Israeli IDF Merkava tank
An Israeli Merkava tank in the Negev desert in November 1997.
  • Israel's top tank commanders say they've learned a lot from Russia's military failures in Ukraine. 
  • "We no longer see the tank as being capable of doing everything," one brigadier general told The Economist.
  • As Israel prepares to invade Gaza, it is understood to be readying about 1,000 tanks. 

Israel's military leadership has vowed to learn from the mistakes made by Russia's commanders as it gears up to send tanks into war, the commander of its Armored Corps said in a recent interview.

"We saw how the Russians fought in Ukraine and the mistakes they made," Brigadier General Hisham Ibrahim told The Economist.