Military Tuesday : Armour Photos at Israel’s Yad La’Shiryon Museum
A very good collection of photos taken by David Pride at the Yad La’Shiryon Museum in Israel which houses an extensive collection of armoured vehicles in service with the Israel Defense Force from its birth in 1948 to the current tanks like the Merkava IV.
The most interesting exhibits to me are the indigenous variants of the American M4 Shermans which Israel acquired in substantial numbers after WWII and modified into up-gunned tanks with French 75mm and 105mm guns as the M50 and M51 (the Sherman in WWII was fitted with a 75mm cannon and a 76mm cannon in the case of the Sherman Firefly) , 155mm self-propelled artillery and even multiple rocket launchers as in the MAR-240s and MAR-290s. More information on these interesting variants of the Sherman can be found at israeli-weapons.com.
© P. David Pride
Other than the Sherman variants, there’s the Achzarit APCs converted from captured T-55s as well as refurbished T-54s, T-55s and T-62s known respectively as the Tiran-4, Tiran-5 and Tiran-6. There’s also up-armoured M60s known as the Magach 6/7 and locally-upgraded Centurion and AMX-13s.
© David Pride
Due to the disparate numbers of tanks in the inventory of Israel and its hostile neighbours during the early years of the Israeli state, it had to make do with every vehicle on hand, resulting the variety of up-gunned and up-armoured improvements as shown in the photos above.
If you know your armoured vehicles, simply head over to the thumbnails page and start browsing from there, otherwise you might find it more enlightening to start at this page and take a virtual tour of the museum complete with captions for each photo. For more pictures of armoured vehicles, don’t forget to check out David Pride’s other photos taken at various American Army museums including a picture of the infamous 280mm German K5 railway gun below.
© David Pride
Check out David Pride’s Yad La’Shiryon Museum photos.
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Good to see you are back (and healthy?).
Those are some big guns…
Hi Onno, nice to see you around
Just recovered from a nasty sore throat and flu.
@Kenny – Yep. I just find Israeli ingenuity in their weapons, equipment and tactics a very interesting field of study.