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The Army hopes that its new Merkava IV tank, which will enter service in 2020, will prove to be a revolutionary weapon in a future conflict.
The tank, called the Barak, is supposed to be a quantum leap forward for land forces and put them on a technological par with the Air Force and the Navy. The army hopes this will increase the soldiers' motivation to join the armored corps.
Although new recruits have shown increased interest in the body over the past year, senior officers still feel that it is not attractive enough. A particularly disturbing incident occurred in April when 86 corps recruits refused to leave the recruiting base, requiring a different badignment instead.
The army believes that the tank battles of the kind it delivered in the 1970s and 1980s are unlikely to recur, as many countries in the region no longer seem interested in to wage wars on a large scale with Israel. Instead, tank crews will likely be confronted with small guerrilla forces that will ambush or mount localized attacks. The new tank has been designed with this in mind.
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The tank will include a combat computer that will process the data received from the sensors mounted on it, give the soldiers a real-time picture of the situation and even propose a plan of action to deal with it. The computer will also identify enemy forces and aim for the tank gun automatically.
Tank commanders will have a special helmet, manufactured by the Israeli company Elbit, which will allow them to see what is happening in the tank and receive all the data processed by the tank computer. The helmet is similar to the one already used by the pilots.
The Baraks will also be networked, which will allow the tanks on the ground to better synchronize their movements – between them, with the air force and with other ground forces.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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