Posted on 12/19/2010 8:58:17 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Barak to Gates: Buy 'Namer' Vehicles for US Army
by Gil Ronen
Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with his American counterpart, Robert Gates, in Washington Monday. The two reportedly discussed various issues pertaining to maintaining Israel's qualitative military advantage over its neighbors, the Iranian threat, and the situation in Lebanon, as well as continuing the nations' cooperation on active defense systems against rockets and missiles fired at Israel.
Barak also tried to convince Gates that the US military should purchase Israel-produced Namer [pronounced Nuh-MEHR, the word means 'tiger' in Hebrew] infantry fighting vehicles.
The Namer IFV is based on a Merkava Mark IV chassis and armed with either M2 Browning machine gun or Mk 19 grenade launcher mounted on a Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station, It also has another 7.62 mm MAG machine gun and a 60 mm mortar.
Namer carries up to 12 crewmen and infantrymen and a stretcher, or two stretchers and medical equipment.
Barak told Gates that the
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Is that the one built on the chassis of surplus Soviet tanks?
I think that’s the “Achzarit” IFV.
Gesundheit!
I’ve often wondered if an effective “heavy” IFV/APC could be developed from any surplus M60 tanks the Army or Marines might still have sitting around. It’s been a reliable platform. Maybe with the right modifications they could turn a hundred or so of the old girls into a nifty heavy troop carrier design for certain high-risk environments?
Looks like little more than a glorified APC to me.
Now mount a 40mm Vulcan like an A-10 has on that puppy and you’d have something! A bulldozer blade might come in handy as well for clearing obstacles.
Quite a machine.
If it is pronounced “Numehr”, then transliterate the Hebrew that way.
Looks like a turretless Bradley with a Remote Weapon Station, the probable replacement for the M1113.
The Monolith!
"Namer IFV is based on a Merkava Mark IV chassis"
So let's be clever and look up "Merkava"
And then we see that, by golly, it is such a major weapons system it has it's very own Wiki entry. (/s)
Problem solved.
Most tanks (like the M-60 and M-1) are rear engine. The Merkava, upon which this is based, is front engined. The Merkava also already has a small troop compartment and door aft. ‘Simply’ delete and plate over the turret and extent the existing troop compartment while bolting a remote unit on the roof. In most other designs, the engine location prevents this.
They've got the engine in the back. The Merkava based vehicles have the engine in the front. Much easier for infantry to exit.
Back here we call that a "Junior Leaguer". Plenty of room for the girls and what ever do good project needs transport.
Used to have a Volkswagon in the trunk instead of a spare tire.
The Family Truckster model?
Sheesh. From the title I thought this was about selling naming right for military equipment. :-)
Gates should say, “I think we have enough Bradley’s. Thanks anyway.”
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