After the first Merkava was destroyed by a mine.....

[b]Quoted:
Yes, it won't be the last time it's tried, but knowing the Israelis as well as we do, it will be the last time it's successful.

Eric The(Realistic)Hun[/b]

Israeli PM Orders Pullout, U.S. Envoy Flies In
Thu Mar 14, 1:58 PM ET
By Timothy Heritage

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...... etc. etc.........

Further down in the article.......

"Palestinian militants blew up an Israeli Merkava-3 tank in the Gaza Strip early on Thursday, killing three soldiers as they accompanied a convoy of Jewish settlers."

A second Merkava, Eric.  What do you think NOW?!!

DaMan

PS -Edited so RAF would not lock it "as trolling"!  

Is "I told you so!" ....trolling??!

Don't worry y'all, the thread is pointed at me and I can take my well-deserved lumps as well as anyone.

I let my stupid pride in the efficiency of the IDF get away with me. Of course there's no such thing as a sure bet in this sort of warfare.

I will never say 'never' again in anything pertaining to the IDF.

Who knows, I might have jinxed them! Perish the thought!

And [b]DaMan[/b] is quite within his rights to call me on this one, as well.

I called him on his initial scoffing that Arabs could have been responsible for the Sept 11 hi-jackings, so it is his turn to gloat.

I just wished I knew that he wasn't smiling as he contemplated the deaths of the IDF soldiers.

Engaged in a War on Terrorism that, in almost every respect, mirrors our own.

With the loss of a Merkava at the rate of one a month, they stand to be able to only last another two decades or so.

[u]If[/u] they stop building any more.[:D]

If they want to use the other 4,000 tanks at their disposal, well, let's just say they can stand that rate of attrition for quite a while.

Eric The(Humiliated,Sorta)Hun[>]:)]