How the hell do you manage to let two guys run across an open field towards you tank and let them plant bombs on it?

They're still doing armored vehicle incursions with no infantry support into (what used to be) one of the most densely populated areas of the world? I'd assume they would have ran out of tanks months ago doing that

Israelis are terrified of being taken prisoner. See Hannibal doctrine, etc. They'd rather die in an exploding tank than risk getting captured while protecting the tank.
Well, the US keeps sending them more

We might not be able to make affordable homes or cars, but we can make tanks!
- They use Merkava tanks, made by them not the U.S.

Tanks are supposed to operate in groups with close support from infantry. The iof infantry are cowards who don't have the stomach for genocide when they have to do it in person on the ground. Thus the tank's are unsupported, leaving them vulnerable to incredible heroics like this.

are cowards who don't have the stomach for genocide

turns out this is basically anyone - the Nazis found that their initial enactment of the final solution (firing squads mostly) was hindered by the psychological impact it had on the soldiers doing it - hence why they tried to find more 'indirect' methods of murder, resulting in the gas chambers
- This is one of my favourite little factoids about the subject, that the big hard nazis with their fascism STILL couldn't fucking stomach doing warcrimes.
The iof infantry are cowards who don't have the stomach for genocide

I think it's less that, and more that the iof is actually quite incompetent militarily because they're actually just a colonial police force with way too much fancy gear. Can't find it now but some guy on r/TrueAnon had a good write up about how when the US did joint operations with the iof the US officers kept getting pissed off at iof soldiers doing tactically stupid cowboy bullshit with expensive military equipment. As cowboy as the US military itself can be it seems even the iof were too much for them.
- the iof are competent at murdering civilians indiscriminately, which is their main purpose. they are complete dogshit at counter-insurgency, their ostensible purpose.
There's actually a reason for that, the Israeli tanks can't have infantry support standing in the direction of expected fire, because their own Trophy APS (detect incoming explosives, fires what is basically explosive buckshot in the direction to trigger the explosive before it connects with the tank) will tear said infantry apart. If an RPG is fired at an Israeli tank, coming from the left side, the Trophy System will fire the explosives towards the projectile, explosion occurs, your infantry support on that side of the tank are most likely very dead. If not from catching strays from the trophy system then the prematurely detonated ordinance.

Infantry can only be stationed on sides that there cannot possibly be enemy fire. In a field, facing the enemy, you can have infantry on the sides. In an urban environment, you simply don't deploy infantry with your tanks.

Apparently the trophy system has a reload time of 1.5 seconds, and the faster the projectile the less likely it is able to detect it and fire.
- in all this time we have never seen a video where an RPG triggers the trophy system
  
  I can't be alone in suspecting that it doesn't work very well
- Good post, I hadn't considered that. Lol being self-owned by your own point defenses.
- Umm ... why would they design a tank which cannot have infantry support? Doesn't that make them basically useless?
- Thing is, infantry wouldn't be walking right next to the tank if you're expecting infantry with anti armor to be hiding in the rubble or buildings. They'd deploy first into areas with lots places that an ambush could be waiting with the tank hanging back.
  
  If the infantry find something that needs the tank's main gun, its called up. If the infantry gets pinned down and the rest of the infantry platoon can't free up their pinned down squad the tank can be called forward to lay down suppressing fire if air support, artillery or mortars can't be used.
Yeah, but at a certain point you'd figure high command would start worrying about how many combat ready tanks they have if politicians are gonna force them to prepare for attack on Lebanon.
- Agreed, but they are fascists in a perilous political situation, running an army of conscript mall cops. I think they have a lot of room for self-owns. They've got a significant number of religious and nationalist fanatics to appease, and a lot of those fanatics refuse to fight leading to additional internal contradictions and friction.
- Nobody tell them nothing
  
  Let them think they can take it without a fight
  
  Drain the beast with a thousand cuts

Are you questioning the tactics of 20-year-old brigadier generals?

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tank

Leave comrad BT-7 alone ywywywy
- Isn't this BT-5, judging by its turret?

kids on their phones smh 😔

nobody wants to work anymore

any thoughts on why he would run in front of the tank after planting the device?

I'm no expert but it's possible that the tank had already been abandoned after something else disabled it and what they're doing is rendering the tank unsalvageable. Similar tactics have been used elsewhere, if you've ever seen the footage coming out of Ukraine where a drone operator drops an explosive inside of an apparently empty tank then that's the same thing going on.
Scared as shit and full of adrenaline

me and who