guardian: Computerised weaponry and high morale
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Hizbullah's older anti-tank weapons have been effective against armoured personnel carriers and buildings used by soldiers for shelters. Its newer weapons such as the Russian Kornet and US TOW missiles have been highly effective succeeded in piercing the armour of Israel's main battle tank, the Merkava, reputedly one of the best-defended tanks in the world.

call it irony or whatever, but some of those tow's are no doubt part of the arms package that israel delivered to iran in july 1985.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW

30 Tanks Wiped Out in Lebanon()
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(IsraelNN.com) IDF officials admit that the biggest surprise of the ongoing war against Hizbullah is the ease by which terrorists have destroyed IDF tanks.

At least 30 tanks have been totally destroyed or seriously damaged in bomb and anti-tank rocket attacks involving state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets.

About one-half of the military personnel killed in southern Lebanon were inside tanks.