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Turns out that there IS life after death ... at least for tanks ...
For a while now, Israelis have been reading and hearing about a strange, new tank unit called the Phoenix unit. Like the bird for which it is named (in Hebrew, oaf ha-chol, the bird of the sand), the unit was created by a hi-tech executive, long since out of the army, who decided to revive old tanks, long since out of service. (There’s also a story in Times of Israel.)
The story—of the men and their tanks, and how they did when they were finally sent into battle—is in the video above.
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