, I was using the merk 2 engine which is smaller.
Dear Israel. Engineers. The. Tank needs a drone that will give it a good site range around the surroundings of operations. The technology is already available
I spent 7 months opening and upgrading this piece of kaka tank :( in reality of war thunder it is just a slow, large and badly armored tank. What a disappointment along with the entire 11.7 israel setup.
Just a heads up, this video has been in the works for the last week, which started roughly on the 3rd and concluded on the 7th. It has no relation to the current world events.
All I ask is that you be civil when making comments.
Thank you :D
still could have held off on releasing this given current events all im saying...
I don't plan around world events, as I rarely if ever relate my gameplay to such events.
@JustinPlaysTV i love ur vids, bro!
@@NIGHTSTALKER51590 agreed I'm a Palestinian myself I hope this doesn't turn into another war in the comment sections like any other vid rn...
@@naroy3942well in the interest in full disclosure i am formerly jewish currently agnostic
What a timing to release a video about the Merkava :DDD
yeah dude, its perfect timing, i'm just confused why he's tank isn't dying to bomblets from drones
fr💀
@@Anteritusme when the merkava was made to fight forces without drones:
In all seriousness i hope the crew is ok
IKR! just saw a destroyed merk on TV
@@blu5021Didn't you see the video of that same crew getting captured? They probably were executed
Aged like fine wine 🍷
Not really aging if it came out after the event in question
@@Hyper_1989Well Justin did record this before the event happened.
Aged for a few days. Logic.
Sooo... we are not gonna talk about an M22 destroying a strv 122 on 17:48
Legendary
Average top tier moment
asymmetrical warfare at its finest
no we are not
@@crad5476based asf let these repetitive UA-cam npcs know Their place
The timing will make it again one of the most viewed videos 😂
Happy merchant moment*
Israel be at war and I’m over here in a virtual Merkava
@number7red619 Go to Hamas
Israel is always at war
@number7red619why would you even say that 😅😅😅
@number7red619when did ukrainians receive merkavas???
@number7red619 and where? All I see is Israel doesn't want to give Ukraine merkavas
others being merkava: never dies when i shoot them
me as merkava: gets one shot every time
skill issue ngl
@@noamax1"urrggggrrr skill issueeee"
At least without 500% boost, otherwise could be worse
Intresting time to play the merkava
He’s gotta help (((them))) somehow
its a game
@@crad5476 that is relevant to modern day troubles, so what?
@@219Pyro nah blud really just said that 💀
@@219Pyrono, it’s just a game
What a very fitting timing xD
LIC had impenetrable turret until like 3 months ago when they changed it to have same armor as all merk 4s
Really? That was it's saving grace! I transitioned back from Israel to UK a few months ago (Terrible idea btw, chally 2 is pain)
Anything besides Russia, Usa, China, Sweden and Germany it's not worth it
@@Illopportunity248usa still isn't great, def not as bad as before but the turret ring and hull armor are horrible.
Please do a sprut-sdm1 revisit, i love that vehicle and im currently grinding for it, i would love it to see you play it again.
Gaijin should include the Cope Cage in the game. Following the events that transpired its clear its not just Russian tanks that need them.
They also need to include Arabs running facing Israel in 1970 soviet tanks too.
the cage installed after 07/10 @@yakinthebox
@@talshemesh1920 it was a comment to someone who deleted his comment
@@shinobi2401I like it
There's no Drone in WT, no need for Cope Cage
The Merkava is probably the most unique MBT, that’s why it’s the most viewed. Nobody wants to actually grind the tree though lmao
I meet the Merkavas even less often than the Arietes at top tier... which says alot lmfao
@@sadge1234as an Italian player I can confirm
Though the Ariete is missing some armor it’s still a fun tank
To confirm he did plan on making this video days ago from a community post, but am I glad he released this when he did 😌💖
Perfect timing 😂
Ah yes, the Merkava, playing the merkavas at 10.0+ reminds me of playing the T-10M on a up tier. It's not impossible, just annoying
definitely knew what he is doing
i respect that as a guy that has israeli friends they are proud of their tech tree in wt
yes we are such a amall new country and allready has one of the best tanks in the world!
@@noamax1 small new country with full support from the U.S.A. U.K. and France. Not to mention level of control, Israel has over the Americans.
@@noamax1”new” 😂😂😂
(Or if you mean in WT, then yes, but strange phrasing if that)
bruh israel is 75 yo its very young to a country@@MaxMTTpm
WT Israeli tribalism 💀💀💀
1:54 Yeah. That's what i've always felt in the Merkava, any of the 5 or 6 or however many there are. I get one-shotted more than i get to use the "troll" armor i've heard so much about. It feels so good to hunt mobile missile platforms though. Or simply blow up missiles incoming from KA. 50 or 52
Interesting Fact, The Merk's Trophy system did protect it against an RPG in one of the videos just not the Drone drop in that other RL video
Didn't*
There's a video of an RPG impacting the turret ring from the front and the trophy system did nothing. Speculation that it was due to the projectile coming from below.
@@ricktapio4834 Yes it did, look at the frames around .4 you see the directional Blast from the Trophy, Explosion before the Tank, The burning stuff is some remnants of the rocket. YT keeps deleting the link but anyone can find it on combatfootage
@@ricktapio4834 depends which video this guys talking about, a few destroyed merks have been filmed. I did see one were the APS did work but others were it didnt. some speculate the APS system wasnt active/on
APS doesn’t really work against drones dropping munitions vertically on top of it as we saw yesterday IRL, the problem is that in the modern world drones are more of a threat to tanks. So maybe we’ll see vertical APS systems??
Very topical pick
The timing lmao
xD, I was the Abrams in the Second "Get Flanked" Match that helped you repair at the beginning and was following you, sorry for not getting the Leopard, he was able to destroy my breach and I tried to rush to block out his shot on you but I just couldn't get there in time, too bad what happened to the rest of the match, we just got swamped by CAS. Love the Vid
Justin: lets release the Merkava video what could go wrong
The middle east exploding:
1:50 as a merkawa player im gonna say that this is absolutly correct camo
The GBU15s on the Barak are so nice for knocking out SPAA, long range and massive warhead if it does end up missing.
a video with the Barak 2 would be amazing
“Untouchable”…… 1 rpg later: artillery piece.
It wasnt just one and not just rpgs
@@yakinthebox idc, Challenger numba 1
your timing for posting this is hilarious
Weird timing for the video :)
Saw a video today of a large convoy consisting of semi-trailers that transported many Merkava Mk4s and reserve units that had already deployed with Merkava Mk3s.
Israel's mobilization speed is insane.
Yes that's generally the case when you're kind of like...surrounding the people you consider your enemy for half a century.
A video just came out of at least one of those trucks turned over by the side of the road. Injuries were reported.
@@kertaspaper94mobilizing so fast they're flipping over.
@@mrmoac3805yeah, Palestine were way to fast with their offensive
Real talk, maybe IDF are going to have to consider cope nets. The video we saw Saturday couldn’t have been a mere grenade, but a mortar. I’m not certain how the Merkava 4M APS works against slow moving objects from directly above.
I wonder how a cope cage would work if it was made out of a proper armoured steel.
With the regular turret roof ERA feet below it, and another layer of ERA on top of the cage.
It was a rpg29 apparently
Where ammo gets stored in your tank should be customizable
Yeah!
the merkava since the update last month has been an absolute unit
Impeccable timing Justin
matter of fact all the best MBT weakness only a small drone carrying a bomb and could detonate from far away
16:00 teammate popped smoke to cover from enemies coming from their spawn
I know what isn’t intentional but this timing was hilarious
Interesting coincidence
i feel like the really need to buff the upper front plate on the merkavas makes no sense that one of the heavist armoured tanks in the world is like paper in war thunder
That’s every mbt in the game that’s not Russia or China lmao
Drones with grenade op
You Got the Right Timing to Release the video 😉
Nice Timing XD
I'd love to see gaijin add a new abrams. M1A2 SEPV3 with the same APS would be really fun.
“Hard kill aps”
Right 🗿
Idk dude, I like to troll helicopters with my APS and it works 98% of the time xP
Unfortunate upload time, but great performance gameplay
I just got an warthunder add while watching this 💀
The most heavily armored tank in the world, and they made its armor feel like cardboard. They destroyed my desire to play these tanks when they nerfed the armor
In what way is it most heavily armoured?
Isn't it basically an apc with a tank gun?
@@VIT-ey8woIt was made to have the most survivable design, it's heavily armored but the main element of the design is to allow maximum crew survivability
Bro this thing has shit armor irl
Look at the challengers, same story
lol got destroyed by drone bomblets and RPG-29. Never question the snail
Guess gaijin needs to add drones with explosives. Looks like modern tanks might have to start adding anti drone equipment maybe we will have all that in war thunder one day, would be crazy
No, CAS and Helis alone are already annoying as it is, adding barely seen drones would make people give up on top tier.
💀
@@syrez156 lol yeah, what’s better than sitting there in a good spot and hearing a buzzing that you can do nothing about then getting c4 dropped on you
Got to love the unique look of the merkava
Damn the timing is 👍
The TIMING OF THIS IS NOTHING SHORT OF NUTS.
Love the Merk. I'm trying to grind for the 4M right now.
it was the viewers who requested to revisit merkava
i wished they added some more merkavas (like the mk1 early from american tech tree, the mk3d from the same tree, the mk3 d LIC and the mk3 early with those side skirts for the turret)
well there is merkava 5 barak i hope we gonna see it soon
impeccable timing
The turret on the merkava should be a lot stronger than it is, it would easily stop its own top dart in the real world. By that I mean the dart in game it probably wouldn't stop dm 63 for example
Couldn’t you have waited like a day god damn dude 😭
Ahh yes a video aged like fine italian wine
The Merkava 4 doubles as an MBT and an armored personnel carrier.
bro......what a timing to release this Merkava
Interesting timing
I missed Breslau (not sure how it's spelt) so much while they took it away.
So glad it's back.
Wait what?
the map@@FXIIBeaver
@@charlesrcca8879 they took it away? When
Any Leopard 1A5 gameplay since the BR change ?
I fucking burst out laughing after you had said the round spalls really well on russian tanks and the first vehicle you saw in the video is russian tank and proceeded to shoot 7 or 8 rounds into his side without it spalling im fucking dead bruh 😂😂😂😂
Yes do the 2S25M it’s a nice vehicle to play with and I’ll love to see it
Such a rare sight to see in the battlefield too. Shame since it looks pretty good.
Guess not many people play Russia top tier light. I think I've only really seen it once but I don't really judge people, it's got a 7.1 second like t72s and is decently large so people just play the t80s
Is your pfp the one from the 2077 event?
no wine can age as well as this
@@OOOwave this video was recorded BEFORE current events
Commenting before UA-cam starts recommending this to the public.
Amazing timing
i dont get it why does it have slower reload than other nato tanks even tho it has same turret first stage ammo set up and even more space inside turret than rest of mbts... makes no sense
I also love pissing off helicopters with my black knight lol
unfortunate timing apparently the APS on these is kinda shit lmao
The aps was likely inactive on the ones you were referring to. Trophy has already proven to be reliable otherwise America would have bought any...
To be honest, I started playing War Thunder again on Sunday and first thing I did was come to your channel. I watched the video before I knew wtf was goin on in the world events believe it or not. Cause I don't watch ANY news what so ever. Nor read about them. I think important things, like that, I will hear about them eventually. And after watching your stream 2 days ago I came back to see what is the fuss about. Cause I usually don't read any comments. I just watch the video and move on but damn..
One thing about the Merkava is that it's best for the Israeli terrain, and was built for israels terrain
Nice seeing a one-sided moderation for the commentaries...
I haven't even started modding yet o.o
I think YT is hard removing comments
@@JustinPlaysTV Oh damn, welp, not really surprising when it comes to Real World events. I was just kinda upset that all I could see was people comment being on side of the spectrum being left untouched.
this tank is beautiful
surely today is the right time to play merkava lol
I would actually much more enjoy if they’d put the armor from the test Server it had, back on it
GREAT TIMING
Dammn the first brown camo looks fire.
would like to see a barak video
Great video keep up the good work🤌
Bros seen what's happening in real life and said why not 💀
Good timing
Paraglider video when???
Barak means "Lightning" in Hebrew, so it's an F16 Lightning. At 21:22 you pronounced it perfectly
thankfully theres no rc drones dropping heat grenades in war thunder
Are Merkava tanks in game still made of rubber?
All not Russian and Swedish top tier are.
@@Manaphy0882 Abrams and Leopard 2 5/6 have enough turret armor to resist some shot and cinese mbt look well armored to me. Merkava 4 have very few zone "strong zone".
still need to fix its armor to how it was when it was in the dev server
Well... Drones with bombs can totally touch it and people with Motorbikes holding RPGs.
It actually got balanced by RPG😂 So weird the aps didn't work at all
Yeah dude, maybe because its the captured Merkava Mk4 where no crew is in it, and Hamas soldiers were using that as propoganda material.
I wonder if it’s a system that needs to turn on, but it doesn’t make sense considering they’re always in conflict
@@galenbotha582 it 100% neets to be turned on no way it runs 24/7 with engine off
@@galenbotha582 the system does need to be turned on, but it has to be crewed first.
it wasn't hit by a rpg tho
yes you shoud make an video on the new F 16 in isral and i am grinding isral rn and ther is no that have comed latly on isral but then you come and now i am happy so i know how good it is at 11.7 isral :D thanks
The merkavas at top tier are imo the worst mbts in game
i wish gyjin add a new voice crew on the isreal
yes a barak video would be really cool
I heard that recently some other lads rebalanced a Merkava.
It's great they got rid of these 2 shells that could get you destroyed easily so many times but a buff on the reload would make the Merkavas relevant again.
It really does feel like Gaijin hates Israel in game. Even besides the extra ammo thing, the fireproof containers don't work, poor reload, small ready rack, the horrible turret protection (including some glitches with the mk4 where it says upwards of 1000mm of protection, but can be pend by sub 300mm pen rounds), and how they model the engine, transmission, external fuel tank, external and internal armor as only around 400mm. The engine one in particular is infuriating. Just the engine is ~ 6 feet long, and about 3.75 feet tall (or about 2 meters by 1.1 meters). Assuming that an average engine is about 1/3 empty space for things like piston chambers and such, that makes just the CAST IRON engine block around 4 feet of protection. Now because cast iron is quite brittle we'll say that we can half that again to be really generous for protection against tank munitions. That still puts us at 2 feet of protection, or about 600mm of armored protection. Now take this and add the transmission which has very little open space and is made of aluminum and sits at around 3 feet using some basic deduction using size reference (i'll also cut this in half), the fuel tank, then about 70mm of extra external and internal armor, and you have close to 970mm of just metal in the way. Now assuming the fuel tank has gas in it, then we get into the complex nature of liquid compression, but just to make it easy, lets round it to 1000mm of protection.... This is a generous estimation on the average protection that the powerpack should give. Now in game, it can juuust about stop an m1 firing M774, which maxes out at around 372mm of pen. Anything higher and it goes through and will usually kill the whole crew. lets do some more rounding and say that its about 400mm needed to pen the powerpack and get the shot. That is less than half of the generous estimation. Oh, and surprise, I was using the merk 2 engine which is smaller.
Dear Israel. Engineers. The. Tank needs a drone that will give it a good site range around the surroundings of operations. The technology is already available
What do you mean, israel is deploying unmanned surveillance drones
I spent 7 months opening and upgrading this piece of kaka tank :( in reality of war thunder it is just a slow, large and badly armored tank. What a disappointment along with the entire 11.7 israel setup.
yeah, I have the 4m and those 2 rounds kill me every single time for every single 4 series merkava
Tam 2C vid when? Its not end of line vehicle anymore maybe now its worth to spade or play it
i'd absolutely love a Barak video ONLY if you get an obama skin.