Europan Merkava Tank

This page is about Europan Merkava Tank. For other uses, see Tank (disambiguation).

Description

Based on the real-world Merkava tank utilized by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). It is armed with an IMI 120 mm smoothbore gun and a remote-controlled M2 Browning .50 caliber heavy machine gun. A variant of this tank, nicknamed the Corpse Tank, is mechanically identical, but strewn with the naked corpses of civilians as psychological warfare.

Location

• Scorched Enclave
• Ashen Mesa
• Elephant Mausoleum

Strategy

• Tanks are passive unless provoked. Stay out of sight and utilize cover, especially if nearby allied units notice you.
• Tanks do not fire their main gun at the player and will instead resort to shooting them with their mounted MG.
• Tanks can be destroyed using any weapon due to a current lack of a working armor system. The most time and ammo efficient weapons are automatic shotguns (USAS-12,VEPR-12, AA12) and grenade launchers (grenade launcher, XM25, M79 Sawed-off).
• Similar to Exos, on death, all tank variants spawn one main loot container on their corpse and three additional containers that will be spread around the area they died.
  • All four containers are denoted as "vehicle debris"
  • Drills are required to open these containers as of update 0.2

Quests

• Harvest upgraded mechanicals

Trivia

• Tanks are secretly cats. This can be determined from two outstanding factors, being A: They are often found hidden in tight spaces, and B: They go flying at any minor inconvenience.