Penguin
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No, it wasn't a myth. It was how the prototype got built and it is how the new ones get built.Thanks, then it was a myth that merkava chassis was used. You have very heavy armor protection, our IFV are more agile and amphibic but have no Hardkill sytems.
Trophy is the only combat proven system. Netherlands ordered already. Akkor is not ready.
Israel is in close defence relation with our brother nation Azerbeycan, as they were before with Turkey.
IDF Ordnance developed infantry fighting vehicle prototypes based on the Merkava Mark I chassis, and also a handful of IFVs based on the Merkava Mark IV chassis. The vehicle was initially called Nemmera (Hebrew: leopardess), but later renamed to Namer (Hebrew: leopard), while the name Nemmera refers to a Merkava-based ARV.
On 15 February 2005, Maariv reported that a running Namer prototype based on the Merkava Mark I was fielded by the Givati Brigade for trials and evaluation. It was equipped with a Rafael Overhead Weapon Station, which is remotely controlled and loaded from within the vehicle. This same unit was demonstrated at the Eurosatory 2005 military exhibition where prospective export customers showed interest.
Lessons learned in the battles of the 2006 Lebanon War also largely validated this program. Consequently, in 2007 it was reported that the first fifteen Namers would be delivered in 2008, and over a hundred more would finally equip two combat brigades. However, conversion plans were abandoned in favor of newly built Merkava Mark IV chassis.
On 1 March 2008, an operational, started from scratch and fully developed Namer IFV based on Merkava Mark IV chassis was officially presented by the IDF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namer
It also depends a bit on what you call 'chassis' ;-)
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