I decided to make something even more cool for the Merkava.
I decided to build a Droid for the tank. For those that dont know, the IDF has this piece of equipment that is an IR jamming device to counter IR and Laser guided munitions.
Google for pictures of the real thing.
I built it as close to the real thing as possible and Im quite happy with how it turned out.
I also built it to be the IR battle apple so its useful as well as cool looking.
I used the top half of the hooben apple mounted over a highly modified Lego DEI IR receiver. Then I changed the 4 blue LEDs to 8 red LEDs.